Prescription Drugs Quotes

• The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

  William Osler

  Health, Medicine, Disease

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• Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine.

  Richard Clarke Cabot

  Health, Medicine, Physicians

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• The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning.

  Henry Lindlahr

  Health, Medicine, Drug

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• 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.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Jail, People

  "Nader Endorses Legal Marijuana". Associated Press, www.nytimes.com. September 09, 2000.

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• So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record.

  Chris Martin

  Drug, Records, Paper

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• If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.

  Chuck Grassley

  America, Drug, United States

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• Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.

  Grace Jones

  Differences, Drug, Illegal

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The similarities between street drug abuse and psychotropic prescription drug use are disturbing. Both types are toxic. Both can cause psychosis, damage the brain and other organs, and even cause death. And neither type of mind-altering drugs, legal or illegal, treats disease. It's important to recognize that the only significant difference between many prescription psychotropic drugs and street drugs such as "speed" and "downers" is that prescription drugs are legal.

  Sydney Walker

  Psychosis, Drug Use, Differences

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• And if you like socialized medicine, you will love this government bureaucracy under [then-Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee] Al Gore that will actually cost seniors who get $500 a year in prescription drugs right now - it will end up costing seniors more money and take away control from those seniors.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Senior, Medicine, Government

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• As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

  Sue Kelly

  Believe, Drug, Quality

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• Today about 95% of the prescription drugs sold are Maintenance drugs-drugs that treat only the symptoms of a disease, and that you are expected to take for the rest of your life.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Drug, Maintenance, Disease

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• Conspiracy theories abound in American politics. I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription drugs.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Thinking, Differences

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• And because of these programs like Medicare, Medicare prescription drugs, Social Security, we now have the healthiest and wealthiest group of senior citizens that the world has ever seen. This is a continuing commitment to that.

  James T. Walsh

  Senior, Commitment, Drug

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• We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Drug, Care, Action

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• Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and private - who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers.

  Susan Collins

  Struggle, Drug, Cost

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• Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs.

  Marty Meehan

  Senior, Drug, Confusing

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• Doctors are directly responsible for hooking millions of people on prescription drugs. They are also indirectly responsible for the plight of millions more who turn to illegal drugs because they were taught at an early age that drugs can cure anything - including psychological and emotional conditions - that ails them.

  Robert S. Mendelsohn

  Emotional, Doctors, People

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• I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. ... This notion that somehow we caused the deficits is just wrong. It's just not true. ... If they start trying to give you a bunch of facts and figures suggesting that it's true, what they're not telling you is they baked all this stuff into the cake with those tax cuts and a prescription drug plan that they didn't pay for and the wars.

  Barack Obama

  War, Cutting, Cake

  "Remarks at an Obama Victory Fund 2012 Fundraiser in Baltimore, Maryland". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 12, 2012.

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• Beginning in June, Alabama seniors previously without prescription drug coverage should begin to see savings of between 10 and 25 percent on their medications.

  Mike Rogers

  Senior, June, Drug

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• Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people.

  Bill Maher

  Afterlife, People, Drug

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• The fact is that a lot of the spending increases came during the Bush administration. Two unpaid for wars we got ourselves engaged in. A prescription drug plan that added enormous amounts to our spending, and the tax cuts at the high end that did not create jobs and create revenue coming.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Jobs, War, Cutting

  "Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. John McCain on avoiding automatic spending cuts". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. February 10, 2013.

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• From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government.

  Chuck Todd

  Children, Government, Drug

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• We say to seniors, we understand how important prescription drug coverage, so prescription drugs will be an ingrinable part of the Medicare plan.

  George W. Bush

  Senior, Humor, Political

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• For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

  Kim Campbell

  Loss, People, Lost Friendship

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.

  Judy Biggert

  Drug, Physicians, World

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