No Speed Limit Quotes

“You know why treatment is bullshit?” he continues. “Because that’s where they go to learn to be better cooks.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“Outside the window, the rolling green hills of the Ozarks extend as far as the eye can see,”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“It’s a kind of Las Vegas without the sin and where, according to my federal escort,”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“Treatment is bullshit,” says the brash young DEA agent as he steers the car down U.S. 65 out of Springfield to the nearby country music resort of Branson, a town that sells itself as “America’s Family Destination.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“But in the end, the Christian approach is no more likely to solve America’s meth problem than the temperance movement cured America of alcoholism.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“But whether once someone is addicted, religion makes any difference, is still a moot point.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“Talent claimed he got his figures from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, but the organization denied he got the data from them,”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“God, not government, is the answer to addiction, according to supporters.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“Enter the Jesus folks.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“You don’t have to go as far as the controversial psychiatrist Thomas Szasz (The Myth of Mental Illness)—who once quipped to journalist and author Will Self, “Putting drug addicts in treatment centers is somewhat like confining people with tuberculosis together and then getting them to cough over one another”—to realize that there’s a large population of addicts out there that mainstream medicine has failed to reach.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“Imagine a cure for tuberculosis that healed only a quarter of those afflicted with the disease; that wouldn’t be regarded as much of a medical breakthrough.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“The dirty little secret of the drug-treatment industry is that for the majority of people recovery programs don’t work, at least if the goal of treatment is long-term and complete abstinence.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“In reality, if you look at the figures, methamphetamine is no harder to kick than heroin or cocaine, which still means it’s very difficult—a long, grueling, and often unrewarding slog.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“Meth is portrayed as a kind of superdrug—more potent and more addictive, and therefore more dangerous than any other drug.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“An associated fallacy is that once you’ve acquired a habit, a meth addiction is almost unbeatable.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“Despite the obvious flaw that consumers of illegal substances have a natural incentive to lie about their habits, the NSDUH is the most comprehensive set of data available about drug use in America and is widely cited by both academics and journalists.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“Federal statistics tell a different story.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“We’re asked to believe that meth possesses magical powers so seductive, so irresistible, that hardly anybody can escape its embrace.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“Counterintuitive as it may seem, doctors say nicotine is the most habit-forming substance, since cigarettes are the only drug where the majority of users become dependent.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“Counterintuitive as it may seem, doctors say nicotine is the most habit-forming substance, since cigarettes are the only drug where the majority of users become dependent. We’re”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“Methamphetamine has a reputation as an easy drug to get addicted to and a hard drug to quit.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“Medical science says they can’t get you off meth,” McLemore tells the audience. “Guess what? They’re right. They can’t. God is the only one that can heal you.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“Typically, they complete a program, and within hours of leaving are getting high again.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“As soon as the event was over, he planned to meet with a friend to pick up a quarter of an ounce of dope. But that plan was permanently put on hold, says McLemore,”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“McLemore had gone to the rally to humor his wife, who was also addicted to meth.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“McLemore credits Steve Box with inspiring him to finally conquer his meth addiction. Three years ago, he attended one of Box’s Meth=Sorcery rallies.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“Probably the worst thing he ever did was expose his stepchildren to the drug. “I used to tell people what sort of father would I be if I gave my kids bad dope?” he says. “That’s how Satan uses meth to take hold of your mind.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“McLemore, by now a full-fledged meth addict, came to Springfield in 1996, just as the Nazi dope craze was taking off, and learned how to cook meth using anhydrous ammonia. “I moved to Springfield to get away from meth,” he laughs.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“He also says he was sexually abused after he was put in foster care.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America

“Horrible things happened to McLemore in his early teens. He claims he was sometimes forced to sleep in a chicken house during the winter and nearly froze to death.”
― Frank Owen, No Speed Limit: Meth Across America