I think that the working hours and star pressures pushed a lot of people into drugs in those days. And there seemed… — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Alcoholism is a disease. People will debate whether it is a disease of the mind, of genetics, or of circumstances. I don't… — Eva Marie Copy Share Image
“When was the last time you woke up and wished you'd had just one more drink the night before? I have never… — Meredith Bell Copy Share Image
“Only discovering and healing the root causes of each individual's dependency puts an end to dependency. One-on-one sessions are key because the… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
“Addiction, at its worst, is akin to having Stockholm Syndrome. You're like a hostage who has developed an irrational affection for your… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“Perhaps people felt there was nothing more they could do, you know? After all, how can someone be helped who doesn’t see… — Chynna T. Laird Copy Share Image
“Those unexpected morality lessons provided by the trip had jolted me into some kind of action. It was time to jettison the… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“AA makes inflated claims about itself. Its foundational document, Alcoholics Anonymous (commonly referred to as the “Big Book” and a perennial best… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“By the time I was eighteen, she had sat me down and detailed her alcoholism, its onset and aftermath. She believed that… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“There are millions of people out there who live this way, and their hearts are breaking just like mine. It’s okay to… — Dina Kucera Copy Share Image
“You're walking down Fool's Street, Laura used to say when he was drinking, and she had been right. He had known even… — Robert F. Young Copy Share Image
When someone tells me that they insist on having drinks with me, and there are some cultures where sealing the deal or… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to:… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect… — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
“In retrospect, this seems to summarize all the insanity of that time. Guy is standing on top of a burning building. Helicopter… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've just completed a five-year period that can perhaps best be called a breathing spell. A time of getting my health back… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“He starts to tell Isaac about his sobriety, but something stops him. Like if he speaks the words aloud he’ll jinx it.… — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
“If I were to create a word that more accurately describes alcoholism and addiction, I would say it was dependencyism. Sounds silly,… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“I'll never amount to anything—well anything my parents want, so instead I’ll end up puking and drinking till I’m blind drunk, It’s… — P.A. Bitez Copy Share Image
“...there is a saying used in twelve-step programs and in most treatment centers that "Relapse is part of recovery." It's another dangerous… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“After all these years, his best friend is malaria. Even on the brink of an Alaska summer, it comes calling: a bone-deep… — Louis Bayard Copy Share Image
“Bourbon, Kentucky bourbon especially, is like Dante’s Inferno in a glass, fire walks down your throat, lungs, and heart and everything in… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
Beer and other forms of alcohol will do you no good. Their use will be expensive, will dull your conscience, and could… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I want to be a bloated alcoholic. That's my goal - it is, I'm serious, because there is no other disease that… — Dom Irrera Copy Share Image
I really like 'Shameless' because it brings up important issues, but we get to talk and laugh and look at something that's… — Justin Chatwin Copy Share Image
“Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor -… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Happiness was an evasive emotion that could not be fabricated, duplicated, or happened upon. It was something that was only handed out… — Belinda G. Buchanan Copy Share Image
“I want to feel calm and at ease. Like someone who lives in Half Moon Bay, California, and makes hummus from scratch.… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be… — Tom McCall Copy Share Image
I want to bust the stigma attached to alcoholism in our country. Women particularly are discouraged from seeking help because it's a… — Pooja Bhatt Copy Share Image
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