Quotes About Addiction

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. - Ivan Illich Quote


A habit is a shirt made of iron. - Czech Proverb


It is not I who become addicted, it is my body. - Jean Cocteau


If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. - Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (This quote has also been attributed to Ann Landers)


If you have to drink and drive, drink tea. - Unknown


For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings. - Peter McWilliams Quote


First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. - Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald


The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. - Leo Aikman


If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. - Rob Stampfli


There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge. - Hunter S. Thompson


All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation. - W.H. Auden Quote


The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity. - Author Unknown


In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country. - Aldous Huxley


Addiction should never be treated as a crime. 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 Quote


Fanatacism for anything is addiction. - Unknown


If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic. - Author Unknown


[On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing. - Ray Charles


Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. - Mark Twain




Willpower's Not Enough Understanding and Overcoming Addiction and Compulsion

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Addictions should never be underestimated. They aren't "inconveniences" or "habits." What they are is destructive. Addictions are life-controlling, life-altering, and often life-ending. They poison the mind in such a way that the addict actually believes that he/she is in control, that they can quit when they choose to.

In reality, the addiction, itself, is the only one in control. And the longer it's allowed to reign, the worse the addict's life will become. One by one, the addiction will begin to claim parts of the individual's life - their pastimes, their hobbies, their work, their relationships, their reputation, and, eventually, their world.

No addiction is a small addiction - there isn't any such thing. If you've yielded any part of your life to an addiction, please seek help immediately. Don't think you can beat it alone - will power isn't a magic pill, especially not with addictions. If it were that easy, there'd be no addictions! If it WERE that easy, you wouldn't have become addicted in the first place. You are not in control of the addiction, you are its victim. You are its tied up captive, but you don't have to stay that way.

Think about it this way: If someone has been taken hostage, they cannot free themselves. They can't untie their own arms and legs or take the gag off of their mouth. They need help, and in the worst way! Fortunately, there are plenty of people who'd, not only love to help, but would jump at the opportunity.

The same holds true for victims of addictions. Help is just an, "I need help" away. And your life is right around the corner waiting for you!