the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it..
How do you know when you're finished making love?.
The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief..
Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death..
It's all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction.
So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection..
My dad struggled with cocaine addiction, and we actually went to rehab with him too. I remember having extensive talks with him about how I was wired….
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be..
I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don't mind….
Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just ….
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..
I've lost over 800 West Virginians the last year. Lost their lives to opiate and drug addiction. This is something that we've got to fight. We need t….
I think one of the things that I was struck by was that Joe has the financial wherewithal to go check into some expensive clinic, go into rehab and b….
I'll die young, but it's like kissing God..
If you're to the point where you're trying to overcome that means you're at the point where you've admitted that you have a problem, and that might b….
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge..
[Drug] Addiction is awful, the worst if it is your kid. Plenty of loving parents who did everything "right" find themselves with kids caught up with ….
Help me give up my addiction to Hope..
I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys..
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….
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must….