Childhood trauma is really what puts the rocket fuel behind addiction. — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
The road to sobriety is not easy and rehabilitation and the recovery process are not to be taken lightly. — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
I trust my recovering peers completely. I'll occasionally look sideways at them because they're addicts but it would break my heart and… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
Christopher Kennedy Lawford's new book Recover to Live will be a force with the power to educate as well as motivate transformational… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
I, myself, have not infrequently come across recovering addicts years later that I had given up on. It is like seeing a… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
For me, addiction exposes all of the brain mechanism under the influence of a profoundly distorted primary motivation. It's such a window… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
Trauma super charges addiction and makes it really bad. It doesn't necessarily cause it, though it can trigger it. It's not necessarily… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
We start with people who are motivated to get paid and be on TV, and we end up with people who have… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
An Internet 'relationship' doesn't have to be catastrophically harmful to be inappropriate. Hurtful is bad enough. — Drew Pinsky Copy Share
Trauma super charges addiction and makes it really bad. It doesn't necessarily cause it, though it can trigger it. It's not necessarily the issue… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share
The term 'doctor' has been so abused lately! I didn't live in a hospital for 10 years so that term could be bastardized. — Drew Pinsky Copy Share
Particularly women need to pay attention to what is unique to their own personal biology and emotional systems, and not deny it. — Drew Pinsky Copy Share
Every person is highly individualized so if a person is seriously concerned, then they first need to get a medical evaluation and make sure… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share
All medicine is gradations and differences and nuances. And there's such a thing as natural recovery: people spontaneously get better. It happens. — Drew Pinsky Copy Share
Narcissism is not about self love. It's a clinical trait that belies a deep sense of emptiness, low self-esteem, emotional detachment, self-loathing, extreme problems… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share
Millennials really don't perceive hierarchies. They either don't perceive them or don't like them. — Drew Pinsky Copy Share
You should hear all the people talking to me about Heath Ledger, and yet I'm the only person shooting his mouth off out there… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share
I was doing general medicine and during residency, I moonlighted at a psychiatric hospital and became very interested in the medical care of psychiatric… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share
As a clinician, I would never want to be coercive in relation to a patient, nor do I harbor the illusion that as a… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share
If you're experiencing symptoms such as depression, anxiety, uncontrolled use of substances, or any other behaviors that affect your functioning, please see a professional. — Drew Pinsky Copy Share
