Able Quote by Ryan Montgomery

The ending of my experience with cocaine came in a periodic way. I would get high less frequently, I would use smaller amounts, and…

— George Carlin

Drug addiction is an incredibly difficult challenge to manage on one's own. When I think of all the stories I've heard from people, the…

— Vivek Murthy

We didn't have rehab back in the Seventies. Back in the Seventies, rehab meant you stopped doing coke, but you kept smoking pot and…

— Denis Leary

I had two experiences. I had a wonderful experience in rehab, and I had a terrible experience in rehab. But, to be honest, in…

— Elizabeth Vargas

I got to grow up in a situation where drugs were demonic. To watch your dad go through heroin withdrawal is something that would…

— Shia LaBeouf

I also had my own addiction to cocaine and heroin in my 20s. I knew that it was driven not by the things that…

— Maia Szalavitz

I've been sober now for 18 years. With all the drugs, psychedelics and narcotics I did, I was [really] an alcoholic. Honestly, I only…

— Dennis Hopper

Cocaine was different. It kept saying, "You haven't had enough." I became an abuser almost instantly.

— George Carlin

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

— Lou Reed

For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin. I didn't…

— Nikki Sixx

After writing about addiction in a pair of books, I frequently hear from addicts and their family members about serial relapses followed by treatments…

— David Sheff

If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided…

— Jack Osbourne