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But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn. -- Elton John
Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money. -- Robin Williams
Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise, -- Pope Francis
When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't... -- Luke Davies
The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious. -- Craig Ferguson
People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years. -- Corey Feldman
Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no. -- Kurt Vonnegut
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
Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox. -- Russell Brand
As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction. -- Jim Ramstad
It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of. -- Aimee Mann
Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom. -- Margaret Atwood
The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope. -- Russell Brand
Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover. -- Craig Ferguson
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
Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses. -- Richard M. Daley
I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk. -- Craig Ferguson
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages. -- Angela Davis
In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice. -- Aimee Mann
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom. -- Edgar Allan Poe
In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development. -- Alice Miller
One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self correcting his own material moral, and spiritual defects, and evil. The black man need to start his own program to get rid of drunkenness, drug addiction and prostitution. The black man in America has to lift up his own sense of values. -- Malcolm X
The Drug War is an addiction, really. -- Bill Maher
Mexico's a great place to overcome a drug addiction. -- Chelsea Handler
Drug addicts, when they are in their addiction, are selfish. -- Liz Brixius
The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction -- John Warren Kindt
The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug. -- Chris Hedges
Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity. -- Shane Koyczan
My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years. -- Columba Bush
The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all. -- Nora Volkow
There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization. -- George Will
No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose. -- Henry Rollins
The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became - it's become an addiction. I'm addicted to working. -- Elton John
When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour. -- Gabor Mate
I've seen firsthand the terrible consequences of drug abuse. My heart is with all who suffer from addiction and the terrible consequences for their families. -- Columba Bush
Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction. -- Freda Adler
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I was HIV positive... -- Robbin Crosby
She had all the best things wrong with herâ??incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She's so lucky. -- Peter Cameron
I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction! -- John Newman
Purple Mike promises to be an intriguing read that will teach anyone who wants to know about the highs and lows of drug addiction. Purple Mike is a legal, natural high. Enjoy reading. -- Sin Mils
Another California study counted 30,000 substance abusers who are pregnant are White woman. So, The Wire paints the picture of drug addiction, drug dealing, and drug abuse as being a specifically a Black issue. -- Ishmael Reed
I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you. -- Mick Jagger

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