So often we have this image of what drug addiction looks like, and it's not fun. Our loved ones who go down… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
“Investigators from Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts recently found that a meal high in refined carbohydrates produced brain effects consistent with those… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new.… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
You really can't just take someone who's got a drug addiction and just put 'em in rehab. It doesn't work that way.… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
“I chose to share both the good and the bad parts of my story, and of my imagination, so that it might… — Kimberly Nalen Copy Share Image
The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The key to me recovering from drug addiction was figuring out why I was so upset and why I hated myself so… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
There have been crazy highs and lows in my life. I've duelled with drug addiction and watched people dying... like everybody. I'm… — Roddy Bottum Copy Share Image
People say what distinguishes us from the animals is that we think. Well, then why the hell don't we extend some compassion… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
The thing we want for all our kids is that they be connected with a learning community and that they have strong… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
“A crack rock-bottom is beneath rock-bottom. It’s a slab ceiling in every direction. A concrete box filled with guilt. During the chase… — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
“Choosing sides, the captain of the Red Team says, “We’ll give you our best -pitcher.…” And we’ll take the kid who picks… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will… — Cookie Mueller Copy Share Image
“There are millions of people out there who live this way, and their hearts are breaking just like mine. It’s okay to… — Dina Kucera Copy Share Image
“The indispensable foundation of a rational stance toward drug addiction would be the decriminalization of all substance dependence and the provision of… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting “prison-industrial complex”—the… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Not only do we avert our eyes from the hardcore drug addict to avoid seeing ourselves; we do so to avoid facing… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Beauty Junkies is the title of a recent book by New York Times writer Alex Kuczynski, “a self-confessed recovering addict of cosmetic… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“I'm sure there was some bloated-ego thing happening that I wasn't able to recognize, but I didn't feel like it would last… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“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… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“There's a peculiar thing that happens every time you get clean. You go through this sensation of rebirth. There's something intoxicating about… — Anthony Keidis Copy Share Image
“Many people fear that decriminalization and the controlled dispensing of drugs will lead to widespread substance use among people who are now… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Every time I draw a clean breath, I'm like a fish out of water.” — Narcotics Anonymous Copy Share Image
I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Always, you wake up to an unpleasant memory and an unpleasant body and your spirit is reduced to a pile of dirty… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“One of the first actions we take at Passages is to ruthlessly scrutinize, always under a doctor's supervision and care, the specific… — Chris Prentiss 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
I remember once Prince dropped by to see me when I was in Minneapolis and I was sick, with a bag of… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself.… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I've lost over 800 West Virginians the last year. Lost their lives to opiate and drug addiction. This is something that we've… — Joe Manchin Copy Share Image
Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was… — Elton John Copy Share Image
