Addiction Quote by William Gibson

I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.

— John McCain

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

There came a time in everyone’s life when they realized that in spite of how hard they’d been running from themselves, everywhere they went,…

— J.R. Ward

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

An addiction is an obsession. something that takes over your mind and your every thought.

— Delaney Ridnour

It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?

— Rachel Vincent

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

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

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

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most…

— Moby

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

You know, we think about addiction as a morally reprehensible choice, but addicts act crazy because, in a way, that they are.

— David Sheff