Hillary Clinton Quotes

A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some point in their lives.

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

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

But who is it that has made my people drunk? Indians cannot make whiskey. Indians do not sell it. But white people make it and bring it among us. It is they that have brought the evil upon us and we cannot remove it. The white people can remove it and now we call upon them to do it. We ask them to take their whiskey and run away, and leave us sober as they found us.

My relationship with alcohol became unsustainable. For people who are going to ask, 'Were you an alcoholic?' I suppose the short answer is 'Yes.'

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

My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't.

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

I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.

It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.

I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It's seductive because alcohol is amazing and drugs are amazing, they work so well.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

The greatest pleasure of this people [Russians] is drunkenness.

Make no mistake, liquor is as much a part of the problem as drugs, perhaps a bigger part.

The alcoholic suffers from a disease.