Addiction Therapy Quotes

I still look at my job as being a doctor of the people, and I'm going to look at the science... If we can find a viable alternative that gave us harm reduction as people are withdrawing from nicotine, I'm happy to engage in that science and see if we can do that.

I'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be.

Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.

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

You're an addiction...my obsession.

Addiction is rarely conquered alone.

I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.