Addiction Quote by Anonymous

Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags -- it's a universal disease.

— River Phoenix

Addiction is a disease, just like diabetes and heart disease.

— Leana S. Wen

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

Addiction is a disease like anything else. It's like cancer, like heart disease, like diabetes.

— David Sheff

“It is not a lack of morality or any deep character flaw that creates addiction; it is almost always just a lot of pain…

— Noah Levine

So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.

— Johann Hari

A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity.

— Anonymous

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

— Shirley Chisholm

You know, we think about addiction as a morally reprehensible choice, but addicts act crazy because, in a way, that they are.

— David Sheff

Drugs are a bad habit, so why do it? Because, said Dimple, it isn't the heroin that we're addicted to, it's the drama of…

— Jeet Thayil

“Dismissing addictions as “bad habits” or “self-destructive behaviour” comfortably hides their functionality in the life of the addict. It is impossible to understand addiction…

— Gabor Maté