Substance Use Disorder Quotes

It's hard to believe that you did so many drugs for so long. That's what I find really hard. And didn't really consider it. It was eating and drinking and taking drugs and having sex. It was just part of life.

To my surprise, my marijuana use has been tapering off steadily.

Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.

The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians.

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

I've been in the music business for 15 years. I've seen it all, man. I've just always been scared of coke. When I was on the road and saw some people do it, I was afraid I would really like it. I was afraid of the consequences.

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 smoke crack. I get all my dancers together and we do a prayer.

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.

Alcoholism is the disease of more.

What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again)

I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of control. Which isn't exactly right, because I didn't know what happened when you did drugs.

I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank. We did everything, but I never became a drug addict or an alcoholic. Other friends are dead, many of them. So many people in this retrospective...in Female Trouble, almost everyone is dead.

It's very addictive having a hit.

Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.

There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.

I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, it's not the friend, it's not the bad influence, it's not the childhood.

[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.

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.

Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.

I can understand the drug thing. So they feel that it's more important to take the drugs than to do a good show for the people.

Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

I was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday.

When you take a lot of cocaine powder you tend to take a lot of alcohol with it as well, so for many years really I never went out without at least four or five grams of cocaine powder.

Drugs had shown me little bits here and there-they had rolled across the carpet once or twice, but I had been able to get them out of my mind.