One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
Alcoholism is the only disease that you can get yelled at for having. — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“It wasn't so much about breaking free of him, as it was about breaking free of me.” — Grace W. Wroldson Copy Share Image
But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to:… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“I didn't know what exhausted me emotionally until that moment, and I realized that the experience of being a soldier, with unlimited… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
We cannot eradicate global drug markets, but we can certainly regulate them as we have done with alcohol and tobacco markets. Drug… — Otto Perez Molina Copy Share Image
The drivenness in any addiction is about the ruptured self, the belief that one is flawed as a person. The content of… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It's seductive because alcohol is amazing… — Moby Copy Share Image
I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family,… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“...there is a saying used in twelve-step programs and in most treatment centers that "Relapse is part of recovery." It's another dangerous… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
My father was raised by a violent alcoholic. There was alcoholism in my mother's family. I'm half-adopted, and my birth father was… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“After all these years, his best friend is malaria. Even on the brink of an Alaska summer, it comes calling: a bone-deep… — Louis Bayard Copy Share Image
Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In addition to the smells of mince and pumpkin pies, the Sage and onions of turkey stuffing, another aroma floated in the… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment… — Denise Juneau Copy Share Image
Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof. — Ariana Franklin Copy Share Image
