Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

Home Protection—protection against the tyranny of drink.

I used crack cocaine probably in one of my drunken stupors

Treatment of alcohol addiction can take many forms.

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

I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

I was a functional addict.

The society focuses on the addict, and its impact on our quality of life, but we don't focus on people who are rehabilitated and in recovery.

To become a narcotic addict is an anti-social act and the foundation of countermeasures against addiction is to treat and rehabilitate addicts.

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

It is a lot of work being an addict. There's nothing harder than being an addict.

Above anything else - above family or job - the main thing is staying sober. That's because without being sober, I don't have a family.

Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

Secrets keep addicts ill and cost lives.

Many doctors are stuck in the idea that addiction is a choice, and they don't treat that.

Why is it a badge of honour to say you spent 15 years in AA ball?

I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't.

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.

Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.

I hate alcoholics and AA (alcoholics anonymous). If you can't drink responsibly, don't drink at all. Don't go to meetings, whine about your character flaws and blame the fact that you are a sociopath on booze.