Quotes About Addiction

The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

Facebook is starting to be like my fridge, I know nothing is there but I keep checking it anyway...

You know you are addicted to Facebook when you log off Facebook, turn your computer off, go to bed, role over, and log onto your Facebook from your phone one last time for the night.

Love is a powerful drug, it has it's climax and it has it's downfalls.

Breakups are hard to deal with because the body and mind go through withdrawal - Like drug addiction, we become addicted to love.

The urge to jump into his arms and feel the warmth of them surrounding me is so powerful, I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.

After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I'd have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of grace, but I never forgot about it or stopped wanting it.

As my husband quipped, "If orgasm was the magic bullet, porn addicts would be the healthiest people on the planet.

After medical marijuana was relegalized in California, Mikuriya treated hundreds of alcoholic patients who got their lives back after switching to pot. In general, he found that an increase in the consumption of marijuana correlated with a reduction in the consumption of alcohol. As far as Mikuriya was concerned, marijuana was not a gateway drug to addiction—it was an exit drug.

After medical marijuana was relegalized in California, Mikuriya treated hundreds of alcoholic patients who got their lives back after switching to pot. In general, he found that an increase in the consumption of marijuana correlated with a reduction in the consumption of alcohol.

Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

However hard as I try, it keeps growing. My bibliomania is pretty acute.

There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs, they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.

Morphine and state relief are the same. You go dopey, feel better and are worse off.

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.

We're all addicted to something that takes away the pain.

He had every intention of becoming an alcoholic. It keeps you busy. Alcohol occupies every thought and provides a goal in times of despair: getting better.

C'est ce que je veux, je veux d'autres tourments, des maux réels, des manifestations physiques d'un comportement précis. La cause de mon mal sera l'alcool ; pas la vérité, l'alcool. Je préfère une maladie qui tient dans les limites d'une bouteille plutôt qu'une maladie immatérielle et toute-puissante sur laquelle je ne peux pas mettre de nom ("Comment je suis devenu stupide", p37)

Addicts' children should be removed from their influence, and placed as far away from the offender as was humanly possible.

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.