Opiate Addiction Quotes

If I'm going to have to deal, as I get older, with arthritic pain, I don't want to get into opiates.

I did masses of opiates religiously.

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.

For instance, they [The Federal Narcotics Bureau ] give out that marijuana is a harmful and habit-forming drug, and it simply isn't. They claim that you can get addicted to opiates with one shot, and you can't. They over-estimate the physical bad effects, and so forth.

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

I believe in detox. I think detox is smart. You've got a guy who's in an opiate cycle or a dope cycle or something, and he can't get out of it. You shut him down long enough so at least his body can start working for itself again.

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.