Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn’t be able to live with myself without paying them back. That I’d sooner die than owe anyone money for helping...

If you deny the existence of a higher being, you’ve never been to rehab

The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.

I’ve been married but I’m not anymore. And I still believe in love.

Gillette–The best a man can get.”I stared at the screen. What happened to me? I was meant to be one of those guys, vigorous and athletic and successful and, most of all, American. I was...

I smile thinly, to make it clear that this will happen when hell turns into a family friendly summer resort.

I told her that I didn’t want to take any drugs. That I had come here not to take drugs. “Listen,” she said, not unkindly, “up until now I would say that ninety-nine percent of...

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...

I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.

I spent the rest of that day and most of the night thinking about all the hundreds of people I had met in rehabs and sober living houses and on the streets. We were all...

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.

So you were lookingfor drugs I might have left behind? I’m a drug addict, Mother. We don’t leave drugs behind, especially if we’re going into treatment. We do all the drugs. We don’t save drugs...

We wouldn’t have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It’s like taking up a fight against the use of headache remedies; it will never work until the condition causing people’s headache...

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Karl Marx: “Religion is the opiate of the masses.”Carrie Fisher: “I did masses of opiates religiously.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you’re responsible for your own actions.

Until I went to rehab, I didn’t understand what it did.

And, you know, whenever you check yourself into rehab, they don’t focus on, you know, the fact that you’re an alcoholic. They go much deeper, you know? I mean, they go way deep. They crack...