Eric Greitens Quotes

We lose thousands of our fellow Americans every year to opioid abuse.

Bayer Heroin

To end the drug crisis, we should educate everyone about the dangers of opioid drugs, help drug users get treatment, and aggressively prosecute criminals who supply the deadly poison.

On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut them off and throw them in jail, and moralize about it. It is clearly a huge, huge, and growing problem. It's devastating. We need to treat it as a health crisis, which it is, and stop moralizing.

We have a massive heroin opioid epidemic problem in America, part of that is because of drugs coming from the cartels from the south.

The abuse of prescription pills is a real thing. I understand that there are people that really need them and I understand that there are people that abuse them, and it's just a gray line that unfortunately has to exist.

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

Last year as many Marylanders died of drug overdoses as died of homicides and traffic deaths combined.

My home state of Kentucky has been especially hard hit. In 2015, more than 1,300 Kentuckians died after drug overdoses, many with opioids in their system. That's about four per day.

Under the leadership of President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Department of Justice is delivering results. Many federal, state, and local agencies are working with us to combat opioid addiction.

I played basketball at Kentucky in 1986-87 and '87-88 and enjoyed a 12-year NBA career. After multiple injuries and seven surgeries, I developed an addiction to prescription painkillers.

Heroin, forget it. In my neighborhood, I could see what heroin did firsthand and I was definitely afraid of that number.

Probably because I personally knew at least six or seven people in Ross County who died from overdoses in the last three years. The heroin epidemic is just too aggravating and sad and unsettling for even someone like me to live with and think about for the time it would take to write a book dealing with it.

The Force deals a lot with the heroin epidemic, which I'm sorry to know people are experiencing in Canada.

This is the worst drug epidemic I've seen in my lifetime.

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

There's no psychological barrier anymore that stops a young person or an older person from taking heroin.

I hear heroin is a very popular drug these days.

I am addicted to prescription pain medication.

People are going to keep getting prescribed medication that is counter to what their real disease state is, which is addiction.

It's in every single county. It's in our cities but it's also in our wealthier suburbs. It's in our small towns. There is no place in Ohio where you can hide from drug epidemic .

Heroin also makes people feel better, but I wouldn't recommend using heroin.

There's no typical person [addicted to heroin]. It just has permeated every segment of society in Ohio.

I snorted heroin once by accident. It was amazing. But kids, don't snort heroin. It's too good.

I took a shot of morphine, liked it, and eventually became addicted. It takes quite a while. It took me three months the first time. This nonsense of people becoming addicted with one shot is medically unsound.