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Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high.
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Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration, or of small quantity, they have gain'd credit which they do not deserve.
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This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
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I've been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
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There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.
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Drugs are a carnival in hell.
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Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon.
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A pill to make you numb, a pill to make you dumb.
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Sometimes I smoked opium. And I also took LSD - for a while, quite a lot of LSD, in fact. But I never had any bad experiences. I stopped in 1985. I'd had enough, and I don't miss it, either.
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The white horse of heroin will ride you to hell.
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Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.
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I'm very fond of drugs.
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Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes ... We're all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.
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Remember the Three Princes of Serendip who went out looking for treasure? They didn't find what they were looking for, but they kept finding things just as valuable. That's serendipity, and our business [drugs] is full of it.
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Finest kind of dope. Book-Valium. No more heebie-jeebies. No more whim-whams
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The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
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The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage, you will never quench your thirst, and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment.
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What's that?"
"I believe it is called a Vicodin."
My mouth gapes open, and I darn near tear up. "You brought me cake and drugs? If you included Casablanca, I'd have to marry you.
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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.
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Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It's death on the installment plan.
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals
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Nietzsche, who called alcohol and Christianity "the two great European narcotics," was not averse to the therapeutic use of cannabis. "To escape from unbearable pressure you need hashish," Nietzsche wrote.
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Writing is my drug of choice. Everyday, I write. It eases out the pressure in my head and it all lands on a blank piece of paper. It has its own healing power and it gives me a feeling of contentment. Very addictive, yet it is not a criminal act.
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Marijuana... That's not a drug, that's a plant.
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about 40 million Chinese, a tenth of the country's population, were opium addicts.
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Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter leaving his traces in code, the birds were coming to try it, performing a dance for no one and flying up toward the moon.
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Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.
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Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Drugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant.
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true apothecary thy drugs art quick
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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
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I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
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This used to be my drug of choice. In my teens my drug of choice was acceptance, in my twenties it was approval, in my thirties it was love, in my forties it was Scotch.
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smoking some exotic fairy weed.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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There isn't any drug worse than money. Madness, deceptions and criminal behavior emerge from the need of more of it.
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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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You know how in football, guys throw defenses, and the defense throws you a look, but the look is not really what it is - it's only made to fool you. It's the same thing with drugs. The drug is only an illusion to draw you in.
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Central Intelligence cutting Meo opium fields! China Lobby copping poppies in Burma! How long this Addict government support our oil-burner matter-habit
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( ... ) it seemed to me exceedingly peculiar that a man should love flowers as well as opium - and yet I see now that there is no contradiction in this, for are they not perhaps both a means to a kind of intoxication ? Could it not even be said that one might lead inevitably to the other ?
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Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.
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The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.
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It is haram [religiously forbidden] to use narcotics in any way because it results in considerable adverse effects in terms of personal health and social cost. By the same token, it is haram to deal in narcotics in any way, i.e., carrying, transporting, storing, selling, buying, etc.
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"Drugs" are not necessarily narcotics. The narcotic is one type of drug and coffee is a drug ... booze is a drug ... many drugs ... They're all around us.
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I was slinging whatever I could get my hands on. Whether it was chronic, whether it was crack.
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Cocaine, yeahhhhhhh!!!!!
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Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records.
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I use drugs to work. I never use them to escape or for pleasure. When you turn to drugs, all you're doing is turning inside, anyway. I only use drugs for construction. It's like one of my architectural tools.
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Prescription drugs and heroin act in very similar ways on the brain. And, unfortunately, heroin, because of its widespread availability is a lot cheaper.
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By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.
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It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know?
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Klonopin - more deadly than coke
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I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
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It's the only hallucinogen I know, where if it's made right, the next day, or the day after the experience, you actually feel better than if you hadn't done it.
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It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.
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Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.
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Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.
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We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.
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When I pictured heroin, I pictured some crazy crackhead with no shoes under a bridge. You never think that is going to be you. And it never was me. I was never under a bridge, and I always had shoes.
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The Drug War is an addiction, really.
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Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it.
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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 spit, turn, and wander towards the beach. Heroin gave me wings but took away the sky.
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Who needed drugs when winning felt this good?
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Books and knowledge are the two most powerful drugs.
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Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
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Heroin", declared Durius Walker, Rydell's colleague in security at the Lucky Dragon on Sunset. "It's the opiate of the masses.
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Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a gentle explosion.It began in the back of the neck and rose rapidly until I felt such pleasure that the world sympathizing took on a soft, lofty appeal.
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I've never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.
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What drug will keep night from coming?
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There are times when I think of switching to narcotics. There, at least you can rely on a heroin pusher to push heroin.
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The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging.
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I've been studying drugs for years.
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Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.
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There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)
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There was a brown substance inside and Chase had no doubt: it was heroin. Only a tiny amount, but very pure. - Cutting Right to the Chase Vol.2
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My drug of choice is historical research.
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An enormous semiofficial drug-smuggling operation was established in order to improve Britain's unfavorable balance of payments with China - the direct result of the British love of tea.
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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.
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It appears she has taken an exorbitant quantity of heroin.' 'Oh dear.' I pushed my plate aside. 'What condition did she have to take it for?' 'Boredom.' He stood up. 'She has so little to do with her time since she came out of prison.' I
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Drug use is a primordial animal activity. Among humans , it is immemorial and nearly universal. VVhat then accounts for the 'war on drugs
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There's no drug that I would never take again.
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For ten thousand dollars, I'd endorse an opium pipe.
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abuse of drugs was not "a mysterious and inexplicable natural catastrophe, but a form
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I used to go to work and take heroin in the studio and then stop when I came home,
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Caffeine. The gateway drug.
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What drugs haven't destroyed, the war against them has
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Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.
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Who needs drugs when you have Takeshi's Castle?
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Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.
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One of the many downsides to being a drug addict is never really knowing if the stuff is real.
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I don't take drugs: I am drugs.
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Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs.
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Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.
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Why would you take a drug that is guaranteed to kill you in forty years? One reason, right? It's the only thing that will stop you dying tomorrow.
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Doing heroin is like walking around with a terrorist as your friend. It's like taking a terrorist around to parties You never know when it's going to blow up on you.
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Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.
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I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.