David Sheff Quotes

Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise.

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.

I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.

Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.

There's 1,000 ways into addiction 1,000 ways out.

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.

Too many people believe they can control their drug of choice. But the drug is almost always in control. If an addict truly wants help, it is available, but it is a rocky path. The monster always calls. Never give an addict money. Clothe them. Feed them. But enabling them is the quickest path to watching them fade away completely. This may seem harsh. But I've watched my own child relapse, after six years sober. I love her. Always. But I can't help her die.

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.

Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you are a millionaire conservative radio jock, which makes it an illness and needs our prayers for your recovery.

We have all learned that addiction and mental illnesses are illnesses, and I think a lot of people overlook that it is a chemical imbalance; it's like cancer, a sickness, and people need to see it as that.

If a child had another disease, we'd be open about what we were going through, but addiction is stigmatised and comes with shame and guilt.

The tragic fact is that with addiction, like many other illnesses, sometimes you can do everything right and people die.

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.

Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.

I'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be.

There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.

Addiction is a health issue, not a social issue, not a crime, not a legal issue.

Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.

Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags - it's a universal disease.

I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction.

All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.

Addiction has had such an impact on my life and the people I love, and there really is not a lot about it that is funny. So the last thing I wanted was to give the impression that it’s all fun and games, and isn’t it funny what she gets away with.