Quotes About Addicted To Drugs

#1. Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal inmates are in for drug crimes.

Michael Botticelli

#2. Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.

Joe Baca

#3. I'm not addicted to drugs, I'm addicted to glamour.

James St. James

#4. You can be addicted to misery the same way as you can be addicted to drugs.

Elvis Costello

#5. I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

Hugo Chavez

#6. You know that we are lost when babies are addicted to drugs when they are born.

Louis Eric Barrier

#7. Oh God, you're one of those pimps that takes girls off the streets and gets them addicted to drugs and turns them into prostitutes, aren't you?! My future suddenly maps out in front of me. I can see myself all greasy hair, short skirts and ripped tights, getting into stranger's cars.

Samantha Towle

#8. For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs.

Judge Reinhold

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

Dennis Prager

#10. Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did.

Alex Chilton

#11. Some are addicted to cigarettes, some, God forbid, to drugs, and some become addicted to money. They say that the worst addiction is to power. I have never felt that. I have never been addicted to anything

Vladimir Putin

#12. As I grew up, I wasn't a great buyer of albums, but I really liked 'The Jam.' I like good musicians and loved the energy of their songs.

Anton Du Beke

#13. One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their own drugs.

Christopher McDougall

#14. Addictive personalities can latch on to anything: drugs, alcohol, sex, people ... what if you become addicted to me?"
"I am already addicted to you, Beatrice. Only you're far more dangerous than cocaine.

Sylvain Reynard

#15. It was Tark's experience that TV addicts were usually addicted to something else as well. Food, booze, drugs, sex, money, take your pick.

T. J. MacGregor

#16. Our teenage "druggies" are habituated to drugs rather than addicted. While beer and other alcoholic beverages are preferred drugs, kids have simply not used alcohol long enough to become addicted. The other drug of preference - marijuana - is not addictive.

Virgil Miller Newton

#17. I'm not yet defeated, just waiting for my next turn to throw the dice again.

Neetesh Dixit

#18. If you own the problem, you own the customer. If you lose the problem, you lose the customer. It's that simple.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#19. The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.

N. T. Wright

#20. The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order ... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.

Arthur Henderson

#21. Most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

David Foster Wallace

#22. Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to - alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person - you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.

Eckhart Tolle

#23. I don't take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don't think about it anymore, although like every person that was addicted and has money - I know that this can lead to temptation.

Anthony Kiedis

#24. My hand no longer trembled out of fear, but out of anticipation. I knew I was addicted to the rush it provided, to the release it provided from the emotional mess I had become, but I didn't care. It wasn't drugs. It was just a few cuts on my arm.

S.M. Koz

#25. I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly.

Dan Rather

#26. American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's minds wasted? Exceptional at what? Eating more junk food and becoming the most obese nation on Earth?

Gerald Celente

#27. I've known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don't know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.

Jasmine Guinness

#28. The way I've been with drink and drugs suggests I have a tendency to get addicted to things.

Russell Brand

#29. I was more addicted to self destruction then to the drugs themselves ... something very romantic about it

Gerard Way

#30. f you don't heal yourself, you will
continue relying on miracles to heal your manifestations,one after another, creating a cycle where you don't make
any progress. Unless the root cause is eliminated, the problem will reappear in some form.

Shaman Elizabeth Herrera

#31. Loose diagnosis is causing a national drug overdose of medication. Six percent of our people are addicted to prescription drugs, and there are now more emergency room visits and deaths due to legal prescription drugs than to illegal street drugs.6

Allen Frances

#32. I've experienced the feeling of about a dozen different drugs simply from a good conversation. I think, more often than not, that's why people get addicted. They want a high that's available only if they overcome their fear of connecting to others.

Vironika Tugaleva

#33. One thing I've learned is it's better to be addicted to things than people. You get hooked on a thing and if someone takes it from you, you can find another source. Only people can really hurt you. Only people can push you out into the cold permanently.

A.M. Riley

#34. A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.

Roger Mahony

#35. I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#36. Life without madness is mediocrity.

Nelou Keramati

#37. It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs.

Lindsay Lohan