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Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?' But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'

It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

If you don't know someone who's had a problem with addiction, you will.

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.