"Once and for all, people must understand that……" — David Sheff
"Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It’s critical if we’re going to effectively prevent and treat addiction. Accepting that addiction is an illness will transform our approach to public policy, research, insurance, and criminality; it will change how we feel about addicts, and how they feel about themselves. There’s another essential reason why we must understand that addiction is an illness and not just bad behavior: We punish bad behavior. We treat illness."
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The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make…
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Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.
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This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are…
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If you subscribe to the idea that # addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of…
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How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.
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I didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it.
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I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who…
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Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery…
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How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same…
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I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry...
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Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.
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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…
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