Addiction Quote by David Sheff

Addicts are ALWAYS irrational when it comes to their habits.

— Gary Yourofsky

It is well known that people who are involved with people who have addictive problems have a problem themselves. You are drawn to mad…

— Sheila Hancock

Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.

— Boyd K. Packer

“The mainstream view of addiction in North America is that it's a choice, it's an ethical lapse, it's a bad decision, it's a moral…

— Gabor Maté

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

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

— Anonymous

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

“Addiction is not a moral defect, and to suggest that does a great disservice to people suffering with this disorder.”

— Lance Dodes

Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags -- it's a universal disease.

— River Phoenix

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

— David Foster Wallace

Addiction is a brain disease - this isn't a moral failing - and we have got to stop looking at it that way.

— Perri Peltz

Well, addiction does start with a choice.

— David Sheff