Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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.
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.
It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.
People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.
People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.
I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.
It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.
Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.
It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
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