--- title: "9 Addict Quotes By Gabor Maté" description: "9 Addict quotes by Gabor Maté. Plus more from Gabor Maté and more Addict sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7de/gabor-mat-1410_addict_it-is-impossible-to-understand-addiction_2857564.png" --- > [It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/it-is-impossible-to-understand-addiction-without-asking-what-relief/) [Gabor Mate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7de/gabor-mat-1410_addict_it-is-impossible-to-understand-addiction_2857564.png) > [“We see that substance addictions are only one specific form of blind attachment to harmful ways of being, yet we condemn the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/we-see-that-substance-addictions-are-only-one-specific-form-of-blind/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8d/gabor-mat-1410_addict_we-see-that-substance-addictions-are-onl_923478.jpg) > [“Another powerful dynamic perpetuates addiction despite the abundance of disastrous consequences: the addict sees no other possible existence for himself. His outlook…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/another-powerful-dynamic-perpetuates-addiction-despite-the-abundance/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2bc/gabor-mat-1410_addict_another-powerful-dynamic-perpetuates-add_1602298.png) > [“The successes (financial) represent addictive drives, whose negative impact in the world is tremendous. Who creates more suffering, somebody who sells an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/the-successes-financial-represent-addictive-drives-whose-negative/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/401/gabor-mat-1410_addict_the-successes-financial-represent-addict_3098186.jpg) > [“Human beings want not only to survive, but also to live. We long to experience life in all its vividness, with full,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/human-beings-want-not-only-to-survive-but-also-to-live-we-long-to/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c42/gabor-mat-1410_addict_human-beings-want-not-only-to-survive-bu_562341.jpg) > [“To expect an addict to give up her drug is like asking the average person to imagine living without all her social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/to-expect-an-addict-to-give-up-her-drug-is-like-asking-the-average/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82f/gabor-mat-1410_addict_to-expect-an-addict-to-give-up-her-drug_2676024.png) > [“Far more than a quest for pleasure, chronic substance use is the addict’s attempt to escape distress. From a medical point of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/far-more-than-a-quest-for-pleasure-chronic-substance-use-is-the/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b35/gabor-mat-1410_addict_far-more-than-a-quest-for-pleasure-chron_996354.png) > [“One of the greatest difficulties we human beings seem to have is to relinquish long-held ideas. Many of us are addicted to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/one-of-the-greatest-difficulties-we-human-beings-seem-to-have-is-to/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ea/gabor-mat-1410_addict_one-of-the-greatest-difficulties-we-huma_788747.jpg) > [“Why do we despise, ostracize and punish the drug addict when as a social collective we share the same blindness and engage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/why-do-we-despise-ostracize-and-punish-the-drug-addict-when-as-a/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26e/gabor-mat-1410_addict_why-do-we-despise-ostracize-and-punish-t_2186140.png) ## Other authors on Addict ## More by Gabor Maté > [“As parents who make every effort we can to raise our children in loving security, we do not need to feel more guilt than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/as-parents-who-make-every-effort-we-can-to-raise-our-children-in/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) > [“The fact is, we in this society are often quite removed from our own emotional reality.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/the-fact-is-we-in-this-society-are-often-quite-removed-from-our-own/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) > [“Shame is the deepest of the “negative emotions,” a feeling we will do almost anything to avoid. Unfortunately, our abiding fear of shame impairs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/shame-is-the-deepest-of-the-negative-emotions-a-feeling-we-will-do/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) > [“Many adults have not attained maturity — have not mastered being independent, self-motivated individuals capable of tending their own emotional needs and of respecting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/many-adults-have-not-attained-maturity-have-not-mastered-being/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) > [Autonomy is impossible as long as one is driven by anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/autonomy-is-impossible-as-long-as-one-is-driven-by-anything/) [Gabor Mate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) > [“If a mother has eight children, there are eight mothers. This is not simply because of the fact that the mother was different in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/if-a-mother-has-eight-children-there-are-eight-mothers-this-is-not/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) > [“Without attachment, the parent succeeds at most in cowing a child into obedience, at the price of grave damage to the relationship and to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/without-attachment-the-parent-succeeds-at-most-in-cowing-a-child-into/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) > [“Attachment is our connection with the world. In the earliest attachment relationships, we gain or lose the ability to stay open, self-nurturing and healthy.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/attachment-is-our-connection-with-the-world-in-the-earliest/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) > [“So what you've actually got is traumatized children. When children are traumatized that affects how they feel about themselves, which is deeply ashamed because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/so-what-you-ve-actually-got-is-traumatized-children-when-children-are/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) > [“Even without world wars, revolutions and emigration, siblings growing up in the same home almost never share the same environment. More accurately, brothers and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/even-without-world-wars-revolutions-and-emigration-siblings-growing/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) > [“We think that there are people who are normal over here, and then there’s the pathological ones who have depression, anxiety, addiction or schizophrenia…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/we-think-that-there-are-people-who-are-normal-over-here-and-then/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) > [“One cannot get much more vulnerable than to expose oneself psychologically. To share oneself with another and then be misunderstood or rejected is, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/one-cannot-get-much-more-vulnerable-than-to-expose-oneself/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) > [“The areas of the cortex responsible for attention and self-regulation develop in response to the emotional interaction with the person whom we may call…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/the-areas-of-the-cortex-responsible-for-attention-and-self-regulation/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) > [“Peer-oriented children live in a universe of severely limited and superficial attachments. The quest for sameness being the least vulnerable way of attaching, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/peer-oriented-children-live-in-a-universe-of-severely-limited-and/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) > [“The United States contains less than 5 percent of the world’s population but houses nearly a quarter of the world’s prisoners.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/the-united-states-contains-less-than-5-percent-of-the-world-s/) [Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/addict/gabor-mat/#itemlist", "name": "9 Addict Quotes By Gabor Maté", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gabor Maté" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/it-is-impossible-to-understand-addiction-without-asking-what-relief/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7de/gabor-mat-1410_addict_it-is-impossible-to-understand-addiction_2857564.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7de/gabor-mat-1410_addict_it-is-impossible-to-understand-addiction_2857564.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7de/gabor-mat-1410_addict_it-is-impossible-to-understand-addiction_2857564.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in…” — Gabor Mate", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We see that substance addictions are only one specific form of blind attachment to harmful ways of being, yet we condemn the addict's stubborn refusal to give up something deleterious to his life or to the life of others. 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We long to experience life in all its vividness…” — Gabor Maté", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“To expect an addict to give up her drug is like asking the average person to imagine living without all her social skills, support networks, emotional stability and sense of physical and psychological comfort. Those are the qualities that, in their illusory and evanescent way, drugs give the addict. People like Serena and Celia and the others whose portraits have appeared in this book perceive their drugs as their “rock and salvation.” Thus, for all the valid reasons we have for wanting the addict to “just say no,” we first need to offer her something to which she can say “yes.” We must provide an island of relief. We have to demonstrate that esteem, acceptance, love and humane interaction are realities in this world, contrary to what she, the addict, has learned all her life. 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From a medical point of view, addicts are self-medicating conditions like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress or even ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). Addictions always originate in pain, whether felt openly or hidden in the unconscious. They are emotional anaesthetics. Heroin and cocaine, both powerful physical painkillers, also ease psychological discomfort. Infant animals separated from their mothers can be soothed readily by low doses of narcotics, just as if it was actual physical pain they were enduring. The pain pathways in humans are no different. The very same brain centres that interpret and “feel” physical pain also become activated during the experience of emotional rejection: on brain scans they “light up” in response to social ostracism just as they would when triggered by physically harmful stimuli. When people speak of feeling “hurt” or of having emotional “pain,” they are not being abstract or poetic but scientifically quite precise. The hard-drug addict’s life has been marked by a surfeit of pain. No wonder she desperately craves relief.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gabor Maté" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/far-more-than-a-quest-for-pleasure-chronic-substance-use-is-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b35/gabor-mat-1410_addict_far-more-than-a-quest-for-pleasure-chron_996354.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b35/gabor-mat-1410_addict_far-more-than-a-quest-for-pleasure-chron_996354.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b35/gabor-mat-1410_addict_far-more-than-a-quest-for-pleasure-chron_996354.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Far more than a quest for pleasure, chronic substance use is the addict’s attempt to escape distress. From a…” — Gabor Maté", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“One of the greatest difficulties we human beings seem to have is to relinquish long-held ideas. Many of us are addicted to being right, even if facts do not support us. One fixed image we cling to, as iconic in today’s culture as the devil was in previous ages, is that of the addict as an unsavoury and shadowy character, given to criminal activity. What we don’t see is how we’ve contributed to making him a criminal. There is nothing more intrinsically criminal in the average drug user than in the average cigarette smoker or alcohol addict. The drugs they inject or inhale do not themselves induce criminal activity by their pharmacological effect, except perhaps in the way that alcohol can also fuel a person’s pent-up aggression and remove the mental inhibitions that thwart violence. Stimulant drugs may have that effect on some users, but narcotics like heroin do not; on the contrary, they tend to calm people down. It is withdrawal from opiates that makes people physically ill, irritable and more likely to act violently — mostly out of desperation to replenish their supply. The criminality associated with addiction follows directly from the need to raise money to purchase drugs at prices that are artificially inflated owing to their illegality. The addict shoplifts, steals and robs because it’s the only way she can obtain the funds to pay the dealer. History has demonstrated many times over that people will transgress laws and resist coercion when it comes to struggling for their basic needs — or what they perceive as such. Sam Sullivan, Vancouver’s quadriplegic mayor, told a conference on drug addiction once that if wheelchairs were illegal, he would do anything to get one, no matter what laws he had to break. It was an apt comparison: the hardcore addict feels equally handicapped without his substances. As we have seen, many addicts who deal in drugs do so exclusively to finance their habit. There is no profit in it for them.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gabor Maté" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/one-of-the-greatest-difficulties-we-human-beings-seem-to-have-is-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ea/gabor-mat-1410_addict_one-of-the-greatest-difficulties-we-huma_788747.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ea/gabor-mat-1410_addict_one-of-the-greatest-difficulties-we-huma_788747.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ea/gabor-mat-1410_addict_one-of-the-greatest-difficulties-we-huma_788747.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“One of the greatest difficulties we human beings seem to have is to relinquish long-held ideas. Many of us…” — Gabor Maté", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Why do we despise, ostracize and punish the drug addict when as a social collective we share the same blindness and engage in the same rationalizations? To pose that question is to answer it. We despise, ostracize and punish the addict because we don’t wish to see how much we resemble him. In his dark mirror our own features are unmistakable. We shudder at the recognition. This mirror is not for us, we say to the addict. You are different, and you don’t belong with us. Like the hardcore addict’s pursuit of drugs, much of our economic and cultural life caters to people’s craving to escape mental and emotional distress. In an apt phrase, Lewis Lapham, long-time publisher of Harper’s Magazine, derides “consumer markets selling promises of instant relief from the pain of thought, loneliness, doubt, experience, envy, and old age.” According to a Statistics Canada study, 31 per cent of working adults aged nineteen to sixty-four consider themselves workaholics, who attach excessive importance to their work and are “overdedicated and perhaps overwhelmed by their jobs.” “They have trouble sleeping, are more likely to be stressed out and unhealthy, and feel they don’t spend enough time with their families,” reports the Globe and Mail. Work doesn’t necessarily give them greater satisfaction, suggested Vishwanath Baba, a professor of Human Resources and Management at McMaster University. “These people turn to work to occupy their time and energy” — as compensation for what is lacking in their lives, much as the drug addict employs substances. At the core of every addiction is an emptiness based in abject fear. The addict dreads and abhors the present moment; she bends feverishly only towards the next time, the moment when her brain, infused with her drug of choice, will briefly experience itself as liberated from the burden of the past and the fear of the future — the two elements that make the present intolerable. Many of us resemble the drug addict in our ineffectual efforts to fill in the spiritual black hole, the void at the centre, where we have lost touch with our souls, our spirit, with those sources of meaning and value that are not contingent or fleeting. Our consumerist, acquisition-, action- and image-mad culture only serves to deepen the hole, leaving us emptier than before. The constant, intrusive and meaningless mind-whirl that characterizes the way so many of us experience our silent moments is, itself, a form of addiction— and it serves the same purpose. “One of the main tasks of the mind is to fight or remove the emotional pain, which is one of the reasons for its incessant activity, but all it can ever achieve is to cover it up temporarily. In fact, the harder the mind struggles to get rid of the pain, the greater the pain.” So writes Eckhart Tolle. Even our 24/7 self-exposure to noise, emails, cell phones, TV, Internet chats, media outlets, music downloads, videogames and non-stop internal and external chatter cannot succeed in drowning out the fearful voices within.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gabor Maté" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/why-do-we-despise-ostracize-and-punish-the-drug-addict-when-as-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26e/gabor-mat-1410_addict_why-do-we-despise-ostracize-and-punish-t_2186140.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26e/gabor-mat-1410_addict_why-do-we-despise-ostracize-and-punish-t_2186140.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26e/gabor-mat-1410_addict_why-do-we-despise-ostracize-and-punish-t_2186140.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Why do we despise, ostracize and punish the drug addict when as a social collective we share the same…” — Gabor Maté", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/addict/gabor-mat/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/addict/gabor-mat/", "name": "Addict Quotes by Gabor Maté", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/addict/gabor-mat/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7de/gabor-mat-1410_addict_it-is-impossible-to-understand-addiction_2857564.png" }, "description": "9 Addict quotes by Gabor Maté. 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