Prevention Is Better Than Treatment Quotes & Sayings

Marijuana legalization's income may help fund education, prevention and treatment programs for harder drugs. What's clear is that the four-decade-old U.S.-backed war on drugs is not working, and that it's producing tens of thousands of dead across the hemisphere, without significant gains in reducing consumption. Experimenting with new weapons to weaken the cartels may be better than doing nothing. — Andres Oppenheimer

Distraction is your friend. — Susane Colasanti

Why would you apologize for what you read for pleasure? Just think of the illiteracy rate. Every book read for pleasure should be celebrated. And novels that celebrate love, commitment, relationships, making relationships work, why isn't that something to be respected? — Nora Roberts

New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there. — Daniel Boulud

We're the gentle people, sweetheart. We're the losers!...it's what makes us stronger, in a way. — Peter Coyote

We need to stay in Iraq until the job is done. The President understands this and I'm glad that he is getting more countries to participate. We must change the chant of millions of young Muslims from 'Jihad Against the World' to 'Freedom and Democracy.' — George Voinovich

How is it possible that Courtney Love looks worse than Kurt Cobain? — Jeff Ross

The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment. — Roger Ebert

I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that. — Joyce Carol Oates

I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response. — Nicholas D'Agosto

I'm just a movie fan. I used to go to the movies just to watch movies. — Debbie Reynolds

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow. — Tom Jenkinson

Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly. — Jamie Moyer