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Quotes from C-SPAN: Romancing Opiates — Anthony Daniels

born 1949 England

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And the fact is that millions of opiates addicts having given up their habit without medical assistance.

C-SPAN: Romancing Opiates (2006)

The withdrawal symptoms from opiates are not severe and never dangerous, though of course they do exist. Insofar as they are genuinely feared, there has been a campaign of exaggeration about them for nearly 200 years.

C-SPAN: Romancing Opiates (2006)

Addicts, to this day, claim that they are they are the only people qualified to speak of the seriousness of withdrawal effects; as if only people with cerebral malaria or bowel cancer could speak of their seriousness.

C-SPAN: Romancing Opiates (2006)

Incidentally, many thousands of American servicemen addicted themselves to heroin in Vietnam, but two years after their repatriation their rate of addiction was no greater than that of draftees who were to go to Vietnam, but never did go because the war had ended.

C-SPAN: Romancing Opiates (2006)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anthony Daniels (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.