Dana Boente Quotes

The alcoholic suffers from a disease.

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

People come up to me and talk about the alcoholism in their family.

Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.

Unfortunately, with addiction, there's manipulation and deception.

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

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

Yeah, I admit to myself, yeah, I'm an alcoholic.

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

I think anybody who's had an alcoholic in their life, or somebody with a drug problem, realizes that until things get bad enough, there's no incentive to change.

Everyone is connected to somebody with some type of addiction. It's so ramped now. Everyone has an uncle, a cousin, somebody who has addiction. We all have addiction.

Alcoholism is a complicated disease, and you never know when you'll be tempted to pick up another drink.

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

Addiction is a terrible thing.

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.

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