Addiction isn’t about using drugs. It’s about what the drug does to your life.
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- Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.”
- Okay, smoking is bad; you shouldn’t smoke.
- People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful
- Recovery from addiction requires hard work, a proper attitude and learning skills to stay sober, not drinking alcohol or using
- Recovery from addiction requires hard work, a proper attitude and learning skills to stay sober
- “It’s not the drugs that make a drug addict, it’s the need to escape reality.”
- Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror. —William S. Burroughs
- “But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.”
- “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.”
- The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely