David Sheff Quotes

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

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.

Addiction is a neurological disease—a disease of the brain…. No one wakes up in the morning and says today ‘I want to become an addict.’

Everybody tells you over and over again that addiction is a disease. But when I read Nic's book I understood not just that this is a disease, but what the disease means.

Addiction is not a curable condition.

Addiction is a disease like anything else. It's like cancer, like heart disease, like diabetes.

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

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

Addiction is a terrible thing.

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

I was a functional addict.

Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.

If there's an addiction in the Clinton family, it's to problem solving.

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.

This disease of addiction has touched not just me but millions of Americans out there. Me being in the spotlight, I want to tell my story because there are a lot of misconceptions. I want to let people out there know that there's hope.

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.

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.

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.

I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it.

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.

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

I am an addictive personality.