Drew Pinsky Quotes

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain and it's one that we have to treat the way we would any other chronic illness: with skill, with compassion and with urgency.

I am an addictive personality.

Unfortunately, addicts don't respond to reason or rationality.

I was a functional addict.

Though addiction is a disease - a brain disease that's often progressive - addicts who relapse are often blamed.

I do believe that I'm an addict on one level or another at all times.

I only get ill when I give up drugs.

Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.

I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science.

Well, I’ll never have to talk about crap like dope addiction again.

Addiction is a neurological disease—a disease of the brain…. No one wakes up in the morning and says today ‘I want to become an addict.’

Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.

Addicts are hard workers.

Everybody tells you over and over again that addiction is a disease. But when I read Nic's book I understood not just that this is a disease, but what the disease means.

If you love someone who's an addict and their use is life-threatening, you don't wait until they hit bottom because that can mean that they're going to die. You have to do everything you can to get them in treatment.

Addiction is a disease like anything else. It's like cancer, like heart disease, like diabetes.

They couldn't do a drugs story on me because I'd already done one on myself.

Addiction is a terrible thing.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it.

I do not understand rehab. If it works for people, then God bless them.