Marcia Angell Quotes

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

Medication can help us live a happier life.

That's one of my issues with the pharmaceutical industry - they believe pharmacy is a panacea for absolutely everything.

It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.

But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.

I believe in prescription drugs. I believe in feeling better.

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

Antidepressants can have troubling side effects and are addictive for some people.

The very first pharmaceutical commercial I ever heard was 15 seconds of the product and 45 seconds of side effects, so I know that this cannot be good for you.

I definitely think that prescription drugs, like antidepressants, are prescribed so cavalierly, anyone can get anything, but I need it. I do think that it needs to work hand and hand with therapy.

Drugs are destroying more people than poverty ever did.

People are medicated and TV is one of the things that they are medicated with.

When I was growing up they used to say, "Robin, drugs can kill you." Now that I'm 58 my doctor's telling me, "Robin, you need drugs to live." I realize now that my doctor is also my dealer.

Addiction is a health issue, not a social issue, not a crime, not a legal issue.

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you—and kill you the long, slow, hard way.

Throw out opium ... throw out wine ... If the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk at the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.

Crack has destroyed more families than poverty.

We cannot conceive of a society that is worth building ... on the basis of a drug culture.

The Batoka of these parts are very degraded in their appearance, and are not likely to improve, either physically or mentally, while so much addicted to smoking the mutokwane ('Cannabis sativa'). They like its narcotic effects

Well, I’ll never have to talk about crap like dope addiction again.

People who need [drug abuse] treatment have got to get it. You don't have to be a humanitarian to believe addicts need treatment. The public is threatened every time a drug addict is told to come back next week.

I have an addiction. I have a mental illness.

Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.

I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.