Addiction Quote by P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“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

“Addictions are strategies we use to keep the truth from ourselves by blinding us from seeing what’s true about us.”

— Michael John Cusick

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

— Lance Dodes

“addiction is an insidious disease that's always lurking nearby like a snake ready to strike.”

— Lou Gramm

“The loss of innocence, and the arrival of knowingness, can become an addiction.”

— Charles Baxter

“A behavior is addictive only if the rewards it brings now are eventually”

— Adam Alter

“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

“Misplaced attachment to what cannot satiate the soul is not an error exclusive to addicts, but the common condition of mankind. It is this…

— Gabor Maté

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

— Dragos Bratasanu

“Caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.”

— David Sheff

“The reformed addict who feels the craving almost believes in it, then merely smiles; that”

— William T. Vollmann

“Addictions, even as they resemble normal human yearnings, are more about desire than attainment. In the addicted mode, the emotional charge is in the…

— Gabor Maté