Quotes About Addiction

Have you seen those zombies who roam the streets with their faces glued to their smartphones? Do you think they control the technology, or does the technology control them?

Sugar is now more dangerous than gunpowder.

I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention ' it would be funny.

Like most addictions, sex is used to take away pain or to temporarily ignore it. If you are not in control of your life, but your life is controlled by your sexual urges, then you need to seek help.

We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us.

How can a treatable illness be a villain? I'm writing mysteries, and the villains are the murderers, though even they may end up eliciting our understanding or sympathy. On the other hand, I could make a case for recovery itself--from addictive substances and compulsive behaviors, not only from alcoholism--being the true hero.

Drugs aren't always about feeling good. Many times they're about feeling less.

For those times when I wanted to blank out parts of my life or when I was dealing with some depression, there was nothing better than heroin. Nothing.

Donata seriously considered taking up a life of crime just so she could pay to have this coffee every morning,

obsession with peanut butter cookies

Coming together takes the powerless and makes them powerful. Structured Family Recovery brings this power to the family and, in co- operation with the larger recovery community, stands firm in the face of addiction, which trespassed into our homes and multiplied itself into our lives. We crowd addiction out by building a family life brim- ming with togetherness and recovery, even though we may start out not knowing our way back to each other.

78 percent never have a single relapse. Less than 15 percent have one relapse but not a second. And those with more than one relapse? A whopping 7 percent.

Volvemos a lo mismo una y otra vez: usa tu cerebro, no dejes que tu cerebro te use a ti. La rabia en la carretera es un ejemplo de lo que ocurre cuando tu cerebro te utiliza, pero también lo son los recuerdos nocivos, las heridas de viejos traumas, los malos hábitos que no puedes dejar y, lo más trágico de todo, las adicciones descontroladas. Este es un tema muy importante al que debemos prestar atención.

usa tu cerebro, no dejes que tu cerebro te use a ti. La rabia en la carretera es un ejemplo de lo que ocurre cuando tu cerebro te utiliza, pero también lo son los recuerdos nocivos, las heridas de viejos traumas, los malos hábitos que no puedes dejar y, lo más trágico de todo, las adicciones descontroladas.

Dark feelings can become a habit. And if they're strong enough, like many strong feelings, they can even be enjoyable.

Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion.

When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all -- cash, booze, and a wife -- he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground.

I'd been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman I'd even known, for three days under a phony name, shooting heroin. We made love in the bed, ate steaks at the restaurant, shot up in the john, puked, cried, accused one another, begged of one another, forgave, promised, and carried one another to heaven.

I have never passed a bookstore without going inside; it's sacrilegious

People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

Academy. And what a narcotic the drug of positive feedback

The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.