Alcohol And Drug Addiction Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses.

Richard M. Daley

#3. I forced my eyes open and saw the image that's haunted me every day for the past years of my life. And every day, in my nightmares.

Liz Thebart

#4. Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#5. A country either elevates the ignorant to the level of the learned or it itself sinks down to the level of the ignorant.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Maybe if I had gone on like that I could have stopped myself in time. Maybe at that point I still had it in me to come through.

Liz Thebart

#7. Using excuses for the predicament you're in and minimizing your situation, whether it is drug or alcohol use, is a sure sign of an addict.

Alexandra Sobetsky

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. To suppress love of life and natural aggression
by drug, alcohol and sex addiction
is no world peace, at all.
P.C.M. Hermans
Worldpoet 546
September 24, 2016
Amen
Babaji

Petra Hermans

#11. Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day,akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s, ... It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society and ... that's the young and the poor.

David Robertson

#12. Once you've been overweight you never want to be overweight again, so you keep going, keep going, like for any addiction. Health can be an addiction, it doesn't have to be drugs or alcohol.

Craig David

#13. With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.

Catherine Doherty

#14. He isn't going to be happy with me. I don't want his anger directed my way when I snuff out his precious one. After all, who wants to fuck with Death.

Abbi Glines

#15. To be fair to ourselves, in almost every original script, the timing is actually worked out down to the minute

Michael Loceff

#16. Worse that drugs is drug trafficking. Much worse. Drugs are a disease, and I don't think that there are good drugs or that marijuana is good. Nor cigarettes. No addiction is good. I include alcohol. The only good addiction is love. Forget everything else.

Jose Mujica

#17. When the danger is great, one must not run away.

Pope Benedict XVI

#18. I spent the rest of that day and most of the night thinking about all the hundreds of people I had met in rehabs and sober living houses and on the streets. We were all medicating our fears and our pain!

Pax Prentiss

#19. [...] we grieved for both our lives, in which we were both more dead than alive.

Liz Thebart

#20. 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

#21. I know every guy here, and they're all pretty much jerks.

Nicki Elson

#22. I opened the doors to Hell and walked in gleefully.

Liz Thebart

#23. [...] but for the first time ever, I finally had it in me and I wanted to live. He had taught me well indeed.

Liz Thebart

#24. No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose.

Henry Rollins

#25. There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom.

Liz Thebart

#26. 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

#27. The Bible condemns the use of any substance which alters or distorts our thinking (including alcohol, which was the most common drug in ancient times).

Billy Graham

#28. They say that children have the purest hearts. That children don't truly hate, because they don't fully understand the emotion. They forgive and forget easily.

Abbi Glines

#29. The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.

Alexei Navalny

#30. I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.

Macklemore