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Letter "D" » drug addiction
«Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country-it had all been done in our name... The French city... had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the heroin phase.»
Author: James Fenton
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addicted, addiction, division, drug addict, drug addiction, drug addicts, heroin, heroin addict, heroin addiction, humiliation, mutilation, mutilations, old country, phase, prostitution, represented, Saigon, The Americans, The Division, the French
«I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your drug addiction?»
«You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don?t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home.»
Author: Peter Cook
(Actor, Comedian)
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drug addiction, entertained, sodomy, theatre, The Theatre
«Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.»
Author: Ralph Nader
(Activist, Lawyer)
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addiction, addictions, alcoholics, drug, drug addiction, health problem, jail, jailed, jails, nonviolent, send, treated, users
«If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
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addict, addiction, cured, drug addict, drug addiction, drug addicts, haunts, House of the Dead, intangible, intangibles, organism, recasting, smoking, There exists
«The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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addiction, addictions, available, drug, drug addiction, effect, exposure, illness, intoxicant, intoxicants, psychological, ridiculous, somehow, speaking, totally
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