Top 27 Quotes About Drug Abuse And Addiction
#1. Drug abuse and addiction are very real problems, the remedy for which is education and medical treatment, not incarceration. In fact, the most abused drugs in the United States now appear to be oxycodone and other prescription painkillers. Should
Sam Harris
#2. That's some heavy painkillers in your drug stash."
"Well I'm in pain, aren't I?
Sam Hunter
#3. The mightiest prayers are often those drenched with the Word of God.
Herbert Lockyer
#4. We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.
Anthony Marra
#5. You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed ... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.
Colin Powell
#6. Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
Mikhail Bakunin
#7. The punishment approach and bad consequences approach to treatment is the kind of thinking that is prevalent in every residential substance abuse treatment center in the United States of which I'm aware.
Chris Prentiss
#8. People are the biggest drug addiction in the world, and I mean that quite literally. Take any single substance abuse problem in the world, and it's dwarfed in comparison to the addiction to feelings and people.
Chad Eastham
#9. Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day,akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s, ... It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society and ... that's the young and the poor.
David Robertson
#10. I needed a distraction. A drink, a good tumble, anything - even this sure-to-be- trouble punk show.
Alexandra Martin
#11. As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#12. In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers.
Christopher McDougall
#13. In the debate over opioid addiction, there's one group we aren't hearing from: chronic pain patients, many of whom need to use the drugs on a long-term basis.
S. E. Smith
#14. When nothing else worked, we created a holistic, hand-tailored program that saved Pax's life. At Passages, he and I use what we learned in curing him to help other discover the roots of their addiction or alcoholism and break free.
Chris Prentiss
#15. I spent the rest of that day and most of the night thinking about all the hundreds of people I had met in rehabs and sober living houses and on the streets. We were all medicating our fears and our pain!
Pax Prentiss
#16. Another California study counted 30,000 substance abusers who are pregnant are White woman. So, The Wire paints the picture of drug addiction, drug dealing, and drug abuse as being a specifically a Black issue.
Ishmael Reed
#17. It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.
Steven Kassels
#18. The hardest mysteries to solve are the ones you come to near the end, because there isn't enough evidence, not enough to unravel, unless somehow you can go all the way back to the beginning - rewind and replay everything.
James Patterson
#19. I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me.
Sonya Huber
#20. History is made only by those people who know the times and seasons.
Sunday Adelaja
#22. I've seen firsthand the terrible consequences of drug abuse. My heart is with all who suffer from addiction and the terrible consequences for their families.
Columba Bush
#23. Funny how someone can be so beautiful and totally fucked up at the same time.
Missy Anne
#24. I called your bluff,' he said.
'I see that,' she answered. 'I'll be down in five minutes.'
'Right on.
Wendy Wunder
#25. Happiness is not to be found at the bottom of a bottle or from the tip of a needle; it is not to be found amidst a cloud of smoke or within a sugar-coated pill. If you look for it in these places, you will find naught but despair.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#26. I wanted to meet the monster.
Why go down if you can go up?
Ellen Hopkins
#27. We know that you don't want to be a drunk and you don't want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because you can't cope with your life without some sort of support, even if that support is damaging.
Chris Prentiss
