Addiction Quote by Vivek Murthy

I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the audience would…

— Brian Lindstrom

My thing is to get people out of the stigma of what a reggae artist should be like.

— Shaggy

People are less likely to think it's immoral to walk away from their home if they know others who have done so. And if…

— Richard Thaler

If they can look past the fact that I happen to wear mascara on stage - which, by the way, is a ridiculous thing…

— Andy Biersack

This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has…

— David Sheff

When I was Surgeon General, I spent a lot of time talking to people in living rooms and town halls all across the country,…

— Vivek Murthy

Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain and it's one that we have to treat the way we would any other chronic illness:…

— Vivek Murthy

Refugees are threatening, not just to Americans, but also in many countries the world over. And it's partially because, unlike immigrants, refugees do not…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

“Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all the ways…

— Emm Roy

There is a lot of stigma and snobbiness about the self-help genre, and I can't vouch for everything out there, but for me, the…

— Matthew Hussey

“There comes a point in time when we must acknowledge that we are more than our nationality, and we are bigger than our ethnicity.…

— Janine Myung Ja

“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so…

— Daphne du Maurier