“SOCIETY AS COMPULSIVE AND ADDICTED Our society is highly addictive. We have sixty million sexual abuse victims. Possibly seventy-five million lives are… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Addiction originally meant a different kind of strong connection: in ancient Rome, being addicted meant you had just been sentenced to slavery.” — Adam Alter Copy Share Image
The traditional dictionary definition of the difference is that an alcoholic will steal your wallet in a blackout, come to, and apologize… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end. — Eric Avery Copy Share Image
I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it… — Mat Hoffman Copy Share Image
[Jack Nash from The Andromeda Strain] was not in the original film, but he was kind of a Geraldo Rivera almost kind… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction. — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“ A Short Alternative Medical Dictionary Definitions courtesy of Dr Lemuel Pillmeister (also known as Lemmy) Addiction - When you can give… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
I'm a cappuccino-a-day kind of guy. I wouldn't say I've got a caffeine addiction. One a day keeps the doctor away. Or… — George Russell Copy Share Image
“MARK ARM : Even if I did talk to [Layne Staley], I don’t know what I would have said. Seeing him so… — Greg Prato Copy Share Image
“It’s not the drug that causes the junkie it’s the laws that causes the junkie because of course the drug laws means… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it… — Irene Tomkinson Copy Share Image
I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
And she gon' give it up cause she know I might like it She gon' give it up cause she know I… — The Weeknd Copy Share Image
“The desire to be loved, to feel loved, is behind every diet, pill, surgery, and lie. It is behind each act of… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
[Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog,… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions. — Francis Kelley Copy Share Image
“If you start with the idea that addiction isn’t a primary disease, but an attempt to solve a problem, then you soon… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“A person with internalized shame believes he is inherently flawed, inferior and defective.Such a feeling is so painful that defending scripts (or… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image