Elton John Quotes

Young kids are taking Viagra, ecstasy. They even want instant sex.

Marijuana doesn’t produce dependence and it doesn’t produce overdose deaths.

The addict is under compulsion not capable of management without outside help.... If addicts can be punished for their addiction, then the insane can also be punished for their insanity. Each has a disease and each must be treated as a sick person.

Crack has destroyed more families than poverty.

We fully understand that even in our own lands we’re now a minority, but that doesn’t in any way mean we should rescind our efforts to deal with the pain of alcohol abuse in those lands.

To become a narcotic addict is an anti-social act and the foundation of countermeasures against addiction is to treat and rehabilitate addicts.

With intensive research it should be feasible to inoculate against heroin which would be administered ... in the same way as vaccines against smallpox, polio, measles.

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

The drug problem in this country is a consumption issue.

For 40 years we have been looking for ways to make the existence of the narcotic drug addict just as tough as possible. For 40 years we have asked only what new penalties, what new police tech-niques, might make it easier to catch him and lock him up, whether as an ordinary criminal or, more recently, in connection with some more or less sincere efforts at rehabilitation in confinement. I believe that this entire approach is open to grave question as a practical matter

The American who drinks wine is in danger of becoming the victim of drunkenness, licentiousness, and gambling.

Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use.

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances

Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder.

We have lost the War on Drugs. We cannot arrest our way out of it….It’s a public health problem, not a crime problem.

Heroin: Try it once … Hooked for life.

Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay.

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

What kind of guy goes to every city, has sex with every girl, then he goes and catches HIV.

One of Satan's sharpest tools is alcohol, for it blinds and deafens, numbs and manacles, impoverishes and maims, and kills unfortunate victims.

I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn't realize I'd taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was. It didn't do anything for me, which was lucky because I wouldn't have fancied heading down that road.

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

I just took some ecstasy, ain't no tellin' what the side effects could be.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't.