Abuse Quote by Anonymous

When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or…

— Chris Prentiss

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

— Leigh Steinberg

“It isn’t the body falling in unrequited love with a dangerous drug, but rather the mind learning to associate any substance or behavior with…

— Adam Alter

It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

— Gabor Mate

“We recognize that you've used substances to try to regain your lost balance, to try to feel the way you did before the need…

— Chris Prentiss

“The hardcore drug addicts that I treat, are, without exception, people who have had extraordinarily difficult lives. The commonality is childhood abuse. These people…

— Gabor Maté

Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of ‘keeping away from the dope.’ But what does getting help…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Far more than a quest for pleasure, chronic substance use is the addict’s attempt to escape distress. From a medical point of view, addicts…

— Gabor Maté

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

“You may have used an addictive behavior to deal with irrational thoughts and excessive emotions. We call this the “using strategy” for coping with…

— Rosemary Hardin

When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the…

— Dalai Lama

“Thinking, like other drugs, can be a useful distraction from pain, as long as it's managed and doesn't become an addiction.”

— David Burr Gerrard