Nora Volkow Quotes

United States, Psychiatrist
March 27, 1956

Nora Volkow is a Mexican-born naturalized American psychiatrist. She is currently the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

We have started to explore the extent to which interventions that can decrease the amount of drug consumed can have benefits to the individual, it would be valuable to decrease the amount of drug consumed.

Nora Volkow
It's a compulsion, it's a need that goes beyond the ability to consciously control it, and in that respect it's very similar to drug addiction.

Nora Volkow
- Need
- Ability
- Addiction

I do believe we all have a responsibility with our lives. It's just an extraordinary miracle that we exist, as a person with our unique characteristics.

Nora Volkow
I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction,...But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has.

Nora Volkow
- Impact
- Addiction
We cannot be guided by wishful thinking. We need objective data.

Nora Volkow
- Thinking
- Data
- Guided
When you hunt animals, you may succeed or not. But when you open the fridge, you will succeed 100 percent of the time.

Nora Volkow
- Succeed
- Hunt
- Fridge
The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.

Nora Volkow
- Stop
- Addiction
- Essence
When you start to live in a situation like that . . . it creates a sense of responsibility to your own life to do something that can help others.

Nora Volkow