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
One step at a time. One day at a time. One hour at a time
Drug addiction is a self- punishing disease that ruins mental, psychological and physical health. – Dr T.P.Chia
That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
You know you’re an alcoholic when you misplace things … like a decade. – Paul Williams
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
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
The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. – W. Somerset Maugham
Addiction is not a failure of character, it is a disease that can affect anyone.
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
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…
True strength is not the ability to resist addiction, but the ability to seek help and heal.
Recovery: It will be challenging. It will also be worth it. You will relapse, and that’s ok, as long as you keep fighting.
Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: Just say no.
Imagine trying to live without air. Now imagine something worse. – Amy reed
Our first and last love is – self-love. – Christian Nestell Bovee
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
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. – Desiderius Erasmus
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
One of the things you learn in rehab is that you’re responsible for your own actions. – Dale Archer
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