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Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
Academy. And what a narcotic the drug of positive feedback
I'm just here for the narcotics.
I was slinging whatever I could get my hands on. Whether it was chronic, whether it was crack.
Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter leaving his traces in code, the birds were coming to try it, performing a dance for no one and flying up toward the moon.
Intoxicating" - Shannon
When I came to Washington, I was troubled to observe so many similarities between the behaviors of drug-addicted patients and my political colleagues. In Washington power is like morphine.
drunk right now, Amfortas suspected, or high on amphetamine,
There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)
I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.
Too many codeine pills,
Too many nights of cold chills
Too many weak-handed deals
Too many lives, the addict steals
What's in that pipe that he's smoking?
First things that a hurting person needs to do is break the habit of using other people as a narcotic to numb the dull aching of an inner void.
Drugs are a bet with your mind.
1:52 a.m. His favorite nightcap - coffee and Benzedrine.
a cocktail of characteristics that I found addictive,
Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records.
Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
Doctor's recommendation to patient. Underneath that was scrawled: Don't do cocaine.
He's sick." "What with?" "Sitzenlust. Chronic. The opposite of wanderlust.
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.
There is in woman something of the unconscious function of drugs which are cunning without knowing it, like morphine.
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
By empowering people to initiate a conversation prior to surgery regarding their pain control options, we hope to reduce the incidence of narcotic addiction and all of the unfortunate consequences that surround it.
Insomnia, from the Greek word meaning I can't fucking sleep!
Storytelling has a narcotic power.
Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
Benzedrine,' he said. 'I rang up my secretary before dinner and asked her to wangle some out of the surgery at Headquarters.
a chronic malcontent, albeit quite a purposeless one.
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Word-sniffing ... is an addiction, like glue
or snow
sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically ... As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness ...
In my teens my drug of choice was acceptance, in my twenties it was approval, in my thirties it was love, in my forties it was Scotch. That lasted a while,' she admitted. 'Now all I really crave is a good bowel movement.
Drugs
to me
have always been
a pretty girl
with a sly smile
beckoning me
with a finger
down the dark path
of a fork in the road.
Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
She was working at her computer in her office, doing admin, which is short for administration, which is short for migraine-stimulant.
I don't use recreational drugs, except for cocaine, hallucinogens, and nitrates.
Sluggish idleness
the nurse of sin.
But they turned out to be prescriptions for medicines, and not for the common cold: opium, lavender oil, belladonna, orange rind, chloral hydrate, strychnine, potassium bromide. Such sedatives and stimulants were common remedies at that time for epilepsy.
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.
Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?
Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.
I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic
I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body.
Painkillers are the drugs of the future
I don't need drugs. I am drugs.
Scores of high-powered men and women are addicted to substances or destructive addictive patterns of behaviour. As a matter of fact, it is easier to hide one's addiction while maintaining a high-powered position compared to the addicts and alcoholics we see sleeping on street corners.
Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?
Klonopin - more deadly than coke
Do I even want to know what that was?" I only half way wanted an answer.
"It's something you should've already taken by now." I lifted my head, searching his face, but when I did his face doubled. Fact two: he'd drugged me. Great.
Who needs drugs when you have Takeshi's Castle?
There was a brown substance inside and Chase had no doubt: it was heroin. Only a tiny amount, but very pure. - Cutting Right to the Chase Vol.2
We're all addicted to something that takes away the pain
Pretty much any drug you can name, I've done it.
I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
Pain ebbs,
And like cool balm,
An opiate weariness
Settles on eye-lids, on relaxed
Pale wrists.
What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it. - A substance in a cushion
Dr. Chopra describes all addiction as a lack of exultation; meaning that something is missing from the person's life. From a mind-body medicine perspective the best
Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high.
Or maybe just an amphetamine freak? Clark's thoughts wandered to a particularly exciting week in Toronto, eighteen or nineteen years old, when he and Arthur had accepted some pills from a new friend at a dance club and stayed up for seventy-two hours straight.
Something like Valium," she suggested, "but not Valium." It sounded like a riddle
Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a gentle explosion.It began in the back of the neck and rose rapidly until I felt such pleasure that the world sympathizing took on a soft, lofty appeal.
Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.
All he did was sleep, like it was some sort of drug and he couldn't get enough of it.
I use drugs to work. I never use them to escape or for pleasure. When you turn to drugs, all you're doing is turning inside, anyway. I only use drugs for construction. It's like one of my architectural tools.
Thought of drugs the way he thought of desserts, which he also loved: a consumable that had been forbidden to him as a child and which was now freely available.
You need to bridge the gap between reality and freedom. Drugs are the bridge.
All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.
abuse of drugs was not "a mysterious and inexplicable natural catastrophe, but a form
Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.
There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize the hour of enjoyment they procure, but we must not separate it from the price at which it was purchased.
Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It's death on the installment plan.
Carisoprodol. Comes in a white tablet like a big-ass vitamin, 350 mg of muscle liquefier for those tense, recovering athletes and furniture movers. Too much, and those relaxed muscles include your diaphragm, then your heart.
The junkie ignites his feelings with ugly synthetic substances, and the emotions that were meant to last for a lifetime burn away in full force in a couple of short years.
Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.
The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs.
He tried sedatives and hypnotics but they made him dependent, sending him inward in tight spirals. Every act he performed was self-haunted and synthetic. The palest thought carried an anxious shadow.
I don't take drugs: I am drugs.
It had been a week since he'd ambushed her. She'd hoped the lack of contact would get him out of her mind. Instead, she felt like a junkie whose drug of choice was being withheld.
The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work.
Drugs are a carnival in hell.
There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the weight of responsibility for his situation somewhere other than on his own decisions.
Awe is the best drug in the world
People who foster dependence on illicit drugs such as heroin are regarded among the most unscrupulous pariahs of modern civilisation. In contrast, pushers of licit drugs tend to be viewed as altruistically motivated purveyors of social good.
I don't need DRUGS, I got the Most HIGH.
Heroin spread that soft blanket over everything. But once the blanket was ripped off, it took a layer of skin with it, leaving nothing but nerve ends screaming in the breeze.
To fix and make plausible, the nebulous emotions of my costumed heroins, like diamonds on a sea of dough.
I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness.
Love the great narcotic was the revealer in the alchemist's bottle rendering visible the most untraceable substances.
Love the great narcotic was the agent provocateur exposing all the secret selves to daylight.
Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs,
our policy against narcotics
like any public policy
comes with strings attached. And increasingly these strings
are constricting around the necks of Americans' lives and liberties.
They smile that smile, they bat those eyes. They steal with hello, they kill you with goodbye. They're the perfect drug. As you're walking away, you hear that sweet voice, 'Stay.
Marijuana... That's not a drug, that's a plant.
lethargic meliorist;
smoking some exotic fairy weed.
The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.
What man can hate or love well when he is drugged?
Gettin high, livin' everday, like i'm gonna die.