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What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.
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Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.
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Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.
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The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
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Addiction begins with the hope that something "out there" can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.
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Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it's like a rat in a maze. We all want the same thing. We all have this hole. The thing you want offers relief, but it's a trap.
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Addictions ... started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were ... less intelligent than goldfish.
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At first, addiction is maintained by pleasure, but the intensity of this pleasure gradually diminishes and the addiction is then maintained by the avoidance of pain.
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At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction is longing--a longing not just of brain, belly, or loins but finally of the heart.
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Recovery from addiction requires hard work, a proper attitude and learning skills to stay sober, not drinking alcohol or using other drugs. Successful drug recovery or alcohol recovery involves changing attitudes, acquiring knowledge, and developing skills to meet the many challenges of sobriety.
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Addiction is a symptom of not growing up.
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The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.
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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
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You know you're an alcoholic when you misplace things for like a decade.
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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 death from being a total surprise.
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Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system.
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In the 1960s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.
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What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.
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Addiction doesn't kill the addict. It kills the family, kids and people who tried to help!
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If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.
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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one's desire for escape and abstinence from one's addiction.
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You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let it consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star.
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All the suffering, stress and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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