{"quotes":[{"text":"If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.","author":"Chris Prentiss","tags":["addiction","addiction-and-recovery","alcohol-addiction","alcoholism","chris-prentiss","drug-addiction","non-12-step","passages-malibu","passages-ventura","pax-prentiss","relapse","withdrawal"],"id":17044,"author_id":"Chris+Prentiss"},{"text":"Alcohol is the drug ethanol. They are one and the same. Alcohol is also called ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol. It is a chemical compound. Ethanol is often added to the gasoline we use to run our cars.","author":"Chris Prentiss","tags":["addiction-treatment-center","alcohol","alcohol-addiction","chris-prentiss","passages-malibu","passages-ventura","pax-prentiss"],"id":132839,"author_id":"Chris+Prentiss"},{"text":"Squiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the soul?''Oh, rather!''What do you do about it?''I generally take a couple of cocktails.","author":"P.G. Wodehouse","tags":["alcohol","alcohol-addiction","comedy","depression","desolation","emptiness","humor","loneliness","sorrow"],"id":172128,"author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse"},{"text":"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 heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.","author":"Chris Prentiss","tags":["addict","addiction","addiction-cure","addiction-disease","addiction-treatment-center","alcohol-addiction","alcohol-addiction-treatment","alcohol-disease","alcohol-rehab","alcoholic","alcoholics-anonymous","alcoholism","alcoholism-addiction-recovery","chris-prentiss","dependency","depression","disease","drug-addiction","healing-addiction","inspiration","inspire","passages-malibu","passages-ventura","pax-prentiss","rehab","rehab-centers","self-help"],"id":174119,"author_id":"Chris+Prentiss"},{"text":"Suiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the soul?''Oh, rather!''What do you do about it?''I generally take a couple of cocktails.","author":"P.G. Wodehouse","tags":["alcohol-addiction","alcoholic","depression","desolation","emptiness","humor","sorrow","soul"],"id":358437,"author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse"},{"text":"The whiskey was a good start. I got the idea from Dylan Thomas. He's this poet who drank twenty-one straight whiskeys at the White Horse Tavern in New York and then died on the spot from alcohol poisoning. I've always wanted to hear the bartender's side of the story. What was it like watching this guy drink himself out of here? How did it feel handing him number twenty-one and watching his face crumple up before the fall of the stool? And did he already have number twenty-two poured, waiting for this big fat tip, and then have to drink it himself after whoever came took the body away?","author":"Michael Thomas Ford","tags":["alcohol","alcohol-addiction","alcoholism","bar","bartender","death","drinking","dylan-thomas","new-york","sad","suicidal-thoughts","suicide","thoughts","tips","tragedy","tragic","whiskey","wine"],"id":365913,"author_id":"Michael+Thomas+Ford"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}