Addiction Quote by Christopher Lasch

Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our…

— Milton Friedman

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their…

— Wendell Berry

Addiction isn't about using drugs. It's about what the drug does to your life.

— Enock Maregesi

We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.

— Hillary Clinton

[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…

— Jay-Z

Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust,…

— Octavio Paz

I'm calling for a cultural change in how we think about addiction. For far too long people have thought about addiction as a character…

— Vivek Murthy

“No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side. I believe there is one addiction process, whether it is manifested in the…

— Gabor Maté

Drug addiction is not a choice of lifestyle, it is a disorder of the brain and we need to recognize this.

— Anonymous

Drugs are a very selfish thing.

— Pete Doherty

Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use…

— Michael Botticelli

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