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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

Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual object, whose…

— Roger Scruton

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

— Aldous Huxley

For me, addiction exposes all of the brain mechanism under the influence of a profoundly distorted primary motivation. It's such a window into how…

— Drew Pinsky

The hallmark of addiction is that it changes your brain chemistry. It actually affects that part of your brain that's responsible for judgment.

— Michael Botticelli

ADDICTION - A dictating disease inwardly created to impress on nerves. Addiction is to the mind, like lust is to sex.

— Ritu Ghatourey

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

— Ken Hensley

“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

It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

— Gabor Mate

All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that…

— Dennis McKenna

Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes part in…

— Maia Szalavitz

I drank for effect because I didn't even like the taste. But the thoughts and feelings are all the same, when I talk to…

— Tony Adams