Addiction Quote by Drew Pinsky

“Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society.”

— Chris Prentiss

After writing about addiction in a pair of books, I frequently hear from addicts and their family members about serial relapses followed by treatments…

— David Sheff

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

— Hillary Clinton

“The treatment must fit the malady and the malady is not alcoholism or addiction, or addictive drugs and alcohol. Once the correct cause is…

— Chris Prentiss

Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer - you can do it, just not as well as the…

— Robin Williams

There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.

— Malachy McCourt

“Alcoholics Anonymous was proclaimed the correct treatment for alcoholism over seventy-five years ago despite the absence of any scientific evidence of the approach’s efficacy,…

— Lance Dodes

Remember that alcoholism is incurable, progressive, and fatal.

— Anonymous

No one can help an alcoholic or addict until he or she is ready to try to get better.

— Ruben Castaneda

“What, then, is addiction? In the words of a consensus statement by addiction experts in 2001, addiction is a “chronic neurobiological disease… characterized by…

— Gabor Maté

Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction…

— Gerald May

“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