#alcoholic

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#alcoholic #choose #condition #death #disease

One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#against #alcoholic #career #cruelest #i

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#alcoholics #country #crime #health #health problem

Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and like playing a lot of really precise pool. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#alcoholics-anonymous #bikers #drugs #recovery #sobriety

Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution is their only perceived means of survival.) Millions of children work as prostitutes around the world. A third are male. One study revealed that over 50 per cent of prostitutes are the children of alcoholics or substance abusers, and 90 per cent are deflowered through incest or rape. Ninety-one per cent of prostitutes do not speak of the abuse. (The truth of life is told through the language of behavior.) Abused children suffer Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, guilt, self-destructive impulses, suspicion, fear. Seventy-five per cent of prostitutes attempt suicide. (Imagine their scrapbook of memories.) ↗

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#children-of-alcoholics #fear #guilt #incest #juvenile-prostitutes

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#alcoholic #alcoholism #alcoholism-addiction-recovery #mad #miserable

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#alone #always #attention #christmas #christmas time

It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything. ↗

— Julie Walters

#alcoholic #anything #being #blotting #early

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not. ↗

— Betty Ford

#alcoholic #because #going #i #know

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#alcoholic #more #patient #pick #time