Quotes on Alcoholics

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.

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.