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Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

I think most people will tell you that. They can go along and, while they're denying that they are addicted, say it's stress this, it's this, it's that. But I - it's - I think - I really believe there is a gene. Some people become addicted and others don't.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.

I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.

No addiction is good.

A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.