Don Johnson Quotes

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

Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

I want to tell the youth that we should not do drugs.

I'm drug-free. I don't drink.

When people ask me about drugs and alcohol, I say "Yeah, I went to rehab, I went to a mental hospital, I've been to jail." The main lesson you can learn is do drugs and alcohol when you are in a good mood, not when you are in a bad mood, and find balance in anything you do.

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

I don't drink. I don't do drugs.

For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.

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

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

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

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

I'm totally clean and sober my whole life.

Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

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

More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.

Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential.

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab.