An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.
David SheffThe hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make this easy. Nothing makes this easy, but you can make better decisions.
David SheffOpenness 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 SheffThis stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.
David SheffThrough Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate....It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs.
David Sheff