Alcoholism and drug addiction are killer of mental and physical health. Alcoholic and drug addicts are killing themselves slowly.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Addiction doesn’t kill the addict. It kills the family, kids and people who tried to help!
We’re all addicted to something that takes away the pain.
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…
Addiction is not a weakness, it is a disease that requires compassion and understanding.
You wake up every morning to fight the same demons that left you so tired the night before.
Addiction is not something that can be overcome alone, it requires support and community.
Addiction is not a sign of weakness, it is a sign of unhealed pain and trauma.
When you can stop you don’t want to, and when you want to stop, you can’t…
– Luke Davies
Addiction is not a failure of character, it is a disease that can affect anyone.
Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.
– Bill Wilson
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.
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.
Drug addiction reduces a man to a mindless and ridiculous thing, and creates social parasites and criminals.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Addiction begins with the hope that something ‘out there’ can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.
– Jean Kilbourne
People are not addicted to alcohol or drugs, they are addicted to escaping reality.
It’s not the drugs that make a drug addict, it’s the need to escape reality.
Addiction is the only prison where the locks are on the inside.
Recovery is a process. It takes time. It takes patience. It takes everything you’ve got.
At first, addiction is maintained by pleasure, but the intensity of this pleasure gradually diminishes and the addiction is then maintained by the avoidance of pain.
It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour
Being addicted is bad, but there are some addictions which are good.
Winning is one of them.
Addiction is a family disease. One person may use, but the whole family suffers.
At the root of all addiction is pain.
It will hurt. It will take time. It will require dedication, willpower and sacrifice. You will need to push your body to its max. There will be temptation. But I promise, it’s worth it.
Addiction robs us not just of our health and well-being, but also of our potential and purpose in life.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then… find the way.
– Abraham Lincoln
The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
– W. Somerset Maugham
I didn’t even know I was addicted. Until I tried to stop.
We don’t choose to be addicted; what we choose to do is deny our pain.
There’s not a drug on Earth that can make your life meaningful.
The road to recovery from addiction is long and difficult, but it is worth it for the promise of a better life.
One drink is too many
and a thousands not enough
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
– Theodore Roosevelt
Recovery from addiction requires hard work, a proper attitude and learning skills to stay sober, not drinking alcohol or using other drugs. Successful drug recovery or alcohol recovery involves changing attitudes, acquiring knowledge, and developing skills to meet the many challenges of sobriety.
– Dennis Daley
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
Addiction is not a choice, it is a compulsion fueled by a complex set of factors.
That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
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
Addiction makes you blind to your reality.
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.
I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat. That was until I became one…
You have no idea how easy it is to fall back into the darkness.
A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can’t give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity.
– Jody Dean
Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.
– Carrie Fisher
Drug addiction cannot be cured if the fear of not consuming drugs is greater than the willpower to quit doing drugs.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.
Once the enabling stops, the recovery is given the opportunity to start.
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
Recovery from addiction is not just about breaking the physical dependence, it’s also about healing the mind and spirit.
One step at a time. One day at a time. One hour at a time
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
You know you’re an alcoholic when you misplace things … like a decade.
– Paul Williams
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
– Desiderius Erasmus
Recovery: It will be challenging. It will also be worth it. You will relapse, and that’s ok, as long as you keep fighting.
I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say ‘Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.’
No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
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.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.
– Ann Landers
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
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
Our first and last love is – self-love.
– Christian Nestell Bovee
The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one’s desire for escape and abstinence from one’s addiction.
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
– J.K. Rowling
Addiction is a symptom of not growing up.
– C. C. DeVille
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
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
– Joseph Conrad
Addiction is an adaptation. It’s not you-it’s the cage you live in.
– Johann Hari
Imagine trying to live without air. Now imagine something worse.
– Amy reed
One of the things you learn in rehab is that you’re responsible for your own actions.
– Dale Archer
Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: Just say no.
It’s not the situation…… it’s your reaction to the situation.
– Bob Conklin
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
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
It’s a beautiful day to be sober.
True strength is not the ability to resist addiction, but the ability to seek help and heal.
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
– Blaise Pascal
I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories…
Do not think that what your thoughts dwell on does not matter. Your thoughts are making you.
– Bishop Steere
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.
Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.
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
The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.
– Russell Brand
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
– Dale Carnegie
It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with.
Drug addiction is a self- punishing disease that ruins mental, psychological and physical health.
– Dr T.P.Chia
The chains of alcohol are too light to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Addiction of drugs and alcohol is nothing but suicide.
It’s not addiction I call it recreation.
A junkie spends half his life waiting.
– William S. Burroughs
The first step to overcoming addiction is acknowledging and accepting it.
I’m afraid of what I’m doing to myself. But I can’t seem to stop.
The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.
At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction is longing-a longing not just of brain, belly, or loins but finally of the heart.
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
Addiction is a serious disease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death.
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
Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
– Frederick W. Faber
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
People who have never had an addiction don’t understand how hard it can be.
You don’t have to be ready to recover, you need only to be willing.
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
– Jean Cocteau
Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
– Joseph Campbell