130 Quotes by David Sheff

This stigma associated with drug use – the belief that bad kids use, good kids don’t, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic – has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.

Al-Anon’s Three Cs: “You didn’t cause it, you can’t control it, you can’t cure it.

An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.

Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.

Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry...

It is still so easy to forget that addiction is not curable. It is a lifelong disease that can go into remission, that is manageable if the one who is stricken does the hard, hard work, but it is incurable.

An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie about it. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.” Part of me is convinced that he actually believes that he will find it for you.