Addict Quote by Russell Brand

“We cannot incarcerate ourselves out of addiction. Addiction is a medical crisis that—when it comes to nonviolent offenders—warrants medical interventions, not incarceration. Decades later,…

— Dominique DuBois Gilliard

“One of the greatest difficulties we human beings seem to have is to relinquish long-held ideas. Many of us are addicted to being right,…

— Gabor Maté

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

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

— Christopher Lasch

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

— Shirley Chisholm

We can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem of drunkenness.…

— Glenn Loury

I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness.…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our…

— Milton Friedman

Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is ananathema to these idiots.…

— Gus Van Sant

Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug…

— Freda Adler

“No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side. I believe there is one addiction process, whether it is manifested in the…

— Gabor Maté

[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