I was at this guy’s house. I met this girl who was hanging out there. She was real pretty, she had brown eyes and dark hair. She was soft-spoken and real nice. I know that...

Sitting on the train I watch the scenery speeding by, notice a cobweb in the top corner of the window, undulating with a gentle breeze I can’t feel. I lean back in my seat and...

as i discovered, the path to sobriety is a precarious, complex journey. you obviously want to purge yourself of something that has been so destructive and has had such a grip on you. but in...

(…) met the owner of this cozy book-and-candle Apt. G, a tall, leggy, striking girl named Bea or maybe just the letter B or maybe the insect Bee, not sure, her long blond hair pulled...

I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o’clock in the...

I don’t intend for this to take on a political tone. I’m just here for the drugs.

In general I strive for greatness and rational achievement, but I admit to you I’ve a terrible fondness for women, a tendency towards drunkenness, and a weakness for the fumes of the poppy—opium and other...

Drugs have destroyed many people. But wrong government policies have destroyed many more.

LSD stands out for learning to slow down.

Tony’s concern disintegrated. He could not understand C.J.’s determination to court death on a daily basis. Or maybe he did understand, and this was what caused his frustration. So many found the same solution his...

If I had to offer up a one sentence definition of addiction, I’d call it a form of mourning for the irrecoverable glories of the first time…addiction can show us what is deeply suspect about...

If I did die, I wasn’t going to heaven and say, ‘Oh, excuse me, God. Let me wipe my nose, because I just did some drugs before I got here.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

Some people think it’s a jungle out here. It’s not… It’s a fucking zoo!” – excerpt from: freefalling

If you skip one class, everyone knows about it. The teacher will track you down, or one of the guidance counselors will track you down and ask if you’re smoking pot. According to the geniuses...

There is great enhancement when the drugs are given together, using what we think is a safe dose in humans,

The clown was an evil one. They’re either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter.

So you mean to tell me you won’t fuck anyone you don’t share some kind of deep emotional connection with? What a sad, depressing, truly horrible life you must lead…

It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

In that case, there would be no reason for them to get performance enhancing drugs that are illegal.

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.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade…

Don’t kid yourself by saying that one time can’t make you addicted. It can. I believed it couldn’t too when I first tried meth. I was so, so wrong. The worst part about it is...

Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging about with a psychedelic drug for a Saturday night turn-on,...

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...

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.