Addiction Quote by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Addiction has a worse prognosis than most cancers. I tell someone they have cancer and they want to be airlifted to a cancer treatment…

— Drew Pinsky

“In the debate over opioid addiction, there’s one group we aren’t hearing from: chronic pain patients, many of whom need to use the drugs…

— S. E. Smith

No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose.

— Henry Rollins

I have a lot of friends who come from alcoholic families, and they aren't alcoholics, because someone explained it to them. When I was…

— Nikki Sixx

One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start…

— Malcolm X

“I spent the rest of that day and most of the night thinking about all the hundreds of people I had met in rehabs…

— Pax Prentiss

“I didn't see it happening, but the wheels were falling off of me. I didn't care about responsibilities like paying rent, I was just…

— Anthony Kiedis

The book is about drug addiction and alcoholism.

— James Frey

[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is…

— Jay-Z

“Drug cartels have taken the driver’s seat, training our young men and women on how best to self destruct, while the larger community watches…

— Oche Otorkpa

“People are the biggest drug addiction in the world, and I mean that quite literally. Take any single substance abuse problem in the world,…

— Chad Eastham