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I feel that
any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly
contraindicated for addicts. The question ''Why did you
start using narcotics in the first place?'' should never be
asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be
to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.
-- William S. Burroughs
1914-1997, American Writer
It is not
heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need
to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television
addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie
addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country
than there are narcotics addicts.
-- Shirley Chisholm
1924-, American Social
activist
If an addict
who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no
longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction.
There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a
sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite
the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost
behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
-- Jean Cocteau
1889-1963, French Author,
Filmmaker
It is not I
who become addicted, it is my body.
-- Jean Cocteau
1889-1963, French Author,
Filmmaker
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My case is a
species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the
Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet,
Critic, Philosopher
In this
country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell.
There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is
hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst
kind of hell for those who love you.
-- Billie Holiday
1915-1959, American Jazz
Singer
Every form of
addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol
or morphine or idealism.
-- Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
To possess
your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the
flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy
compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long
in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem
to create and is trying to live now in the first bald
desolation created by knocking them off.
-- C. E. Montague
1867-1928, British Author,
Journalist
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