You’re not addicted to a drink or a drug; you’re addicted to the chemical cocktail your brain serves up when you feed your addiction.

Your addiction is not your identity, but you won't know that until you're in recovery; that's when the two separate.

Addiction is a family disease because one person uses but the whole family gets sick.

A needle, a pill, a shot glass…they’ll never fill the void that only love can.

Only when an addict learns to love himself will he feel he’s worth changing.

Every drunk who gets wasted to minimize his problems wakes up with more and bigger problems.

When you enable the addict, you nourish the disease.

Addiction shrinks your brain.

Threatening an addict is like threatening the wind. Your words get blown away.