{"quotes":[{"text":"I'd felt the pop of the needle sliding into my veins, like a fang into flesh. I'd been enveloped in the golden haze where nothing is wrong even when everything is falling apart. A dance with a hypodermic fiend, my hands in the claws of a vulture.","author":"Taylor Rhodes","tags":["drug-use","fear","heroin","recklessness","regret","sixteenth-notes","taylor-rhodes"],"id":77421,"author_id":"Taylor+Rhodes"},{"text":"Rationalizing him and the glass pipe, Dad smoked crack, but he was not a crackhead; it was just something he did. To do something didn't define you, I thought.I saw Dad through a dusty lens that distorted our relationship, as tarnished as his pipe. He was no longer just our father; he was his own person, with an identity and label and body separate from his relationship with us. He was someone who was judged outside of the lens of fatherhood, outside of our connection. When he was in the streets, he was not Dad. He was Charlie the crackhead.","author":"Janet Mock","tags":["drug-use","father","janet-mock","parents"],"id":116603,"author_id":"Janet+Mock"},{"text":"One day I'm a normal person with a normal life,” he said. “The next I'm standing on a street corner in Madrid with a secret phone and a hole in my arm and I'm bleeding all over, hoping I don't get arrested. It was completely crazy. But it seemed like the only way at the time.","author":"Tyler Hamilton","tags":["abnormal","bleeding","crazy","crime","doping","drug-use","fear","insanity","life","normality","secrecy","secret","weird"],"id":156746,"author_id":"Tyler+Hamilton"},{"text":"Jacob offered Ann pot, this time from a bowl. She shook her head no.“You gotta keep doing it and eventually it will start to feel good, and your body will adapt,” he encouraged. It was the same thing her mom’s yoga instructor had said to her once and her answer was the same both times.","author":"Sage Steadman","tags":["drug-use","high-school","humor","substance-use","yoga"],"id":175682,"author_id":"Sage+Steadman"},{"text":"I woke up with a heart attack just out of my field of vision and with my dick in my hand, saying, I love you I love you I love you over and over...And that my dear sweet love of my life, is how things were without you and I'd done everything I could to keep you from knowing that.","author":"Craig Clevenger","tags":["drug-use","drug-user","hallucinations-sleep","lost-love","love-oe-my-life","soulmates"],"id":177733,"author_id":"Craig+Clevenger"},{"text":"Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I’ll be damned if Rick Perry didn’t take me up on that.","author":"Bill Maher","tags":["bill-maher","drug-use","humor","politicians","politics","real-time-with-bill-maher","rick-perry","television"],"id":180970,"author_id":"Bill+Maher"},{"text":"Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving.... AIDS is not the swift sword with which the Lord punishes the evil practitioners of male homosexuality and intravenous drug use. It is simply an opportunistic virus that does what it has to do to stay alive.","author":"Chris Crutcher","tags":["aids","drug-use","hiv","morality","reality-check","viruses"],"id":197430,"author_id":"Chris+Crutcher"},{"text":"The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism about psychedelic drugs, it is that anyone who tries to write about them without first-expierience is a fool and a fraud.","author":"Hunter S. Thompson","tags":["drug-literature","drug-use","gonzo","journalism","psychedelics"],"id":218964,"author_id":"Hunter+S.+Thompson"},{"text":"With endless pharmacological supplies at our fingertips, we do not need to penetrate the motives behind our actions, feelings, transgressions, dreams, and phobias. High on chemical substances we can remain stagnated in an infantile mental state. Without introspection, we foreclose ourselves from gaining the insight that allows us to navigate adulthood’s ceaseless demands.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["drug-use","introspection","maturation","maturity","personal-growth","personal-growth","self-medication","stagnate","stagnation"],"id":224814,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Moral ideas about what constitutes a meritorious or meaningful use of one’s life and opportunities produce specific attitudes towards drug use and intoxication.","author":"Daniel Waterman","tags":["drug-use","drugs","intoxication","morality"],"id":308984,"author_id":"Daniel+Waterman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}