Augusten Burroughs Quotes

All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against them.

Drugs are wrong. They burn out your brain and they sear your soul.

Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to nicotine, alcohol, and other substances, there are psychological addictions, such as the addiction to work, sex, television, melodrama, and perfection.

I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.

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

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

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you—and kill you the long, slow, hard way.

Drugs are destroying more people than poverty ever did.

The alcoholic suffers from a disease.

The Batoka of these parts are very degraded in their appearance, and are not likely to improve, either physically or mentally, while so much addicted to smoking the mutokwane ('Cannabis sativa'). They like its narcotic effects

Of course, the primary interest of the Bureau of Narcotics is the enforcement aspect. From this point of view it is very unfortunate that Doctors Allentuck and Bowman should have stated so unqualifiedly that the use of marijuana does not lead to physical, mental or moral deterioration

Addiction is a neurological disease—a disease of the brain…. No one wakes up in the morning and says today ‘I want to become an addict.’

I'm a much more successful and happier person sober. And I'm nicer to be around.

Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.

I come from a position where it seems like I have an addictive quality to everything in my life.

The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.

Alcoholism is the only disease that you can get yelled at for having.

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

There's lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs.

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.

Heaven knows that alcohol is the worst thing in the world, but it's debatable whether cocaine is worse than caffeine or whether it's the same thing and they just changed the name.

Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

'Comfy,' that's one of the worst words! I just picture a woman feeling bad, with a big bottle of alcohol, really puffy.