“This latest action by the Trump administration defies America’s principles. It will result in life-long consequences for children, including mental health issues like depression, anxiety, developmental delays, and substance use disorder. The Trump administration must be held accountable for their in…”— Ben Ray Lujan, lujan.house.gov
“Who do religions fear the most? You're going to say to me: Satan, the devil. It's actually women.”— Patrick Wanis, vice.com
“It is safe to say that Miller did not die of a broken heart, mainly because, well, no one ever does.”— Madeleine Davies, cosmopolitan.com
“It’s gross, and it shows how unwilling we are to understand substance abuse — or kill the stigma around it.”— Miles Klee, melmagazine.com
“Why, oh why can't she just have a substance abuse problem like a normal mom?”— Glenn Eichler, Dan Vebber, Daria Morgendorffer (voice), Tracy Grandstaff, imdb.com
“I felt something else: initiated, aglow. The whole world stood accused: You never told me it felt this good.”— Leslie Jamison, nytimes.com
“The brain gets very confused. And that leads to problems with excessive anger, excessive shutting down, and doing things like taking drugs to make yourself feel better.”— Bessel Van Der Kolk, sideeffectspublicmedia.org
“But if you're in an orphanage for example, and you're not touched or seen, whole parts of your brain barely develop; and so you become an adult who is out of it, who cannot connect with other people, who cannot feel a sense of self, a sense of pleasure. If you run into nothing but danger and fear, y…”— Bessel Van Der Kolk, sideeffectspublicmedia.org
“The human brain is a social organ that is shaped by experience, and that is shaped in order to respond to the experience that you’re having. So particularly earlier in life, if you’re in a constant state of terror; your brain is shaped to be on alert for danger, and to try to make those terrible fee…”— Bessel Van Der Kolk, sideeffectspublicmedia.org
“Substance abuse and drug addiction hurt our kids, friends, neighbors, and loved ones. We've got to solve this.”— Hillary Clinton, twitter.com