Clifford Stoll Quotes

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

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.

Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.

I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.

Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.

I've been drinking and using since I was 13.

Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.

I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs.

Sometimes my husband has to literally pull me away from the computer.

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

No addiction is good.

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.

It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night.

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

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

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