Paul R. Ehrlich Quotes

The road to sobriety is not easy and rehabilitation and the recovery process are not to be taken lightly.

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

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

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.

One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.

Many years ago, when I was working on Broadway, I used to go to a drug rehabilitation centre on Sundays. I didn't lecture them against the perils of drug-taking; I gave them drama therapy.

Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.

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

When the addict gets recovery, his family gets recovery, right?

I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.

I was a functional addict.

I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have a jail time, you know, story, or any arrests.

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

I have an addiction. I have a mental illness.

I was never at a place where rehab would have been appropriate.

Rehab is like a divorce.

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

Addiction is not a curable condition.

Americans struggling with addiction need treatment and reduced access to deadly drugs.

I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.

Having this message of sobriety and recovery to blast out into the world is also very powerful and kind of the reason why I'm on this planet, I think; it's one of my purposes.

There isn't just one way to get healthy and sober and to stop using.