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They don’t want to fund the police, they want to addict the police to the federal dollar, and that comes with a more efficient way to ensure centralized decision-making. – Matt Gaetz	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think last year we indicted about 650 felony cases and probably, I would say probably 500 of those were either meth cases, drug cases, or they were the copper thefts, forgeries, burglaries, things like that. But, we know in looking at it that the person is an addict. – John Kimbrough	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This looks like one of the last times I saw Chris alive, i would see him one more time when I did a gig in Chicago. We tried to hang out afterwards, but … I don’t know if you’ve ever really hung out with an addict. Towards the end, anything that isn’t the drug is a chore. – Chris Rock	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's like a drug. I always tell people who start dancing that once they start, they become an addict. – Johanna Dalez	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I was discriminated against in my job, I was fired, I became homeless, I had to engage in survival sex work. I became a drug addict because I didn't know how to navigate survival on the streets. – Ashlee Marie Preston	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
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	added by Normando 5 years ago
Part of alcoholism is lying, when you’re an addict, you know you ca n’tbe honest with people. You say what you wantthem to hear. I ca n’t be mad at David for that, butit’s still a tragedy. – Danny Bonaduce	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I have a 47-year-old daughter, who we’re very close now… But her mother left, took her, I didn’t see her for years, i have a son, Chuckie, whose mother was an addict. I was an addict. And he ended up, of course, being an addict… He ended up in prison, which broke my heart… Now he’s clean and doing well. – Chuck Negron	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Chris, a recovering addict, had a prescription for Ativan and may have taken more Ativan than recommended dosages, the family believes that if Chris took his life, he did not know what he was doing, and that drugs or other substances may have affected his actions. – Kirk Pasich	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The addict may actually see no problem in what they are doing despite injuries, being late for work or important meetings, and having relationship squabbles. – Paul Coleman	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It was a slow unveiling of my sexuality that was of course, very difficult for us, and then… I wind up as a crack cocaine addict [in 2002] after having been sober for 21 years. And Carly went through all of that with me. So the unraveling is rather dramatic. – James Hart	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine. – Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine, am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors. – Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I have a whole new appreciation for the color of the sky, because when you're an addict and when you're in bondage, you see everything as black and white, as gray, i didn't see the beauty of this world, this world we're living in. Yeah, there's a lot of hurt and I understand that too, but there's a lot of beauty and there's a lot of freedom. – Rachel McCool	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Most people think of an addict as you know, skid row, or homeless living on the street. – Eric Adams	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Think of how we forgive or redeem the alcoholic or the drug addict, we don't blindly believe they are 'cured,' but we allow the space for their behavior to show they're redeemed. – Joanna Lipari	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Just because they’re a drug addict doesn’t mean we’re not going to give them something for their pain. – Derek Clarke	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
By every measure that we define success in this country this guy had it, great looking guy, well educated, great career, plenty of money, beautiful loving wife, beautiful children, great house, he had everything. He's a drug addict and he couldn't get help and he's dead, there but for the grace of God go I. It can happen to anyone so we need to start treating people in this country, not jailing them. – Chris Christie	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I've had one addict describe it as $5 insanity, they still want to try it because it's so cheap. It gives them heightened awareness. They feel stronger and more sensitive to touch. But then the paranoia sets in. – Don Maines	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This man is a flight risk, in addition, he is a drug addict. – Jim Ronca	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

They don’t want to fund the police, they want to addict the police to the federal dollar, and that comes with a more efficient way to ensure centralized decision-making.

– Matt Gaetz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think last year we indicted about 650 felony cases and probably, I would say probably 500 of those were either meth cases, drug cases, or they were the copper thefts, forgeries, burglaries, things like that. But, we know in looking at it that the person is an addict.

– John Kimbrough

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This looks like one of the last times I saw Chris alive, i would see him one more time when I did a gig in Chicago. We tried to hang out afterwards, but … I don’t know if you’ve ever really hung out with an addict. Towards the end, anything that isn’t the drug is a chore.

– Chris Rock

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's like a drug. I always tell people who start dancing that once they start, they become an addict.

– Johanna Dalez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I was discriminated against in my job, I was fired, I became homeless, I had to engage in survival sex work. I became a drug addict because I didn't know how to navigate survival on the streets.

– Ashlee Marie Preston

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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

added by Normando
5 years ago

Part of alcoholism is lying, when you’re an addict, you know you ca n’tbe honest with people. You say what you wantthem to hear. I ca n’t be mad at David for that, butit’s still a tragedy.

– Danny Bonaduce

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I have a 47-year-old daughter, who we’re very close now… But her mother left, took her, I didn’t see her for years, i have a son, Chuckie, whose mother was an addict. I was an addict. And he ended up, of course, being an addict… He ended up in prison, which broke my heart… Now he’s clean and doing well.

– Chuck Negron

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Chris, a recovering addict, had a prescription for Ativan and may have taken more Ativan than recommended dosages, the family believes that if Chris took his life, he did not know what he was doing, and that drugs or other substances may have affected his actions.

– Kirk Pasich

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The addict may actually see no problem in what they are doing despite injuries, being late for work or important meetings, and having relationship squabbles.

– Paul Coleman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It was a slow unveiling of my sexuality that was of course, very difficult for us, and then… I wind up as a crack cocaine addict [in 2002] after having been sober for 21 years. And Carly went through all of that with me. So the unraveling is rather dramatic.

– James Hart

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine.

– Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine, am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors.

– Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I have a whole new appreciation for the color of the sky, because when you're an addict and when you're in bondage, you see everything as black and white, as gray, i didn't see the beauty of this world, this world we're living in. Yeah, there's a lot of hurt and I understand that too, but there's a lot of beauty and there's a lot of freedom.

– Rachel McCool

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Most people think of an addict as you know, skid row, or homeless living on the street.

– Eric Adams

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Think of how we forgive or redeem the alcoholic or the drug addict, we don't blindly believe they are 'cured,' but we allow the space for their behavior to show they're redeemed.

– Joanna Lipari

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Just because they’re a drug addict doesn’t mean we’re not going to give them something for their pain.

– Derek Clarke

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

By every measure that we define success in this country this guy had it, great looking guy, well educated, great career, plenty of money, beautiful loving wife, beautiful children, great house, he had everything. He's a drug addict and he couldn't get help and he's dead, there but for the grace of God go I. It can happen to anyone so we need to start treating people in this country, not jailing them.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I've had one addict describe it as $5 insanity, they still want to try it because it's so cheap. It gives them heightened awareness. They feel stronger and more sensitive to touch. But then the paranoia sets in.

– Don Maines

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This man is a flight risk, in addition, he is a drug addict.

– Jim Ronca

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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