{"quotes":[{"text":"I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that.","author":"Heather O'Neill","tags":["canada","drug-addiction","drugs","hobo","homeless","jean-michel","life","montréal","pg-81","street"],"id":1581,"author_id":"Heather+O%27Neill"},{"text":"Some, they didn't make it.The temptation just too strong.How can darkness cloud the mindTo what I know as wrong?","author":"Kimberly Nalen","tags":["addict","addiction","drug-addiction","drugs","poetry"],"id":4169,"author_id":"Kimberly+Nalen"},{"text":"There are a wide variety of freedoms; whether if it's to break away from drug addiction or government suppression. On a general scale, the one element all these types of freedoms share is the need to survive - however that may be.","author":"Lauren Lola","tags":["connection","drug-addiction","freedom","government-suppression","survival"],"id":12715,"author_id":"Lauren+Lola"},{"text":"What the hell is that?' he asked.'Magic mushrooms.'I've always wanted to try those,' he exclaimed. 'They sound so cute.","author":"Heather O'Neill","tags":["addiction","addicts","drug-addiction","drugs","felix","foster-care","orphan","pg-85"],"id":15369,"author_id":"Heather+O%27Neill"},{"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":"The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.","author":"Russell Brand","tags":["alcoholism","drug-addiction","recovery"],"id":20267,"author_id":"Russell+Brand"},{"text":"The fear of the drugs running out is managable-the fear of time running down isn't.","author":"Ann Marlowe","tags":["addiction-recovery","drug-addiction","drugs","heroin","mental-illness","recovery"],"id":22316,"author_id":"Ann+Marlowe"},{"text":"The face of 'evil' is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: 'Wouldn't you?' Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickness, total possession, and not in a position to act in any other way. Dope fiends are sick people who cannot act other than they do. A rabid dog cannot choose but bite.","author":"William S. Burroughs","tags":["addiction","drug-addiction","evil"],"id":32024,"author_id":"William+S.+Burroughs"},{"text":"Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opes a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space.","author":"Melvin Burgess","tags":["drug-addiction","drugs"],"id":70672,"author_id":"Melvin+Burgess"},{"text":"We all have those things that help us carry on through life. It is important that these things upon which we depend for daily strength are healthy for our character rather than harmful. We must ask ourselves whether the comforts we reach for each day are vices or virtues? Do they feed the best parts of us or do they rob us of them? Even when we are at our most fatigued and are tempted to reach for self-destructive things, we must try to seek out and take solace in those things that will lead to our eventual renewal; rather than those things that will only serve to bring us lower.","author":"L.M. Browning","tags":["addiction","alcoholism","drug-addiction","growth","mindfulness","self-improvement","spirituality","unplugging","vices"],"id":79889,"author_id":"L.M.+Browning"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":60,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}