Quotes About Drug And Alcohol Abuse

#1. Her strength and spirit were both dripping away, leaving her empty inside. She could feel her filth and hunger, and her body was protesting violently about her long period of tension, and drug and alcohol abuse.

Martin Millar

#2. The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody.

Gerald McRaney

#3. My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.

Gregory Hines

#4. 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

#5. As the ACE study has shown, child abuse and neglect is the single most preventable cause of mental illness, the single most common cause of drug and alcohol abuse, and a significant contributor to leading causes of death such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, and suicide.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#6. 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

#7. Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.

Charles Kimball

#8. I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.

Jean Kerr

#9. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

Xavier Becerra

#10. Vicki M. Taylor's "Not Without Anna," is a gripping, hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at the escalating crisis of teen alcohol and drug abuse.
Charlene Austin

Vicki M. Taylor

#11. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Oscar Wilde

#12. I didn't go to Cirque Lodge for alcohol abuse or drug abuse

Kirsten Dunst

#13. We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, premature pregnancy, child abuse, chronic dependency on welfare, and education failure.

John Vasconcellos

#14. 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

#15. Most of the people we see don't want to live in a shelter and feel save in their own little camp. Experience has taught me that almost 100 percent of these people suffered abuse as children. Well over half have emotional, mental problems. Most have drug and alcohol problems.

John Gallagher Jr.

#16. In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

Leigh Steinberg

#17. In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served with lunch and dinner. "The trick is moderation," he said.

Julia Child

#18. I had a psychotic break that was brought on by alcohol and drug abuse,

Scott Stapp

#19. I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.

Albert Einstein

#20. In the preseason, in the month of October, I work out almost every day, lifting weights for 20 or 30 minutes, and then during the season I usually lift weights twice a week, sometimes a little more.

Steve Nash

#21. What you do for 23 hours of your day will always have a greater bearing than what you do for 1 hour in the day.

Rujuta Diwekar

#22. I don't speculate too much about the future. That's the thing about this job - it's so fickle. You take the jobs, you read the scripts and, if something interests you and you like the people who are working on it, you go for it.

Aidan Turner

#23. Hugo learned that Prometheus had created humankind out of mud, and then stolen fire from the gods as a gift for the people he had made, so they could survive. So Prometheus was a thief.

Brian Selznick

#24. Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

Alfred De Musset

#25. We're number one in domestic violence homicides. We also have a high rate of alcohol abuse and drug abuse and there's a high lethality rate when you get those factors involved, so the shelter has 52 beds, certainly it is never empty.

Diane Birch

#26. The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene ... is the movie vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.

Roger Ebert

#27. You jump on a bike and start peddling. You fall down and you get up again. I've always been a 'learn by doing' kind of guy.

Judah Friedlander

#28. We cannot eradicate global drug markets, but we can certainly regulate them as we have done with alcohol and tobacco markets. Drug abuse, alcoholism and tobacco should be treated as public health problems, not criminal justice issues.

Otto Perez Molina

#29. 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

#30. a cynic is one who has given up but not yet shut up. Commit

Kerry A. Robinson