James E. Faust Quotes

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive.

Drugs are a very selfish thing.

There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, those first two facts constitute a tragedy of expense in ways that can't be experienced unless you've had cocaine. ... Your brain will settle into a puddle around your sinuses and you will die.

I'm fascinated by the whole issue of arousal addiction, which seems to be mostly a problem for young men.

We can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem of drunkenness. So to what I want to say is the very real problem of the human susceptibility to addiction isn't best dealt with by building prisons and throwing people into jails.

The secretiveness. The stealth. Those were obviously the aspects of cocaine use I was addicted to.

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

It's not the side effects of the cocaine. . . . I'm thinking that it must be love.

Every junkie, he thought, is a recording.

I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it's alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or opiates. In Iran, until recently, they sold opium in shops legally, and they had 3,000,000 addicts in a population of 15,000,000. I don't believe that all those people were escaping from "complexes" or anything of the sort. They were simply exposed to it.

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

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.

Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.

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.

Heroin also makes people feel better, but I wouldn't recommend using heroin.

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

A lot of people that are in the disease of drinking and using can be caught up on the denial aspect of it. I don't have a problem with that. I am very sensitive. I can just feel when things are getting out of control and I go, 'Oh, you have to deal with this. Because you can die.' I've always sort of had that.

It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.

Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love.

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.

Sex is just another real good drug ... and it can make a junkie out of you.

Even if I remember the first time perfectly, I don't remember the beginning at all. I mean: the beginning of addiction. It's hard to say when it becomes a problem; it sneaks up on you like a sun shower.

There are worse addictions than reality TV, chocolate and coffee.