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“I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.”
― Choke
― Choke

“The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict?
The answer is that he usually does not intend to become an addict. You don鈥檛 wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months鈥� shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don鈥檛 really know what junk sickness is until you have had several habits. It took me almost six months to get my first habit, and then the withdrawal symptoms were mild. I think it no exaggeration to say it takes about a year and several hundred injections to make an addict.
The questions, of course, could be asked: Why did you ever try narcotics? Why did you continue using it long enough to become an addict? You become a narcotics addict because you do not have strong motivations in the other direction. Junk wins by default. I tried it as a matter of curiosity. I drifted along taking shots when I could score. I ended up hooked. Most addicts I have talked to report a similar experience. They did not start using drugs for any reason they can remember. They just drifted along until they got hooked. If you have never been addicted, you can have no clear idea what it means to need junk with the addict鈥檚 special need. You don鈥檛 decide to be an addict. One morning you wake up sick and you鈥檙e an addict. (Junky, Prologue, p. xxxviii)”
― Junky
The answer is that he usually does not intend to become an addict. You don鈥檛 wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months鈥� shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don鈥檛 really know what junk sickness is until you have had several habits. It took me almost six months to get my first habit, and then the withdrawal symptoms were mild. I think it no exaggeration to say it takes about a year and several hundred injections to make an addict.
The questions, of course, could be asked: Why did you ever try narcotics? Why did you continue using it long enough to become an addict? You become a narcotics addict because you do not have strong motivations in the other direction. Junk wins by default. I tried it as a matter of curiosity. I drifted along taking shots when I could score. I ended up hooked. Most addicts I have talked to report a similar experience. They did not start using drugs for any reason they can remember. They just drifted along until they got hooked. If you have never been addicted, you can have no clear idea what it means to need junk with the addict鈥檚 special need. You don鈥檛 decide to be an addict. One morning you wake up sick and you鈥檙e an addict. (Junky, Prologue, p. xxxviii)”
― Junky

“There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.”
― The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
― The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.”
― The Testament
― The Testament

“Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts , and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not to substances but to the oblivion and the tenderness the substances engender. An addict, if you don't mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone who has cut himself off, voluntarily, from the world's traffic and currency.”
― Narcopolis
― Narcopolis

“You cannot fix people who will not take feedback, because from their perspective, they do not have a problem.”
― Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward
― Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward

“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. Puking sickness followed by heroin, which led to more puking sickness." I'd be surprised at her forthrightness, but that's addicts for you. The twelve steps crack 'em open and then they can't shut up.”
― Zoo City
"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. Puking sickness followed by heroin, which led to more puking sickness." I'd be surprised at her forthrightness, but that's addicts for you. The twelve steps crack 'em open and then they can't shut up.”
― Zoo City

“This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.”
― Trainspotting
― Trainspotting

“Emotionally wounded addicts have an extremely difficult time with intimacy and with trusting themselves and others. They have a deep desire to trust, but their emotional scars and traumatic memories haunt them whenever an opportunity to trust another person arises. Naturally this can lead to a very lonely existence.”
― Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way
― Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way

“The craving for the thing is rarely met by the satisfaction of getting it. And so we crave more. And the cycle repeats. We are encouraged to want what will only make us want more.
We are, in short, encouraged to be addicts.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
We are, in short, encouraged to be addicts.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
“The idea of loving and helping 鈥渂roken鈥� people seems romantic. I鈥檓 going to rescue girls from the sex trade. I鈥檓 going to see addicts freed from drugs. I鈥檓 going to protect abused women. Then you get hurt.”
― Beloved Chaos: moving from religion to Love in a red light district
― Beloved Chaos: moving from religion to Love in a red light district

“Well, we're all addicts of some sort...part of being alive is figuring out the balance between what you want, what you need, and what you have with what you don't want, don't need, and don't have”
― Mary Jane
― Mary Jane

“A little money can buy happiness; a lot can buy addiction.”
― We have our difference in common 2.
― We have our difference in common 2.

“For many emotionally wounded addicts, the idea of grieving is a daunting prospect. To regularly grieve does require courage and a desire to heal - but rest assured; the resulting gains from these efforts are profound.”
― Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way
― Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way

“Drug addicts will likely suffer from other addictive or dysfunctional behaviours. Seldom will you meet a drug addict who does not exhibit multiple addictive behaviours. Because drug addiction and eating disorders are impossible to ignore so are often in the splotlight, often subtler addictive behaviours, such as love addiction, compulsive underearning and sex addictions, may be neglected.”
― Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way
― Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way

“What our culture lacks are honest messages about what it really means to be a healthy human being. Or how you make humans grow.”
― Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again
― Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again

“If addicts are to overcome the stigma of addiction, professionals and nonprofessionals must educate the public.”
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“For addicts, like me, things have to get worse before they even have a chance of getting better.”
― The Sober Addict
― The Sober Addict

“Recent research has shown that traffickers are no longer just kidnapping individuals off of the street, but they are now employing new tactics to find their potential victims.”
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“The world of the Demiurge is the world as it seems to people obsessed with material possessions, attracted by the desire to control the realm of the Goddess Sophia, people who prefer the artificial to the authentic, people in the clutches of delusional poisonous drugs, people with addictions to other people and alcohol, as well as food, spending, pornography, gambling, angry people who are fixated with politics and financial issues; people who are full of illusory worries about possible future events rather than living in the authentic present now, people who see the world through the eyes of the media and people who are completely isolated from themselves emotionally. These people never 'see' and never 'hear' the real world around and within them. They live in the false duplicate reality of the Earth manufactured by Yaldbaoth.”
― Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!
― Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!

“Serial killers are closely related to secret sex addicts, as they both have desires that need to be constantly fed.”
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