People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users. – Ralph Nader
Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it. – Joseph Conrad
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories…
Once the enabling stops, the recovery is given the opportunity to start.
Addiction is an adaptation. It’s not you-it’s the cage you live in. – Johann Hari
Do not think that what your thoughts dwell on does not matter. Your thoughts are making you. – Bishop Steere
Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. – C. C. DeVille
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles one has overcome trying to succeed. – Booker T. Washington
The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become. – Ashley Montagu
The worst drugs are as bad as anybody’s told you. It’s just a dumb trip, which I can’t condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one’s own personal, social, emotional reasons. It’s something to be avoided if one can help it.
It’s a beautiful day to be sober.
No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one’s desire for escape and abstinence from one’s addiction.
Every habit he’s ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom. – Margaret Atwood
Until I went to rehab, I didn’t understand what it did. – Aaron Neville
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. – Blaise Pascal
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. – Louisa May Alcott
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