Openness is the first step toward recovery... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.
David SheffWherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.
David SheffA world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.
David SheffI'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.
David SheffAlong with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying
David SheffIf 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.
David Sheff