addiction recovery support Quotes

Mexico's a great place to overcome a drug addiction.

What drugs haven't destroyed, the war against them has

We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed.

I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.

I haven't had a drink in thirteen years, but occasionally I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass.

Well, I know from some of my own experience, and many of my friends' experiences, when going through that sort of program. The whole addiction game really forces you to focus on what brings you there and accept the only way out. So once you really put this focus on getting better and figuring out what your flaws are, that's what brings you back. I think she could've been more reckless and shown up earlier, but I wasn't really available to come back.

I think a lot of ex-addicts. They find a lot of humor in what they did because they lived through it.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.

The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 years ago -- throw them in the cage - as if that's the whole answer. And it's not the whole answer.

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

That's my only goal: Stay off crack.

I just think the whole disease model of addiction is crap. It's rooted in fiction and junk science.

The bigger picture is that over the last 30 years, we have spent $1 trillion waging a drug war that has failed in any meaningful way to reduce drug addiction or abuse, and yet has siphoned an enormous amount of resources away from other public services, especially education.

If you’re an alcoholic or a drug addict, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we’re lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.

They tried to make me go to rehab, I said 'No, no, no,'

Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.