Pharmacology Quotes

“Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, Vortex

“The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is being fought would be difficult to explain to an extraterrestrial, or even a farmer like Matyas.”
― Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium―Caffeine―Mescaline

“[There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.”
― James Whyte Black

“What are called viruses are always dead and incapable of any acts whatsoever. Dead matter may be acted upon but never acts of itself.”
― T.C. Fry, The Great AIDS Hoax

“Ovik Mkrtchan Quote: On trends and innovations in medicine.

Today, new frontiers are opening up for the pharmacology and pharmaceutical industry, the correct application of which will allow entrepreneurs to reach the only important goal of medicine - maintaining the quality of life and mass health of our fellow citizens.”
― Ovik Mkrtchyan

“Universities began learning the art of turning the insights of their researchers into large chunks of money by hiring more lawyers and making new kinds of deals, becoming experts in protecting intellectual property, installing startup incubators, and building research parks. Seen from this angle, it looks like universities and scientists aren't fighting against the profit motive; they've been infected by it.”
― Thomas Hager

“We are particularly concerned with the question to what degree approval and implementation of an explanatory model minimising collective or institutional responsibility for certain problems and emphasising individual responsibility promotes detrimental perceptions and behaviours amongst individuals, who adopt and adapt similar explanations to justify their own lack of responsibility. For instance, admissibility of diminished responsibility arguments in criminal sentencing can be viewed as a direct consequence of a broader public acceptance of explanatory models purporting to prove a direct causal relationship between pharmacology, mental health and/or diminished ability to function.”
― Daniel Waterman

“The term 'Pharmacoenvironmentology' seeks to deal with the environmental impact of drugs given to humans and animals at therapeutic doses”
― Syed Ziaur Rahman

“Nobody in a position of real power and influence in government has the courage to say, publicly:
"We made a mistake. Certain drugs which are now illegal can be used by healthy adults with relative safety and no threat of addiction, but you have to know what their effects are and how to use them properly. These include most psychedelics. Other drugs can be used safely by most people, but could be habituating to a few. Those few must have access to good medical care if they get into trouble. Some drugs seem to be either harmful or addicting to most users, and we will de our best to inform you fully regarding their effects and track records, as we now do with prescription drugs. Drug education will be provided across the country and the teachers will no longer be police or politicians, but physicians, chemist and pharmacologist who specialize in this field.”
― Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin

“Studying the subject Pharmacology is simply sequential, stepwise comprehension, correlation, ascent, expansion and application of simple, basic concepts and facts :)”
― Radhika Vijay, IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT

“Pharmacology is all about drug concept, origin, understanding, evaluation, rethinking and revising, aptly correlating, comprehending the interactions, effects and eventually uses, adverse effects and finally relevance and applications!!”
― Radhika Vijay, IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT

“Most drugs provide no more overall benefits than placebos.”
― Sayem Sarkar