Rosemary Clooney Quotes

Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.

…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.

I drink to forget I drink.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

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

I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

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

The motivations for using drugs, often it's pretty obvious and common: you know, peer pressure. You know, kids are struggling growing up.

Oh, I can't sleep, whatever - it's a huge problem. The comedian's thing is you self-medicate with alcohol and knock yourself out - but obviously, that's not a long-term strategy.

To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.

I'd go on runs [on cocaine ], four and five days without sleep. Then I'd crash and sleep about 18 hours a day for seven to ten days. Then it would take a few more weeks to get over a vague sort of depression. Then I'd be off on another run.

I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.

I'm losing touch with reality and I'm almost out of blow. It's such a fine line, I hate to see it go. Cocaine, runnin' all 'round my brain.

I wasn't eating. I wasn't sleeping. All I was doing was cocaine. I stayed awake for about two weeks, locked in my bedroom. I went down from a 142 pounds to 110 pounds.

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