Quotes About Addiction

Alprazolam seems to be particularly associated with an immediate and severe withdrawal syndrome and should be tapered gradually.

Tweeting is like doing drugs. Seems like fun, but you just end up regretting it afterward.

I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.

Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.

I just love having a buzz all the time, regardless of the consequences.

Sometimes I wish I never found the Internet. Sometimes I regret getting a laptop and Wi-Fi for logging into the Internet because it is such a distraction. If you have any addictive personality, the Internet will magnify it.

I just drink regular drip coffee, but I'm kind of a coffee baby.

I drink seven Coca-Colas a day. Regular Coke, which is really bad for me.

I love shopping for shoes. I'm a big shoe-lover. Shopping is definitely something that I do on a regular basis.

I am a great movie buff, and I devour films regularly.

At home, my personal life was regularly falling apart, and from childhood on, I had a lot of chaos. I was addicted to chaos; I was addicted to self-harm, and I had to seek help at the hospital.

Some people are totally fine with just checking Instagram once a day and then putting their phone down. But with me... self regulation is very difficult and it's a battle.

When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, but I never had that.

I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.

I wasn't able to make the full commitment until I met 'Celebrity Rehab's' Dr. Drew.

In '85, I went through rehab and I wasn't ready. If you're not ready, you're not ready. You don't want to hear the truth, and you're gonna keep doing what you keep doing.

I was never at a place where rehab would have been appropriate.

The day I left for rehab, I was in such a mess. I've been told by those close to me that was when I hit my worst.

Cellphones are very addictive. Even if one goes to rehab to get rid of this addiction, it's not going to work.

I think there's a danger in how we can get addicted to the things that reaffirm to us who we are. For example, Facebook; people who make these Facebook posts about what's happening to them, just so people will chime in and give them positive reinforcement.

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

Dramas about addiction can be exciting to watch. And then dispiriting. Exciting because degradation is fascinating to follow from the relative safety and smugness of an 'appropriate' life, and dispiriting because if all that sad mayhem can happen to this or that character, what's to keep it from happening to me or you?

Apart from the highs and lows of when your film releases, there's a strange, addictive quality that making a film has because of all that drama. There's so much that goes on, and we miss it when it's over.