Addict Quote by Jimmy Chin

Like most people I knew, I thought drug addicts were the kinds of people we see in doorways in neighbourhoods most of us try…

— David Sheff

I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness.…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

“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

An addict is an addict. If they're not acting out in one area, it tends to come out in another. I think there was…

— Edie Falco

It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same…

— Marc Maron

Drug addiction is an incredibly difficult challenge to manage on one's own. When I think of all the stories I've heard from people, the…

— Vivek Murthy

Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests. Why? You tell me. I guess maybe we're smart enough to have…

— James Frey

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

— Shirley Chisholm

Drug addicts are so funny that way. Just spinning around, lost in their own little world. Doing so much, accomplishing so little. How sad.

— James St. James

It is a lot of work being an addict. There's nothing harder than being an addict.

— Mike Lindell

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

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

— David Foster Wallace