12/29/1977
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"Drug abusers include the busy executive who cannot function without the aid of heavy drinking, the youth who is addicted to heroin, and the victim of disease who grows dependent upon prescribed medica..."
"Unless we also identify and reduce the social pressures which encourage drug abuse, our other efforts will achieve little."
"I ask each American to take the time and trouble to learn about drug abuse prevention."
"History teaches us that almost every discovery or invention designed to make our lives a little better can, in the wrong hands, become an instrument of tragedy and suffering."