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“We labor under the great delusion that we are in control. Silly humans.”
“Heres a simple test to check and see if you have surrendered or if you are still struggling with control. When you are miserable, stressed, doubtful, and fearful, you are in control. When you are h...”
“Maria, it sounds like he was insane. Rational people don't intentionally addict people. I feel sorry for those poor people who were unsuspecting victims.”
“Drug addicts had their drugs. Alcoholics had their bottles. Serial killers had their murders.”
“I felt that if he touched me, I'd die. and then the thought crawled into my brain that if he didn't touch me, I'd die.”
“Our brains are embodiedmuch of the problem with the debate over addiction and psychiatry more generally is a refusal to accept this and our ongoing need to see physical, neurological, and psycholog...”
“The fear of the drugs running out is manageable-the fear of time running down isnt.”
“At the lip of a cliff, I look out over Lake Superior, through the bare branches of birches and the snow-covered branches of aspens and pines. A hard wind blows snow up out of a cavern and over my f...”
“Doing something once can be addicting. Doing it twice is admitting it.”
“Introverts just just don't buzz as easily.”
“What we call the personality is often a jumble of genuine traits and adopted coping styles that do not reflect our true self at all but the loss of it.”
“I grew up being told, "If you do marijuana you'll be a slave for the rest of your life," and it only took me ten minutes to realize smoking marijuana was pretty cool. Then it was, "If you take LSD ...”
“Modest, conventional expectations weren't enough to lure Adam Brown away from the power of drug addiction that ensnared him. Instead, the college dropout already in his mid-twenties found only the ...”
“Some of my earliest and fondest memories of my mother are of her kneeling at the side of per bed every night and praying. As a child, I would always get very close to her as she prayed. I would put...”
“Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.”
“Y'all think a body be who you is, but it ain't nothing but a motherfucking sack of meat.”
“She went weak in the knees and could barely walk as she followed him, trembling with fear. Her hopes for a happy future with Jordan came crashing down. Whoever had told Jordan she was free to trave...”
“Know whats worse than cold turkey? Just a little bump. One tiny sip to take the edge off. The edges never went away, they only got sharper. Every addict would tell you. Gray areas couldnt exist in ...”
“a detestable, viscous place populated by slugs”
“The more my brain was fed, the hungrier it became.”
