Mae Martin Quotes

I don't object to AA at all - only the programs that insist that it's the only way to get clean and to stay clean.

I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.

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 process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.

12-step recovery is very focused on abstinence, and that's bled into the broader understanding of treatment. It would be most useful to have multiple senses of what treatment could look like.

One of my dearest friends is alive only because of AA. But it doesn't help a lot of people. And everyone is different, and everyone needs different kinds of treatments.

We didn't have rehab back in the Seventies. Back in the Seventies, rehab meant you stopped doing coke, but you kept smoking pot and drinking for a couple more weeks.

I'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be.

I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.

When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, but I never had that.

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science.

I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side of me, and I just didn't want to revisit that place again.

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

An addict never stops growing. Stupider.

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.

I was a functional addict.

I used crack cocaine probably in one of my drunken stupors

I'm part of AA. I have a sponsor. I have great, great friends who I love and who love me.

If you ask me, I think 12-step programs are perfectly valid, can be an enormous help. But it depends on the individual.

I got sober for good on December 7, 2008.

I chose a rehab center for Nic that was recommended by a friend who had sent her son there. The program lasted 28 days, after which he relapsed. Over the next six years, he was admitted to six residential treatment programs and four outpatient programs. He would do better for a while, but then relapse. Each relapse was crushing.

Rehab is one thing, but it takes years to get that attitude adjustment.

Treatment of alcohol addiction can take many forms.

I am one of the lucky ones: I had the financial resources and support of family and friends that enabled to me to enter rehab three times. My last stint was in the fall of 2014, and I have now been clean for three years.