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« Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance. » – Dan Rather
« In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy » – Ivan Illich
« Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction. » – Edward Teller
« I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That’s the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. » – Chuck Palahniuk
« I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question »Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? » should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area. » – William [...]
“I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question ”Why did you start using narcotics in the first place?” should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.” – William [...]
“Actually, I think all addiction starts with soda. Every junkie did soda first. But no one counts that. Maybe they should. The soda connection is clear. Why isn’t a presidential commission looking into this? Or at least some guys from the National Carbonation Council.” – Chris Rock
“Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people – teens or adults – realize.” – John Walters
“It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.” – Shirley Chisholm
“We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely… change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.” – George Sheehan