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Addiction robs us not just of our health and well-being, but also of our potential and purpose in life.

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Addiction is not a sign of weakness, it is a sign of unhealed pain and trauma.

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Recovery from addiction is not just about breaking the physical dependence, it’s also about healing the mind and spirit.

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Addiction is not a failure of character, it is a disease that can affect anyone.

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True strength is not the ability to resist addiction, but the ability to seek help and heal.

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Addiction is not something that can be overcome alone, it requires support and community.

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The road to recovery from addiction is long and difficult, but it is worth it for the promise of a better life.

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Addiction is not a choice, it is a compulsion fueled by a complex set of factors.

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The first step to overcoming addiction is acknowledging and accepting it.

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Addiction is not a weakness, it is a disease that requires compassion and understanding.

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Some of y’all need to be fasting from things other than food: The news, social media, negative people, complaining, worrying, video games, alcohol, drugs. Especially if you can’t go without it.
– Matt Stephens

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Breaking an addiction is never easy, but it can be done. You are stronger than that red-faced demon screaming in the bathroom.
– Callie Bowld

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It’s not addiction I call it recreation.

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We’re all addicted to something that takes away the pain.

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Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.
– Carrie Fisher

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The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.
– Russell Brand

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Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: Just say no.

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A junkie spends half his life waiting.
– William S. Burroughs

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Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
– Frederick W. Faber

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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
– Desiderius Erasmus

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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

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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
– Blaise Pascal

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It’s not the situation…… it’s your reaction to the situation.
– Bob Conklin

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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

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Our first and last love is – self-love.
– Christian Nestell Bovee

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I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories…

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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

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No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

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It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

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The thing about addiction is, it never ends well. Because eventually, whatever it is that was getting us high, stops feeling good, and starts to hurt. Still, they say you don’t kick the habit until you hit rock bottom. But how do you know when you are there? Because no matter how badly a thing is hurting us, sometimes, letting it go hurts even worse.

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Addiction is a monster; it lives inside, and feeds off of you, takes from you, controls you, and destroys you. It is a beast that tears you apart, rips out your soul, and laughs at your weakness. It is a stone wall that stands to keep you in and the rest out. It is a shadow that always lurks behind you, waiting to strike. Addiction lives in everyone’s mind, sitting, staring, waiting…

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It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with.

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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

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The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.
– Russell Brand

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Imagine trying to live without air. Now imagine something worse.
– Amy reed

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It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour

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Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.
– Bill Wilson

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I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: ‘Wait a minute – if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities? And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.
– Carl Ferguson

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Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
– Joseph Campbell

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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

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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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Addiction begins with the hope that something ‘out there’ can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.
– Jean Kilbourne

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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
– Jean Cocteau

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You’ve recognised a fundamental feature of an addict’s life. Maintaining your habit is so important you’ve no real interest in anything else.
– Marian Keyes

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You know you’re an alcoholic when you misplace things … like a decade.
– Paul Williams

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Until I went to rehab, I didn’t understand what it did.
– Aaron Neville

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One of the things you learn in rehab is that you’re responsible for your own actions.
– Dale Archer

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Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it’s a f*cked-up way, like a rat in a maze. We all want the same thing. We all have this hole. The thing you want offers relief, but it’s a trap.

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The worst thing you can do for your loved one caught in alcoholism or addiction is to help the person continue in the deception that he or she is OK. Your best course of action is to speak the truth in love and don’t allow him or her to escape the consequences of wrong behavior.

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