Quotes About Addiction

I called a detox center - just to see how much it would cost: $13,000 for three weeks! My friends, if you can come up with thirteen grand, you don't have a problem yet.

There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.

Other things are just food. But chocolate's chocolate.

It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.

We were talking briefly about cocaine... yeah. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent, give me more of that!

I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.

I don't think of you as a crush anymore...you're more like a bad habit that I can't shake.

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise.

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.

La soledad es un estado de ánimo, pero puede convertirse en un vicio. Le confieso que, a lo largo de mis treinta y ocho años, las pocas veces que me he quedado sin soledad, la he hechado de menos. Le advierto, sin embargo, que no es ése el caso actual. Esta vez la soledad me pesa como suele pesarle el vicio al adicto.

La vida es el único vicio que se alimenta de virtudes.

Some people anesthetized with booze; Woody wrote.

What a paradox is there: flying higher into heaven, at the same time being forced to work deeper into the hell of my addiction, the hell of my own unconscious body.

You think of yourself -- light, fast, free -- free of earth, free of bondage to your body. In your 'perfect' body, you are in control, addicted to the light that keeps you out of body. You're a swan maiden, addicted to wings, addicted to spirit. You refused to eat in order to fly.

Like love was a habit you couldn't break.

an obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more.

Anybody can say 'I do' at the altar; the hard part is saying 'I do' every day thereafter. Anybody can set a life goal; the hard part is going after it every day. Anybody can say no to any addiction for a day, but you have to say it day after day after day.

Like pornography, junk [food] might be tough to define but you know it when you see it.

There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires.

People who live with substance abusers know that refusing to cooperate with the addiction can trigger an explosive outburst or a childish accusation.

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.

Here's where things get interesting. A 2009 study by Dr. Serge H. Ahmed, Is Sugar as Addictive as Cocaine?, published in the journal Food and Addiction, proved that sugar was eight times as addictive as cocaine.

But I've been drinking. Last time I mixed alcohol and Xanax, I went completely crazy.