- Measure
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.
- Foreign Oil
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.
- Arrested
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans struggling with addiction need treatment and reduced access to deadly drugs.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
- Aspire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy.
- Feed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the self-conscious or insecure girl, technology can become a crippling addiction, an insatiable hunger not just for connection but the elusive promise of being liked by everyone.
- Holiday
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.
- Nov 07, 2020