“I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question ”Why did you start using narcotics in the first …
“Actually, I think all addiction starts with soda. Every junkie did soda first. But no one counts that. Maybe they should. The soda connection is …
“Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people – teens or adults – realize.” – John Walters
“We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely… change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. …
“Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.” – Allan Bloom
“The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It’s as psychological as malaria. It’s a matter of exposure. People, …
“Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?” – Clifford Stoll
“A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.” – Clarence …
“I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.” – Dan Rather
“Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.” – Edward Teller
“There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It’s all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be …
“Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don’t they realize that it’s gross? I understand it’s an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends …
“All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation” – W. H. Auden
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.” – Carl Gustav Jung
“Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it’s a disease… If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, …
“I am well aware that an addiction to silk underwear does not necessarily imply that one’s feet are dirty. None the less, style, like sheer …
“The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops …
“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy” – Ivan Illich
“Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.” – George Carlin
“It’s the national addiction: warmth on chilly winter nights, innocence on Saturday afternoons, the essence of hearth, home and blissful abandon.” – Patricia Linden
“I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That’s the …
“You do anything long enough to escape the habit of livinguntil the escape becomes the habit.” – David Ryan
“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 …
“Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.” – Dan Rather
“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 …
“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do …
“The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature” – Thorstein Veblen
“Space Invaders proved so addictive that it not only inaugurated an entire video game paradigm, it caused a nationwide coin shortage in Japan” – Chris …
“We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive …