Addiction Quote by William S. Burroughs

Addiction is a disease like anything else. It's like cancer, like heart disease, like diabetes.

— David Sheff

Addiction is a disease, just like diabetes and heart disease.

— Leana S. Wen

Addiction is physical, mental and spiritural disease that affects every area of our lives.

— Anonymous

Everybody tells you over and over again that addiction is a disease. But when I read Nic's book I understood not just that this…

— David Sheff

The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure.…

— William S. Burroughs

Addiction is a crazy disease. It's a progressive disease when it's not dealt with; it don't care who it takes, and it takes it…

— Marty Stuart

Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to nicotine, alcohol,…

— Deepak Chopra

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

Addiction's some kind of disease? No, it's not. It's a mask for pain that usually comes from childhood and fatherlessness.

— Mike Lindell

Though addiction is a disease - a brain disease that's often progressive - addicts who relapse are often blamed.

— David Sheff

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

— Patrick J. Kennedy

For me, addiction comes down to basically where a pattern of behaviour has developed and that pattern of behaviour is becoming a very damaging…

— Michael Fassbender