Addicts Quote by Charles Duhigg

“Ironically, the effects of addiction are worse in cases where the addict seldom affords the addiction.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Alcoholism, of course, is more than a habit. It’s a physical addiction with psychological and perhaps genetic roots.”

— Charles Duhigg

“[Alcohol] not only replaces positive actions which would address the root causes of our despondency – it prevents them, as more energy becomes focused…

— Crimethinc

“Staying sober is easy once you have been successful in healing the underlying conditions that were responsible for your dependency in the first place.”

— Chris Prentiss

“We know that you don't want to be a drunk and you don't want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because…

— Chris Prentiss

“Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

— Rebecca West

“But one of the many problems with being an alcoholic is that when people tell you how bad you are when you’re drunk, you’re…

— Ozzy Osbourne

“Apparently alcohol increases charm and courage by at least ten points.”

— John Corwin

“I’m telling you, the ingenuity of alcoholics is something else. If only it could be put to some kind of good use. I mean,…

— Ozzy Osbourne

“A behavior is addictive only if the rewards it brings now are eventually”

— Adam Alter

“1. Life is not an alcohol deficiency.”

— Joe Pursche