“How much tragedy has to happen before I split wide open? Sam Hughes” — Alisa Mullen Copy Share Image
Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise, — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
'Only the good die young' is a terrible way to justify your drug addiction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ironically, the effects of addiction are worse in cases where the addict seldom affords the addiction.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me.” — Sonya Huber Copy Share Image
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop. — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became - it's become an addiction. I'm addicted… — Elton John Copy Share Image
No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention. — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Men who have found tbe right way of life do not seek to escape from awareness, to obliterate their consciousness, and to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The terribly tragic outcome of Halsted’s experiments with cocaine was his own addiction. The doctor began injecting cocaine directly into his veins… — Lydia Kang Copy Share Image
“It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-jumping at pigeons beating… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“I thought over and over about what I was going to do when Carly overdosed and died. How would we go on?… — Dina Kucera Copy Share Image
Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“While we've painted the guardians of the pale in a somewhat reactionary light, let's give the gatekeepers their due. What lies beyond… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
“Only firm intent and alert awareness can muster the will-power required to liberate yourself from the simian clutches of the emotional mind,… — Daniel P. Reid Copy Share Image
It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“I didn't see it happening, but the wheels were falling off of me. I didn't care about responsibilities like paying rent, I… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“All addictions — whether to drugs or to nondrug behaviours — share the same brain circuits and brain chemicals. On the biochemical… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The next time you drive into a Walmart parking lot, pause for a second to note that this Walmart—like the more than… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest difficulties we human beings seem to have is to relinquish long-held ideas. Many of us are addicted to… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
“When John left the band, I resented him for not being my friend and for abandoning our musical comradeship. But all the… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“This is no quick fix. There is no Band-aid big enough for his life.” — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
“It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.” — Steven Kassels Copy Share Image
The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
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