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title: "362 Drug addict Quotes by 287 authors"
description: "Browse 362 Drug addict quotes by 287 authors. Discover the best Drug addict sayings and thoughts."
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> [“I don't want to die young and a drug addict.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenna-maynard/i-don-t-want-to-die-young-and-a-drug-addict/)

[Glenna Maynard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenna-maynard/)

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> [Do not let your fire go out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/do-not-let-your-fire-go-out/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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> [The book is about drug addiction and alcoholism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-frey/the-book-is-about-drug-addiction-and-alcoholism/)

[James Frey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-frey/)

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> [I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-simone/i-don-t-like-drug-addicts-and-she-sounds-like-a-cat/)

[Nina Simone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nina-simone/)

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> [Mexico's a great place to overcome a drug addiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chelsea-handler/mexico-s-a-great-place-to-overcome-a-drug-addiction/)

[Chelsea Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chelsea-handler/)

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> [Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/cocaine-is-god-s-way-of-telling-you-you-are-making-too-much-money/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

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> [People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corey-feldman/people-do-not-realize-this-but-my-drug-addiction-was-actually-a-short/)

[Corey Feldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corey-feldman/)

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> [If you're a drug addict, often you're stealing - I've gotten done for shoplifting a few times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-brand/if-you-re-a-drug-addict-often-you-re-stealing-i-ve-gotten-done-for/)

[Russell Brand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-brand/)

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> [All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/all-drugs-of-any-interest-to-any-moderately-intelligent-person-in/)

[Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/)

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> [My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/columba-bush/my-daughter-unfortunately-is-ill-because-drug-addiction-is-an-illness/)

[Columba Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/columba-bush/)

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> [But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/truman-capote/but-i-m-not-a-saint-yet-i-m-an-alcoholic-i-m-a-drug-addict-i-m/)

[Truman Capote](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/truman-capote/)

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> [“The only people with six packs are teenagers and drug addicts.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chael-sonnen/the-only-people-with-six-packs-are-teenagers-and-drug-addicts/)

[Chael Sonnen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chael-sonnen/)

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> [Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifford-stoll/why-is-it-drug-addicts-and-computer-afficionados-are-both-called-users/)

[Clifford Stoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifford-stoll/)

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> [What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robbin-crosby/what-has-drug-addiction-done-for-me-it-s-cost-me-my-career-my-fortune/)

[Robbin Crosby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robbin-crosby/)

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> [I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelly-osbourne/i-took-more-hell-for-being-fat-than-i-did-for-being-an-absolute-2/)

[Kelly Osbourne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelly-osbourne/)

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> [Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-c-boyle/alcohol-had-a-lot-to-do-with-it-too-and-mental-instability-all/)

[T.C. Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-c-boyle/)

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> [When I was 12, I used to dress as a woman in the house. At the time, cross-dressing was a big taboo…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riccardo-tisci/when-i-was-12-i-used-to-dress-as-a-woman-in-the-house-at-the-time/)

[Riccardo Tisci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riccardo-tisci/)

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> [What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-earle/what-saves-me-from-being-a-drug-addict-is-sort-of-the-opposite-it-s/)

[Steve Earle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-earle/)

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> [Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-lasch/drugs-are-merely-the-most-obvious-form-of-addiction-in-our-society/)

[Christopher Lasch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-lasch/)

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> [Not everyone who's homeless is a drug-addict or in need of mental health care. Some are normal people who've been knocked down,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherrilyn-kenyon/not-everyone-who-s-homeless-is-a-drug-addict-or-in-need-of-mental/)

[Sherrilyn Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherrilyn-kenyon/)

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> [Drug addiction is caused by a lack of respect for yourself If u can gain back self respect the drug use will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-mccarty/drug-addiction-is-caused-by-a-lack-of-respect-for-yourself-if-u-can/)

[Kevin Mccarty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-mccarty/)

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> [I'll get rid of the drug problem. The first drug dealer will be publicly executed in front of everybody and all of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-simmons/i-ll-get-rid-of-the-drug-problem-the-first-drug-dealer-will-be/)

[Gene Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-simmons/)

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> [The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/the-disease-concept-of-homosexuality-as-with-the-disease-concept-of/)

[Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/)

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> [I remember once Prince dropped by to see me when I was in Minneapolis and I was sick, with a bag of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-nicks/i-remember-once-prince-dropped-by-to-see-me-when-i-was-in-minneapolis/)

[Stevie Nicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-nicks/)

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> [I wanted to know what it was like to be a drug addict, and have an eating disorder, and have a loved…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pearce/i-wanted-to-know-what-it-was-like-to-be-a-drug-addict-and-have-an/)

[Jackson Pearce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pearce/)

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> [The bigger picture is that over the last 30 years, we have spent $1 trillion waging a drug war that has failed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-alexander/the-bigger-picture-is-that-over-the-last-30-years-we-have-spent-1/)

[Michelle Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-alexander/)

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> [I liked speed. I was on black beauties all the time. Nothing bad happened to me. I didn't become a drug addict…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-waters/i-liked-speed-i-was-on-black-beauties-all-the-time-nothing-bad/)

[John Waters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-waters/)

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> [I placed myself in amongst the animal kingdom so that I would be able to confront myself actually. It did not start…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-treadwell/i-placed-myself-in-amongst-the-animal-kingdom-so-that-i-would-be-able/)

[Timothy Treadwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-treadwell/)

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> [I think God is back, I think there is a huge amount of spiritual interest in the country. And I think the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicky-gumbel/i-think-god-is-back-i-think-there-is-a-huge-amount-of-spiritual/)

[Nicky Gumbel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicky-gumbel/)

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> [“Well," Maura asked. "What does he want?" Blue shrugged from behind her mountain of broccoli. "What does a drug addict want? Nothing."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-stiefvater/well-maura-asked-what-does-he-want-blue-shrugged-from-behind-her/)

[Maggie Stiefvater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-stiefvater/)

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> [“The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not sure who the first person was who said that. Probably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-j-burns/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same-i-m-not-sure-who/)

[Laura J. Burns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-j-burns/)

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> [“Why do the greatest miracle stories seem to come from mission fields, either overseas or among the destitute here at home (the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-cymbala/why-do-the-greatest-miracle-stories-seem-to-come-from-mission-fields/)

[Jim Cymbala](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-cymbala/)

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> [For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/for-a-decade-americans-have-been-steeped-in-the-rhetoric-of-zero/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

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> [“The Kübler-Ross model would just have you accept someone dying of cancer. But under the Kidokoro-Kübler-Ross model, cancer would be cured. Parents…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-d-aliwat/the-k-bler-ross-model-would-just-have-you-accept-someone-dying-of/)

[A.D. Aliwat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-d-aliwat/)

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> [“Beauty Junkies is the title of a recent book by New York Times writer Alex Kuczynski, “a self-confessed recovering addict of cosmetic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/beauty-junkies-is-the-title-of-a-recent-book-by-new-york-times-writer/)

[Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/)

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> [“Why do we despise, ostracize and punish the drug addict when as a social collective we share the same blindness and engage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/why-do-we-despise-ostracize-and-punish-the-drug-addict-when-as-a/)

[Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/)

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> [“Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun. You know there's an alternative to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-kiedis/once-you-ve-seen-a-solution-to-the-disease-that-s-tearing-you-apart-2/)

[Anthony Kiedis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-kiedis/)

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> [Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifford-stoll/why-is-it-that-drug-addicts-and-computer-aficionados-are-both-called/)

[Clifford Stoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifford-stoll/)

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> [Drug addiction is not a choice of lifestyle, it is a disorder of the brain and we need to recognize this.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/drug-addiction-is-not-a-choice-of-lifestyle-it-is-a-disorder-of-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-waters/wouldn-t-you-rather-your-kid-be-a-drug-dealer-than-a-drug-addict/)

[John Waters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-waters/)

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## Top authors on Drug addict

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- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-russell-brand-81772.jpg) Russell Brand 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/drug-addict/russell-brand/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-david-sheff-27957.jpg) David Sheff 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/drug-addict/david-sheff/)

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                        "text": "The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide conceals the fact that homosexuals are a group of medically stigmatized and socially persecuted individuals. ... Their anguished cries of protest are drowned out by the rhetoric of therapy just as the rhetoric of salvation drowned out the [cries] of heretics.",
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                        "text": "I remember once Prince dropped by to see me when I was in Minneapolis and I was sick, with a bag of cough drops and a spoon of cough medicine. I said to him, \"Hey, can I have another spoon of that? It's just over the counter,\" and he'd go, \"No, I didn't come here to start up new drug addictions for you.\" And I was like, \"C'mon, give me that bottle!\" He was very watchful over me.",
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                        "text": "I wanted to know what it was like to be a drug addict, and have an eating disorder, and have a loved one die, and fall in love. I saw my friends going through these things, I saw the world going through these things, and I needed to understand them. I needed to make sense of them. Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books, and it was books that showed me there is light at the end of the tunnel.",
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                        "text": "The bigger picture is that over the last 30 years, we have spent $1 trillion waging a drug war that has failed in any meaningful way to reduce drug addiction or abuse, and yet has siphoned an enormous amount of resources away from other public services, especially education.",
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                        "text": "I liked speed. I was on black beauties all the time. Nothing bad happened to me. I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie. We weren't stoned when we made them; I was stoned when I made movies up. I did them all.",
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                        "text": "I placed myself in amongst the animal kingdom so that I would be able to confront myself actually. It did not start out as the intention to serve and protect the lives of the innocent within the animal kingdom. I wanted to test myself, to see if I was able to overcome the dire situation that I was headed toward. By this of course I mention the fact that I was an alcoholic and drug addict before I left to live in the wild.",
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                        "text": "I think God is back, I think there is a huge amount of spiritual interest in the country. And I think the bishops are supportive of it because they see people's lives being changed. They see the difference. I see people who've been in prison, whose lives have been messed up, who've been alcoholics, who've been drug addicts, set free and contributing to society.",
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                        "text": "“Well,\" Maura asked. \"What does he want?\" Blue shrugged from behind her mountain of broccoli. \"What does a drug addict want? Nothing.\" Maura frowned over her plate of butter. \"Sometimes everything.\" \"Either way,\" Blue replied, \"I can't see how we can offer that.\" The Gray Man politely interjected, \"I could talk to him this evening for you.\" Blue stabbed a piece of broccoli. \"Sounds great.\" Maura gave her a look. \"What she means to say is, no thanks.\" \"No,\" Blue said, brows beetled, \" I meant to say, and can you make him feel worthless while you do?\" \"Blue Sargent!\" Maura looked shocked. \"I didn't raise you to be violent!\" Calla, who'd inhaled some bacon while laughing, clutched the table until she stopped choking. \"No,\" Blue said dangerously. \"But sometimes bad things happen to good children.\" The Gray Man was amused. \"The offer still stands until I go.”",
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                        "text": "“The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not sure who the first person was who said that. Probably Shakespeare. Or maybe Sting. But at the moment, it's the sentence that best explains my tragic flaw, my inability to change. I don't think I'm alone in this. The more I get to know other people, the more I realize it's kind of everyone's flaw. Staying exactly the same for as long as possible, standing perfectly still... It feels safer somehow. And if you are suffering, at least the pain is familiar. Because if you took that leap of faith, went outside the box, did something unexpected... Who knows what other pain might be out there, waiting for you. Chances are it could be even worse. So you maintain the status quo. Choose the road already traveled and it doesn't seem that bad. Not as far as flaws go. You're not a drug addict. You're not killing anyone... Except maybe yourself a little. When we finally do change, I don't think it happens like an earthquake or an explosion, where all of a sudden we're like this different person. I think it's smaller than that. The kind of thing most people wouldn't even notice unless they looked at us really close. Which, thank God, they never do. But you notice it. Inside you that change feels like a world of difference. And you hope this is it. This is the person you get to be forever... that you'll never have to change again.”",
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                        "text": "“Why do the greatest miracle stories seem to come from mission fields, either overseas or among the destitute here at home (the Teen Challenge outreach to drug addicts, for example)? Because the need is there. Christians are taking their sound doctrine and extending it to lives in chaos, which is what God has called us all to do. Without this extension of compassion it is all too easy for Bible teachers and authors to grow haughty. We become proud of what we know. We are so impressed with our doctrinal orderliness that we become intellectually arrogant. We have the rules and theories all figured out while the rest of the world is befuddled and confused about God’s truth … poor souls.”",
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                        "text": "For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of \"zero tolerance\" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.",
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                        "text": "“Beauty Junkies is the title of a recent book by New York Times writer Alex Kuczynski, “a self-confessed recovering addict of cosmetic surgery.” And, withour technological prowess, we succeed in creating fresh addictions. Some psychologists now describe a new clinical pathology — Internet sex addiction disorder. Physicians and psychologists may not be all that effective in treating addictions, but we’re expert at coming up with fresh names and categories. A recent study at Stanford University School of Medicine found that about 5.5 per cent of men and 6 per cent of women appear to be addicted shoppers. The lead researcher, Dr. Lorrin Koran, suggested that compulsive buying be recognized as a unique illness listed under its own heading in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the official psychiatric catalogue. Sufferers of this “new” disorder are afflicted by “an irresistible, intrusive and senseless impulse” to purchase objects they do not need. I don’t scoff at the harm done by shopping addiction — I’m in no position to do that — and I agree that Dr. Koran accurately describes the potential consequences of compulsive buying: “serious psychological, financial and family problems, including depression, overwhelming debt and the breakup of relationships.” But it’s clearly not a distinct entity — only another manifestation of addiction tendencies that run through our culture, and of the fundamental addiction process that varies only in its targets, not its basic characteristics. In his 2006 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush identified another item of addiction. “Here we have a serious problem,” he said. “America is addicted to oil.” Coming from a man who throughout his financial and political career has had the closest possible ties to the oil industry. The long-term ill effects of our society’s addiction, if not to oil then to the amenities and luxuries that oil makes possible, are obvious. They range from environmental destruction, climate change and the toxic effects of pollution on human health to the many wars that the need for oil, or the attachment to oil wealth, has triggered. Consider how much greater a price has been exacted by this socially sanctioned addiction than by the drug addiction for which Ralph and his peers have been declared outcasts. And oil is only one example among many: consider soul-, body-or Nature-destroying addictions to consumer goods, fast food, sugar cereals, television programs and glossy publications devoted to celebrity gossip—only a few examples of what American writer Kevin Baker calls “the growth industries that have grown out of gambling and hedonism.”",
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                        "text": "“Why do we despise, ostracize and punish the drug addict when as a social collective we share the same blindness and engage in the same rationalizations? To pose that question is to answer it. We despise, ostracize and punish the addict because we don’t wish to see how much we resemble him. In his dark mirror our own features are unmistakable. We shudder at the recognition. This mirror is not for us, we say to the addict. You are different, and you don’t belong with us. Like the hardcore addict’s pursuit of drugs, much of our economic and cultural life caters to people’s craving to escape mental and emotional distress. In an apt phrase, Lewis Lapham, long-time publisher of Harper’s Magazine, derides “consumer markets selling promises of instant relief from the pain of thought, loneliness, doubt, experience, envy, and old age.” According to a Statistics Canada study, 31 per cent of working adults aged nineteen to sixty-four consider themselves workaholics, who attach excessive importance to their work and are “overdedicated and perhaps overwhelmed by their jobs.” “They have trouble sleeping, are more likely to be stressed out and unhealthy, and feel they don’t spend enough time with their families,” reports the Globe and Mail. Work doesn’t necessarily give them greater satisfaction, suggested Vishwanath Baba, a professor of Human Resources and Management at McMaster University. “These people turn to work to occupy their time and energy” — as compensation for what is lacking in their lives, much as the drug addict employs substances. At the core of every addiction is an emptiness based in abject fear. The addict dreads and abhors the present moment; she bends feverishly only towards the next time, the moment when her brain, infused with her drug of choice, will briefly experience itself as liberated from the burden of the past and the fear of the future — the two elements that make the present intolerable. Many of us resemble the drug addict in our ineffectual efforts to fill in the spiritual black hole, the void at the centre, where we have lost touch with our souls, our spirit, with those sources of meaning and value that are not contingent or fleeting. Our consumerist, acquisition-, action- and image-mad culture only serves to deepen the hole, leaving us emptier than before. The constant, intrusive and meaningless mind-whirl that characterizes the way so many of us experience our silent moments is, itself, a form of addiction— and it serves the same purpose. “One of the main tasks of the mind is to fight or remove the emotional pain, which is one of the reasons for its incessant activity, but all it can ever achieve is to cover it up temporarily. In fact, the harder the mind struggles to get rid of the pain, the greater the pain.” So writes Eckhart Tolle. Even our 24/7 self-exposure to noise, emails, cell phones, TV, Internet chats, media outlets, music downloads, videogames and non-stop internal and external chatter cannot succeed in drowning out the fearful voices within.”",
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                        "text": "“Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun. You know there's an alternative to the way you're living and that you're going against something you've been given for free by the universe, this key to the kingdom. Drug addiction is a progressive disease, so every time you go out, it gets a little uglier than it was before; it's not like you go back to the early days of using, when there was less of a price to pay. It isn't fun anymore, but it's still desperately exciting. Once you put that first drug or drink in your body, you don't have to worry about the girlfriend or the career or the family or the bills. All those mundane aspects of life disappear. Now you have one job, and that's to keep chucking the coal in the engine, because you don't want this train to stop. If it stops, then you're going to have to feel all that other shit.”",
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