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Substance abuse Quotes

"Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem"

"I used to say drugs and alcohol were bad. Now, I think they’re necessary to cope with life in America"

"The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction."

"Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution."

"Addiction is not a choice that anybody makes, it’s a response to pain"

"You can turn your back on a person but never turn your back on a drug, especially when it’s waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye"

"Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it."

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism."

"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour"

"Addiction is mostly about emotional pain; it is an attempt to escape the suffering that comes with being human"

"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."