Hold on my fellow addicts no one said recovery would be easy

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

— John Warren Kindt

Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble

— John Warren Kindt

So many kids are fat drug addicts these days, it's almost as if Rush Limbaugh had puppies.

— Bill Maher

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more…

— Shirley Chisholm

Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts , and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are…

— Jeet Thayil

When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or…

— Chris Prentiss

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay…

— Danny Sugerman

I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that…

— Princess Diana

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

— Emile M. Cioran

“replicates the feeling provided by an illegal drug that addicts will kill to possess.”

— Quinn Loftis

“Can I tell you the truth? I mean this isn’t the TV news is it? Here's what I think the truth is: We are…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“As each day passed the community became more and more indoctrinated into the world of psychobabble. It was used to keep patients in subservient…

— M.D Stephanie Schoenberger

Frankly I'm not great with heroin addicts. I tried heroin, but it was by accident. I'm not great with that level of substance abuse.

— Michael Stipe

Addicts have incredible energy, it's just all directed toward one goal. But what incredible luck and grace addicts have. You hear about it all…

— Bucky Sinister

So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks. "Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?" "I'm a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used…

— Lauren Beukes