Addiction Quote by Alice Miller

Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

— Susan Cheever

Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

— Susan Cheever

The hallmark of addiction is that it changes your brain chemistry. It actually affects that part of your brain that's responsible for judgment.

— Michael Botticelli

Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes part in…

— Maia Szalavitz

“Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. It all begins when the object of your adoration bestows upon you a heady, hallucinogenic…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most…

— Moby

The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure.…

— William S. Burroughs

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

— Leigh Steinberg

For me, addiction exposes all of the brain mechanism under the influence of a profoundly distorted primary motivation. It's such a window into how…

— Drew Pinsky

“While susceptibility varies, addiction can happen to any of us, through a subtle process where the bonds of degradation are too light to be…

— s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger Charlie Munger

Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of ignorance that…

— Deepak Chopra

Addiction might be redefined not as a character flaw but as a "biochemical deficit management." Our emotional habits will become an accepted factor of…

— Marni Jackson