American Medical Association Quotes

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.

The parent is the first role model. As the parent lives, so will the child, and the use of drugs and alcohol in front of children is the worst thing that parents could do.

I want to tell the youth that we should not do drugs.

A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

I find drug use disrespectful, self-destructive, and weak. I want no part of it.

When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.

This was a result of a number of factors, but we do know that the messages kids get about the harms of drugs has a significant impact on their decision on whether or not to use.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

Smoking, chewing betel nut, and taking drugs for pleasure are not for Christians. These practices are wrong because (1) they make us their slaves, (2) they harm our bodies, and (3) they are unclean … It can be very hard to give up these habits. But we must do so to please Jehovah.

Uncle Sam is the Worst Drug Fiend in the World Of all the nations of the world the United States consumes most habit-forming drugs per capita. Opium, the most pernicious drug known to humanity, is surrounded, in this country, with far fewer safeguards than any other nation.

No one should do drugs thinking that they will make a great record. That's not the way to go, for sure.

I drink to forget I drink.

Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.

If you've never tried drugs, don't. And if you have, pray.

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

I took drugs because we all took drugs.

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life.

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.