Substance Abuse Disorder Quotes

The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.

Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not.

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

Alcoholism is the disease of more.

Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink! Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'Jiminy Cricket, I feel sensational! My life is really in great shape! I think I'll become an alcoholic!' I firmly believe that when a shaking-to-pieces alcoholic says he needs a drink or he will die, he means it.

It's very addictive having a hit.

Addiction is a health issue, not a social issue, not a crime, not a legal issue.

Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.

This dark diction has become America's addiction.

Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.

Heroin also makes people feel better, but I wouldn't recommend using heroin.

Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

I think most people will tell you that. They can go along and, while they're denying that they are addicted, say it's stress this, it's this, it's that. But I - it's - I think - I really believe there is a gene. Some people become addicted and others don't.

The abuse of prescription pills is a real thing. I understand that there are people that really need them and I understand that there are people that abuse them, and it's just a gray line that unfortunately has to exist.

I have strong views against substance usage and abuse. It's bad for kidney and central neuro system.

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.

Drugs make me nervous, really, because I'm a control freak and I don't like to be out of control on drugs.

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

I took a shot of morphine, liked it, and eventually became addicted. It takes quite a while. It took me three months the first time. This nonsense of people becoming addicted with one shot is medically unsound.