“We're all a mishmash of extremes. I know that I have demons. I don't know if I want to get rid of them altogether, but I would like to experience them in a different way. Maybe go face to face with them. I've never really had the time to go to therapy. Well, here and there. But not enough to help me…”— Johnny Depp, vanityfair.com
“Alcohol was an escalating madness, and the blackout issue was the juncture separating two kinds of drinking. One kind was a comet in your veins. The other kind left you sunken and cratered, drained of all light.”— Sarah Hepola, amazon.com
“Not taking a drink was easy. Just a matter of muscle movement, the simple refusal to put alcohol to my lips. The impossible part was everything else. How could I talk to people? Who would I be? What would intimacy look like, if it weren’t coaxed out by the glug-glug of a bottle of wine or a pint of…”— Sarah Hepola, amazon.com
“God, I hope my kid doesn't end up in rehab. Or: God, I hope my kid doesn't end up in therapy...When we say things like that, though, we underscore the false belief that people who seek help are failures and people who don't seek help are a success. It's not true. Some of the healthiest, most accompl…”— Sarah Hepola, amazon.com
“I chose to share both the good and the bad parts of my story, and of my imagination, so that it might help even one person realize that there is hope. You are not alone. And it does get better. I promise you it’s worth it.”— Kimberly Nalen, amazon.com
“Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.”— Chris Prentiss, amazon.com
“At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.”— Chris Prentiss, amazon.com
“You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.”— Chris Prentiss, amazon.com
“If you regard alcoholics and drug addicts not as bad people but as sick people then we can help them to get better.”— Russell Brand, theguardian.com
“It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease tha…”— Russell Brand, theguardian.com
“Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.”— Russell Brand, theguardian.com
“Little kids, little problems. Wait till you’ve got drugs and sex and social media to worry about.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“Today is the 10 Year Anniversary of the release of HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE! So a big...um...wait, what was I talking about..?”— Neil Patrick Harris, twitter.com
“We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.”— Russell Brand, amazon.com
“Even as a junkie I stayed true to vegetarianism. I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger. What a sexy little paradox.”— Russell Brand, amazon.com
“Sometimes, I do want to feel sober — serious, quiet, reserved. Sometimes, however, I want to be delirious.”— Daniel Coffeen, thoughtcatalog.com
“DMT reproduces many of the features of an enlightenment experience, including timelessness; ineffability; coexistence of opposites; contact and merging with a supremely powerful, wise, and loving presence, sometimes experienced as a white light; the certainty that consciousness continues after death…”— Rick Strassman, amazon.com
“It was really the DMT that empowered my commitment to the psychedelic experience. DMT was so much more powerful, so much more alien, raising all kinds of issues about what is reality, what is language, what is the self, what is three-dimensional space and time, all the questions I became involved wi…”— Terence McKenna, amazon.com
“Studies show that if you eat well, exercise, and don't do drugs or alcohol, YOU WILL DIE.”— Unknown, quora.com