I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it.… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I want to bust the stigma attached to alcoholism in our country. Women particularly are discouraged from seeking help because it's a… — Pooja Bhatt Copy Share Image
. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be… — Tom McCall Copy Share Image
Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“I want to feel calm and at ease. Like someone who lives in Half Moon Bay, California, and makes hummus from scratch.… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“An addict newly separated from their thing, whether it's drinking, drugs, throwing up ten times a day or anything else is like… — Anne Clendening 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
“Jesus shook his head slowly from side to side, then thrust his left hand deep into Santa’s sack. Out came something resembling… — Phillip Andrew Bennett Low Copy Share Image
“The description of Huck’s father grabbed my full attention, and I glanced up at the book in my teacher’s hand as if… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and… — Naz?m Hikmet Copy Share Image
“And I was sure it was the drink that irrigated White’s self-sabotage, for it is the common trait of alcoholics to make… — Helen Macdonald Copy Share Image
“The whiskey was a good start. I got the idea from Dylan Thomas. He's this poet who drank twenty-one straight whiskeys at… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
“Logan couldn’t remember when a few drinks became a bottle and then two bottles every night. He couldn’t point to one single… — JD Ruskin Copy Share Image
“When he was a kid, it used to feel like his parents disappeared when the got drunk. As the levels of their… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“No one can practice the precepts perfectly, including the Buddha... Boiled vegetables contain dead bacteria. We cannot practice the First Precept or… — Anonymous 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
Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it.… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
“And, you know, whenever you check yourself into rehab, they don't focus on, you know, the fact that you're an alcoholic. They… — Kirk Hammett - Metallica Copy Share Image
“AA began as a nonprofessional attempt to grapple with the alcoholism of its founders. It arose and took its famous twelve steps… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“A sudden, uncontrollable fury rose in him, and he cast around for something to smash. He snatched the whiskey bottle from the… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual… — Bill W Copy Share Image
It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
No longer is drinking an art with Americans; once they drank for the taste, but now they drink only for the effect.… — Alice-Leone Moats Copy Share Image
“An elderly black man with gray hair said, "Every bottle should come with a warning: 'This bottle may cause you to lose… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
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
“influence on the development of AA was substantial. As Bill Wilson wrote in Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, “The important thing is… — Anonymous 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
“It's amazing how fearless you can be when you want something bad enough, the lengths to which you'll go, the grit you'll… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
I have a very powerful form of alcoholism. I finally gave up and accepted the fact that if I even smell too… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to… — James Cagney Copy Share Image
It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“Addiction, at its worst, is akin to having Stockholm Syndrome. You're like a hostage who has developed an irrational affection for your… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
“Only discovering and healing the root causes of each individual's dependency puts an end to dependency. One-on-one sessions are key because the… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“When was the last time you woke up and wished you'd had just one more drink the night before? I have never… — Meredith Bell Copy Share Image