Addiction Quotes

• "She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings."
  By: ^Burstyn Ellen
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• "It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality."
  By: ^Burstyn Ellen
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• "To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off."
  By: ^Burstyn Ellen
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• "My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties."
  By: ^Burstyn Ellen
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• "If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house."
  By: ^Burstyn Ellen
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• "It is not I who become addicted, it is my body."
  By: ^Burstyn Ellen
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• "It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts."
  By: ^Burstyn Ellen
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• "I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area."
  By: ^Burstyn Ellen
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• "The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den"
  By: Phillip Adams
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• "Addiction should never be treated as a crime"
  By: It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users. Ralph Nader
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• "The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous"
  By: It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them. William S. Burroughs
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• "Cocaine isn''t habit forming"
  By: I should know - I've been using it for years. Tallulah Bankhead
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• "That, of course, is the devil''s bargain of addiction: a short-term good feeling in exchange for the steady meltdown of one''s life"
  By: Daniel Goldman
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• "The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man''s moral nature"
  By: Thorstein Veblen
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• "All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation"
  By: W H Auden
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