David Sheff Quotes

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

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

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half.

I was never at a place where rehab would have been appropriate.

I chose a rehab center for Nic that was recommended by a friend who had sent her son there. The program lasted 28 days, after which he relapsed. Over the next six years, he was admitted to six residential treatment programs and four outpatient programs. He would do better for a while, but then relapse. Each relapse was crushing.

Every relapse is dangerous, but often it takes multiple relapses before someone finally gets sober for good.

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

Addiction is a terrible thing.

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

I didn't check into rehab. Instead of me heading into a place - I was just drinking too much and I needed to get my life together. I'm still in therapy and stuff like that, but it's good. I'm great. I feel fine.

I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.

It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great.

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.

I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

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

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.

The alcoholic suffers from a disease.

I think anybody who's had an alcoholic in their life, or somebody with a drug problem, realizes that until things get bad enough, there's no incentive to change.