Addiction Quotes - Page 13

• We can't arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do I think it's really inhumane, but it's ineffective and it cost us billions upon billions of dollars to keep doing this.

  Michael Botticelli

  Thinking, People, Dollars

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.

  Michael Botticelli

  People, Drug, Brain

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The hallmark of addiction is that it changes your brain chemistry. It actually affects that part of your brain that's responsible for judgment.

  Michael Botticelli

  Brain, Chemistry, Judgment

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Addiction is such an isolating incident in your life. You feel alone. And when you admit, when you come into a fellowship and people just surround you and say, "We will help you, that you're not alone, that we've been through it before, and you will get through it," just gives you such great hope.

  Michael Botticelli

  People, Giving, Fellowship

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If I, in some small way can help people to see that there is this huge, incredible life on the other side of addiction, you know, I will feel accomplished in my job.

  Michael Botticelli

  Jobs, People, Way

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Entrepreneurship is an addiction to being successful, not a job or career. You have to feed the addiction and recharge from it or you'll burn out.

  Ryan Blair

  Jobs, Successful, Careers

  "From Gangster to Guru for Ryan Blair". Interview with Deborah Jeanne Sergeant, homebusinessmag.com. December 9, 2015.

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• Somehow, it was so happy a time. Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

  Colin Quinn

  Comedy

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 18, 2003.

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• My girlfriend loves to eat chocolate. She's always eating chocolate. And she likes to joke she's got a chocolate addiction. You know, she'd be like keep me away from those chocolate bars, I'm addicted to them. And it's really annoying. So one day I put her in the car and I drove her downtown and I pointed out a crack addict. And I said you see that honey? Why can't you be that skinny?

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Girlfriend, Car, Chocolate

  "Anthony Jeselnik: The Dark Prince Of Comedy". "Ask Me Another" with Ophira Eisenberg, www.npr.org. August 14, 2014.

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• What is sex addiction? I asked a doctor and the guys goes, Sex addiction... People will end up doing something they don't want to do just for sex. Isn't that called a first date, man? If sex was the result of something I wanted to do, there'd be condoms all over my PlayStation.

  Dov Davidoff

  Sex, Men, Doctors

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• When I was in college, for the games of that era, I was as hard core as anyone was. I wouldn't say I outgrew it, but you always have to have a finite number of addictions.

  Bill Gates

  College, Finite Number, Games

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• The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.

  Richard Heinberg

  Turkeys, Civilization, Oil

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• How does the [New York] Times treat White pathology? They reported an epidemic of heroin addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs. which included emergency admissions and overdoses; these White people in the suburbs were doing heroin like it was going out of style. I counted the words: the article consisted of 200 words. "Heroin Epidemic" in the back section. Out here in California, the typical drug addict is a housewife or suburban White woman.

  Ishmael Reed

  New York, Epidemics, California

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Another California study counted 30,000 substance abusers who are pregnant are White woman. So, The Wire paints the picture of drug addiction, drug dealing, and drug abuse as being a specifically a Black issue.

  Ishmael Reed

  California, White, Issues

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• By empowering people to initiate a conversation prior to surgery regarding their pain control options, we hope to reduce the incidence of narcotic addiction and all of the unfortunate consequences that surround it.

  Kristi Funk

  Pain, People, Empowering

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and economic costs of gambling are $3 to the taxpayers for every $1 in benefits

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Justice, Cost

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• It happens to all of us, I concluded that Easter Sunday morning. God simply keeps reaching down into the dirt of humanity and resurrecting us from the graves we dig for ourselves through our violence, our lies, our selfishness, our arrogance, and our addictions. And God keeps loving us back to life over and over.

  Nadia Bolz-Weber

  Easter, Morning, Lying

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• I'm also a video game addict, so I'm always looking to support my addiction.

  Lucas Till

  Games, Support, Video

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I think stress is an addiction. It can be tied to work addiction or busyness addiction or success addiction.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Stress, Thinking, Tied

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I remember once Prince dropped by to see me when I was in Minneapolis and I was sick, with a bag of cough drops and a spoon of cough medicine. I said to him, "Hey, can I have another spoon of that? It's just over the counter," and he'd go, "No, I didn't come here to start up new drug addictions for you." And I was like, "C'mon, give me that bottle!" He was very watchful over me.

  Stevie Nicks

  Medicine, Giving, Sick

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction!

  John Newman

  Player, Drug, Rumor

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.

  Hillary Clinton

  Alcohol, Drug

  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's Remarks at a Military Forum, time.com. September 7, 2016.

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• There's traditionally been two different ways of seeing addiction. Either it's a sin and you're a horrible bad person and you are just choosing to be hedonist or it's a chronic progressive disease. And while I certainly believe addiction is a medical problem that should be dealt with by the health system, the way we've conceptualized addiction as a disease is not actually accurate, and it has unfortunately become stigmatizing and it's also created a lot of hopelessness in a lot of people.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Believe, Two, Medical Problems

  Source: sojo.net

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• Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes part in that part of the brain is designed by evolution to get us to persist despite negative consequences to do what we need to do - because I don't know anybody who could survive a relationship or parenting if not for the ability to persist despite negative consequences. The problem is when that gets misdirected to a drug and then you can find yourself in some very negative and potentially deadly situations.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Falling In Love, Children, Drug

  Source: sojo.net

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• A lot of addiction actually ends by age 30 - something like 50 percent of all addictions with the exception of tobacco - and I think a lot of what's going on there is that the self-control areas of the brain are finally developed enough to be able to stop yourself from relapsing or just continuing. There is a maturational aspect to it as well.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Thinking, Self, Brain

  Source: sojo.net

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• Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help them find different areas of passion and help them find better ways of coping. Because about 50 percent of people with addiction have a preexisting mental illness, about two-thirds have had some type of severe trauma during childhood, and they are not using to the point where they're risking their lives because it's fun. They're doing something to help them cope.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Fun, Passion, Punishment

  Source: sojo.net

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