Quotes About Addiction

I only get ill when I give up drugs.

I can't imagine a day without coffee. I can't imagine!

I have a hard time imagining a life without basketball.

I need to protect myself from my own addictive impulse.

I think anybody who's had an alcoholic in their life, or somebody with a drug problem, realizes that until things get bad enough, there's no incentive to change.

I am an incorrigible coffee geek. I make espresso.

Attention is a drug. There's no going back.

Such was the demand for sugar, the price of a sweet tooth was a toothless smile. Such was the demand for coffee, the price of caffeine was addiction, heart palpitations, osteoporosis and general irritability. The price of rum was chronic liver disease, alcoholism and permanent memory loss. The cost of tobacco was cancer, stained teeth and emphysema.

In other words, we have a major American (and global) industry whose business model is designed to attract young people to their products, chemically addict them, cause them terrible suffering and death, and then pass the hundreds of billions a year in medical costs on to the taxpayers.

Few experiences in life quite match the feelings of horror, fear, helplessness, and grief that families experience when someone they love becomes addicted to alcohol or other drugs. They watch in dismay as the addict becomes alienated from the family and undergoes profound changes. Activities that once brought the addict pleasure are abandoned, old friends are pushed away, and the addict withdraws into a world that is inaccesible to anyone who tries to help.

The truth most families eventually discover is that no one can cure another person's addiction. Omly addicts can do that for themselves.

obsession with sensual pleasures, holding firmly to sensual pleasures that khattiyas fight with khattiyas, brahmins with brahmins, and householders with householders." "Why is it, Master Kacc?na, that ascetics fight with ascetics?" "It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.

Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle.

Opium? No! Cocaine? No! The Great American Brain Killer Is Dance Music!' – Portland Oregonian, 1932 T

I loved when Bush came out and said, "We are losing the war against drugs." You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people ondrugs are winning it.

I smoke to fill the potholes in my soul

There are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.

The idea of getting a, you know, syringe full of heroin and shooting it in the vein under my cock right now seems like almost a productive act.

a man with a phone more or less permanently affixed to his palm is partway a robot already

The time in prison has also seen Göring kick his longtime morphine addiction.

secretly chain-smokes filtered cigarettes

The hole in me, the neediness, the hunger, the ache in my life that I tried to fill or stay distracted from by using addictive behavior is actually the perfectly logical result of not knowing and therefore not accepting myself as I am.

Q. How do you feel when there is no coffee? A. Depresso.

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.