The modern struggle – Lone individuals summoning inhuman willpower, fasting, meditating, and exercising, up against armies of scientists and statisticians weaponizing abundant food, screens, and medicine into junk food, clickbait news, infinite porn, endless games...

In the field I’m in, there is a lot of that and it gets offered to me all the time. People even go as far as to just stick it in your pocket and walk...

You’ll be having a good time and all of a sudden everyone will start running to the bathroom. If you’re going to do drugs just do them in front of everybody, don’t be running off...

I’ve wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it’s wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to...

But maybe because I’m from a part of the country where there are more meth labs than drive-throughs, anything harder than cough syrup always makes me nervous.

There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making...

It was ridiculous really. I had just won a major race despite not being in top form, yet I was going to dope.

At this point we just don’t know how these drugs might affect immunity, so we really need to clarify the normal role of serotonin in immune cell functioning.

We all have to escape from this thing called life sometimes. Maybe we use substances to do it. Maybe we use religion. Maybe we use exercise. Maybe we use anger. But we all have to...

Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.

Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.

Evans turned away, did something with his left eyelid for the benefit of the other two. “It’s got him,” he smirked. “He’s tuned-in from now on.”Time started to slow up and act crazy. Minutes took...

I won’t have my son doing drugs to get awoman that he shall never have.

To list all the great discoveries in the field of science and medicine during the past century, such as aspirin, insulin, penicillin, and the streptomycin drugs would require the undivided attention of a medical historian...

The habit is now confirmed in me of spending the greater part of the day in sleep, while by night I wander far and wide through the city under the sedative influence of a tincture...

I don’t know what I expected – no maybe I do, Al Pacino from Scarface- but this drug dealer is more like Al Pacino at the beginning of The Godfather reasonably bemused, untouched by his...

We’ve all heard the stories about people cutting their pills in half, choosing between paying for drugs and paying for food, or forgoing the medications altogether. These folks shouldn’t be faced with these choices at...

Dependence on drugs is not a disease, it is not a virus, it is not something that stalks only the dregs of society. Drug addiction is REALIZED EMOTIONAL DEFICIENCY SYNDROME.

…introduced Doc to the miracle of morphine. From that very first shot it was as if he’d discovered the one vital ingredient that God had left out when He’d sent Doc kicking and screaming into...

We thought that we could predict what the world would be like, there would be wars, plagues. But then drugs happened and drugs have destroyed our society. I don’t mean we’re all crumbling amidst the...

Cocaine is God’s way of telling you you are making too much money.

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It...

The greatest drug of all, my dear, was not one of those pills in so many colors that you took over the years, was not the opium, the hash you smoked in houses at the...

Drugs suck more than anything else I have ever liked so much.

To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he has been using an illegal drug, is intolerable in our republic. You are...

Hitch: making rules about drinking can be the sign of an alcoholic,’ as Martin Amis once teasingly said to me. (Adorno would have savored that, as well.) Of course, watching the clock for the start-time...

Life’s just another blowjob. And just because I let you cum in my mouth, doesn’t mean I’m going to swallow it!” – excerpt from: freefalling

Do you give a youngster drugs? … And how about a woman who is carrying a fetus, and the fetus will be adversely affected when she takes drugs … the state should make that legal?...

Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.Kind of made a male believe in the divine. It really did.

Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

Life will hack off your head and shit down your neck every chance it gets. I’ve found that consuming drugs and booze, listening to music and always having an excuse in the best way to...

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than...

My fingers are blistered and they smell like lighter fluid— like burnt tin foil and rusted silverware. Quick question: Is it still considered heroin chic if I’m actually using heroin? No? Whatever.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.

I never knew cocaine to improve anything. When the white lines came out, it was time to call it a night: the music could only get worse. If I joined in, the next day’s playback...

Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I’m using or not.

Seriously, why aren’t you on drugs?” Cath walked past her out of the room.”Are you a licensed psychiatrist? Or do you just play one on TV?””I’m on drugs,” Reagan said. “They’re a beautiful thing.

Bear in mind that since medications do not fix anything, they allow the underlying problem to continue uncorrected and actually accelerate. Meanwhile, new symptoms and new seemingly unrelated diseases are the inevitable consequence of this...

You’ve been smoking again, haven’t you? Your eyes look like road maps and you’re in full bastard mode.

Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) does not work. Opiate addicts live in our communities and in our families & they work in our businesses.

Consider this:1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding “entheogenic” drug LSD?And here’s a bonus question:2. Why does an “expanded consciousness” include the inability to operate a motor vehicle?

I can’t even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don’t even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world.

Now young people have the Internet and a zillion phone apps so you don’t need an actual place to congregate. You can be everywhere, nowhere, a floating message-spewing entity. We used to rely on drugs...

If God didn’t mean for us to use drugs, It would never have made us such curious monkeys, nor given us so many interesting vegetables.

Ukitaka kuwa mfanyabiashara mzuri wa madawa ya kulevya usitumie madawa ya kulevya. Siri ya mafanikio ya Kolonia Santita ni nidhamu na kitalifa.

Might as Well Laugh…remember…when…Life…made…sense

After a few months in my parents’ basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination...

If coffee is a drug, then I am a junky. And if coffee’s not a drug, then I’m still a junky. Damnit.

The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?