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For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary. . . A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist who is against surgery even when the alternative is the crippling or death of the patient.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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