Recovery Programs Quotes

I never took reds or Quaaludes to balance out the coke. So when it got to be four in the morning and the gram was three quarters gone, I'd start wishing it was nine o'clock and hoping the guy got up early. But, of course, he didn't sleep either, so there was no sweat. During all those years, I was always looking forward to the next snort or the next guy I could score from.

Frankly I'm not great with heroin addicts. I tried heroin, but it was by accident. I'm not great with that level of substance abuse.

There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin

I don't find it easy dealing with people with drug problems. It helps if you're all taking drugs, all the same drugs.

I used to be a partier, now I'm an alcoholic. It's all in who's judging you.

The Easter Bunny is a major reason for heroin addiction in America.

Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell.

My dad drank pretty heavily, and he never missed a day of work in his life. So I never looked at drinking as a serious problem, but drugs to me are a serious problem. I think it's a generational thing. I think older people don't feel as uncomfortable around drinkers as they do around dopers.

How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

I'm sick and tired of people saying that taking drugs is a sickness. When you put something of your own free will in your own body knowing that it's harmful against the body, it's against the law and all it will do is lead you down the path of destruction, that is a weakness.

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."

And I want out of this life on drugs.

What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.

If you ask me, I think 12-step programs are perfectly valid, can be an enormous help. But it depends on the individual.

Where there's dope, there's hope!

For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin. I didn't have a father, it looked good to me. If I had read Johnny Thunders' book The Heroin Diaries, I don't think I would have done heroin.

Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.

A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.

I'm a recovered alcoholic. I don't do anything anymore, but those things, those things take away ... You're a different personality completely when you take those. For those who are really chemically dependent on anything, it's not you.

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

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.

There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.

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.

The children - I call them children when they're under 18 - are hungry for that love. The drugs are just a sleep that you can't even wake up from, because you might remember what you did when you were there. There's no place for them - there should be a rehabilitation center on every corner, along with McDonald's and the banks. This is serious business. The waiting lists are incredible. I mean, it's terrible. It's really terrible.