My nose bleeds, and every comedown feels like an overdose. I try to make peace with God each time, but he shows no interest, and it reminds me of my dad, and I get so...

Taking drugs is stupid. Why mess up your brain like that?

Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs’ true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as...

It is not primarily the sex/booze/drugs that surround this event, as problematic as they might be; it is rather the flaunting of affluence, assuming exaggerated expenses, a pursuit of vanity for vanity’s sake – in...

I automatically assume people won’t like me, so I don’t talk to them unless they approach me first. I can’t become a part of a crowd because I can’t get past that feeling that I...

I think of going to the Grave without having a Psychedelic Experience is like going to the Grave without ever having Sex. It means that you never Figured out what it is all about. The...

I think they just have heroin, Charlie.

It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

As a consequence of natural analgesic actions or as a result of the administration of drugs that interfere with body signaling (painkillers, anesthetics), the brain receives a distorted view of what the body state really...

The secrets in his brain were like some mesmerizing drug to me.

He was breathing. That’s the first thing you always check for.

As I sit today, I am a genuine, often pleasant person. I am able to imitate a human being for long spurts of time, do solid work for a reputable organization, and have, over the...

Kujiingiza katika madawa ni matokeo ya maisha. Hatutumii madawa ya kulevya. Madawa ya kulevya ni sisi wenyewe; tunahitaji kusaidiwa.

Possibilities…in the closet…itching…to break out…but afraid of…the fallout

My mother was, for the most part, delighted with my brother and regarded him with the bemused curiosity of a brood hen discovering she has hatched a completely different species. ‘I think it was very...

Love is a miracle drug. Shoot it up through your toes, so nobody knows.

We had to fight the connotations that come with hip-hop, like gangs, shootings and drugs. People don’t see what a vibrant life force there is in hip-hop.

It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with [referring to crystal methamphetamines]

Most were upstanding citizens who you wouldn’t think did drugs.

Things began to go wrong when I was seventeen. My band’s twenty-year-old lead guitarist earned seven years in jail for a drug-fuelled spree of violence. The other band members were quick to let go of...

But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.

Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.

She’s absolutely fine. She’s just having fun. We have all tried drugs and drink – she’s experimenting.

You twitch as the darkness moves in and out of you. It crawls up your spine and nestles in your brain like an evil thought from out of nowhere, burying itself in your psyche like...

What I’m responsible for is not the drugs strategy unit report but for the drugs strategy.

Love is not a word or an idea or even a place to go to or a thing to strive for. It is not something to grasp and smother and mold and change. It cannot...

The fear of the drugs running out is managable-the fear of time running down isn’t.

I loved when Bush came out and said, ‘We are losing the war against drugs.’ You know what that implies? There’s a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it.

The irony is that this industry took a hit at a time when nearly 300 biotech drugs and vaccines are in human clinical trials, … The pipelines have never been fuller. I think it’ll take...

Who needs drugs when you have Takeshi’s Castle?

Watu wanahitaji elimu na ajira kuwaepusha na janga la madawa ya kulevya.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

A Smoothie a day keeps Big Pharma away

Chronotropic Drugs:Drugs engineered to affect one’s sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have no short term effect but over time give one the impression that time feels longer. Chronoaccelocotropic drugs have the opposite effect.

Instead of being a gift that separates us from the animals, free will has become my gaoler. Junkies are the ultimate outsider, not only are we outside of society: we are outside of nature. I...

It is easier to exploit and manipulate people if they are fearful or confused, (and discouraged from trusting their own judgment). Our investigation identifies the ‘policy of prohibition’ as a major source of ignorance, fear...

This diet should be a frontrunner, … It improved the whole cardiovascular risk spectrum. A lot of patients are tough to control with the medications we have. Patients might not even need drugs if they...

It isn’t drugs addicts have to give up. It’s misery.

There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, and resent it as an outrage to their feelings; as a religious bigot, when charged with disregarding...

An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.

Just say no to drugs!

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] – ‘I shall have heroin, but I shan’t have a hamburger.’ What a sexy little paradox.

Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of most blessed power in those moments of pain and of...

One of the potential side-effects of drugs to treat ADHD is insomnia. Therefore, for some, the additional use of medications to assist in sleeping is something one might anticipate, … The number of people in...

Given the drugs (Lewis) had taken and his propensity for violence, it made sense that Joe took a gun with him.

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.”…”There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality.”…”But they used to take morphia and...

One thing I’ve learned is it’s better to be addicted to things than people. You get hooked on a thing and if someone takes it from you, you can find another source. Only people can...

They might be drugs that alter the states of consciousness, or they might be states of transcendence reached in meditation. They might be moments of orgasm, or fugue states, or day-dreams that take you momentarily...

It just proves that you can’t tell who’s on drugs until you test them.

Sometimes you just have to be there to understand, even if being there makes no sense at all.” – excerpt from: freefalling