A Quotes
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“ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Addicted gamblers carry a substantial burden of shame and guilt. Unlike most other addictions and disorders, gambling most often is done in secret; and in order to keep their addiction secret, gamblers will lie, deceive, and steal. Not only are they ashamed about gambling, and losing money, they are even more shamefully about all the lies and deceptions that they constantly need to employ with their family and friends.”
Source: Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
“Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.”
Source: The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
“Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.”
“Addiction brings apathy. Break the apathy, and you break the addiction.”
Source: Destination Eden
“Addiction chains the spirit to illusion; connection frees it through truth and love.”
“Addiction does not always kill in dramatic fashion. Sometimes, it kills slowly and invisibly.”
“Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not “cure” partner abuse.”
Source: Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
“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.”
“Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.”
“Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.”
“Addiction is a disease - a treatable disease - and it needs to be understood.”
“Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.”
Source: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997
“Addiction is a health issue, not a social issue, not a crime, not a legal issue.”
“Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people.”
“Addiction is a revolt of the soul.”
“Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.”
“Addiction is a symptom of not growing up.”
“Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it's a disease... If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, that's a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not fair to the real diseases of the world.”
“Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without some addiction - to substances, sure, but also to love, sex, success, failure, power.”
“Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction”
“Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of ignorance that keeps everyone in bondage. With substance addiction the mind/body sets up a vicious cycle that perpetuates the dependence.”
“Addiction is like a renegade chemist turning your brain into a circus”
Source: Navigating Recovery: 12-Steps Simplified: A No Bullshit Guide to 12-Step Success and Thriving in Recovery
“Addiction is like swimming in an ocean for a very long time...drowning really, ready to give in. You're so tired, but you keep swimming, and then you start REALLY drowning. It's like trying to gasp for a breath, one tiny inhalation to keep going, and you get the one breath, but you are near death, suffocation, and each time you still manage to get one small breath in to keep going. Until, finally either you break free, you swim away from that magnificent grip, that monster lurking that keeps pushing your head under, or you have drowned. You died. It's that simple.”
Source: Addictarium
“Addiction is more malleable than you know. When people come to me for therapy, they often ask me whether their behavior constitutes a real addiction (or whether they are really alcoholic, etc.). My answer is that this is not the important question. The important questions are how many problems is the involvement causing you, how much do you want to change it, and how can we go about change?”
Source: 7 Tools to Beat Addiction: A New Path to Recovery from Addictions of Any Kind: Smoking, Alcohol, Food, Drugs, Gambling, Sex, Love
“Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live.”
Source: Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need: Repress Your Anger, Think Negatively, be a Good Blamer and Throttle Your Inner Child
“Addiction is not a moral defect, and to suggest that does a great disservice to people suffering with this disorder.”
Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
“Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags - it's a universal disease.”
“Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.”
Source: Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions
“Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.”
Source: The Setting Sun
“Addiction is rarely conquered alone.”
“Addiction is such an isolating incident in your life. You feel alone. And when you admit, when you come into a fellowship and people just surround you and say, "We will help you, that you're not alone, that we've been through it before, and you will get through it," just gives you such great hope.”
“Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.”
“Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to nicotine, alcohol, and other substances, there are psychological addictions, such as the addiction to work, sex, television, melodrama, and perfection.”
“Addiction is wanting it more, but liking it less.”
“Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.”
“Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes part in that part of the brain is designed by evolution to get us to persist despite negative consequences to do what we need to do - because I don't know anybody who could survive a relationship or parenting if not for the ability to persist despite negative consequences. The problem is when that gets misdirected to a drug and then you can find yourself in some very negative and potentially deadly situations.”
“Addiction isn't a moral failure; it’s a societal one. In the ER, I’ve sutured wounds from overdoses and watched schools fail to arm kids against the coming storm. ‘The Lotus Mark: The Pink Lotus’ isn’t fiction. It’s a glitter-coated bullet aimed at apathy. Here’s the truth: Lotus pills don’t just dissolve in your bloodstream. They dissolve families, cities, futures. I wrote this because nurses don’t just heal bodies; we armor souls. And sometimes, that armor is stormtrooper-plated and dripping in defiance.
Deanna LaForce RN], ER nurse and author of ‘The Lotus Mark: The Pink Lotus’ (Star Wars cosplay tutorials sold separately).”
Source: The Lotus Mark: The Pink Lotus. A Novella on Addiction and Trafficking Through the Eyes of an ER Nurse
“Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.”
“Addiction itself is the process with which an individual becomes personally consumed with an object, a subject, a substance, or a particular activity.”
“Addiction might be redefined not as a character flaw but as a "biochemical deficit management." Our emotional habits will become an accepted factor of good health, along with slogans like "Heartache can be harmful to your unborn children."”
Source: Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign
“Addiction" might be the best word to explain the lostness that so deeply permeates society. Our addiction make us cling to what the world proclaims as the keys to self-fulfillment: accumulation of wealth and power; attainment of status and admiration; lavish consumption of food and drink, and sexual gratification without distinguishing between lust and love. These addictions create expectations that cannot but fail to satisfy our deepest needs. As long as we live within the world's delusions, our addictions condemn us to futile quests in "the distant country," leaving us to face an endless series of disillusionments while our sense of self remains unfulfilled. In these days of increasing addictions, we have wandered far away from our Father's home. The addicted life can aptly be designated a life lived in "a distant country." It is from there that our cry for deliverance rises up.”
Source: The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
“Addiction occurs through choices, but somehow it also happens behind our backs. No one consciously sets out to devote themselves to the machine, to become its addict. Its veto power over all other possible attentions takes place, cumulatively, through every apparently free choice made as a user. We drop into the dead zone, the ‘ticker trance’ of feed addiction, by increment. The way the chronophagic machine fights for our attention recalls what Eastern Christianity used to call the demon of acedia. This was a predecessor of the modern concept of melancholia, and it was used in monasteries (those ancient writing machines) to describe an affliction of the devoted. In the original Greek, ‘akedia’ meant ‘lack of care’. In the Latinized Christian use propagated by Evagrius of Pontus, it described a lack of care about one’s life; a listless, restless spiritual lethargy. The condition left one yearning for distraction and continual novelty, exploiting one’s petty hates and hungers. It dissolved one’s capacity for attending, for living as if living mattered, into a series of itches demanding to be scratched. Ultimately, it was dehumanizing, corrosive of meaning: it was spiritual death.”
Source: The Twittering Machine
“Addiction serves a purpose. It is medication for an aching soul, relief for a pained body, and escape from an impossible mind. Addiction is a pretty good survival strategy when all your other strategies for living have failed.
As Rayya used to tell me, “I needed every gram of heroin I ever took back in the day, or I would have never made it out of my childhood alive. I could not have survived without my buffer of drugs.”
Source: All the Way to the River
“Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.”
“Addiction struggle is believing you are separate from love. It took me a long time to glimpse that.”
“Addiction to an electronic world caused the downfall of the MoFos. They'd forgotten to connect with each other, to connect with the creatures who missed them and to Nature as She called for them to come home.”
Source: Hollow Kingdom
“Addiction to food is unfortunately really grave, also to alcohol or to anything else.”
“Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.”