An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.

I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry.

Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

Openness is the first step toward recovery... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

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