Greg Walden Quotes

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

I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen.

Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive.

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

Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.

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

One of my dearest friends is alive only because of AA. But it doesn't help a lot of people. And everyone is different, and everyone needs different kinds of treatments.

Addiction is a terrible thing.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it.'

I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.

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

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

Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.

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

I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal.

I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year.

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.'

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

Alcohol is the cause of all my problems.