The next day we were all shooting up.”Jeez. Look at the size of the cotton he just threw in the spoon.””Yea. What are you trying to prove?”They had a good laugh at my expense.

-Thing is though, Spud, whin yir intae skag, that’s it. That’s aw yuv goat tae worry aboot. Ken Billy, ma brar, likes? He’s jist signed up tae go back intae the fuckin army. He’s gaun...

Reality. Sometimes it comes through foreign eyes; because if you don’t know any better, you can’t see the worse. Or vice versa.

When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.

NANCY LAYNE McCALLUM: An addict and a non-addict don’t think the same — their brains are wired completely differently. Only an addict can help another addict through recovery.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

I wind up stretched across the couchstill nodding with Sherlock Holmesexamining our crushed veins

I need you to wait for me.

Let me lose everything on earth and the world beyond, but let me not lose what I’m craving for, let it be that i died on the way than retreating from getting it.

She understood now why so many members of her kind died so young. It was possible to squeeze an entire lifetime of living into a single day: to live more, to feel more, in the...

To be or not to be tethered to the sordid, sickly, stinking, sappy apron strings of Hollywood and its endless fondness for fu**ing your sh** up. If Shakespeare were alive today, I bet he’d write...

Have you ever gotten to a point where you looked at your own life, thought “Fu** this,” and reached for the economy-sized Valium? Ah, suicide. So dark and seductive.

She began to realize some decisions cannot be undone no matter how hard you try.

It was painful to contemplate the distance between the future of accomplishment I’d imagined for myself twenty years earlier, and the reality…it was painful to understand that the cushion of exceptionality invoked by the drug...

Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more of it! Strange when you consider their answer to drug dependence is to cut off the supply.

In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind...

Just because something is addictive doesn’t mean that you will get addicted to it. But . . . if your stomach ties up in knots while you count the seconds waiting for a phone call...

The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.

Gately can’t even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It’s like what would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and...

Jane’s Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow

I hope you see what you’ve done to me.

Drug addicts had their drugs. Alcoholics had their bottles. Serial killers had their murders.

Even if we’re among the lucky few who benefit from civilization, we find ourselves curiously unsatisfied, plagued by stress, worry, and conflict… Like the addict who believes against all evidence that what he can’t give...

There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is ‘Where am I going?’ and the second is ‘Who will go with me?’ If you ever get these questions in the wrong order...

Picture for a moment the scene of a son carrying wood up a hill. He is about to make the greatest sacrifice he can make. Is it Abraham’s Isaac? Or Heavenly Father’s Jehovah? It is...

John G. turns on him, hands on hips, hair caked with snow. ‘Hey, buddy, let me tell you something. Drugs are the only thing I got. I am a drug addict. That’s all I’ve ever...

Overeating is the addiction of choice of carers, and that’s why it’s come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. It’s a way of fucking yourself up while still remaining fully functional,...

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it’s just better form.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

The treatment must fit the malady and the malady is not alcoholism or addiction, or addictive drugs and alcohol. Once the correct cause is diagnosed, healing will take place and hoped-for cure will come about.

Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.

The silver flask called to him.Blue Coyote Motel

I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure.

Sometimes being a nice person is all about knowing when to be an asshole.

I became addicted to the guilt. The strange thrill of doing something so morbid, so off-color, and so completely wrong.

Most people are dependent on legal drugs but this is somehow not an obstacle to seeing an enemy in every underground addict.

Amy [Winehouse] increasingly became defined by her addiction. Our media though is more interested in tragedy than talent, so the ink began to defect from praising her gift to chronicling her downfall. The destructive personal...

Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.

What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?

This is the same doctor under whose care Mr. Limbaugh has remained free of his addiction without relapse.

Using excuses for the predicament you’re in and minimizing your situation, whether it is drug or alcohol use, is a sure sign of an addict.

I’m not crying out for help, but I am sharing my experience in the hopes that readers will get something out of it. I’m not the one who gets to decide what that is, if...

I have a very addictive personality. If it isn’t women, it’s money. If it isn’t money, it’s speeding. And if it isn’t speeding, it’s women. I also like expensive video consoles where I can punch,...

What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don’t need to be wasted on naming things.

Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.

Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a...

I made a mistake.

The Memory Of You Is Like A Drug To Me