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You may not know, But it is absolutely true: With each heartbeat Your heart is calling: "God, God!" You may not hear it, But God Himself definitely hears Your heart's cry.

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David Sheff

Through 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.

Addiction, Drugs, Marijuana, Rationalizations, Tolerate, Weekend
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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.

Addict, Addiction, Alcohol, Caring, Knows, Living

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.

Addiction, Bruised, Children, Ideas, Kids

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.

Addiction, Disease, Insurance, People, Reason Why, Research

When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.

Chaos, Insanity, Order, Paragraphs, Sentences

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

Cause, Causes, Control, Cure, Cures, I Can
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