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Though addiction is a disease - a brain disease that's often progressive - addicts who relapse are often blamed.
- David Sheff
#Addiction
#Brain
#Disease
#Progressive
I chose a rehab center for Nic that was recommended by a friend who had sent her son there. The program lasted 28 days, after which he relapsed. Over the next six years, he was admitted to six residential treatment programs and four outpatient programs. He would do better for a while, but then relapse. Each relapse was crushing.
- David Sheff
#Better
#Days
#Four
#Friend
#Son
Your children live or die without you. No matter what we do, no matter how we agonize or obsess, we cannot choose for our children whether they live or die. It's a devastating realization, but liberating.
- David Sheff
#Children
#Choose
#Die
#Live
#Matter
Many doctors are stuck in the idea that addiction is a choice, and they don't treat that.
- David Sheff
#Addiction
#Choice
#Idea
#Stuck
#Treat
If a child had another disease, we'd be open about what we were going through, but addiction is stigmatised and comes with shame and guilt.
- David Sheff
#Addiction
#Disease
#Guilt
#Open
#Shame
Nick spent his first years on walks in his stroller and Snugli, playing in Berkeley parks and baby gyms and visiting zoos and aquariums. His mother and I divorced when he was 4. No child benefits from the bitterness and savagery of a divorce like ours.
- David Sheff
#Baby
#Bitterness
#First
#He
#Mother
Well, addiction does start with a choice.
- David Sheff
#Addiction
#Choice
#Does
#Start
#Well
The war on drugs is a joke. We spend $40 billion a year, and the proof that it's a failure is that any kid can get almost any drug they want in any city in America within half an hour.
- David Sheff
#America
#City
#Failure
#Half
#War
No, I don't believe in tough love. I just believe in love.
- David Sheff
#Believe
#Just
#Love
#Tough
When change takes place gradually, it's difficult to comprehend its meaning.
- David Sheff
#Change
#Difficult
#Meaning
#Place
#Takes
Kids love the 'Mario Brothers' games, which are whimsical, inventive and lots of fun.
- David Sheff
#Fun
#Kids
#Love
#Which
#Whimsical
Everybody tells you over and over again that addiction is a disease. But when I read Nic's book I understood not just that this is a disease, but what the disease means.
- David Sheff
#Addiction
#Book
#Disease
#Just
#Over
If you love someone who's an addict and their use is life-threatening, you don't wait until they hit bottom because that can mean that they're going to die. You have to do everything you can to get them in treatment.
- David Sheff
#Die
#If You Love Someone
#Love
#Wait
Every relapse is dangerous, but often it takes multiple relapses before someone finally gets sober for good.
- David Sheff
#Dangerous
#Finally
#Good
#Sober
#Someone
Everyone's generation probably feels like they're parenting in a better way.
- David Sheff
#Better
#Generation
#Like
#Parenting
#Way
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