174 Quotes About Addiction-and-recovery

You can never replace it. The good news is you do learn to live without it. You miss it. You want it. You hang out with a bunch of other crazy people who feel the same way and you live with it. And eventually, you start to sound like a cloying self-help book, like me.

Moderation in effect isn't a restriction,Its a way to mix a high & rationalization.

Addiction is like a curse and until it is broken, its victim will perpetually remain in the shackles of bondage.

It's so exhausting, so mentally and emotionally draining when you care about a drug addict and they never miss an opportunity to disappoint, manipulate or hurt you.

Someone who is trying to be sober is often trying to work out deeper emotional issues and is attempting to undo years of habitual behavior. When you reduce recovery to just abstinence, it simplifies what is really a much more complex issue.

Addiction itself is the process with which an individual becomes personally consumed with an object, a subject, a substance, or a particular activity.

Love is an addiction.

I'd much rather spend all day on the Santa Monica pier playing Asteroids than delve into the murk and analyze myself. And if you think I haven't gone down to the pier to do that recently, well, you'd be wrong. Sometimes you just have to be twelve again.

Not much more than a broke disgrace who's hooked on tonics, so excuse him if his poker face has puke on it.