Diana Rigg Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.

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

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

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.'

Rehab is like a divorce.

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.

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.

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 I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

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.

I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.

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 am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen.

I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.

If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.