Top 37 Addiction Treatment Quotes
#1. It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that is what all vendors of alcoholic drinks are selling.
Chris Prentiss
#3. It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.
Jim Ramstad
#4. Furthermore, we should keep all things only as if they had been merely lent and not given to us, without any sense of possessiveness, whether it be our body or soul, our senses, faculties, worldly goods or honour, friends, relations, house or home or anything whatsoever.
Meister Eckhart
#5. We know that you don't want to be a drunk and you don't want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because you can't cope with your life without some sort of support, even if that support is damaging.
Chris Prentiss
#6. Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) does not work. Opiate addicts live in our communities and in our families & they work in our businesses.
Steven Kassels
#7. The better you know something, the less you remember about how hard it was to learn. The curse of knowledge is the single best explanation I know of why good people write bad prose.
Steven Pinker
#8. I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more.
Max Von Sydow
#9. AddressingAddiction offers a comprehensive alcohol detox at home service in various parts of the UK. Receive treatment from an experienced psychiatrist as well as support specialists like addiction counsellors and auricular acupuncturists.
Alex Benson
#10. Have little,
Need less:
This is the way
To inner peace.
Surrender is a journey
From the outer turmoil
To the inner peace.
Peace
Is in inner awakening,
And this inner awakening
We must share
With the rest of the world.
Sri Chinmoy
#11. Most centers offer a one-program-fits all type of service, which is rather like a department store that sells one-size fits all clothing.
Chris Prentiss
#12. I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.
David Brooks
#13. I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.
Elizabeth Banks
#14. Alcohol is the drug ethanol. They are one and the same. Alcohol is also called ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol. It is a chemical compound. Ethanol is often added to the gasoline we use to run our cars.
Chris Prentiss
#15. I'm not interested in whether you've sat with the great; I'm interested in whether you've sat with the broken.
Unknown
#16. It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.
Steven Kassels
#17. As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.
Jim Ramstad
#18. He was my addiction and this time away was my treatment.
Kendall Ryan
#19. Addictions and mental disorders are like a disease, and they need treatment.
Syesha Mercado
#20. Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.
Chris Prentiss
#21. We can and we must do better as prolonged recovery is now an achievable result of comprehensive addiction treatment.
Stephen J. Pasierb
#22. The answer to the drug problem is not criminalisation and incarceration, but education, regulation and treatment.
Merlyn Gabriel Miller
#23. In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even grandchildren have made an appearance in the final pages of my books.
Sarah MacLean
#24. Recreation", which is to say: a refreshing exercise of the organism, because it was in immediate danger of overindulging itself in the uninterrupted monotony of daily life and growing indifferent.
Thomas Mann
#25. Addiction," I say simply. "It can span an entire lifetime if untreated."
"What's the treatment?"
"I don't really care."
"Me neither," she says.
Tarryn Fisher
#26. This stigma associated with drug use
the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic
has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.
David Sheff
#27. Third choice was to strike off toward some new projection - a new job, a better (different) relationship, a seductive ideology, or sometimes to drift into some unconscious "self-treatment plan" such as an addiction or an affair.
James Hollis
#28. It has been said that a lot of women of our generation "grew up to be the men they always wanted to marry
Merle Shain
#29. People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating "alcoholism" as if it is the problem, when it has nothing to do with the problem. They might as well be studying "scratchism" for people who have a chronic itch.
Chris Prentiss
#30. Hell will be filled with people who were avidly committed to Christian values.
Albert Mohler
#31. We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use of headache remedies; it will never work until the condition causing people's headache pain is healed.
Chris Prentiss
#32. Working together with Democrats and Republicans, I passed legislation to help break the grip of addiction. By investing in prevention, treatment, and recovery, empowering law enforcement, and stopping the overprescribing of painkillers, we can turn the tide.
Rob Portman
#33. I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.
Brian Spellman
#34. The punishment approach and bad consequences approach to treatment is the kind of thinking that is prevalent in every residential substance abuse treatment center in the United States of which I'm aware.
Chris Prentiss
#35. It takes a strong person to stand up to his or her fate and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of freedom and success, but I believe in you.
Pax Prentiss
#36. Drug abuse and addiction are very real problems, the remedy for which is education and medical treatment, not incarceration. In fact, the most abused drugs in the United States now appear to be oxycodone and other prescription painkillers. Should
Sam Harris
#37. There is no cell culture for depression. You can't see it on a bone scan or an x-ray. Not everyone with depression will show the same behavioral symptoms.
Chris Prentiss
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