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.
Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell. – Carrie Fisher
Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.
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
Once the enabling stops, the recovery is given the opportunity to start.
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.
Recovery from addiction is not just about breaking the physical dependence, it’s also about healing the mind and spirit.
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
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.’
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
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.
One step at a time. One day at a time. One hour at a time
If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. – Ann Landers
No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
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
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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