Quotes About Drug And Alcohol Addiction

#1. 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

#2. 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

#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. 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

#5. Don't you ever change your theology to line up with your doubt.

Karen Wheaton

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Baseball caps never go out of style and are easy to wear. Beyond baseball, beyond sports, I really do think a baseball cap is for everyone.

David Wright

#13. Fuck me", Bat gasped, "It's like an angel shat ice cream coffee rainbows in my mouth.

Warren Ellis

#14. 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

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

Liz Thebart

#17. 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

#18. Life is too short to dwell on the crappy things of the past.

Jayda Skidmore

#19. That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

Angela Merkel

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

Liz Thebart

#21. 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

#22. [...] 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

#23. 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

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

Liz Thebart

#25. 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

#26. 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