Quotes from Drew Pinsky

Childhood trauma is really what puts the rocket fuel behind addiction.

We have a pandemic of childhood trauma.

Childhood trauma is the rocket fuel for addictive pathology, and this fundamental truth is laid bare in 'Patrick Melrose.'

All I treat at the hospital is trauma survivors.

Patrick Melrose' is a frantically accurate exploration of the addict mind tormented by trauma, magnificently brought to life by Benedict Cumberbatch. At its core, it is a story that has a timeless quality with echoes of Cervantes.

When I run on the treadmill, I read. But I have found that the only way to read while on the treadmill is to hold the book, since it moves around too much on the stand, you move around too much. I've gotten very good at holding a book and running, which tends to screw up my neck a little bit.

Treatment of alcohol addiction can take many forms.

Addiction has a worse prognosis than most cancers. I tell someone they have cancer and they want to be airlifted to a cancer treatment center; I tell someone they have an addiction and they're going to die and they want to argue with me about the treatment.

Many aspects of the George Zimmerman trial have deeply affected me.

People think you go to doctors for their knowledge. You don't go to doctors for their knowledge. You go to doctors for their judgment, their instinct, what to do, how to make the right call.

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

Trauma super charges addiction and makes it really bad. It doesn't necessarily cause it, though it can trigger it. It's not necessarily the issue but if you have bad addiction, it's there.

A little whiff of a mental health issue never hurt anybody.

When you get your viral load down to zero, you reduce the risk of transmission of HIV by 90 percent.

What motivates most people to change their behavior is consequences. No consequences? No behavior modification.

You should hear all the people talking to me about Heath Ledger, and yet I'm the only person shooting his mouth off out there about what everyone actually already knows.

I tell everybody, no one understands how challenging and stressful practicing medicine is.

You don't have to have a physical relationship with someone other than your spouse or significant other to betray him or her.

An intervention is much more than telling someone they have a problem in a unified fashion; treatment options should be in place.

Men have to recognize that women are not all the same when it comes to what can get them aroused.

The Internet is a seemingly unreal environment where we think we are anonymous. It's a potentially provocative place. As a result, we may not behave the way we would in the real world. Some of us are drawn into what could become a dangerous situation.

In love addiction that experience of: 'Oh my God, I'm in love... I feel whole, and I feel like I've known this person forever.' That is a feeling that you have to have all the time. You become addicted to it.

Families that have addicted members learn to operate with secrecy.

I have no agenda.