Substance Addiction Quotes

#1. Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of ignorance that keeps everyone in bondage. With substance addiction the mind/body sets up a vicious cycle that perpetuates the dependence.

Deepak Chopra

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

Dianne Harman

#3. 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

#4. Faith - seeing your husband as Jesus sees him.

Jennifer E. Smith

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Criss Jami

#8. The highest God and the innermost God is one God.

Ernest Holmes

#9. 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

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

Steven Kassels

#11. Rew looked like he had put his face up to the sky in a rainstorm of freckles

Adina Rishe Gewirtz

#12. 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

#13. 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

#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 Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

David Foster Wallace

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

Lundy Bancroft

#17. I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart.

Ram Dass

#18. Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to - alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person - you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.

Eckhart Tolle

#19. Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without some addiction - to substances, sure, but also to love, sex, success, failure, power.

Porochista Khakpour

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

Sonya Huber

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

Crystal Woods

#22. I'm not holding out a whole lot of hope for you," she snapped. "And quit calling me that. I liked it when I thought you loved me, but I'm not particularly fond of your endearments right now. Or you, for that matter.

Shannon MacLeod

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

Phil Volatile

#24. Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

Susan Cheever

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

Dianne Harman

#26. One day our Sun will disappear; it will be something else! Even the greatest truths disappear in this universe; they turn into some other things, some other truths!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#27. The question is never "Why the addiction?" but "Why the pain?" The research literature is unequivocal: most hard-core substance abusers come from abusive homes.

Gabor Mate

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

Ellen Hopkins

#29. Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.

Carl Sandburg

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Crystal Woods

#33. Just as a heroin addict chases a substance-induced high, sex addicts are bingeing on chemicals - in this case, their own hormones.

Alexandra Katehakis

#34. 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.