What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
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.
Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.
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.
I'm gonna try to be cured. I've been on heroin eight years and I want to try a different style of life. It made me split up from my wife. It ruined a lot of things for me.
If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.
I'm a recovered alcoholic. I don't do anything anymore, but those things, those things take away ... You're a different personality completely when you take those. For those who are really chemically dependent on anything, it's not you.
Have you ever been to an AA meeting? No wonder these people are alcoholics - I've never needed a drink more badly in my life.
But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.
There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)
There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.
I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.
Drugs made me feel more normal.
Rehab is one thing, but it takes years to get that attitude adjustment.
Some turn to Jesus and some turn to heroin.
I hate alcoholics and AA (alcoholics anonymous). If you can't drink responsibly, don't drink at all. Don't go to meetings, whine about your character flaws and blame the fact that you are a sociopath on booze.
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
This dark diction has become America's addiction.
I think anybody who's had an alcoholic in their life, or somebody with a drug problem, realizes that until things get bad enough, there's no incentive to change.
An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
Like most people I knew, I thought drug addicts were the kinds of people we see in doorways in neighbourhoods most of us try to avoid - people obviously strung out, often homeless and possibly psychotic. I didn't think my son could become addicted, but he had.
I feel guilty about smoking way too much - and I have a bit of an addiction to chocolate milk shakes, which is not good.
There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
