It's as much drug abuse to take steroids as heroin or cocaine. When most people imagine drug abusers, their thoughts are of street people living in the gutter. Realistically, these people can't afford drugs, but professional athletes and middle and upper class teenagers can.
Quotes about heroin (16 Quotes)
Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose I need help bad, man.
We hear every single day how terrible suicides are, automobile accidents are, how terrible cocaine and heroin are, murders, homicides, all of them. You put them all together, they don't come close to what this drug nicotine combined in tobacco does. Four hundred and forty thousand people a year, the equivalent of three 747s dropping out of the sky every single day of our lives. It's time we changed this folks,
The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den
heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, and anything I could get my hands on... At that point I had over eighteen million dollars in the bank, and I still couldn't find happiness in being rich or famous.
How we stop the black panthers; Ronald Reagan cooked up an answer; You hear that; What Gil Scott was hearin; When our heroes and heroines got hooked on heroin. Crack raised the murder rate in DC and Maryland; We invested in that it's like we got Merril-Lynch; And we been hangin from the same tree ever since.
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
For several years now, Afghanistan and Burma have been world headquarters for the heroin business, ... This past year they retained that deadly dishonor.
If tobacco suddenly were unavailable and was as expensive as heroin and cocaine, I think that you would find that the behavior of some tobacco addicts would be very much like the behavior of some addicts of heroin and cocaine,
You know, it's cigarettes that killed (Jerry) Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes.
The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.
There are a lot of bands using self-abuse as a marketing gimmick. Metal music has been ambushed by a fashionable West Coast wasted look-you know, the red bandanna and the heroin needle sticking out of your arm. I think that's disgusting.
I've never read anything about heroin where, yeah, it's a good experience, and you can do it for 20 years and enjoy it, like having a cold beer. It doesn't work that way with heroin.
I've seen Keith fall asleep at business meetings about millions of dollars for him-because of heroin, just nod out and then wake up and answer a question.
This is your brain on heroin.
It didn't affect his ability for a long time. Heroin can be like that with musicians I think that's why you see so many musicians drift that way, because you can remain musical for a long time. But I think, without exception, they all hit the wall eventually and the creativity goes.