Rob Portman Quotes

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

I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.

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

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.

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

I got sober when I was 22 years old.

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

LSU has a strong drug testing program and LSU went to great lengths to help me in my treatment and recovery.

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.

I remember telling Mom, 'I can't go to the Betty Ford Center. That's like going to the high school where your mom is the principal.' But maybe I could have gotten the family rate.

At 18, if someone had said to me, "I think you should go to rehab and get cleaned up," I would have thought, "You're fucking mad."

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

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

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

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.

When the addict gets recovery, his family gets recovery, right?

'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.

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

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.

If you love someone who's an addict and their use is life-threatening, you don't wait until they hit bottom because that can mean that they're going to die. You have to do everything you can to get them in treatment.