John Lennon Quotes

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

I only get ill when I give up drugs.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half.

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

Rehab is like a divorce.

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

I'm clean and sober.

Addiction is a terrible thing.

I didn't check into rehab. Instead of me heading into a place - I was just drinking too much and I needed to get my life together. I'm still in therapy and stuff like that, but it's good. I'm great. I feel fine.

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 prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.

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

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science.

But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.

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.

Rehab is amazing. It reminds me of football camp. Kind of like the Washington Redskins camp I went to as a kid.

I love to help others that are suffering from the disease of addiction, and I'm just very, very passionate about that.

Drugs shift the way that we think. So, yeah, the logical thing would be to get help, but that's not the way addicts operate, which is why it's really, really hard to get someone to understand that they need treatment.

After writing about addiction in a pair of books, I frequently hear from addicts and their family members about serial relapses followed by treatments followed by more relapses. It's not uncommon for addicts to go through a dozen treatment programs.

I was such a heavy drinker I was going to die at age 37. Not to mention the drugs. I'm glad to be sober, I haven't missed a thing. A lot of people never get the chance to come back.

A buddy of mine was addicted to heroin and he told me that people who say quitting cigarettes is harder than quitting heroin are wrong.

I've been drunk only once in my life. But that lasted for twenty-three years.