Alcoholism Treatment Quotes

. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.

I refer to the fact, acknowledged now by all professionals in the field, that alcoholism as such is not a legal problem—it is a health problem.

I had to sit down and explain to [her friend] that AA was for quitters

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her eyes, downing vodka and sobbing uncontrollably. "We can't heal you at Evergreen", the very somber voiceover said. "But we can help you to heal yourself." It had become our own running joke, applicable to almost anything. "Hey Cass, "I'd say, "hand me that toothpaste." "Caitlin," she'd say, her voice dark and serious. "I can't hand you the toothpaste. But I CAN help you hand the toothpaste to yourself.

If you don't start drinking, I'm gonna leave.

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.

If there was a pill that allowed you to drink and not get drunk, an alcoholic would go "What happens if you take two?"

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

Have you ever been to an AA meeting? No wonder these people are alcoholics - I've never needed a drink more badly in my life.

I was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent one. That's what people think an alcoholic is-but an alcoholic is basically just someone who's allergic to alcohol. That's all it means. It's just an allergy.

When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before.

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

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

People come up to me and talk about the alcoholism in their family.

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

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

[Being alcoholic] you're either too high or you're too low. I mean, I was always looking for the bell to ring. I was always waiting for that bell.

I don't have many regrets in my life. But I have one. I would have stayed sober all along.

India remains one of the few nations which still focuses entirely on an archaic de-addiction model, administered by the ministry of social justice and empowerment, to address drinking problems, adhering to a centuries-old idea of these problems being a moral disorder rather than a health condition.

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.