“On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt and say, very sweetly, 'Listen, darling, if you don't stop trampling me I'm going to make you sit on my lap while I tell you my entire life story. Including a lot of details about drug rehab and my divorce.' He goes back to his seat.” IfsYearsStoriesRunningFeetDrugIncludingDetailsEightDivorceFlyingPlanesShirtsSeatsExcessT ShirtLapDarlingLife StoryRehabTestosteroneKeep RunningVery Sweet Author:Rosanne Cash
“If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.” IfsStillsWould BeDrugBaseballGamblingRehabBusted Author:Pete Rose
“Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers.” PeopleThinkingTryingMeanKidsDrugAddictionRedemptionGet OverVersusMaking ChangesHookedRehab Author:Ice T
“You really can't just take someone who's got a drug addiction and just put 'em in rehab. It doesn't work that way. You can't choose it for them. They have to choose it for themselves - because that's scary. It's really hard.” WayHardDrugAddictionScaryEmsDrug AddictionDrug AddictRehab Author:Rosario Dawson
“However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul of the artist and the need to self-medicate, which can lead to bad trouble either in drugs, or alcohol. So it's not that there's no connection, it's just that we can't make too much of it because it isn't the addiction that's the issue, it's the fragility of some people who do artistic work, who end up in rehab somewhere or other.” PeopleNeedsSoulEndsSelfArtistIssuesToo MuchTroubleDrugConnectionsAddictionAlcoholArtisticFragileSensitivityWireRehabFragility Author:Anne Roiphe
“My dad struggled with cocaine addiction, and we actually went to rehab with him too. I remember having extensive talks with him about how I was wired a certain way, how I wouldn't be able to drink and do drugs the same way my friends got to.” WayAbleRememberCertainDadDrinkDrugMy FriendsAddictionMy DadCocaineRehab Author:Ryan Montgomery
“I do think that if you were to be scrupulous and research into it you would find that certain types of natural psychedelics have, if anything, anti-addictive properties. And all the evidence really points towards that. But you have the people who are running these drug rehab situations, they demonized all the drugs.” PeopleIfsThinkingRunningCertainNaturalSituationTypeDrugResearchEvidencePropertyRehab Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“[Jack Nash from The Andromeda Strain] was not in the original film, but he was kind of a Geraldo Rivera almost kind of reporter that had a drug addiction. We start the story in rehab, and then he gets the roots of the story. I loved him.” KindStoriesFilmDrugRootsOriginalsAddictionReportersStrainDrug AddictionDrug AddictRehabAndromeda Author:Eric McCormack
“I think it would be fair and right to use some of my land and wealth for a drug-rehab center or an Indian school.” ThinkingUseWould BeSchoolWealthLandDrugFairsIndianRehab Author:George Carlin
“When people ask me about drugs and alcohol, I say "Yeah, I went to rehab, I went to a mental hospital, I've been to jail." The main lesson you can learn is do drugs and alcohol when you are in a good mood, not when you are in a bad mood, and find balance in anything you do.” PeopleAsksBalanceLessonsDrugYeahAlcoholMoodAsk MeHospitalsJailDrugs And AlcoholRehabBad MoodGood Mood Author:Marilyn Manson
“The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.” WorldCountryHomeGirlWomenBornChallengesDrugHumbleAlcoholAround The WorldReachingMinistryAddictAlcoholicsDrugs And AlcoholRehab Author:David Wilkerson
“I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingDifferentMatterProblemSchoolFallHouseBornStudyCuttingStreetsDyingHairDrugThousandMarriedClothesHappeningsSickFalling In LoveLeavingIceGrievingGetting OldGetting MarriedExamUnnoticedRehabSkatesHair CutMoney ProblemThese StreetsBifocalsProblems Love Author:Jeffrey Eugenides