12-step-program Quote by Lance Dodes

“Addiction is only a hopeless attempt to deal with the pain of living cutoff from who we really are.”

— Dragos Bratasanu

“Addiction is nothing but voluntary madness.”

— Narcotics Anonymous

“We must do away with any shred of denial, minimization, justification, or rationalization. To recover, we must completely and totally understand and accept the…

— Noah Levine

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

“The degradation woven through these steps also seems unwittingly designed to exacerbate, rather than relieve, the humiliating feelings so common in addiction. If moral…

— Lance Dodes

“It is not a lack of morality or any deep character flaw that creates addiction; it is almost always just a lot of pain…

— Noah Levine

“Caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.”

— David Sheff

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

— Perri Peltz

Addiction is a powerful disease that is and sly and crafty It's so sad, When it claims another don't be ashamed to ask for…

— Simpleman

“It’s too easy to brand someone as an addict and look down on them, but there’s always a reason why you end up there.…

— Helen Jane Rose

“It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.”

— Steven Kassels

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