Quotes About Addiction

What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.

I suppose if alcohol had been available to me that November, I would have become a drunk. As it was, the only thing I could lose my miserable self in was books.

According to [Jerome] Levin, Alcoholics Anonymous describes the geographic cure as 'physically running away from one's problems without ever facing them, without ever relinquishing denial and getting help for one's addiction.' This sounds like precisely what Bill Clinton is up to.

Dylan Thomas was lying in a coma under an oxygen tent in St. Vincent's Hospital. He had been lying there, unshaven, for three days. The precise cause of the coma was obscure, though he had been heard making the extravagant claim that he had eighteen whiskeys at the White Horse Tavern the night before he collapsed.

Prolonged cocaine use, which diminishes dopamine functioning, gives support to the general rule that external sources of exuberance are ultimately overruled by the brain's inclination to seek out equilibrium.

For several weeks, I drank vodka in my orange juice before setting off for school in the mornings, and I thought obsessively about killing myself.

Cocaine, hashish, opium, Ecstacy: all seduce with the promise of rapture or exuberance-and then they collect.

Everybody is on something these days. It's a racket. Overprescribing, masking the problem.

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

The power of habit is very strong.

Books are readable drugs.

Over-the-counter drug abuse or addiction was a problem that I observed at Mauna Kea

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

Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people.

drunk right now, Amfortas suspected, or high on amphetamine,

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

Acceptance of another person is acceptance of the other as he is, without entailing any demands that he change in any empirical way. This boy is an addict, and while I would rejoice if he were freed from this affliction, that would not change or increase my acceptance of him as a person. And though I am not an addict, that makes me no better nor any worse than he. I am not his judge. I am just his friend.

when you drank, you lost control of your spirit. You had no power and no connection to Power.

The most dramatic example is addiction, in which the motivation to get high restricts attention to the point that the drug seems like the most important thing in the world.

This was my way of life for 21 years: Highs so high I was a human F-16, and lows so low I didn't need a funeral because I'd already buried myself.

All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.

He looks at the glass, almost ritualistically, then drains it, and thinks: not drinking would be so much easier if it wasn't so delicious.