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
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
The way people get hooked on fame... it can behave very much like an addiction. — 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
Childhood trauma is really what puts the rocket fuel behind addiction. — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
The very wealthy and the very famous have a much closer affinity with the indigent street person than with the rest of… — 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
Just like everybody else, celebrities have brains and those brains get conditions - addiction, depression. — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
Addiction has a worse prognosis than most cancers. I tell someone they have cancer and they want to be airlifted to a… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
In love addiction that experience of: 'Oh my God, I'm in love... I feel whole, and I feel like I've known this… — 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 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 the issue… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Millennials really don't perceive hierarchies. They either don't perceive them or don't like them. — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
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 Image