Dave Barry Quotes

And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.

I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.

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

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

My message is that steroids is bad. Don't do them. It's a bad message.

The dose makes the poison.

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

I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious.

I do think that we are an overmedicated society.

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

Nowadays, my mood ungoverned, I'm free to think the most outrageous things, such as: might it not be a good idea to insist that drug companies give their preparations names that tell the user what they really do?

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.

Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.

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.

Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.

Medication can help us live a happier life.

After my heart operation, I was given tablets, but, I'll admit, half the time I forget to take them. I carry them around in the car. Little triangular things - I don't know what they are, to be honest.

All medicine is made to make you better. If it did the opposite, it would be malpractice.

Drugs have always scared me.

I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick.

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

I had too much Nyquil and Vivarin again. Lost my stomach all over the place.