David Sheff Quotes

There should be marches in every neighborhood every day telling the people about the negativity of drugs and how the drugs help us to behave negatively.

Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential.

Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you, or try to stop you, but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage.

I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.

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

Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.

There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

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.

I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.

I totally believe parents should talk to their kids about drugs. I totally believe that educating them in every way is really important. But on the other hand, I've learned it's not as simple as that.

When we started becoming friends [with Prince], I was really doing a lot of cocaine, and he hated that. Prince was so against drugs.

Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture.

In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to.

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.

I still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.

Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.

All too many young people are receiving mixed messages and inaccurate information about drugs.

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on.