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Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.

— Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

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At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.

— Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism And Addiction Cure

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Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually.

— Chris Prentiss, Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

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Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing.

— Chris Prentiss, Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

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You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.

— Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism And Addiction Cure

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

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I have everything now, except hair. And a man.

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You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness.

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We all want to believe that our pain is singular - that no on else has felt this way - but our pain is ordinary, which is both a blessing and a curse. It means we're not unique. But it also means we're not alone.

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It ain’t love but just like nicotine
You’re addicted to a feeling you can only get
From me and your cigarettes

— Miranda Lambert, Me And Your Cigarettes

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What if I'm so broken I can never do something as basic as feed myself? Do you realize how twisted that is? It amazes me sometimes that humans still exist.

— Amy Reed, Clean

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And I know she'll be the death of me, at least we'll both be numb and she'll always get the best of me, the worst is yet to come.

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You don't have to not drink for twenty years today. You don't have to give up white bread for all eternity, right now. This "one day at a time" cliche when taken plainly is no less profound than any "be in the moment" Eastern wisdom I've since encountered.

— Russell Brand, Recovery

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I was afraid that loving the drunk story best meant some part of me still wanted to keep living it. And of course, some part of me did.

— Leslie Jamison, Does Recovery Kill Great Writing?

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The story of getting better can be just as compelling as the story of falling apart.

— Leslie Jamison, via www.vulture.com

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I'm addicted. I'm addicted to golf.

— Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods Up Close And Personal

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The tattoos are a way of me expressing deeper feelings about the things I care about and love. Am I done? Probably not.…Think Victoria’s given up on telling me to stop now. She used to. She used to say, ‘Do you have to?’ But she knows it makes me happy.

— David Beckham, David Beckham on Retirement and Protecting Son Brooklyn: "He's Going to Make His Mistakes"

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At some point, this creator of music struggled with his own connection and his own relationship with Life. At some point, maybe you have too.

— Ivy Kwong, So You Want To Know The Cause of Avicii’s Death?

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To clean up you have to weigh up what you want, and the best you can hope for at first is a fraction of a percentage in the difference between the desire to stop and the desire to plough on downwards.

— Anthony Loyd, My War Gone By, I Miss It So

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When you’re lonely and blacking out in strange places, you let other lonely people do what they want to you. You call it free love.

— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today

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People speak about drug addiction and alcoholism as the specific problem a person has. 'He's an alcoholic. He cannot control his drinking.' 'She is a heroin addict. She's dependent on drugs.' Yet the underlying condition of dis-ease is there first and then the behavior begins in order to address it.

— Tommy Rosen, Recovery 2.0

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I'm afraid the problem with Zach is more serious. He's back on the horse, Elaine. Smack. White palace. The Chinaman's nightcap.

— J. Peterman (John O'Hurley), Seinfeld, Season 9: The Bookstore

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I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter.

— Steven Wright,

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I chose to share both the good and the bad parts of my story, and of my imagination, so that it might help even one person realize that there is hope. You are not alone. And it does get better. I promise you it’s worth it.

— Kimberly Nalen, Poems About Addiction And Recovery

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Addiction- When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.

— Nikki Sixx, Addiction Sayings and Quotes

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She was a drug to take in moderation.

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Drug overdoses killed more Americans in 2016 than people killed in the Vietnam War which roughly killed over 58,000 US soldiers. How much bigger does addiction need to get in order for people to consider it important?

— Brittney Lindstrom, This Is How Addiction Is Like A Split Personality

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And yet to wine, to opium even, I prefer the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself; and in the wasteland of desire your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst.

— Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

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Admitting that my mother had once been so incredible made her decline even more upsetting.

— Anya Yurchyshyn, This Is What It's Like To Learn Who Your Mother Was Before She Became An Addict

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The brain gets very confused. And that leads to problems with excessive anger, excessive shutting down, and doing things like taking drugs to make yourself feel better.

— Bessel Van Der Kolk, Childhood Trauma Leads to Brains Wired for Fear

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You think you have hit the bottom many times then always find something else to lose, till after a while what once seemed like the bottom is an altitude that you are trying to scrabble back to.

— Anthony Loyd, My War Gone By, I Miss It So

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The blackouts were horrible. It was hideous to let those nights slide into a crack in the ground. But even scarier was to take responsibility for the mess I’d made. Even scarier was to remember your own life.

— Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

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Sobriety has a way of sorting out your friendships. They begin to fall into two categories: people you feel comfortable being yourself with—and everyone else.

— Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

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My designation as a person in recovery from addiction has given me endless gifts, not the least of which is a clear-cut pathway to an exceptional life. It has been like hitting the jackpot, though it certainly didn't seem like it at the beginning.

— Tommy Rosen, Recovery 2.0

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That woman's been on so many pills for so long, I'm shocked she doesn't just disintegrate in the rain.

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I'm the worst kind of addict. I'm addicted to the rush of life.

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Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.

— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

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I can't help ya if you won't help yourself

— Amy Winehouse, Help Yourself

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I've also come to believe that romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.

— Helen Fisher, The brain in love

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I live in negotiation with a shadow side that has to be respected.

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How could they say feeling good is an addiction?

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Even as a junkie I stayed true to vegetarianism. I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger. What a sexy little paradox.

— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook

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Getting high used to be like how you imagine heaven. Pure light. The perfection of it all. Even in me. Then I got lost. Kept trying to climb higher. Get closer to that light. Like an endless ladder where all you do is get further and further away.

— Sally McKenna (Sarah Paulson), American Horror Story, Hotel: Chutes and Ladders

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If you regard alcoholics and drug addicts not as bad people but as sick people then we can help them to get better.

— Russell Brand, Russell Brand: my life without drugs

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He stared at it, as it slowly burned his fingers, but that was after it had burnt his marriage, his future and his lunges.

— Kartik Ghodasara, What is the best story you can write in only one sentence?

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The worst part about crack is long term addiction, but I won't be around for long-term anything.

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Substance abuse and drug addiction hurt our kids, friends, neighbors, and loved ones. We've got to solve this.

— Hillary Clinton, via twitter.com

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Okay, now open your mind up and listen to me, Kendrick. I'm your conscience, if you do not hear me then you will be history, Kendrick.

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I don’t need to talk about how I need a drink, I need a reason not to drink.

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— Ryan Adams, To Be the One (Heartbreaker (Deluxe Edition)

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