“...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
“Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor -… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I really like 'Shameless' because it brings up important issues, but we get to talk and laugh and look at something that's… — Justin Chatwin Copy Share Image
“People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Happiness was an evasive emotion that could not be fabricated, duplicated, or happened upon. It was something that was only handed out… — Belinda G. Buchanan Copy Share Image
Beer and other forms of alcohol will do you no good. Their use will be expensive, will dull your conscience, and could… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I want to be a bloated alcoholic. That's my goal - it is, I'm serious, because there is no other disease that… — Dom Irrera Copy Share Image
I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Big Daddy: What makes you so restless, have you got ants in your britches? Brick: Yes, sir... Big Daddy: Why? Brick: -… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial. The denial forces members to keep believing the myths and vital lies in… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
A few years ago, when I was writing songs for my first album, I was staying with Michael Feinstein as I often… — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
It is a myth that alcoholics have some spontaneous insight and then seek treatment. Victims of this disease do not submit to… — Vernon Johnson Copy Share Image
“The atmosphere inside was terrible. Brenda stared into the distance whenever I was around her and hardly spoke to me. Little Jim… — Tracie Daily Copy Share Image
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
“As a teenager, I loved how I looked in the outfit of using drugs and exercising poor judgement. I had tried it… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In 1935, when there were no other programs, the founders of AA, Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith, stepped up to the… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, "The only requirement for AA membership is a… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“The reason the program is so successful is because alcoholics help other alcoholics. I've never met a Normie (our lingo for a… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“Centurion Sermon (Sonnet 1005) Peace is an act of ceasefire, Peace is an act of disarmament. If you don't get this simple… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In 1935, when there were no other programs, the founders of AA, Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith, stepped up to the… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“To begin with, there is an almost compulsive promiscuity associated with homosexual behavior. 75% of homosexual men have more than 100 sexual… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“If those underlying conditions aren't treated, the return of those symptoms may cause us so much discomfort that we'll go back to… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its… — Tim Lott Copy Share Image
“Father Dmitry had thought he had been serving his nation by spreading trust, and fighting abortion and despair, but, in doing so,… — Oliver Bullough Copy Share Image
“My loss of faith in God had, after all, neatly coincided with the beginning of my drug use when I was 15.… — Carl-John X Veraja Copy Share Image
“Perhaps people felt there was nothing more they could do, you know? After all, how can someone be helped who doesn’t see… — Chynna T. Laird Copy Share Image
“Those unexpected morality lessons provided by the trip had jolted me into some kind of action. It was time to jettison the… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image