“ You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to… Chris Prentiss
“ To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demora… Chris Prentiss
“ 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 pa… Chris Prentiss
“ At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency. Chris Prentiss
“ 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. Craig Ferguson
“ 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 you open an… Kirk Hammett - Metallica
“ 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
“ 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 me. Apparently Jimmy knew mo… Craig Ferguson
“ 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 all the narcotics you have… Craig Ferguson
“ 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 going to walk… Craig Ferguson
“ 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. P… Lauren Beukes
“ I smile thinly, to make it clear that this will happen when hell turns into a family friendly summer resort. Lauren Beukes
“ 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 medicating our fears and our pa… Pax Prentiss
“ Back in those days I was stoned almost twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The difference today is that there is nothing you or anyone else could say to persuade me to inhale enough even to fi… Chris Sullivan
“ The first week is the hardest. Then little by little the world opens up, and you realize there are all these people around you with their own needs that have nothing to do with you. Then you forget, a… Amy Reed
