Top 100 Quotes About Drug Addiction
#1. It was incredible, the way that people kept on going, whether they were dying of pancreatic cancer or drug addiction or the apocalypse itself.
Tommy Wallach
#2. What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I was HIV positive ...
Robbin Crosby
#3. Purple Mike promises to be an intriguing read that will teach anyone who wants to know about the highs and lows of drug addiction. Purple Mike is a legal, natural high. Enjoy reading.
Sin Mils
#4. 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
#5. There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.
George Will
#6. My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.
Columba Bush
#7. 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
#8. The all-encompassing cure for cancer, heartbreak, irrationality, drug addiction, and every other ailment that plagues humanity?
Fire.
V.K. McAllister
#9. It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.
Aimee Mann
#10. But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.
Elton John
#11. Forcing someone into drug addiction is like stabbing a corpse everyday, the most detestable crime.
Sumit Agarwal
#12. I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.
Mick Jagger
#14. Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise,
Pope Francis
#15. 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
#16. Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high.
Kenneth Minogue
#17. You really can't just take someone who's got a drug addiction and just put 'em in rehab. It doesn't work that way. You can't choose it for them. They have to choose it for themselves - because that's scary. It's really hard.
Rosario Dawson
#18. Dependence on drugs is not a disease, it is not a virus, it is not something that stalks only the dregs of society. Drug addiction is REALIZED EMOTIONAL DEFICIENCY SYNDROME.
Plamen Chetelyazov
#19. The results of these and other studies were eye-opening. The children who exhibited delayed gratification scored higher on almost every measure of success in life: higher-paying jobs, lower rates of drug addiction, higher test scores, higher educational attainment, better social integration, etc.
Michio Kaku
#20. Another California study counted 30,000 substance abusers who are pregnant are White woman. So, The Wire paints the picture of drug addiction, drug dealing, and drug abuse as being a specifically a Black issue.
Ishmael Reed
#21. There are a wide variety of freedoms; whether if it's to break away from drug addiction or government suppression. On a general scale, the one element all these types of freedoms share is the need to survive - however that may be.
Lauren Lola
#22. 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
#23. In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers.
Christopher McDougall
#24. Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.
Freda Adler
#25. The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became - it's become an addiction. I'm addicted to working.
Elton John
#26. Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
Christopher Lasch
#27. Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything ... I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate ... It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs ...
David Sheff
#28. We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.
James Dickey
#29. Dr. Monroe and I realized very gradually that drug addiction is a terminal disease. It is a cancer that eats families alive.
Karin Slaughter
#30. When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#31. As massive numbers of homeless, hungry, unemployed, drug-addicted, illiterate, and mentally ill people vanish behind its walls, the social problems of extreme poverty, homelessness, hunger, unemployment, drug addiction, illiteracy, and mental illness become more ignorable, too.
Maya Schenwar
#32. People are the biggest drug addiction in the world, and I mean that quite literally. Take any single substance abuse problem in the world, and it's dwarfed in comparison to the addiction to feelings and people.
Chad Eastham
#33. Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.
Angela Davis
#34. We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.
Anthony Marra
#35. [Drug] Addiction is awful, the worst if it is your kid. Plenty of loving parents who did everything "right" find themselves with kids caught up with drugs, and plenty of absentee parents have kids who never touch the stuff.
Roxanne Roberts
#36. Due to Gail's drug addiction and my mother's street status, their relationship had been strained over the years. My
Mz. Lady P
#37. She had all the best things wrong with her - incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She's so lucky.
Peter Cameron
#38. I might be developing an addiction. You being my drug of choice. Rehab is 'not' an option, my love is forever. Just so you know.
Truth Devour
#39. This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
Anais Nin
#40. I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that.
Kelly Osbourne
#41. According to a recent study, ten percent of 'Star Trek' fans meet the psychological criteria for addiction. Deprived of their favourite show, some Trekkies disply withdrawal symptoms similar to drug addicts. Of course, the real difference is that drug addicts aren't nearly as annoying.
Jay Leno
#42. To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?
P. J. O'Rourke
#43. Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.
Michael Botticelli
#44. I think of drug dealers like I think of my father - never really there when you want them to be.
Kris Kidd
#45. 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
#46. What the hell is that?" he asked.
"Magic mushrooms."
"I've always wanted to try those," he exclaimed. "They sound so cute.
Heather O'Neill
#47. But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.
Truman Capote
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom.
Liz Thebart
#51. It's been one of the greatest challenges that ever came along in my life; it was one of the more difficult things to do.
Buzz Aldrin
#52. The Drug War is an addiction, really.
Bill Maher
#53. The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.
Chris Hedges
#54. I wanted to meet the monster.
Why go down if you can go up?
Ellen Hopkins
#55. Imagine this:
Ice is coming to YOUR house.
Can you HEAR it knocking?
Are you ready?
What will YOU do?
Cornelia Connie D. DeDona
#56. It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.
Anthony Kiedis
#57. Happiness is not to be found at the bottom of a bottle or from the tip of a needle; it is not to be found amidst a cloud of smoke or within a sugar-coated pill. If you look for it in these places, you will find naught but despair.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#58. There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.
Layne Staley
#59. In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense
Munia Khan
#60. The alcoholic retains the ability to condemn his addiction and advise those not subject to it to avoid succumbing to the liquid poison. But the cocaine addict likes proselytizing; thus, instead of constituting a tangible warning, every victim of the drug acts as a source of infection.
Pitigrilli
#61. Drug cartels have taken the driver's seat, training our young
men and women on how best to self destruct, while the larger
community watches on helplessly as these bands of renegades lead
our people towards the path of self annihilation
Oche Otorkpa
#62. Funny how someone can be so beautiful and totally fucked up at the same time.
Missy Anne
#63. I've seen firsthand the terrible consequences of drug abuse. My heart is with all who suffer from addiction and the terrible consequences for their families.
Columba Bush
#64. [...] 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
#65. Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more of it!
Strange when you consider their answer to drug dependence is to cut off the supply.
Bill Maher
#66. Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.
Shane Koyczan
#67. I opened the doors to Hell and walked in gleefully.
Liz Thebart
#68. A refrigerator is the opposite of a drug addict, because a refrigerator starts in a box and then moves to a house.
Demetri Martin
#69. My dad struggled with cocaine addiction, and we actually went to rehab with him too. I remember having extensive talks with him about how I was wired a certain way, how I wouldn't be able to drink and do drugs the same way my friends got to.
Ryan Montgomery
#70. Being mad at a drug addict for doing what drug addicts do, is like being mad at a shark for doing what sharks do, or being mad at a cockroach for doing what cockroaches do.
Oliver Markus
#71. Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is a terrible deception. Pornography is as addictive as cocaine or any illegal drug.
James E. Faust
#72. Each night we watched the sun set no matter where we were, and we'd wake up early to witness it rising again. That was the thing about life: even when the days faded to black, you were always given another chance. A second moment to try again to rise from the ashes.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#73. We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldn't possibly want this kind of life. But maybe that's not true. Maybe they don't want to live like other people - it just wouldn't suit them.
Jo Nesbo
#75. I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me.
Sonya Huber
#76. Addiction isn't about using drugs. It's about what the drug does to your life.
Enock Maregesi
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. [...] we grieved for both our lives, in which we were both more dead than alive.
Liz Thebart
#80. It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.
Steven Kassels
#81. They say when you fall in love in love with someone that person becomes like a drug,an addiction you don't want to live without.
Cat Miller
#82. Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)
James Surowiecki
#83. It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.
Gabor Mate
#84. I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that.
Heather O'Neill
#85. The drug war has been a war where the direct casualties have primarily been America's poor; America's minorities; and often, unfortunately, America's vulnerable, in terms of people with disease and addiction and mental health.
Cory Booker
#86. The CDC recently reported that opiate addiction is now America's fastest growing drug problem, with the total number of painkillers prescribed in a single year enough to medicate every adult living in the U.S. around the clock.
Taite Adams
#87. It was as if the pearly gates had just opened and God had walked out and said, "Pax, my son, I'm going to free you from your addiction. I'm going to let you see why you've been using heroin and all the other drugs for the past ten years.
Pax Prentiss
#88. Creativity is my addiction, and writing is my drug of choice!
AmBear Shellea
#89. That's some heavy painkillers in your drug stash."
"Well I'm in pain, aren't I?
Sam Hunter
#90. Drug addicts had their drugs. Alcoholics had their bottles. Serial killers had their murders.
Jess C. Scott
#91. But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.
Armistead Maupin
#92. I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells.
Richard Pryor
#93. 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
#94. I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.
Anthony Kiedis
#95. He was like the drug she knew she shouldn't take,but the drug that kept coming back to feed her addiction
Cecelia Ahern
#96. When nothing else worked, we created a holistic, hand-tailored program that saved Pax's life. At Passages, he and I use what we learned in curing him to help other discover the roots of their addiction or alcoholism and break free.
Chris Prentiss
#97. In the debate over opioid addiction, there's one group we aren't hearing from: chronic pain patients, many of whom need to use the drugs on a long-term basis.
S. E. Smith
#99. Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not.
Layne Staley
#100. We, as a society, have arbitrarily differentiated between acceptable and unacceptable drug addictions.
Steven Kassels
