Substance Abuse Quotes

"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." "Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem" "The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction." "First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." "Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution." "I used to say drugs and alcohol were bad. Now, I think they’re necessary to cope with life in America" "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 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"