"ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously."
- Carrie Fisher
"Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without paying them back. That I'd sooner die than owe anyone money for helping me. Apparently Jimmy knew mo..."
- Craig Ferguson
"The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Be your OWN celebrity!"
- Jamie McCall
"You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to..."
- Chris Prentiss
"I’ve been married but I’m not anymore. And I still believe in love."
- Nick Saint Clair
"To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demora..."
"I smile thinly, to make it clear that this will happen when hell turns into a family friendly summer resort."
- Lauren Beukes
"My daughter, Carly, has been in and out of drug treatment facilities since she was thirteen. Every time she goes away, I have a routine: I go through her room and search for drugs she may have left be..."
- Dina Kucera
"So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks."Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?""I'm a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body. P..."