Drug Addiction Quotes: top 76 famous quotes about Drug Addiction

Drug Addiction Quotes & Sayings

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Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not. — Layne Staley

The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all. — Nora Volkow

My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years. — Columba Bush

How much tragedy has to happen before I split wide open?
Sam Hughes — Alisa Mullen

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug. — Chris Hedges

Imagine this:
Ice is coming to YOUR house.
Can you HEAR it knocking?
Are you ready?
What will YOU do? — Cornelia Connie D. DeDona

A refrigerator is the opposite of a drug addict, because a refrigerator starts in a box and then moves to a house. — Demetri Martin

Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity. — Shane Koyczan

There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom. — Liz Thebart

Using excuses for the predicament you're in and minimizing your situation, whether it is drug or alcohol use, is a sure sign of an addict. — Alexandra Sobetsky

I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me. — Sonya Huber

Spurred by Amy's death I've tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself. — Russell Brand

It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour. — Gabor Mate

I opened the doors to Hell and walked in gleefully. — Liz Thebart

The answer to the drug problem is not criminalisation and incarceration, but education, regulation and treatment. — Merlyn Gabriel Miller

The Memory Of You Is Like A Drug To Me — Jeremy Aldana

Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to let it go. — Samantha Leahy

There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs. — William S. Burroughs

The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. — Jean Cocteau

No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose. — Henry Rollins

[...] but for the first time ever, I finally had it in me and I wanted to live. He had taught me well indeed. — Liz Thebart

Creativity is my addiction, and writing is my drug of choice! — AmBear Shellea

Funny how someone can be so beautiful and totally fucked up at the same time. — Missy Anne

Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: Just say no. — Kurt Vonnegut

Love is the best drug, bar none. — Crystal Woods

Due to Gail's drug addiction and my mother's street status, their relationship had been strained over the years. My — Mz. Lady P

It takes a strong person to stand up to his or her fate and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of freedom and success, but I believe in you. — Pax Prentiss

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money. — David Lee Roth

It was incredible, the way that people kept on going, whether they were dying of pancreatic cancer or drug addiction or the apocalypse itself. — Tommy Wallach

Many addictions can be far more dangerous than addiction to drugs. The addiction to power ... — M. Scott Peck

Some, they didn't make it.
The temptation just too strong.
How can darkness cloud the mind
To what I know as wrong? — Kimberly Nalen

Mexico's a great place to overcome a drug addiction. — Chelsea Handler

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. — Anais Nin

In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense — Munia Khan

It's been one of the greatest challenges that ever came along in my life; it was one of the more difficult things to do. — Buzz Aldrin

Lucy in The Sky Without Any Diamonds At All.
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Amen
God — Petra Hermans

Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction. — Freda Adler

The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became - it's become an addiction. I'm addicted to working. — Elton John

There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use. — Layne Staley

The fear of the drugs running out is managable-the fear of time running down isn't. — Ann Marlowe

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay — Jeet Thayil

I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that. — Kelly Osbourne

Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise, — Pope Francis

A junkie spends half his life waiting. — William S. Burroughs

Drug addicts had their drugs. Alcoholics had their bottles. Serial killers had their murders. — Jess C. Scott

I think of drug dealers like I think of my father - never really there when you want them to be. — Kris Kidd

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values. — Christopher Lasch

The Drug War is an addiction, really. — Bill Maher

When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

We, as a society, have arbitrarily differentiated between acceptable and unacceptable drug addictions. — Steven Kassels

That's some heavy painkillers in your drug stash."
"Well I'm in pain, aren't I? — Sam Hunter

There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization. — George Will

Addiction isn't about using drugs. It's about what the drug does to your life. — Enock Maregesi

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice. — Anais Nin

Maybe if I had gone on like that I could have stopped myself in time. Maybe at that point I still had it in me to come through. — Liz Thebart

What the hell is that?" he asked.
"Magic mushrooms."
"I've always wanted to try those," he exclaimed. "They sound so cute. — Heather O'Neill

He was like the drug she knew she shouldn't take,but the drug that kept coming back to feed her addiction — Cecelia Ahern

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn. — Elton John

Drugs are a carnival in hell. — Edith Piaf

Forcing someone into drug addiction is like stabbing a corpse everyday, the most detestable crime. — Sumit Agarwal

No drug mafia can run his business without affiliation with the governance. — Sumit Agarwal

The all-encompassing cure for cancer, heartbreak, irrationality, drug addiction, and every other ailment that plagues humanity?

Fire. — V.K. McAllister

Every time I draw a clean breath, I'm like a fish out of water. — Narcotics Anonymous

I wanted to meet the monster.
Why go down if you can go up? — Ellen Hopkins

Drug addicts, when they are in their addiction, are selfish. — Liz Brixius

Every generation finds the drug it needs. — P. J. O'Rourke

It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease. — Steven Kassels

[...] we grieved for both our lives, in which we were both more dead than alive. — Liz Thebart

Dr. Monroe and I realized very gradually that drug addiction is a terminal disease. It is a cancer that eats families alive. — Karin Slaughter

I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells. — Richard Pryor

I forced my eyes open and saw the image that's haunted me every day for the past years of my life. And every day, in my nightmares. — Liz Thebart

What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I was HIV positive ... — Robbin Crosby

I didn't want to take it. I knew it was a powerful drug, but I also knew it was a catabolic drug that consumed the body. — David Millar

I might be developing an addiction. You being my drug of choice. Rehab is 'not' an option, my love is forever. Just so you know. — Truth Devour

They say when you fall in love in love with someone that person becomes like a drug,an addiction you don't want to live without. — Cat Miller

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius. — Truman Capote