“We realize that drug addiction is a sickness, but it's also a crime.”
Pam Bondi
“Addictions are a state of body ones state of mind indulges”
BJ Morin
“All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation”
W. H. Auden
“It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.”
Shirley Chisholm
“Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.”
Ralph Nader
“I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.”
Dan Rather
“There are addicts who commit crimes, and criminals who use dope, ... We have to learn the difference with these sociopaths.”
Lee Wood
