David Sheff Quotes

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

Secrets keep addicts ill and cost lives.

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.

Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.

Unfortunately, addicts don't respond to reason or rationality.

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.

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

I chose a rehab center for Nic that was recommended by a friend who had sent her son there. The program lasted 28 days, after which he relapsed. Over the next six years, he was admitted to six residential treatment programs and four outpatient programs. He would do better for a while, but then relapse. Each relapse was crushing.

Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

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.

Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain and it's one that we have to treat the way we would any other chronic illness: with skill, with compassion and with urgency.

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.

When, you know, when Nic became addicted, I was completely uneducated, and basically everything I assumed at the time turned out to be wrong. I guess the main thing is that I was so blindsided, that I had this idea of, you know, what an addict looks like, and it didn't look like Nic. And I realized that, you know, anybody can become addicted.

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

I do believe that I'm an addict on one level or another at all times.

They couldn't do a drugs story on me because I'd already done one on myself.

Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem.

I only get ill when I give up drugs.

Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.

Oh my God, I love rehab! I highly recommend it.

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.

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.