12-step-program Quote by Lance Dodes

I think 12-step programs really work, rehab really works, certain types of therapies and talking to other addicts really work. There are a lot…

— Susan Cheever

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

I spent years searching for effective programs that would lower drug use and prevent addiction.

— David Sheff

Americans struggling with addiction need treatment and reduced access to deadly drugs.

— Rod Rosenstein

“In truth, the U.S.-sponsored international “War on Drugs” is a war on poor people, most of them subsistence farmers caught in a dangerous no-win…

— Gabor Maté

“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

The bigger picture is that over the last 30 years, we have spent $1 trillion waging a drug war that has failed in any…

— Michelle Alexander

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

— John Warren Kindt

The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they say is such nonsense that I…

— William S. Burroughs

It's a problem that Congress has really taken on in the last couple of years. We tripled the money that was being - to…

— Roy Blunt

Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Rehabs have become a big business in this country. There are good ones and not-good ones, just like anything else.

— Elizabeth Vargas