Addiction Quote by David Sheff

[Drug] Addiction is awful, the worst if it is your kid. Plenty of loving parents who did everything "right" find themselves with kids caught…

— Roxanne Roberts

The motivations for using drugs, often it's pretty obvious and common: you know, peer pressure. You know, kids are struggling growing up.

— David Sheff

Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it’s bad, you’ve never been so miserable, but when it’s good you’ve never been so…

— Dan Savage

For far too many people, the stigma around addiction prevents them from stepping forward for help.

— Vivek Murthy

I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

— Richard Thompson

If a child had another disease, we'd be open about what we were going through, but addiction is stigmatised and comes with shame and…

— David Sheff

If you subscribe to the idea that # addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children - paranoid,…

— David Sheff

This was a result of a number of factors, but we do know that the messages kids get about the harms of drugs has…

— John Walters

The thing we want for all our kids is that they be connected with a learning community and that they have strong social and…

— Maia Szalavitz

Drug addiction destroys lives, tears apart families and harms society.

— Anonymous

I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the audience would…

— Brian Lindstrom

“Not only do we avert our eyes from the hardcore drug addict to avoid seeing ourselves; we do so to avoid facing our share…

— Gabor Maté