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Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

We need to start treating addiction like the chronic disease that it is.

I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 years in the family home. That was tough.

If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain. I know what's wrong with me!

We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow. A new national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions.

I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day.

One day, as I was speaking to another mother of a disabled child, I said our secret weapon against this disease is to do all we can without any expectation of results.

The reason I got into sickle cell was my aunt has the disease, my uncle has the disease, and then the more I looked into it, a lot of minorities have the disease and it just doesn't get covered. No one really talks about it, and I felt it was the same thing with the different social injustice issues and topics that I kind of dove into.

I'm well aware of the health dangers of an expanding waistline and belly fat: diabetes, heart disease, stroke, even cancer.

Manic depressive is a disease.

When you are confronted with a level of devastating disease and death, you never lose that sense of unbelievable humility.

An Asian way of eating and living may help prevent and even reverse the progression of coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, prostate cancer and breast cancer. Incorporate more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, soy products and fish in your diet. Eat at home more with your family and friends.

What I would say to anybody facing any life challenge or disease is that that is courage - to choose life, to keep looking at what's good.

The partisanship and gridlock that plagues our government is a symptom of a larger disease. That disease is the corrupting influence of special interest money in our politics.

Alcoholism is a complicated disease, and you never know when you'll be tempted to pick up another drink.

Addiction is a disease like anything else. It's like cancer, like heart disease, like diabetes.

Everybody tells you over and over again that addiction is a disease. But when I read Nic's book I understood not just that this is a disease, but what the disease means.

Relapse is very dangerous. However, relapse can be a symptom of the disease. Sometimes there are multiple relapses before you get sober and stay sober.

If a child had another disease, we'd be open about what we were going through, but addiction is stigmatised and comes with shame and guilt.

Though addiction is a disease - a brain disease that's often progressive - addicts who relapse are often blamed.

Alzheimer's is a disease for which there is no effective treatment whatsoever. To be clear, there is no pharmaceutical agent, no magic pill that a doctor can prescribe that will have any significant effect on the progressive downhill course of this disease.