I didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it.

Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.

Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.

Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.

If you subscribe to the idea that #‎ addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children - paranoid, anxious, bruised, tremulous, withered, in some cases psychotic - are seriously ill, slowly dying. We'd never allow such a scene if these kids had any other disease. They would be in a hospital, not on the streets.

Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It’s critical if we’re going to effectively prevent and treat addiction. Accepting that addiction is an illness will transform our approach to public policy, research, insurance, and criminality; it will change how we feel about addicts, and how they feel about themselves. There’s another essential reason why we must understand that addiction is an illness and not just bad behavior: We punish bad behavior. We treat illness.