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  • We need to take a hard look at the war on drugs and the number of non-violent offenders who end up getting their lives destroyed by going to prison. We need to look at mandatory minimum sentencing and give judges more flexibility when there are issues of drug abuse or addiction.

    War   Numbers   Issues  
    Source: www.ebony.com
  • Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.

    Dedication   Drug   Abuse  
    John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.39, Penguin
  • We respect the freedom of all citizens. Young people should have fun, but there is no tolerance of drug abuse. Drugs have become a serious problem in Vietnam. This is why we have very strict penalties for any sort of drug dealing.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • In rock 'n' roll, as we all know, the image is that it's one big party. But many times the reality is that it's the furthest thing from the party. There's the alcoholism and drug abuse that come because you're looking for that elusive 'thing,' and you don't know what it is or where it is. But you've got the money and the connections, and the choices are not always the healthiest.

    Party   Reality   Rocks  
  • We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, premature pregnancy, child abuse, chronic dependency on welfare, and education failure.

  • 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.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

    Jobs   Skills   Drug  
  • I love being from a screwed up family. We have everything in my family: prescription drug abuse, mental illness, one of my uncles is a Mormon.

    Uncles   Love Is   Drug  
    "Christopher Titus: Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding". Comedy, One-man Show, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.
  • I had a psychotic break that was brought on by alcohol and drug abuse.

    Alcohol   Drug   Abuse  
    "Scott Stapp: Bipolar Disease, Drugs Fueled 'Psychotic Break'" by Daniel Kreps, www.rollingstone.com. May 13, 2015.
  • Western governments ... will lose the war against dealers unless efforts are switched to prevention and therapy... All penalties for drug users should be dropped ... Making drug abuse a crime is useless and even dangerous ... Every year we seize more and more drugs and arrest more and more dealers but at the same time the quantity available in our countries still increases... Police are losing the drug battle worldwide.

    Country   War   Years  
  • Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

  • Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.

  • When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird.

    "Ethan Hawke on Fame: 'The Demons Start to Tempt You'". Interview with Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. January 05, 2010.
  • When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result. There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.

  • We cannot eradicate global drug markets, but we can certainly regulate them as we have done with alcohol and tobacco markets. Drug abuse, alcoholism and tobacco should be treated as public health problems, not criminal justice issues.

    "We have to find new solutions to Latin America's drugs nightmare" by Otto Pérez Molina, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.
  • The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.

    Suicide   Two   Years  
    Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.32, Bantam
  • By characterizing the use of illegal drugs as quasi-legal, state-sanctioned, Saturday afternoon fun, legalizers destabilize the societal norm that drug use is dangerous. They undercut the goals of stopping the initiation of drug use to prevent addiction.... Children entering drug abuse treatment routinely report that they heard that 'pot is medicine' and, therefore, believed it to be good for them.

    Fun   Children   Medicine  
  • When I left my home within society to live amongst the Grizzly's I went there so that I could sacrifice myself to something which was even more chaotic than the drinking and drug abuse. When I made the wholehearted attempt such as it was to 'save' the Grizzly's I wanted to actually save myself. The animals only later on became my life as well as my directive principle, not because they desired a human to protect them, rather because I wanted to do for them what is humanly possible when faced with such possibilities.

    "Steve Irwin - Interview With Timothy Treadwell - the Grizzly Man". Interview with Steve Irwin, desteni.org. June 1, 2007.
  • I didn't go to Cirque Lodge for alcohol abuse or drug abuse.

    Alcohol   Drug   Abuse  
    "Kirsten Dunst Battles Depression, Not Drugs and Alcohol". Interview with Marc Malkin, www.eonline.com. May 27, 2008.
  • We're number one in domestic violence homicides. We also have a high rate of alcohol abuse and drug abuse and there's a high lethality rate when you get those factors involved, so the shelter has 52 beds, certainly it is never empty.

    Numbers   Alcohol   Drug  
  • The point is that any law that makes criminals out of 15 million Americans is probably not such a good idea. The point was that drug abuse isn't a criminal issue, it's a healthcare issue. And the money and manpower we spend prosecuting a surfer in San Diego might better be used fighting things that genuinely threaten our national health and safety. That was the point.

    Fighting   Law   Ideas  
  • The Nazis spoke of having a Jewish problem. We now speak of having a drug-abuse problem. Actually, "Jewish problem" was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews; "drug-abuse problem" is the name we give to the persecution of people who use certain drugs.

    Names   People   Giving  
    "The second sin". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1973.
  • Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

    Moving   Errors   Car  
    1977 A Scanner Darkly, author's note.
  • Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

    Drug   Abuse   Disease  
  • Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.

    Funny   Baseball   Humor  
    "Knucklehead of the week: Manny Ramirez" by Scott Ostler, www.sfgate.com. June 28, 2009.
  • All my life I’ve been a lady bruiser, a wrong chooser, school refuser, drug abuser, born loser; clothes bummy, nose runny, it wasn’t funny

    School   Clothes   Drug  
  • If, nevertheless, textbooks of pharmacology legitimately contain a chapter on drug abuse and drug addiction, then, by the same token, textbooks of gynecology and urology should contain a chapter on prostitution; textbooks of physiology, a chapter on perversion; textbooks of genetics, a chapter on the racial inferiority of Jews and Negroes.

    Thomas Stephen Szasz (2003). “Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers”, p.11, Syracuse University Press
  • We cannot build the new culture for learning to which we aspire in an environment which is depressed and dampened every day by the impact of alcohol and drug abuse, and we should not, and we cannot, hide from that reality any longer. More and more of our students are demanding that they not be imposed upon by others whose judgment and behavior are impaired by substance abuse. It is time to take a stand.

    Time   Learning   Reality  
  • All these biopics and biographies and people gossiping about so-and-so's drug abuse or who's sleeping with who, it's just a bunch of nonsense.

    Sleep   People   Drug  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

    Alcohol   Drug   Abuse  
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