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“You have to take it off the table,' Jeremy said, finally. 'It's always going to be an option, otherwise. You're going to have to give it up and mean it, or it'll always be your solution when things...”
“...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention.”
“Game: The end.Addiction: It begins.”
“I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me.”
“Note: addiction diverts attention”
“In a very real way, attention is a drug. Like dope, attention makes people feel good by delivering a hit of certain neurotransmitters (chemicals that transmit, or block the transmission of electroc...”
“In a way, were all addicts by nature.”
“I think before I ever became an alcoholic, before I even tasted alcohol or tried drugs, I was already programmed to be this way. Before there was cocaine or vodka or sex or any of that, there was f...”
“I look away from her. I have felt like an old man my whole life. And they get to have fun and snort their fucking drugs and get wasted and it doesnt matter who theyre hurting because theyre young a...”
“I dont feel great, but I also dont feel terrible, either, and I guess thats how normal people feel most of the time. They live in the space between black and white, and their ups and downs are vari...”
“Sometimes I think, Was she thinking about me when she was drinking? Did any of them ever think about me when they were putting straws in their noses and needles in their arms? Did they even think a...”
“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...”
“addiction and expectation for the attraction = social media”
“I knew that I no longer wanted to take junk. If I could have made one decision, it would have been no more junk, ever, but when it came to the process of quitting I did not have the drive. It gave ...”
“Sometimes, I worry I'm winning.”
“Getting rid of the drugs doesnt get rid of all the other ways you learned to deal with the world. Its not that easy.”
“Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on [our Heavenly Father's] ground... It is His invention... He made the pl...”
“Be addicted to your dream such that it becomes too difficult to wean you from it just like the way drug addicts finds it difficult to stop taking drugs.”
“I don't know what happened, but I do know this. It's not going anywhere. When you light up it waits for you to come down. You have to confront whatever's bothering you and look it straight in the e...”
“The insane rush of endorphins that flooded my system the moment my phone vibrated and her name popped up on screen was worrying. I'd never been addicted to anything before, but I thought maybe this...”
