Addiction Quote by Chris Prentiss

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

— Charles Duhigg

“If I were to create a word that more accurately describes alcoholism and addiction, I would say it was dependencyism. Sounds silly, doesn't it?…

— Chris Prentiss

We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy;…

— William Duncan Silkworth

“the non-drinking person in a relationship with an alcoholic got just as out of control, was in just as much pain, and needed just…

— Melody Beattie

“People don't like to talk about alcohol. They don't like to think about it, except in the most superficial of ways. They don't like…

— Olivia Laing

“There are various reasons why an individual might habitually consume large quantities of alcohol, but they all effectively boil down to the same thing.…

— Haruki Murakami

“1. Life is not an alcohol deficiency.”

— Joe Pursche

“So it's important to remember that our job isn't to solve other people's problems for them, but to help them to discover the ways…

— Tom Walsh

“Alcoholics are, in truth, failures, and their failure is a simple failure of will. They have made bad choices, and they continue to do…

— Martin E.P. Seligman

Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a…

— Chris Prentiss

“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

“If those underlying conditions aren't treated, the return of those symptoms may cause us so much discomfort that we'll go back to using addictive…

— Chris Prentiss