Quotes About Drug Addiction Recovery

#1. 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

#2. As a man, there's a part of me that feels I should still be going out and doing a proper day's work.

Ray Winstone

#3. I chose to share both the good and the bad parts of my story, and of my imagination, so that it might help even one person realize that there is hope. You are not alone. And it does get better. I promise you it's worth it.

Kimberly Nalen

#4. It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

Steven Kassels

#5. The Oracle rose. As one, the three witches bowed.
"See?" Bran jerked his thumb at the three women. "That's how a woman should treat a man. Next time you see me, I want you to do just like them.

Ilona Andrews

#6. 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

#7. Learn from the people
Plan with the people
Begin with what they have
Build on what they know
Of the best leaders
When the task is accomplished
The people will remark
We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

#8. We, as a society, have arbitrarily differentiated between acceptable and unacceptable drug addictions.

Steven Kassels

#9. In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.

Aimee Mann

#10. Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to let it go.

Samantha Leahy

#11. This far north the sun was still up, although very low, riding through the mountains as if looking for something it lost on the ground.

Craig Childs

#12. The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.

Russell Brand

#13. Spurred by Amy's death I've tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.

Russell Brand

#14. Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and like playing a lot of really precise pool.

David Foster Wallace

#15. The fear of the drugs running out is managable-the fear of time running down isn't.

Ann Marlowe

#16. People say that I'm a boxer. I actually started with kick boxing, and then I moved onto boxing, and then I moved onto grappling.

Conor McGregor