It's not a drug problem, until you run out of money. Until then it's just drugs.
It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.
I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine.
I think a lot of ex-addicts. They find a lot of humor in what they did because they lived through it.
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
You know, we think about addiction as a morally reprehensible choice, but addicts act crazy because, in a way, that they are.
Drugs shift the way that we think. So, yeah, the logical thing would be to get help, but that's not the way addicts operate, which is why it's really, really hard to get someone to understand that they need treatment.
If they don't have that extreme addict personality, you can never understand how a guy can blow 300 or 400 million dollars. If I have to live at the top of the world, I also have to live at the bottom of the ocean. I don't know how to live in the middle of life.
The worst thing that could have happened to me as an addict was having money.
When you're serious addict, you tend to lie a lot.
An addict never stops growing. Stupider.
Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
There are 8,000 addicts in New York City. With legitimate supplies of drugs cut off, this small army would be likely to break out violently when the narcotic hunger becomes stronger. If the victims are permitted to roam about without the drugs they become dangerous.
If you're an addict, if you drink and you're putting a depressant into your body, it's going to cause serious problems.
The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.
If the price of the drug people want to use is through the roof, well then they're going to have to commit crimes to get the money to get the drug. You don't see any crimes committed over a pack of cigarettes or a bottle of beer, do you?
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
