Pete Hamill Quotes

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.

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.

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

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

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

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

I'm part of AA. I have a sponsor. I have great, great friends who I love and who love me.

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

I don't object to AA at all - only the programs that insist that it's the only way to get clean and to stay clean.

I joined gamblers anon., they gave me 2 to 1 I wouldn't make it! I joined AA, there was a two drink minimum!

When I got sober, that was 1990.

It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great.

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

I actually went to some Gamblers Anonymous classes, and I sat there for three or four of them, and I'm trying to figure out what I have in similarities with these other people, and I could never find anything. It just seems like it wasn't the right place for me.

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 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.'

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

We need to do a much better job when people are addicted to take them through treatment and recovery.

I got sober for good on December 7, 2008.

Rehab is one thing, but it takes years to get that attitude adjustment.

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

An intervention is much more than telling someone they have a problem in a unified fashion; treatment options should be in place.

Addiction has a worse prognosis than most cancers. I tell someone they have cancer and they want to be airlifted to a cancer treatment center; I tell someone they have an addiction and they're going to die and they want to argue with me about the treatment.

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.