Quotes tagged as "substance-abuse" Showing 1-30 of 82
"An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do." ― Dylan Thomas
"An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate." ― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
"If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected." ― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
"If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control" ― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever
"I was in a race to see if I would die from the outside in or the inside out." ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout
"We cannot incarcerate ourselves out of addiction. Addiction is a medical crisis that—when it comes to nonviolent offenders—warrants medical interventions, not incarceration. Decades later, data unequivocally illustrates that this war has been a massive failure. It has not only failed to reduce violent crime, but arrest rates—throughout its tenure—have continuously ascended even when crime rates have descended." ― Dominique DuBois Gilliard, Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores
"Someone who is trying to be sober is often trying to work out deeper emotional issues and is attempting to undo years of habitual behavior. When you reduce recovery to just abstinence, it simplifies what is really a much more complex issue." ― Sasha Bronner
"Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances." ― Robert Crumb
"The mentality, thought system and relationships that got you into addiction will keep you there unless you disentangle yourself from them." ― Oche Otorkpa, The Night Before I killed Addiction
"Your decision to kill your addiction will become a reality only if you believe and reinforce the fact that you have the capacity to do it." ― Oche Otorkpa, The Night Before I killed Addiction
"The enabler will love the addict into darkness. The addict becomes a shadow of the person they once were. The enabler love is blind and selfish. Blind, because they cannot see the selfishness, when they cradle their own emotions over the addict's recovery. It will always be tough love, support and lots of praying to keep an addict clean. The underlined reason for the substance abuse can only be found when the addict is thinking clearly." ― Ron Baratono
"I nod, then let the conversation drop. But secretly I'm wondering if Haymitch sobered up long enough to help Peeta and me because he thought we just might have the wits to survive. Maybe he wasn't always a drunk. Maybe, in the beginning, he tried to help the tributes. But then it got unbearable. It must be hell to mentor two kids and then watch them die. Year after year after year. I realize that if I get out of here, that will become my job. To mentor the girl from District 12. The idea is so repellent, I thrust it from my mind." ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
"That you do not have to like a person in order to learn from him/her/it. That loneliness is not a function of solitude. That it is possible to get so angry you really do see everything red. What a 'Texas Catheter' is. That some people really do steal—will steal things that are yours. That a lot of U.S. adults truly cannot read, not even a ROM hypertext phonics thing with HELP functions for every word. That cliquey alliance and exclusion and gossip can be forms of escape. That logical validity is not a guarantee of truth. That evil people never believe they are evil, but rather that everyone else is evil. That it is possible to learn valuable things from a stupid person. That it takes effort to pay attention to any one stimulus for more than a few seconds. That you can all of a sudden out of nowhere want to get high with your Substance so bad that you think you will surely die if you don't, and but can just sit there with your hands writhing in your lap and face wet with craving, can want to get high but instead just sit there, wanting to but not, if that makes sense, and if you can gut it out and not hit the Substance during the craving the craving will eventually pass, it will go away — at least for a while. That it is statistically easier for low‐IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high‐IQ people." ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
"That was so not fair. My life was perfectly fine until suddenly I had this live-in boyfriend who wanted to interact with me, and I realized that I was almost always high." ― Jordan Castillo Price, Body and Soul
"Stressing about a relapse happening only leads to a release happening." ― D.C. Hyden, The Sober Addict
"When I was 29, my gynecologist gave me a reprieve; I was no longer living under the 10-year cancer death threat. I had gotten a clean bill of health, finally. I felt free, but dissatisfied.
Only years later did I realize that on a deep unconscious level, I was ready to experience young adulthood, something that I did not think I had the opportunity to experience at the appropriate time.
Unfortunately, it would come at the expense of my children." ― Marilyn L. Davis
"Be careful what you do, because your actions become your habits. Be careful what you make a habit, because your habits become your character, and your character becomes your destiny." ― Tony Hoffman
"The Power to redefine your life and purpose is in your hands, use it effectively like a wise person." ― Oche Otorkpa
"Addiction is the pleasure island of our lives. Only a long swim or rescue will help us." ― Trevor Carss
"Elizabeth's life is penned very simply in this inspiring memoir about her incredible battle, to find a way to live. Born the year her parents immigrated from Europe, in a large catholic family, she experienced poverty, neglect, rejection and abandonment before the age of eighteen. She had no sense of self and felt invisible most of the time. Her father passed away after battling cancer for eleven years, when she was nineteen years old. It was then that her world took a bad turn, when she fell in love with a drug addict/dealer. Twenty four years later, after using heroin everyday while trying to raise her five children, circumstances forced her to leave him. Elizabeth and her three year old daughter had only one bag of clothes and a stroller. They were homeless for three months and she attempted suicide. Without a car, phone, money or friends and in very poor health she was lost and broken and needed help but was too stubborn to reach out, believing her life to be worthless and of no value. She did not attend any detox, meetings, rehabs, counselors or doctors but with only sheer determination and persistence, overcame her dependency on drugs. Elizabeth began her harrowing journey towards the light of truth and found freedom in Christ alone. She remains clean to this day and is a very private person. She wrote her story only to help people who suffer like she did and need help to find a way to live without drugs." ― Elizabeth Moldovan
"Sensuality is the substance of the things you hope for." ― Lebo Grand
"JACK AND JIM WILL ALWAYS BE THERE FOR THE GOOD TIMES...BUT EVEN THEY LEAVE FEELING EMPTY." ― Allene vanOirschot, Daddy's Little Girl
"Although I've been told I'm an ALCOHOLIC, which means I cannot stop drinking, I've also discovered, over years of experience, that if I have no money, or car, and it's cold in the winter, most days I am not terribly excited to run out and steal beers from the Rite Aid. Think for yourself." ― Dmitry Dyatlov
"It's not the substance that hooks you, it's the emotions," he explained. "There is a crack somewhere in our spirits, and we have to heal that before anything." ― Antonio Michael Downing, Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming
"Islam emphasizes reason; it is the basis upon which humans are held accountable for their choices. It is also the characteristic that elevates the human being above the rest of Allah's creation, if that gift is used appropriately. Islamic law is designed in such a way as to preserve reason and intellect and to ensure its well-being and freedom. Islam prohibits the use of any substance that may affect the mind negatively or decrease its ability in any way." ― Aisha Utz, Psychology from the Islamic Perspective
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