There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom.

What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I…

— Robbin Crosby

“They say when you fall in love in love with someone that person becomes like a drug,an addiction you don't want to live without.”

— Anonymous

“I kept going deeper and deeper into this world of repetition...The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in…

— Anthony Kiedis

“People are the biggest drug addiction in the world, and I mean that quite literally. Take any single substance abuse problem in the world,…

— Chad Eastham

“Drug cartels have taken the driver’s seat, training our young men and women on how best to self destruct, while the larger community watches…

— Oche Otorkpa

[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is…

— Jay-Z

The book is about drug addiction and alcoholism.

— James Frey

“I didn't see it happening, but the wheels were falling off of me. I didn't care about responsibilities like paying rent, I was just…

— Anthony Kiedis

“I spent the rest of that day and most of the night thinking about all the hundreds of people I had met in rehabs…

— Pax Prentiss

One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start…

— Malcolm X

I have a lot of friends who come from alcoholic families, and they aren't alcoholics, because someone explained it to them. When I was…

— Nikki Sixx

No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose.

— Henry Rollins

“In the debate over opioid addiction, there’s one group we aren’t hearing from: chronic pain patients, many of whom need to use the drugs…

— S. E. Smith

Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why…

— Richard M. Daley

“The terribly tragic outcome of Halsted’s experiments with cocaine was his own addiction. The doctor began injecting cocaine directly into his veins for its…

— Lydia Kang