Quotes About Addiction

I played basketball at Kentucky in 1986-87 and '87-88 and enjoyed a 12-year NBA career. After multiple injuries and seven surgeries, I developed an addiction to prescription painkillers.

Under the leadership of President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Department of Justice is delivering results. Many federal, state, and local agencies are working with us to combat opioid addiction.

Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.

I'm going to try to not eat any more dark chocolate, and that's going to be very, very hard for me because I'm completely addicted to dark chocolate.

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

I love coffee. I definitely have coffee every day.

I always degenerate to chocolate and coffee.

I am a shopaholic and Delhi is a Mecca for me.

Money, ego and drugs - that's what caused the demise of our band.

There is no ground on which House Republican leaders should compromise until Democrats are finally ready to give up their spending addiction.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

I only drink coffee when I'm actually feeling tired. I've never wanted to become dependent on it, to be one of those people where I wake up and have to have coffee.

I go through spurts of watching 'EastEnders,' feeling depressed and vowing never to watch it ever again.

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.

Just like everybody else, celebrities have brains and those brains get conditions - addiction, depression.

There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.

Our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs will destroy your life.

Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.

Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive.

Anyone who's ever had a loved one go through addiction will know just how devastating it can be and how tough it is for those around them, as much as it is for the addict.

Twitter is a wonderful device. And I call it a device, but there are people that are addicted to it now. That's not good. You're really not very interesting using only so many letters.

I'm addicted to chocolate chip cookies. I mean that seriously. If there are chocolate chip cookies, I will devour them.

I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.

This dark diction has become America's addiction.