"Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies."
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"If you look at the expenses of a great pharmaceutical company, they pay between about 10 to 15 percent of their expenses for research, but they use 30 to 40 percent of their incomes for marketing and promotion. It is not completely wrong that they spend so much, but it is not correct to say that there is a direct connection between the price of drugs and the cost of research. It could be more between the cost of marketing and the cost of the drugs."
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"I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is."
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"I use drugs to work. I never use them to escape or for pleasure. When you turn to drugs, all you're doing is turning inside, anyway. I only use drugs for construction. It's like one of my architectural tools."
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"Drugs had shown me little bits here and there-they had rolled across the carpet once or twice, but I had been able to get them out of my mind."
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"I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move."
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"Getting clean made me grow up. I feel like all the years that I was using drugs, I wasn't growing as a person."
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"I'm not in journalism for the money. I'm in it to tell great stories, to talk about moments of history that are forgotten, and also to get into the nitty gritty of drug policy that you don't really see written about anywhere else."
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"There's lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs."
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"It seems madness to say, 'We're worried that they're going to become addicted to marijuana' -- there's no evidence whatever that it's an addictive drug, but even if it were, these people are dying, what are we saving them from?"
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"People want to catch a buzz. That is why drugs are illegal, yet people still try to get their hands on them no matter what the consequence. Drugs make us happy, they may not be healthy."
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"I just put drugs down to luck. I persevere quite honestly, and I've got a fair amount of discipline that keeps me out of deep water."
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"In this country we're unprecedentedly safe, comfortable, and well fed, with more and better venues for stimulation. And yet if you were asked, 'Is this a happy or unhappy country?' you'd check the 'unhappy' box. We're living in an era of emotional poverty, which is something that serious drug addicts feel most keenly."
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"What drugs haven't destroyed, the war against them has"
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"What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has"
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"[The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the orderly, Georgie, both of us on drugs, looking down at a patient with a knife sticking up out of his face. 'What seems to be the trouble?' he asked."
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"Drugs have played no significant factor in my life."
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"The government could take away all the drugs in the world and people would spin around on their lawns until they fell down and saw God."
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"So here's the situation confronting the drug firms: The drugs cost more to make, but they can't charge more for them. What do they do? Increasingly, the U.S. market is driving them toward drugs aimed at the diseases of richer, older Americans and away from antimicrobials, vaccines, and the like."
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"Being larger than life, or being projected as such in the music business, leads you to question yourself. Some people try to forget about it by taking drugs or too much drink, but I was never like that. I was aware that there were very serious, big questions, and I was petrified about what might be in store for me."
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