Addiction Quote by Michael K. Williams Download Open image “Addiction is a health issue, not a social issue, not a crime, not a legal issue.” — Michael K. Williams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Addiction Crime Health Health issues Issues Social Social issues
I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem… — Wagner Moura Copy Share Image
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
There's a very complex connection between crime and addiction, because a lot of people are committing crime to either fuel their drug habit, which… — Kevin Sabet Copy Share Image
Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Addiction is a disease like anything else. It's like cancer, like heart disease, like diabetes. — David Sheff Copy Share Image
Addiction isn't about using drugs. It's about what the drug does to your life. — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags -- it's a universal disease. — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
Addiction is physical, mental and spiritural disease that affects every area of our lives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It’s critical if we’re going to effectively prevent and treat addiction. Accepting that addiction is an illness will transform our approach to public policy, research, insurance, and criminality; it will change how we feel about addicts, and how they feel about themselves. There’s another essential reason why we… — David Sheff Copy Share
I am the epitome of the underdog. By societies standards I should have been dead a long time ago, and I was nobody's gangster,… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper. — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. I am proud to join the ACLU in the fight to make… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
Writers will see your work and want to try you in different things but I think you have to stay true to your vehicle. We all have a vehicle. Whether it's a thug, or a school child or the babyface or the sex siren or the video vin, whatever it is ride that until the wheels fall off and eventually,… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share
Ending a television character that you've been, especially someone like Omar Little, it hurts. For me, it's a huge thing. You feel like a… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
My thing is to gain the respect as an actor, as a professional, and the friendship and everything else will happen from there. — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
I'm totally comfortable today with the success that Omar and 'The Wire' have brought me - living with that character, being recognized and remembered… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
My goal is to end mass incarceration and change the laws to stop locking up low-level, nonviolent drug charges. Stop charging drug addicts as… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people probably do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I really think the disease aspect gets lost when you're talking about alcoholism and addiction; it's not like you're battling leukemia or a heart… — Jim Irsay Copy Share Image
I had an addiction to artificial points of success. Like being able to run for this or run for that. — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
“Addictions are just symptoms of underlying issues, and in my view Nikki self-medicated the emotional pain of his childhood, and being away from his… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“They say when you fall in love in love with someone that person becomes like a drug,an addiction you don't want to live without.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
Cold sweats, hallucinations I wanna speed to stop. The hell I'm going through The addiction's taking you. — Bullet For My Valentine Copy Share Image
