When I was Surgeon General, I spent a lot of time talking to people in living rooms and town halls all across… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
“That’s all addiction really is. It’s trading away the future so you can feel OK right now.” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“Research does reveal a genetic disposition to substance abuse, but those who believe their addiction is a disease show less of an… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
Fianlly a wave of reailty swept over my eyes and I was able to see, I wasn't in love with an angle… — Christian Copy Share Image
“Don’t let the bad times get you down, You have some of those moments where life tells you, it’s time to cry.… — Tiffany McDaniel, On the Savage Side Copy Share Image
Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people. — Patrick Carnes Copy Share Image
“In our quest for entertainment and instant gratification, we have become detached from the real world and its problems, contributing to the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
I played basketball at Kentucky in 1986-87 and '87-88 and enjoyed a 12-year NBA career. After multiple injuries and seven surgeries, I… — Rex Chapman Copy Share Image
No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high. — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
“Thinking, like other drugs, can be a useful distraction from pain, as long as it's managed and doesn't become an addiction.” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“I felt so lost in my addiction, I believed that no one was capable of understanding or helping me. I thought I… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
I have to cross the line first. Sometimes you can put it as a fear of losing, but actually it's an addiction… — Mark Cavendish Copy Share Image
“Addiction is a decision. An individual wants something, whatever that something is, and makes a desicion to get it. Once they have… — James Frey Copy Share Image
"We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction." — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
“People are the biggest drug addiction in the world, and I mean that quite literally. Take any single substance abuse problem in… — Chad Eastham Copy Share Image
“The alcoholic retains the ability to condemn his addiction and advise those not subject to it to avoid succumbing to the liquid… — Pitigrilli Copy Share Image
I started stealing in ninth grade. And I don't mean a pack of gum from the convenience store here and there. I… — Gigi Gorgeous Copy Share Image
For years I was so busy building walls I did not see I was imprisoning myself behind them, and did not recognize… — Lee L Jampolsky Copy Share Image
