Quotes About Substance Abuse

#1. With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one's logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.

Ted Nugent

#2. People who fail to use their emotional intelligence skills are more likely to turn to other, less effective means of managing their mood. They are twice as likely to experience anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and even thoughts of suicide.

Travis Bradberry

#3. But no matter what the dictionary says, in my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train. Given that, I've had three and a half problems. A dead guy in my bed, substance abuse, and manic-depression.

Carrie Fisher

#4. Every marriage that ends in divorce; every serviceman who kills him- or herself; and every time a young warrior experience substance abuse issues, we witness a casualty of war.

Jay Kopelman

#5. I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#6. People who aren't asleep when Ruby comes around have to take sleeping pills. Everyone is afraid of those pills- even the substance- abuse guests.

Patricia McCormick

#7. If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.

Emily Yoffe

#8. Not everyone is bound for a life of substance abuse and addiction - but the moment you think you're untouchable is the moment you're most likely headed for trouble. If you're going to be obsessed with something, make God your choice. That's a habit worth keeping.

Max Lucado

#9. Economists have calculated that every dollar invested in high-quality home visitation, day care, and preschool programs results in seven dollars of savings on welfare payments, health-care costs, substance-abuse treatment, and incarceration, plus higher tax revenues due to better-paying jobs.37

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#10. If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control

Karen Marie Moning

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever.
Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

Carrie Fisher

#14. We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

John Sculley

#15. They got drunk and high on a regular basis, but this is a vestige of youth that you either quit while you're young or you become an addict if you don't die.
If you are the Old Guy In The Punk House, move out. You have a substance abuse problem.

Bucky Sinister

#16. The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, Oh my God, all these people I've admired - and tried to emulate even - when I was younger died tragically from substance abuse.

Eva Mendes

#17. I need to work on developing a new, less irritable personality. though I suspect that an empty nest would be at least a partial cure, today I resorted to substance abuse.

Eloisa James

#18. As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals
to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress
and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for
pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.

Aaron T. Beck

#19. Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of 'keeping away from the dope.' But what does getting help with depression mean? Learning to keep away from your own mind?

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#20. Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.

Joseph A. Califano Jr.

#21. If love is a form of substance abuse, I hope to die high.

Crystal Woods

#22. Social media allows us to subjugate feelings and problems we don't want to confront, like emotional eating or substance abuse, thus perpetuating our problems and delaying our happiness.

Sam Owen

#23. Research does reveal a genetic disposition to substance abuse, but those who believe their addiction is a disease show less of an inclination to resist it.

J.D. Vance

#24. Frankly I'm not great with heroin addicts. I tried heroin, but it was by accident. I'm not great with that level of substance abuse.

Michael Stipe

#25. Karate has helped me lots, otherwise I might have got lost in substance abuse or something like the things a lot of other people do.

Dolph Lundgren

#26. I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

Octavia Spencer

#27. I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It's seductive because alcohol is amazing and drugs are amazing, they work so well.

Moby

#28. I had been up all night with my old friend Allen Ginsberg, the poet, and we had both slid into the abyss of whiskey madness and full-bore substance abuse. It was wonderful,

Hunter S. Thompson

#29. Studies conducted around the world have shown a close correlation between materialist values, depression, and substance abuse.

Jeremy Rifkin

#30. Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

Lindsay Lohan

#31. Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus on any particular school district, was simply used to illustrate this position.

Kwame Kilpatrick

#32. As a result, GED, substance-abuse, and sex-offender programs are replaced by prison courses in "biblically based therapy sessions" and Christian sex-offender "cure" programs, with public dollars flowing into church coffers across the country.

Tara Herivel

#33. Almost all people suffer some form of intense inner pain at some times in their lives. The suffering might be depression, anxiety, substance abuse, or suicidal thoughts and it results from the battles we wage against our thoughts as we futilely try to get rid of our historie.

Steven C. Hayes

#34. 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

#35. Sex is a fact of life ... and while it may lead to abuses ... no words need be spoken ... for people to know that the subject is one pleasantly interwoven in all human activities and involves the very substance of creation itself.

Hugo Black

#36. 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

#37. An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

Criss Jami

#38. and tonight we held each
other, one last time,
like a dance to a
slow song
on an empty
floor,
underneath a single
disco ball
in front of
no one
at all

Phil Volatile

#39. Honey, I usually get $300, but I like you, so I'll just take $200.

Dianne Harman

#40. A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice were often sacrificed to the prejudices of virtue, the bias of laudable affection, and the grosser seductions of interest or resentment.

Edward Gibbon

#41. Some people don't care about Christianity at all unless it can make them drunk or high "in the spirit." They use and abuse God and Christianity just like they would use any other substance in their life. They search for the experiences, but not God.

Lisa Bedrick

#42. Procrastination has been a boon to my sobriety. I keep thinking I'd like to go out and get really trashed some night--but not tonight. It's really a variant of "One Step at a Time.

Rob Dinsmoor

#43. Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not "cure" partner abuse.

Lundy Bancroft

#44. If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Al Roker

#45. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

Philip K. Dick

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

Steven Kassels

#47. The ceremonial and religious uses of psychedelics are much older than their recreational uses and abuses. For most of their history, they have been mysterious, dangerous substances and must be treated respectfully.

Humphry Osmond

#48. I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me.

Sonya Huber

#49. Love is the best drug, bar none.

Crystal Woods

#50. Too many codeine pills,
Too many nights of cold chills
Too many weak-handed deals
Too many lives, the addict steals

Phil Volatile

#51. There's talk he's become emotionally unhinged.

Dianne Harman

#52. An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.

Dylan Thomas

#53. I wanted to meet the monster.
Why go down if you can go up?

Ellen Hopkins

#54. Sunrise is starting to feel like a guilt trip.

Kris Kidd

#55. Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no doubt will do it, as if they should be required to pay a tax equal to half or third of their substance.

Adam Smith