Addiction Quotes - Page 16

• I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.

  Chath Piersath

  Overcoming Addiction, People, Community

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I'm always working on something. Addiction never gets any credit, always talked about as a total liability, and I'll admit that most of its traits aren't positive in our lives. But there's one amazing thing it gave me: a tireless work ethic.

  Joshua Mohr

  Work Ethic, Credit, Ethics

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The bigger picture is that over the last 30 years, we have spent $1 trillion waging a drug war that has failed in any meaningful way to reduce drug addiction or abuse, and yet has siphoned an enormous amount of resources away from other public services, especially education.

  Michelle Alexander

  Meaningful, War, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Addiction is a health issue, not a social issue, not a crime, not a legal issue.

  Michael K. Williams

  Issues, Crime, Social

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• It [Moonlight movie] deals with drug addiction, drug dealing, and single parenthood, but they are three dimensional characters. You understand where they are from and what they are trying to do with their lives. It is not a stereotype that has been pasted onto somebody. These are stories that come from Barry's [ Jenkins] and Tarell's [Alvin McCraney] mothers.

  Andre Holland

  Mother, Character, Drug

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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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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• The addiction isn't your problem - it is what you use to cope with your problem.

  Roy Nelson

  Use, Problem

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• It is unacceptable that the way we have treated people who have become addicted in the past is by throwing them in prison. It's appropriate that we're responding now by trying to get people the treatment they so desperately need. The racial divide here is absolutely unacceptable, and we have to do much better for all people who are addicted whether they are white, black, brown, any race - the humane way to respond to addiction is in a public health fashion and by getting people the help they need.

  Perri Peltz

  Fashion, Past, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• When someone tells me that they insist on having drinks with me, and there are some cultures where sealing the deal or celebrating or having a guest in the home, it is very traditional to slam down a couple shots or whatever the local grog is. I just tell them I'm allergic, which is not a lie, you know alcoholism and drug addiction in many ways are described as an allergy of the body and the mind. So I just tell them I'm allergic and they're like, "Oh, no problem."

  Andrew Zimmern

  Couple, Lying, Home

  Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com

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• We did decide that every addict in this film, Warning: This Drug May Kill You, would be someone who started out with a prescription for an opioid from a doctor. The story that hadn't been told is that the vast majority - somewhere around 80 percent - of current heroin users began with an addiction to prescription opioids. So as much as people might want to look at this and say, 'Oh this is really a heroin problem,' yes, it is a heroin problem, and no one is saying differently, but it starts more often than not with a prescription.

  Perri Peltz

  People, Drug, Problem

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• It seemed that the problem of Americans overdosing and dying from drug addiction was being described as bad people, particularly kids, who were abusing good drugs. But Sheila Nevins, the president of HBO Documentary Films, and I were particularly interested in finding out the stories of people and families who had been ravaged by this disease of addiction and understanding what really was happening. What we found was that, and let's not make any mistake about it, this is an epidemic of addiction.

  Perri Peltz

  Mistake, Kids, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• At a glance, addiction, sex work, mad passion, and all forms of extreme behavior might look like pushing or trying to obliterate boundaries when, more honestly, they are a search for them. I want to find the endpoint, the place where my own powers end, so I can yield to something that I'm certain is bigger than me.

  Melissa Febos

  Sex, Passion, Yield

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)

  James Surowiecki

  Procrastination, Drug, Use

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Addiction has had such an impact on my life and the people I love, and there really is not a lot about it that is funny. So the last thing I wanted was to give the impression that it’s all fun and games, and isn’t it funny what she gets away with.

  Edie Falco

  Fun, Impact, Games

  "A Conversation With Edie Falco". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. April 6, 2012.

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• Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them

  George Andrews

  Hippie, Illumination, Drug

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• I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.

  Mat Hoffman

  Drinking, Mean, Who I Am

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• Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Dance, Recovery

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Inspiration, Opportunity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.340, University of Georgia Press

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• I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.

  Matthew Perry

  Recovery, Thinking, Doctors

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• Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.

  Matthew Perry

  Order, Trying, Overcoming

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• Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

  Pythagoras

  Inspirational, Strength, Stay Strong

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• It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

  Agnes Repplier

  Happiness, Happy, Women

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• The only journey is the one within.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Beautiful, Journey

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• it’s true this world our breathing laboured inspires nothing more than obvious disgust a desire to flee without our share and no longer read the headlines we long to return to our ancestral home where our forebears once lived under an angel’s wing we long to find that strange morality which sanctified life to the end we crave something like loyalty like the embrace of mild addictions something that transcends yet contains life we cannot live far from eternity

  Michel Houellebecq

  Loyalty, Home, Angel

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