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“Ultimately, we are much more addicted than the junkie because we are responsible for not only our own demise, but the breakdown of the entire natural world. There is no other appropriate response t...”
“For the painful essence of withdrawal does not reside in the present suffering it brings - withdrawal is painless on the level of the immediate moment - but in the prospect of suffering to come, th...”
“It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that is what all vendors of alcoholic drinks are selling.”
“maybe its the sting the jaw grinding the flow the rush that keeps calling me to my destiny maybe its the life im ment to live. i was chosen to test the deserted path im not upset that it wont go aw...”
“If I were to create a word that more accurately describes alcoholism and addiction, I would say it was dependencyism. Sounds silly, doesn't it? Yet it's no sillier than the word alcoholism. The rea...”
“This womans size protected herfrom the hurts of the worldbut it also imprisoned her soul. As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a silent scream frozen on her face.”
“How do you think your body and mind would respond if you were surrounded by psychologists, psychiatrists, or drug and alcohol counselors who subscribed to the belief that "once an alcoholic or addi...”
“A spiritual hell I lived in hating the God of love and knowing the god I served hated me!”
“Always love, always encourage, and never let despair get in the way.”
“Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream and died without joy,in silence and isolation.”
“But maybe because I'm from a part of the country where there are more meth labs than drive-throughs, anything harder than cough syrup always makes me nervous.”
“After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.”
“Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.”
“I was just a little buckaroo when they first invited me to Marlboro Country. I loved being a cowboy; and smoking seemed to fit right in with riding, roping and wrangling. But once I got to where th...”
“These guys had names for every conceivable drinking situation. They liked to have a little eye-opener to get themselves going in the morning, a midmorning bracer before attempting anything serious,...”
“What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.”
“Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.”
“Being mad at a drug addict for doing what drug addicts do, is like being mad at a shark for doing what sharks do, or being mad at a cockroach for doing what cockroaches do.”
“I lived to be forgotten because I'd forgotten how to live”
“When she walks in that first Monday, of course I am awake - I am always up these days - I decide to lay it down. Look, I say, I snort Ritalin. Thats what I do. I snort it all day long. I crush up t...”
