“I was drinking and taking too many drugs. The problem is, you’ve got shitloads of cash and shitloads of time and all you’re doing is looking for a buzz. I did fuck all really, apart from being a jerk.”— Keith Flint, matt-blake.co.uk
“All I can tell you is what you already know. Call your sponsor. Get help. I love you and I hope you get your life together.”— Felix van Groeningen, Luke Davies, David Sheff, Steve Carell, imdb.com
“Heroin was my life preserver, and though it may sound strange, it kept me afloat for a long time. The love and warmth was an antidote to living an alienated life in a garish world.”— Zachary A Siegel, medium.com
“The worst part about crack is long term addiction, but I won't be around for long-term anything.”— Paul Abbott, Bianca Samson, Bojana Novakovic, imdb.com
“It was touching, that bit where he [Topper Headon] apologised to the group for getting addicted to hard drugs and screwing up the group. He'd never apologised before.”— Joe Strummer, theguardian.com
“He stared at it, as it slowly burned his fingers, but that was after it had burnt his marriage, his future and his lunges.”— Kartik Ghodasara, quora.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
“When you're using drugs, you're driven by this mystical black energy, a force inside you that just won't quit. And the weaker you get, the more you feed into that energy, and the more it fucks with you. When your spirit becomes dark and your lifestyle becomes dark, your existence is susceptible to i…”— Anthony Kiedis, 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
“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
“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
“Five years ago we might have made a grant for a fire station. Now it might be a substance-abuse center.”— Judy Sisson, bloomberg.com
“You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months’ shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don’t really know what junk sickness is until you have had several habits. It took me almost six months to get my first habit, and then the withdrawal s…”— William S. Burroughs, amazon.com
“You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months’ shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don’t really know what junk sickness is until you have had several habits. It took me almost six months to get my first habit, and then the withdrawal s…”— William S. Burroughs, amazon.com