Quotes About Addiction

America's opioid epidemic is another warning light. Émile Durkheim, the father of modern sociology, said that when societies hit a civilisational break the suicide rate soars.

We are meant to be addicted to God, but we develop secondary addictions that temporarily appear to fix our problem.

What they don't understand—and the wide world certainly does not understand—is that these reckless acts do stem from a biological need to alter their inner state. In pain, they feel compelled to seek relief immediately.

When someone is alcoholic, is abusing cocaine, or is dependent upon marijuana, we often become so preoccupied with the problems the drug use creates that we fail to consider what purpose the drug must be serving for the user.

Only two industries refer to their customers as 'users': computer design and drug dealing

It's the hardest addiction of all,' said Patrick. 'Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, that deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

Most people avoid thinking if they can, some of us are addicted to thinking, but Von Neumann actually enjoyed thinking, maybe even to the exclusion of everything else.

many injurious habits result from our efforts to fill empty time.

And there are plenty of ways to self-destruct: marrying or having a baby in a way that imprisons one in a narrow, prescribed role; abusing drugs or alcohol; becoming physically or mentally incapacitated; joining a cult or organization that offers security and answers; or suicide.

It is not surprising that artists turn to drugs, alcohol, and medications to control their arousal or to recontact their inner self. But the long-term effect is a body further off balance. Moreover, it is part of the myth or archetype of the artist that any psychological help will destroy creativity by making the artist too normal.

They were addicts, and addicts of any kind were very reliable customers.

It's weird, I was such a survivor and so wanted to be a part of life while I was trying to snuff out the life that was inside of me. I had this duality of trying to kill myself with drugs, then eating really good food and exercising and going swimming and trying to be a part of life. I was always going back and forth on some level.

Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.

The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.

Something the doctors hadn't been able to figure out earlier, because, he found out later, Francis hadn't divulged to them his habitual cocaine use.

Life's a struggle against acting, which claims more lives than all the other drugs of the world put together.

A top position executive on being addicted to womanizing and/or wining plays dirty office politics to make middle cadre employees to whining and lower rung workforce to writhing with the pain in the private sector organization.

People should be always careful of two persons. One who is totally dedicated to his family especially his wife and others who are completely addicted to the women in life.

Self-seeker is mentally sick to be addicted to taking and online posting own pictures with everyone,but belongs to none and not even to own parents even if living with them.

She loves merely three things in every relationship for herself i.e. I, MYSELF & ME and that's the reason a woman is often seen addicted to selfie.

The addiction to selfie is enough proof to see how that person feels alone & aloof and loves only oneself, not a bit to others and women surpass men often in this connection.

The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.

It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.