... Studies have found that children who witness abuse are more likely to accept relationships that are abusive.

— Asa Don Brown

The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors.

— Asa Don Brown

The life of the Addict is always the same. There is no excitement, no glamour, no fun. There are no good times, there is no joy, there is no happiness. There is no future and no escape. There is only an obsession. An all-encompassing, fully enveloping, completely overwhelming obsession. To make light of it, brag about it, or revel in the mock glory of it is not in any way, shape or form related to its truth, and that is all that matters, the truth.

— James Frey

The only way to make sure that the Hand didn't get to you would have been to kill your brother. I could've done it, but I didn't. I just gave him some drugs."" You gave an addict in rehab drugs, and you want credit for it?"" Of course, it sounds bad when you put it that way.

— Ilona Andrews

The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The past does not define me, it ignites me. The past is not a piece of me, it has placed me

— Ricky Maye

We are a society of excuses, shame and blame; we avoid accountability and often project our responsibility when involving domestic violence.

— Asa Don Brown

We're all dreaming,” Actor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected. He wondered how much of the garbage that Donna had overheard he had seriously meant. He wondered how much of the insanity of the day--his insanity--had been real, or just induced as a contact lunacy, by the situation. Donna, always, was a pivot point of reality for him; for her this was the basic, natural question. He wished he could answer.

— Philip K. Dick

When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.

— Chris Prentiss

You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. Furthermore, 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