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I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.

Try managing a junkie - especially if you've never been one yourself.

I am addicted to prescription pain medication.

There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.

There's 1,000 ways into addiction 1,000 ways out.

I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.

Too many people believe they can control their drug of choice. But the drug is almost always in control. If an addict truly wants help, it is available, but it is a rocky path. The monster always calls. Never give an addict money. Clothe them. Feed them. But enabling them is the quickest path to watching them fade away completely. This may seem harsh. But I've watched my own child relapse, after six years sober. I love her. Always. But I can't help her die.

Facing my addiction was one of the hardest things I've had to do in my life.

As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.

I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children

I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.

Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.

I just think the whole disease model of addiction is crap. It's rooted in fiction and junk science.

Addiction has had such an impact on my life and the people I love, and there really is not a lot about it that is funny. So the last thing I wanted was to give the impression that it’s all fun and games, and isn’t it funny what she gets away with.

If you’re an alcoholic or a drug addict, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we’re lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.

Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise.

Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.