drugs

I have two quizzes tomorrow. I am playing Pokemon in a bar while high on heroin.

Dependence on drugs is not a disease, it is not a virus, it is not something that stalks only the dregs of society. Drug addiction is REALIZED EMOTIONAL DEFICIENCY SYNDROME.

What the hell is that?" he asked."Magic mushrooms.""I've always wanted to try those," he exclaimed. "They sound so cute.

It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with [referring to crystal methamphetamines]

My daughter, Carly, has been in and out of drug treatment facilities since she was thirteen. Every time she goes away, I have a routine: I go through her room and search for drugs she may have left behind. We have a laugh these days because Carly says, __o you were lookingfor drugs I might have left behind? I__ a drug addict, Mother. We don__ leave drugs behind, especially if we__e going into treatment. We do all the drugs. We don__ save drugs back for later. If I have drugs, I do them. All of them. If I had my way, we would stop for more drugs on the way to rehab, and I would do them in the parking lot of the treatment center.

Anything that inspires addiction or obsession - substances, entertainment, beauty, secrecy - is dangerous in that it can lead to isolation, self-absorption, and disconnection, to paralyzed stasis: an immobility that gathers like a force.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

Imagine trying to live without air.Now imagine something worse.

I learned that it's okay to feel the way I do: that my life has no meaning unless I have a boyfriend. A real man is like the perfect vampire-boy and all the perfect guys in Twue Wuv.

I look away from her. __ have felt like an old man my whole life. And they get to have fun and snort their fucking drugs and get wasted and it doesn__ matter who they__e hurting because they__e young and having fun and I__ a judgmental prick if I say anything._ __o you think they__e having fun?_ I don__ have an answer for her. ____l never be able to compete against it._ __aybe you don__ understand how powerful it is,_ she says. __ow powerful is it?_ __ery._ __nd that__ an excuse?_ __o._ __hen do they get to take responsibility?_ __or themselves?_ she asks. __es._ __lways,_ she says.

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.

...introduced Doc to the miracle of morphine. From that very first shot it was as if he'd discovered the one vital ingredient that God had left out when He'd sent Doc kicking and screaming into the cold, cruel world.

Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to wake me up. Something to help me sleep. Something to calm my nerves. There was a time when I was able to wake up, go to sleep, and have fun without a pill or a line to help me function. These days it felt like I might have a nervous breakdown if I didn't have them.

Drugs suck more than anything else I have ever liked so much.

here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace of mind could be sent down by the mail.

Sometimes I think, Was she thinking about me when she was drinking? Did any of them ever think about me when they were putting straws in their noses and needles in their arms? Did they even think about me once?_ And she asks me, __hat would it mean if they didn__?_ I stare at her, trembling. She knows what I think it means, and she wants me to say it out loud.

Getting rid of the drugs doesn__ get rid of all the other ways you learned to deal with the world. It__ not that easy.

I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back together... I just love the stories. The stories of the fallen world, they excite us. That's the interesting stuff.