“I mean we all did excessive things and I had a lot of unstable moments as I’m sure everyone does in their life. Maybe it helped me that I had a very centered upbringing.”— Mick Jagger, the-talks.com
“I thought that love was in the drugs. But the more I took, the more it took away and I could never get enough.”— Florence + The Machine, open.spotify.com
“Momma, I'm so sorry, I'm not sober anymore. And daddy, please forgive me for the drinks spilled on the floor. To the ones who never left me, we've been down this road before I'm so sorry, I'm not sober anymore.”— Demi Lovato, open.spotify.com
“Sometimes I just wanna cave and I don't wanna fight I try and I try and I try and I try and I try.”— Demi Lovato, open.spotify.com
“Hi. I'm Stewie Griffin. Tonight's "Family Guy" was a very special episode about drug use, but the simple fact is it's no laughing matter. To learn more about drugs, visit your local library. There's probably a guy behind there who sells drugs. Good night.”— Wellesley Wild, Stewie Griffin, Seth MacFarlane, imdb.com
“He doesn't just use drugs, he uses people!”— Paul Abbott, Sheila Callaghan, Fiona Gallagher, Emmy Rossum, imdb.com
“How many downers will it take? Oh well, it doesn’t matter. You’ve long been going, going; now you’re gone.”— Johnny Cash, amazon.com
“Drug overdoses killed more Americans in 2016 than people killed in the Vietnam War which roughly killed over 58,000 US soldiers. How much bigger does addiction need to get in order for people to consider it important?”— Brittney Lindstrom, thoughtcatalog.com
“I reject the idea that America will be a better place if marijuana is sold in every corner store. And I am astonished to hear people suggest that we can solve our heroin crisis by legalizing marijuana—so people can trade one life-wrecking dependency for another that’s only slightly less awful.”— Jeff Sessions, newsweek.com
“As many Americans will die in 2017 of drug overdoses as died in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan wars combined.”— Nicholas Kristof, nytimes.com
“It is not fully accurate to say that my problem was with drugs. Yes, I took a lot of drugs and hurt myself quite badly doing so. Yet for a long time at the beginning of my using, drugs (marijuana in particular) were a solution to a problem that had been there for some time.”— Tommy Rosen, amazon.com
“I understand the fascination, the dream that comes alive at night. I've even been there once or twice (or more). Drunk on immorality, valium and cherry wine, coke and ecstasy, but if you don’t change your situation then you’ll die, you’ll die, don’t die, don’t die. Please don’t die.”— Placebo, open.spotify.com
“Want you so bad I can taste it, but you're nowhere to be found. Now I'll take a drug to replace it or put me in the ground. Put me in the ground.”— Placebo, open.spotify.com