Addiction Risks Quotes

I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here are a few I would suggest: "Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was."; "Drinking will significantly improve your chances of murdering a loved one."; "If you drink long enough, at some point you will vomit up the lining of your stomach."; "Use this product and you may wake up in Morocco wearing a cowboy suit and tongue-kissing a transmission salesman."

Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.

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

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured... No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer...

Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

I was a drug dealer in Ibiza at 15. I did not excel in drug dealing - I was terrible at it. Golden rule with drug dealing - don't get too enthusiastic with your own merchandise.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.

If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?

It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because you will waste time in terms of years.

All kinds of gambling, from bingo to baccarat, are benign entertainment for most people, dangerously addictive to a few, and capable of breeding unwanted side effects for society.

I don't do any Class A - especially not cocaine - after seeing what it does to people.

Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there?