“ When was the last time you woke up and wished you'd had just one more drink the night before?I have never regretted not drinking. Say this to yourself, and you'll get through anything. Meredith Bell
“ I began asking myself just what my high was about. What did I do when I was high that I didn't do when I was sober? What was wrong that heroin fixed? Pax Prentiss
“ 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 th… Michael Carter
“ I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure. Brian Spellman
“ I was at this guy's house. I met this girl who was hanging out there. She was real pretty, she had brown eyes and dark hair. She was soft-spoken and real nice. I know that everyone has their own life… Henry Rollins
“ I chose to share both the good and the bad parts of my story, and of my imagination, so that it might help even one person realize that there is hope. You are not alone. And it does get better. I prom… Kimberly Nalen
“ Some, they didn't make it.The temptation just too strong.How can darkness cloud the mindTo what I know as wrong? Kimberly Nalen
“ Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix. Bryant McGill
“ And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes merely a constant, painful reminder of what they’ve lost, f… Geoffrey Wood
“ An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so much of pain is the consciousness of it. It makes itself objective. Whereas to th… Geoffrey Wood
“ With addiction, a client’s fears can be ripened into some very pleasing fruit: Irritability, suspiciousness, isolation, paranoia, and finally on to that grand banana —the fear of Fear itself. Geoffrey Wood
“ Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it’s just better form. Geoffrey Wood
“ This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time. Stephen King
“ Books are worse than wine, I say. You read one and you need another - there's no end to it. What ails you that you cannot content yourself with just living on under the sun? Donna Gillespie
“ For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up. Jonathan Darman
“ Most people are dependent on legal drugs but this is somehow not an obstacle to seeing an enemy in every underground addict. Plamen Chetelyazov
“ Dependence on drugs is not a disease, it is not a virus, it is not something that stalks only the dregs of society. Drug addiction is REALIZED EMOTIONAL DEFICIENCY SYNDROME. Plamen Chetelyazov
“ Always she had sounded sympathetic, always she had appeared to understand. But inside there was a bit of her that said that they couldn't have tried hard enough. If Celia had a daughter who was desper… Maeve Binchy
