174 Quotes About Addiction-and-recovery

She realized with shock now that her current husband also had a mistress. Her name was cocaine.

To get her husband back, Krista had to let him go and it killed her.

In truth, most addicts find relief the moment they stop hiding. The moment they publicly admit they have a problem. For most high-functioning addicts, the moment they realize there’s a God and it’s not them, relief floods into their tortured hearts.

I'm closing the door now, I'm saying goodbye, because I want t o live HEROIN--so it's you who must die!"--Nicole D'Settēmi's Poem "Lethal Love Letters (dear Heroin)

What [my patients] care about is my presence or absence as a human being. They gauge with unerring eye whether I am grounded enough on any given day to co-exist with them, to listen to them as persons with feelings, hopes and aspirations as valid as mine. They can tell instantly whether I’m genuinely committed to their well-being or just trying to get them out of my way.

[W]e might say that three factors need to coincide for substance addiction to occur: a susceptible organism; a drug with addictive potential; and stress. Given the availability of drugs, individual susceptibility will determine who becomes an addict and who will not[.]

Endorphins are the chemical catalysts for our experience of key emotions that make human life, or any other mammalian life, possible.

When people tell me the heroin problem is so big,so tragic, so complicated, I say so what. So what. We can learn our way through this.

Science has proven that sin has the power to change us for the worse. In a healthy brain, rational thought can override impulsive behavior. Not so in a brain affected by addiction. This is how Satan steals our ability to choose wisely. Addiction costs us the ability to exercise our agency.