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#1

“There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk -- in fact, quite the contrary.”
― Heather King, Parched: A Memoir

tags: alcoholism

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#2

“Drinking gave me a rush of confidence, and for a boy hounded by feelings of inadequacy, the buzz was a welcome relief. What was impossible to realize at the time was that I was shooting myself in the head in some strange time warp where the bullet takes many years to finally reach its target.”
― Brennan Manning, All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir

tags: alcoholism, drinking

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#3

“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.”
― Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

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

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#4

“AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, "The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking," but it isn't open to everyone. It's open only to those who are willing to publicly declare themselves to be alcoholics or addicts and who are willing to give up their inherent right of independence by declaring themselves powerless over addictive drugs and alcohol, as stated in Step One, "We admitted we are powerless over alcohol- that our lives had become unmanageable.”
― Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

tags: 12-step, 12-step-programs, aa, addiction-cure, alcohol, alcohol-abuse, alcoholic, alcoholics-anonymous, alcoholism, alcoholism-addiction-recovery, drug-abuse, drug-addiction, empowerment, non-12-step, non-12-step-programs, passages-malibu, passages-rehab, passages-ventura

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#5

“Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.”
― Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

tags: aa, addiction, alcohol-addiction, alcoholics-anonymous, alcoholism, chris-prentiss, drug-abuse, drug-addiction, empowerment

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#6

“When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.”
― Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

tags: aa, addict, addiction, addicts, alcohol-abuse, alcohol-addiction, alcoholics, alcoholism, chris-prentiss, drug-abuse, drug-addiction

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#7

“We do not want to believe that we cannot control alcohol and that alcohol is, in truth, controlling and dictating our lives. When you free yourself of a dictator, like alcohol, the freedom that you experience is totally amazing and so empowering. You get your life back.”
― Liz Hemingway

tags: alcohol, alcohol-abuse, alcohol-addiction, alcoholics-anonymous, alcoholism, stop-drinking

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#8

“When you are young your body cannot handle alcohol, and when you get old your mind cannot handle it. Either way, alcohol has its way.”
― Robert Black

tags: alcohol, alcoholism, drinking

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#9

“I couldn't stop so I quit.”
― Brian Spellman, Cartoonist's Book Camp

tags: addiction, addiction-and-recovery, addictions, alcoholism

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#10

“If you threw Elvis and a scarecrow in a blender, topped the whole thing off with Seagram's 7 and pressed dice, you would make my dad. He's got tar black hair and shoulder blades that cut through his undershirt like clipped wings. He looks like a gray-skinned, skinny-rat cowboy and I would be lying if I didn't say that I am, maybe sorta kinda, keep it secret, in love with him.
And you would be, too, you would, if you met him before drink number five or six. Just meet him then. Get lost before things get ugly.”
― Andrea Portes, Hick

tags: alcoholism, southern-gothic

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#11

“Only discovering and healing the root causes of each individual's dependency puts an end to dependency. One-on-one sessions are key because the individual issues at the core of dependency are just that- completely individual.”
― Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

tags: addiction-cure, addiction-help, addiction-philosophy, addiction-treatment, alcoholism, change, change-the-world-change-life, chris-prenitss, healing-addiction, holistic-therapy, non-12-step, non12step, one-on-one-therapy, passages-malibu, passages-ventura, philosophy

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#12

“The advertise their products in such a fashion as to make it seem wonderful to drink their ethanol products. It does not matter if they give their products fancy name like Cabernet Sauvignon or Pinot Noir, or if they put bubbles in an ethanol product and call it champagne or beer- everyone is selling ethanol.”
― Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

tags: addiction, addiction-and-recovery, alcohol-addiction, alcohol-treatment-center, alcoholism, beer, chris-prentiss, dependency, drug-abuse, ecstasy, heroin, passages-malibu, passages-ventura, pax-prentiss, prescription-abuse, prescription-drugs, self-help, substance-abuse, wine

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#13

“When was the last time you woke up and wished you'd had just one more drink the night before?

I have never regretted not drinking. Say this to yourself, and you'll get through anything.”
― Meredith Bell, Seven Days Sober: A Guide to Discovering What You Really Think About Your Drinking

tags: addiction, alcoholism, recovery, sobriety

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#14

“Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all day. This is life!”
― Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

tags: alcohol, alcoholism, drink, moon

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#15

“Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around”
― Pete Townshend, Who I Am

tags: alcoholism

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#16

“I pawned the remote to my misery,
trading it in for liquor that was cheap;
screwdrivers for my vitamin c,
and a little bloodstream to my IV,
helping to soothe my lunacy”
― Volatalistic Phil, White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story

tags: alcoholism, drinking-with-the-blues, recovery, vodka

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#17

“Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: abuse, alcohol, alcoholics-anonymous, alcoholism, beer, behavior, binge-drinking, car-accidents, consumption, coping-with-problems, courage-change-self-reflection, depressant, depression, drink, drunk, drunkenness, dwi, empty, excuse, health, intoxicate, no-direction, poisoning, recovery, rehab, saddness, shallow, sobriety, staying-sober, staying-strong, weakness

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#18

“In retrospect, this seems to summarize all the insanity of that time. Guy is standing on top of a burning building. Helicopter arrives, hovers, drops a rope ladder. Climb up! the man leaning out of the helicopter's door shouts. Guy on top of burning building responds, Give me two weeks to think about it.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: alcoholism, changing-life, drugs, intervention

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#19

“one doesn't even think of
the liver
and if the liver
doesn't think of
us, that's
fine.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

tags: alcohol, alcoholic, alcoholism, bukowski, death, drinking, life, love, poem, poetry

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#20

“Alcohol. It sucks the life out of a face and replaces it with its own dumb shine of inanity. It’s up to you. If you want to lose yourself, have a drink.”
― Kevin Brooks, Martyn Pig

tags: alcohol, alcoholism

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#21

“Alcoholism is a choice... not a life sentence.”
― David Norman, Alcohemy: The Solution to Ending Your Alcohol Habit for Good-Privately, Discreetly, and Fully in Control

tags: addiction, alcohol, alcohol-abuse, alcohol-addiction, alcoholic, alcoholism

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#22

“Is a few hours of hell-raising, or respite from life's toil worth this every morning?”
― Catherine Lockwood, The Girl Behind the Painted Smile: My battle with the bottle

tags: abuse, alcoholism, recovery

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#23

“An empty bottle of Jack is almost just as beautiful as a new and unopened bottle...in the same sense as looking down at muddied feet, and looking back the way you came. The journey you've taken to get to this point, the experiences and sights and music listened to, the shit scrolled down on paper. An empty bottle may hold more promise than a full one in that regard...”
― Dave Matthes, Sleepeth Not, the Bastard

tags: alcoholism, ambition, booze, bottle, death, destruction, drunk, half-empty, half-full, hope

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#24

“The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.”
― Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story

tags: addiction, alcoholism, growth

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#25

“Alcohol does not solve problems but becomes a problem in itself”
― Amit Abraham

tags: alcohol, alcoholic, alcoholism, problem

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#26

“I soaked up the drink and it, in return, absorbed me.”
― Martin Pond, Dark Steps

tags: alcohol, alcoholic, alcoholism, drink

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#27

“Big Daddy: What makes you so restless, have you got ants in your britches?
Brick: Yes, sir...
Big Daddy: Why?
Brick: - Something - Hasn't - Happened...
Big Daddy: Yeah? What is that?
Brick [sadly]: - the click...
Big Daddy: Did you say the click?
Brick: Yes, click.
Big Daddy: What click?
Brick: A click that I get in my head that makes me peaceful
Big Daddy: I sure in hell don't know what you're talking about, but it disturbs me.
Brick: It's just a mechanical thing.
Big Daddy: What is a mechanical thing?
Brick: This click that I get in my head that makes me peaceful. I got to drink till I get it.”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

tags: alcoholism

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