Drug Addiction Quotes - Page 5

• I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Mistake, Mean, Recovery

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• Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.

  Robin Williams

  Recovery, People, Addiction

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• There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize the possibility of your own demise in the lives of these other people. You're doing the same thing they are, but you can't see it in yourself. However, you start seeing all of these tragedies and potential miracles in other people. It's a real eye- and heart-opening situation.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Real, Eye, Heart

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• Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the richest nation on Earth, with the highest number of imprisoned people in the world. Our drug addictions and child poverty are among the highest in the industrialized world. So don't ever confuse wealth or fame with character.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Money, Children, Character

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• Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakingly created for themselves. It is a plague - especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behavior of one kind or another. They're all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos.

  Tim Lott

  Depression, Character, Unique

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• I had to sit with my senses. This clear, beautiful intuition took over. I knew exactly how I felt, and I wasn't confused or clouded or compromised. I realized that none of my feelings had diminished, but I might have to lose someone I truly loved. I didn't want to run away from Claire, but I knew drug addiction was strong enough that I had to be willing, if need be, to let go of the person I'd just fallen in love with.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Running

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• In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development.

  Alice Miller

  Suicide, Bullying, Children

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• Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

  Craig Ferguson

  Recovery, Addiction, Alcohol

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• Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won't have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. You will be released from sexual obsessions. You will not have drug addictions. You will not need alcohol. You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease. You will be free.

  Cookie Mueller

  Cancer, Clothes, Worry

  Cookie Mueller (1997). “Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller”, Serpent's Tail

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• I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal complicities to the grave because it so deeply ensconced in how I look at the world. Therefore, very much like alcoholism, drug addiction, or racism patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.

  Cornel West

  Morning, Struggle, Recovery

  bell hooks, Cornel West (2016). “Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life”, p.125, Taylor & Francis

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• Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Dope, Addiction, Smoking

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• You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financial markets, in the form of layoffs, loss of security, etc., is matched sooner or later in the form of suicides, crime and delinquency, drug addiction, alcoholism, a whole host of minor and major everyday acts of violence.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Suicide, Loss, Law

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• The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.

  Craig Ferguson

  Christmas, Wine, Addiction

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• Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

  Colin Farrell

  Grateful, Years, Addiction

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• We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions, personalities, it just became too much.

  Izzy Stradlin

  Addiction, Personality, Drug

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• It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.

  Eminem

  Song, Years, Addiction

  "Eminem admits he 'almost died' from drug overdose" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. May 4, 2009.

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• 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

  Addiction, Drug, Challenges

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• There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.

  Charlie Sheen

  Recovery, Dark, Play

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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• 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

  Names, Perfect, Addiction

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.149, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• 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

  Sex, Careers, Addiction

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• Right now we have millions of people in our country who are suffering in isolation, thinking that they are the only ones who are dealing with drug addiction, who don't realize that on their own block there are other people and families. They think they're alone and they think they're going to be judged and they don't want to talk about it. But when people do come forward and share their stories it's incredibly liberating, and it gives other people permission to tell their stories too.

  Vivek Murthy

  Country, Block, Thinking

  Source: www.womansday.com

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• Drug addiction is tearing our communities and our country apart, and until we decide we're going to think differently about it, until we decide that we're going to invest as a country in prevention and treatment, until we decide that as individuals we're going to step up and do our part to address this epidemic, we're not going to solve this.

  Vivek Murthy

  Country, Thinking, Addiction

  Source: www.womansday.com

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• I have a lot of friends who come from alcoholic families, and they aren't alcoholics, because someone explained it to them. When I was in Washington DC, they really talked about the difference statistically between families that talk about drug addiction and ones that don't. The kids that can say "I see where this is going" have a much better chance of not becoming addicts, because they have been educated.

  Nikki Sixx

  Kids, Differences, Addiction

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. November 8, 2007.

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• There have been crazy highs and lows in my life. I've duelled with drug addiction and watched people dying... like everybody. I'm not saying it's an exceptionally dramatic peaks-and-valleys kind of life but there's a lot of it, honestly.

  Roddy Bottum

  Crazy, People, Addiction

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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

  Clothes, Addiction, Drug

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 1, 2014.

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