Randy Weis

“Another crucial reform would be a federal mandate that kids in all residential programs must have unmonitored access to an abuse hotline that would trigger immediate investigation.”
― Maia Szalavitz, Help At Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids

“We are sneaking psychedelics back into our society through research like the MDMA research that's going on, through the research for the use of marijuana for pain, through research with the dying [with psilocybin], and ultimately we will do the same kind of stuff about alcoholism, about prison rehabilitation, so on. I mean, its obvious that psychedelics, properly used, have a behavior-change psychotherapeutic value. But from my point of view, that is all underusing the vehicle. The potential of the vehicle is sacramentally to take you out of the cultural constructs which you are part of a conspiracy in maintaining. And giving you a chance to experience once again your innocence.”
― Ram Dass

“Without oxytocin, mice cannot tell friends or family from strangers—and mothers do not learn to nurture their young.”
― Maia Szalavitz, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction

“All molecules pulse with vibrations. They shimmer and wiggle and sing with the vibrations of the electron strings that hold them together, which means molecules are, oddly enough, a sort of musical instrument.”
― Chandler Burr, The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession