Quotes About Addiction

Just dying till the day you ask me to be your Crank bride.

We as a civilization are all too much like someone addicted to a drug that will kill if continued and kill if suddenly withdrawn.

From ibogaine (a plant from West Africa) helping people overcome cocaine and heroin addiction, to MDMA (ecstasy, ADAM, X, and many other names) alleviating the torments and healing the wounds of posttraumatic stress (along with supportive therapy), to psilocybin reducing the anxiety of patients with advanced-stage cancer, there is ample evidence that, wisely administered, these substances lessen the suffering caused by addiction, disease, and mental anguish.

If it's a drug, then it is the best drug. Good coffee makes us curious about pleasure. It makes us who we wish to be.

I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniel's.

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

Drug addicts are so funny that way. Just spinning around, lost in their own little world. Doing so much, accomplishing so little.

Drug addicts are so funny that way. Just spinning around, lost in their own little world. Doing so much, accomplishing so little. How sad.

The ubiquity of alcoholism in Chelsea and neighboring Irish waterfront communities can scarcely be overstated:

my endless cramming felt a lot more like self destruction than any glue-sniffing I'd ever done;

Another thing I figured out, after a few days in the house on Desert End Road: what Xandra and my dad really meant when they said my dad had "stopped drinking" was that he'd switched from Scotch (his beverage of choice) to Corona Lights and Vicodin.

Chlorotic, with a sunken chest, he smoked incessantly, wore cheap shirts that had grayed in the wash, drank endless cups of sugary tea.

Unhealed trauma is behind our health, weight, addiction, sleep, and relationship issues.

At eight the bar was emptied of all but those whose goal was alcoholism

Do you like Magda too?" His gaze left the gate to sweep the courtyard. "She seems pleasant enough when she's not drugged. But then she nearly always is, isn't she?" He

No matter what happens to society, I must maintain my supply of ice cream.

he had had absolutely no cigarettes at all. Not one. They were out of his life, foresworn utterly. He didn't need them. He could do without them. They merely nagged at him like mad and made his life a living hell

HISTORICAL UNDERDOSING: To live in a period of time when nothing seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts. ¶ HISTORICAL OVERDOSING: To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts.

Once it got into your blood, you could never get it out again.

Just one more line, please. I'll do anything. And I mean anything." "Good, we've got him hooked," said Ryan. "It won't be long now before he's on heroin." Josie added, "Then it's just slavery, pedophilia, and murder." "Don't forget incest," said Flora.

Steve McCroskey Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines

Steve McCroskey Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue

If you're exposed to grief long enough, you can become addicted to it, you know. You begin to feel something's missing when­ever you're without sadness. And once this happens, sad­ness becomes a kind of queer delight...