Kurt Cobain

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

American Singer

Shaun Ryder

Drugs shut you down, cut you off emotionally. You think being off your head makes life easier, but it's a lot easier when you're not.

Julie Foudy

Sports help women stay in school longer and make them less likely to use drugs, break the law, or get pregnant at an early age.

American Athlete

Junior dos Santos

I don't like to use - I never use - any kind of drugs to help me in my fights. I don't like that. I don't like drugs.

Brazilian Athlete

Gloria Gaynor

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

American Musician

Jeff Sessions

Our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs will destroy your life.

American Politician

Jaya Prada

We need to raise our voice against the use of drugs and we need to save our youth.

Indian Actress

Pete Doherty

There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.

English Musician

Lily Tomlin

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

American Actress

Chris Slade

Welsh Musician

Used in healthcare to discuss treatment with legal, approved substances.

Medical Context

Formal and neutral, suitable for academic and professional discussions.

Formal Use

Drugs can be prescription, over-the-counter, or recreational with different legal statuses.

Drug Varieties

Often implies illegal substances with potential for abuse or harmful effects.

Illegal Implications

Carries a negative social connotation when linked to addiction or illicit activities.

Social Stigma

Using or discussing this type often involves health risks and legal consequences.

Health Risks

Involves giving someone a substance without consent, often for malicious purposes.

Wrongful Usage

Suggests illegal activity; it’s a serious crime in all contexts.

Crime Connotations

Implies a deliberate action to impair judgment or control someone.

Manipulative Action

 to get information from the public and get information out to them. We have satellite maps where we can see where people are and where they're moving. We have advances in biology that should dramatically change the turnaround time to look at a pathogen and be able to make drugs and vaccines that fit for that pathogen. So we can have tools,

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 receive an injection, or otherwise take some kind of medicine during their lives, but most of us don't know anything about how these substances actually work. How can various compounds impact the way we physically feel, think, and even behave? For the most part, this depends on how a drug alters the communication

How do drugs affect the...

 particularly for patients who've already had a heart attack and for those known to be at high risk. And drugs that help manage risk factors, like high blood pressure, cholesterol, and diabetes, will make heart attacks less likely, too. Heart attacks may be common, but they don't have to be inevitable.

What happens during a...

 an important chemical or neurotransmitter. There are many dopamine receptors in the forebrain, but they're not evenly distributed. Certain areas contain dense clusters of receptors, and these dopamine hot spots are a part of our reward system. Drugs like alcohol, nicotine, or heroin

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 including the brain. That's what inhalational anesthetics do. In Western medicine, diethyl ether was the first common one. It was best known as a recreational drug until doctors started to realize that people sometimes didn't notice injuries they received under the influence.

How does anesthesia...

 and even beverages labeled decaf. Caffeine helps us feel alert, focused, happy, and energetic, even if we haven't had enough sleep. But it can also raise our blood pressure, and make us feel anxious. It's the world most widely used drug. So how does it keep us awake?

How does caffeine keep...

 technologist at a local hospital he loved science and had previously worked researching marine sources of antibiotics he was a deeply generous guy a great cook a better uncle than I am an incredibly funny he was also a manufacturer of illegal drugs

Prohibition criminalizes...

 that help the body transmit pain signals. As more drug molecules accumulate, the pain-cancelling affect increases, reaching a maximum within about one or two hours. Then the body starts efficiently eliminating ibuprofen,

How does your body...

 drugs today if he hadn't gotten caught thank you I felt the work I was doing was so important for humanity that I was willing to take the risks of being The Alchemist hiding away in his laboratory

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 for cats catnip may be a recreational drug but it's totally harmless although there are always some overindulge