Best Drug Addiction Quotes
65 Drug Addiction quotes by 53 unique authors
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Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
— Christopher Lasch
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As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the…
— Jim Ramstad
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There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was…
— Charlie Sheen
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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old…
— Margaret Atwood
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Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.
— Russell Brand
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Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable.…
— David Sheff
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The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.
— Craig Ferguson
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I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal…
— Cornel West
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She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She’s…
— Peter Cameron
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Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it…
— Craig Ferguson
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Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those…
— Craig Ferguson
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When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't...
— Luke Davies
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[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 addiction is a…
— Jay-Z
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Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I've done everything. All of it. You think it, I've done it. All the things you never dared, all the things you dream about, all…
— Melvin Burgess
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Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.
— Robin Williams
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It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a…
— Anthony Kiedis
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We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods.…
— Erich Segal
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There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize the possibility of…
— Anthony Kiedis
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I had to sit with my senses. This clear, beautiful intuition took over. I knew exactly how I felt, and I wasn't confused or clouded…
— Anthony Kiedis
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Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated push of daily…
— Anthony Kiedis
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What was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to…
— Russell Brand
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It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It…
— Russell Brand
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The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless…
— Russell Brand
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