Addiction Quote by Lydia Kang

“Society would have much to gain from decriminalization. On the immediate practical level, we would feel safer in our homes and on our streets…

— Gabor Maté

“Doctor’s recommendation to patient. Underneath that was scrawled: Don’t do cocaine.”

— Belle Aurora

“he was like the drug she knew she shouldn't take,but the drug that kept coming back to feed her addiction”

— Cecelia Ahern

“Sometimes he missed the numbed, walking-underwater feeling feel that the cocktail of narcotics used to give him. But if a situation went down in…

— R.D. Ronald

“The bottle of morphine is wrapped up and passed to the child over the counter,” a Tennessee doctor wrote. Doctors and pharmacists had little…

— Gail Collins

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

— Shirley Chisholm

“A drug addict shouldn’t forever be treated like one, reminded that they’d once succumbed to the drug.”

— Sarah Noffke

“Addiction is a human problem that resides in people, not in the drug or in the drug’s capacity to produce physical effects,” writes Lance…

— Gabor Maté

I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the…

— William S. Burroughs

“The alcoholic retains the ability to condemn his addiction and advise those not subject to it to avoid succumbing to the liquid poison. But…

— Pitigrilli

“His touch was like heroin in my veins, and I was a grateful addict.”

— Kitty Thomas

“Save for the occasional use of cocaine, he had no vices, and he only turned to the drug as a protest against the monotony…

— Arthur Conan Doyle