Dick Durbin Quotes

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.

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

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

I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic oath.

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

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.

The public properly relies upon FDA classification of drugs as nonprescription as a reflection of the agency's judgment regarding the safety and proper use of a drug without a doctor's prescription.

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

Women should use pain medication only as directed and talk with their doctor about all drugs they're taking, including over-the-counter medications. Store prescription drugs in a secure place and properly dispose of them as soon as treatment is over. And never share prescription drugs with anyone else.

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.

We all live with more mortality because we're all on drugs.

Are you on drugs?" "No." "Maybe you should be.

I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis.

Frankly I'm not great with heroin addicts. I tried heroin, but it was by accident. I'm not great with that level of substance abuse.

Right now one in three teenagers meets the medical criteria for addiction, which is scary. I'm so driven because when I walked into rehab, I was like, "Am I still drunk? Did the guys give me the wrong address? Am I at a summer camp?" And it kills them. Deaths attributed to drugs and alcohol have overtaken all other emergency-room deaths.

The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.

The white horse of heroin will ride you to hell.

Taking drugs to overcome nerves is the thin edge of the wedge going in there.

I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank. We did everything, but I never became a drug addict or an alcoholic. Other friends are dead, many of them. So many people in this retrospective...in Female Trouble, almost everyone is dead.

I just took some ecstasy, ain't no tellin' what the side effects could be.

It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.

I would drink and drink and then at 3 o'clock in the morning take anything that was put in front of me. And I'd sometimes be disappointed when conventional things were put in front of me. Like, I'd do a line of something and be disappointed to find it was just cocaine.

I came home and found that my son was taking drugs - my very best ones too!