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Addiction Quotes

Honest lines on struggle, dependency, and the path to recovery.

This set gathers candid reflections on dependency, from comparisons with screen habits to a blunt argument that dependency deserves treatment as a wellness issue, not a character flaw. A few voices describe touring life's recurring cycle of highs, setbacks, and recommitment. If this topic touches close to home, Prayers offers a gentler companion page.

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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.

Quotes by Walter Becker

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Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

Quotes by Vikram Patel

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Cigars, cigarettes, and hookah tobacco are all smoked tobacco - addictive and deadly. We need effective action to protect our kids from struggling with a lifelong addiction to nicotine.

Quotes by Tom Frieden

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The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Quotes by Thorstein Veblen

Family Quotes

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Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.

Quotes by Susannah Grant

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Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

Quotes by Susan Cheever

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We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.

Quotes by Ron Kind

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What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

Quotes by Rodney King

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Americans struggling with addiction need treatment and reduced access to deadly drugs.

Quotes by Rod Rosenstein

Healing Quotes

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Under the leadership of President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Department of Justice is delivering results. Many federal, state, and local agencies are working with us to combat opioid addiction.

Quotes by Rod Rosenstein

Several lines reframe pressure and stress itself as a kind of habitual pull, widening the idea of addiction beyond substances alone. For support-adjacent themes, browse Family or Healing.