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Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users. -- Ralph Nader
It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it. -- Ken Hensley
Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction -- Aldous Huxley
No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions. -- Patrick J. Kennedy
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. -- Carl Jung
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. -- Christopher Lasch
People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down. -- James Taylor
Addiction is rarely conquered alone. -- Ellen Hopkins
Addiction is a revolt of the soul. -- Yehuda Berg
Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit. -- Osamu Dazai
Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. -- C.C. DeVille
Addiction is a really hard thing to kick. -- Nikki Sixx
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. -- Thomas Paine
Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
If a man does his best, what else is there? -- George S. Patton
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. -- Bernard Williams
Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction. -- Joyce Meyer
Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people. -- Patrick Carnes
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. -- Christopher Lasch
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch. -- Mary Kay Ash
Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death. -- Russell Brand
Addiction to food is unfortunately really grave, also to alcohol or to anything else. -- Laura Huxley
Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags -- it's a universal disease. -- River Phoenix
Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more. -- Deepak Chopra
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. -- Dale Carnegie
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. -- Blaise Pascal
Addiction to anything show signs of emptiness.Being an imbalanced individual is not sign of success. -- Ricardo Derose
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both. -- Deepak Chopra
Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside. -- Jean Kilbourne
That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end. -- Eric Avery
Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday. -- Nikki Sixx
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great -- Zig Ziglar
Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate. -- William S. Burroughs
Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live. -- Paul Pearsall
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. -- Richard L. Evans
It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease. -- Steven Kassels
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. -- Malcolm X
Addiction struggle is believing you are separate from love. It took me a long time to glimpse that. -- Angel Grant
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. -- Moliere
Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively. -- Dave Navarro
Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide. -- Boyd K. Packer
Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings. -- Susan Cheever
Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings. -- Susan Cheever
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values. -- Christopher Lasch
I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out. -- Billy Corgan
When Lollapalooza started, and I was really into Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane's Addiction, Soundgarden. I went to that Lollapalooza tour twice, I think. -- Adam Richman
Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness. -- Cornel West
I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you listen to my guitar. -- Chino Moreno
Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower. -- Michael Botticelli
A Rescuer isn't always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism-all the ways we numb out-can rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings. -- David Emerald Womeldorff
With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in principle, be eligible for more care. -- Thomas R. Insel
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. -- Abraham Lincoln
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it. -- Gerald May
Grant kissed my neck that I offered up like a willing victim in True Blood. Take me... Bite me. Lick me. Oh this was madness! Glorious, wonderful madness!" -JulieFrom: A New Addiction -- Valerie Alexander
There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music. -- Nikki Sixx
Shopping and buying and getting and having comprise the Great American Addiction. No one is immune. When the underclass riots in this country they don't kill policemen and politicians, they steal merchandise. How embarrassing. -- George Carlin
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body. -- Thomas Szasz
[Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog, but only enough so that the ASPCA doesn't bring you up on charges. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without some addiction - to substances, sure, but also to love, sex, success, failure, power. -- Porochista Khakpour
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! -- Anne Frank
I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.' -- Samuel L. Jackson
Addiction might be redefined not as a character flaw but as a "biochemical deficit management." Our emotional habits will become an accepted factor of good health, along with slogans like "Heartache can be harmful to your unborn children." -- Marni Jackson
[Drug] Addiction is awful, the worst if it is your kid. Plenty of loving parents who did everything "right" find themselves with kids caught up with drugs, and plenty of absentee parents have kids who never touch the stuff. -- Roxanne Roberts
You know you are addicted to a food if despite knowing it is bad for you and despite wanting to change, you still keep eating it. Addiction means that a craving has more control over your behavior than you do. -- Kathy Freston
Beware of Destination Addiction... a preoccupation with the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job and with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are. -- Robert Holden
Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to nicotine, alcohol, and other substances, there are psychological addictions, such as the addiction to work, sex, television, melodrama, and perfection. -- Deepak Chopra
I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me. -- Eric Avery
Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of ignorance that keeps everyone in bondage. With substance addiction the mind/body sets up a vicious cycle that perpetuates the dependence. -- Deepak Chopra
The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation.. What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving. -- Deepak Chopra
Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way. -- Charles Eisenstein
Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it's a disease... If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, that's a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not fair to the real diseases of the world. -- C.C. DeVille
I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you're that age. -- Taylor Hawkins
I have an addictive personality. Sport is my drug of choice these days. It's one of the best drugs there is. It keeps you fit and healthy, even if, in the case of ironman, it pushes your body to the limit. The word "addiction" comes with negative connotations, but it doesn't have to be a damaging impulse. It's all about channeling your craving into something positive. -- Chrissie Wellington
MySpace is an addiction. -- Paulo Coelho
This dark diction has become America's addiction. -- Kanye West
I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that. -- Tom Waits
Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? -- Clifford Stoll
I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success -- Lil Wayne
People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be. -- Payne Stewart
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. -- W. H. Auden
Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town -- George Carlin
We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically. -- Ron Kind
You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit -- David Ryan
All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction. -- John Mayer
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health -- Clarence Day
All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them. -- Jeffrey Kluger
I have a severe addiction to 'Angry Birds.' I always tell myself, 'One more game...' But then there's always another and another and another. -- Kevin Nealon
Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it. -- Kirsten Dunst
It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem. -- Jim Ramstad
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a fix of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocain -- Rob Stampfli
What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay. -- Moby
Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify. -- Dale Archer
It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit. -- Gloria Reuben
We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success. -- River Phoenix
In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ. -- Ann Voskamp
If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts. -- David Suzuki
I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise -- Chuck Palahniuk
Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your goal, whatever it is, whether it's giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an illness. When you total up those baby steps you'd be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you've taken. -- Hoda Kotb
Spending is an addiction. -- Jim DeMint
Music is an addiction. -- Miles Davis
faith without doubt is addiction -- Salman Rushdie
I have a writing addiction. -- Prince
You're an addiction...my obsession... -- Sylvia Day
Romantic love is an addiction. -- Helen Fisher
I have an addiction to caffeine. -- Bill Ayers
Marijuana addiction is a serious problem -- Chris Christie
Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction. -- Edward Teller
There's 1,000 ways into addiction 1,000 ways out. -- Bill Moyers
I had an addiction to play baseball. -- Pete Rose
The Drug War is an addiction, really. -- Bill Maher
I'm like a junky without an addiction. -- Ozzy Osbourne
The only cure for addiction is spiritual. -- Deepak Chopra
Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion. -- Ming-Dao Deng
I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction." -- Ben Nicholson
Success is both an addiction and an enslavement... -- Paulo Coelho
I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction. -- Ben Nicholson

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