I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They’re probably the same ones who think all kids use dope. It’s true that we are more open than our...

I was coming down off the last painkiller left in my dresser drawer after Autumn tossed my stash. In that moment I was so groggy and happy I would have accepted a date with Oscar...

I’m just like Fassbinder, … but without the drugs and the whores.

drugs, hard. Under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, the law was changed in the United Kingdom to ensure that the production and supply of dangerous drugs should henceforth be in the hands of criminal...

Antiviral drugs is important, vaccine is very important, but without the capacity to detect, analyze and report cases, all those weapons like vaccine and antiviral drugs would not be as useful.

When you judge other people without wanting to know the true story behind their actions, is usually when there is something inside of you that is so broken that if you found out what you...

Sam said, Hey, you want to get high? Amy had taken his words to mean You are so beautiful I am undone by you.

It’s always almost Autumn, down here at Rock Bottom.

Illinois faced a $5 billion deficit this year. The cost of prescription drugs is a major cost and it is going up 15 percent every year, and that is expected to continue until 2010.

People tend to think of breakthroughs in medicine as a new drug, a laser, or a high-tech surgical procedure. They often have a hard time believing that the simple choices that we make in our...

The decision-making part of the brain of an individual who has been using crystal meth is very interesting. When Carly and Andy were in their apartment, they ran out of drugs. They sold every single...

The entire war on drugs disproportionately targets poor people and people of color.

It’s only in drugs or death we’ll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. Ok, we canswing with that. But performance debilitating drugs should not bebanned. Smoke a joint and win the hundred meters, fair play for you.That’s pretty damn good....

Reaction timeTouch the underside of a penny you find on the streetDoesn’t feel any different unless you close your eyesI can taste the copper in my mouth nowseeping from between my teethThere’s an explanation I’m...

Moral ideas about what constitutes a meritorious or meaningful use of one’s life and opportunities produce specific attitudes towards drug use and intoxication.

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

Clockers” asks–almost in passing, and there’s a lot more to it than this–a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage when everyone around you is pocketing thousands from drug deals,...

The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for...

Because – believe it or not – I don’t do drugs!

Books and knowledge are the two most powerful drugs.

I have a personal interest in this project because one of my nephews was involved in drugs when he was an adolescent and could have really benefited from a facility like this. This is my...

Much of the mystery surrounding drug action can be cleared up by recognizing that drugs affect only the rate at which biologic functions proceed; they do not change the basic nature of existing processes or...

Give me the purple smoke, rising higher and higher into my brain until I dance with the purple butterflies.” -Girl with the violet eyes.

Not enough is known about these drugs.

The Captain swallowed his capsules and lay down in the dark with pleasant anticipation. This quantity of the drug gave him a unique and voluptuous sensation; it was as though a great dark bird alighted...

New Rule: Stop putting psychedelic screensavers on computers. I sit down to check my e-mail, and the next thing I know it’s three days later, I’m in the desert, I’m banging on a drum, I’m...

Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness of prosecutors to accept plea bargains.

I don’t like the way people cherish the ghetto, as if it’s some royal palace, or kingdom. I also don’t like the way people treat each other in the ghetto. It is really hard to...

But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.

What do you think he saw?” Damn–I regret the awed way I phrased that and the hushed voice I used. As if I think acid is a “religious” experience, a visionary thing.”Himself,” Josh says. “You...

Anything that inspires addiction or obsession – substances, entertainment, beauty, secrecy – is dangerous in that it can lead to isolation, self-absorption, and disconnection, to paralyzed stasis: an immobility that gathers like a force.

There are no comparative studies on avian flu. We’re not saying drugs shouldn’t be given. We just don’t know. The jury is out.

An empty bottle of Jack is almost just as beautiful as a new and unopened bottle…in the same sense as looking down at muddied feet, and looking back the way you came. The journey you’ve...

Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders.

When I smoke pot, it makes me want to hide under the bed with a box of graham crackers and not share.

I’d done it, I’d crossed the line between accepted behavior and behavior most of the population would consider a lynching offense, and that morning I felt as real as any of the men in the...

Addicts don’t like when you tell them they are all the same. Of course not. Who would? But to me, addicts are like actresses, who all audition for the same role in a horror movie....

I suppose at heart it was the haircut that did it; that exploded the ordinary order of things and showed me the possibilities that had been there all along, hidden among the patterns in the...

Want to do drugs, fine. You’re out of my life!

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t handle drugs.

Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or...

It’s a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.

If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical...

It was just awful. It was the bottom of my life. Thank God I didn’t do any drugs or drink at the time, because if I did, I would have been a mess.

Veeva should count her blessings. Three years ago it was cocaine and a year ago it was crack and lemme tell you, that stuff you got to have. You do anything for that high.” He...

This is still a very new area will that continue to grow. At some point, we won’t differentiate between these drugs.

The pipeline is terrific, … They’ve probably got the strongest, best, broadest band of drugs for sale today and in the future. And remember, if you think back to the early 1990s when health-care reform...

Once…Why…lie?…when…truth is…the easier path