I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat.That was until I became one…

There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I’ll still be paying for my prior use.

There are casualties in war. Those who don’t make it back to a place of sound hopes and dreams. Some take on their demons alone. They are deceived into fearlessness and trampled by the hooves...

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

What the hell is that?” he asked.”Magic mushrooms.””I’ve always wanted to try those,” he exclaimed. “They sound so cute.

Mature men look into the ladies hearts.Immature ones mention constantly their body parts.They mentioned sex like they’re obsessed.Enslaved by drugs and alcohol; helpless.

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.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the...

Love exists in powder. Love exists in pills. We are all addicts.

The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it’s you I’m addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You’ve read me this far, then? Even this far? For what discreditable motive? How is it you...

The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict?The answer is that he usually does not intend to become an addict. You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be...

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?” she asks.”Rubbernecker,” I answer without hesitation. “You?””I’m a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body. Puking sickness followed...

Don’t ever think you’re better than a drug addict, because your brain works the same as theirs. You have the same circuits. And drugs would affect your brain in the same way it affects theirs....

When you push someone’s head under water for 5 minutes, they will drown. It doesn’t matter if the person is a sinner or a saint. It’s just a natural process. If their head is under...

Being mad at a drug addict for doing what drug addicts do, is like being mad at a shark for doing what sharks do, or being mad at a cockroach for doing what cockroaches do.