Addiction Quote by Michael John Cusick

“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

“What is addiction? Only those that have been kept secret; are addictions. Those that are openly visible cannot be called addiction.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Addictions of any nature or degree are temporary emotional and/or mental escapes we create to prevent us from dealing with a certain reality.”

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

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

— Dragos Bratasanu

“The truth most families eventually discover is that no one can cure another person's addiction. Omly addicts can do that for themselves.”

— Beverly Conyers

“Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it’s just better form.”

— Geoffrey Wood

“They say addiction is a way of escaping from yourself…”

— Arun Prabhu- aradhya

“Addicts are brilliant liars, Inspector. They lie to themselves and then to everyone else. They’re in denial about their problem, and they are experts…

— Fiona Barton

When you're an addict you end up lying and the lies find you out.

— Richard Bacon

“In truth, most addicts find relief the moment they stop hiding. The moment they publicly admit they have a problem. For most high-functioning addicts,…

— Ana B. Good

There came a time in everyone’s life when they realized that in spite of how hard they’d been running from themselves, everywhere they went,…

— J.R. Ward

“Addiction is not a moral defect, and to suggest that does a great disservice to people suffering with this disorder.”

— Lance Dodes