Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One of the first actions we take at Passages is to ruthlessly scrutinize, always under a doctor's supervision and care, the specific necessity of any mind-altering or mood-altering medications that our clients are taking. As soon as any non-essential drugs are out of their systems, the feelings they were trying to suppress usually emerge. When that happens, we can see what symptoms the client was masking with drugs or alcohol.

— Chris Prentiss

Spiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the soul?'' Oh, rather!'' What do you do about it?'' I generally take a couple of cocktails.

— P.G. Wodehouse

Squiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the soul?'' Oh, rather!'' What do you do about it?'' I generally take a couple of cocktails.

— P.G. Wodehouse

The advertisement their products in such a fashion as to make it seem wonderful to drink their ethanol products. It does not matter if they give their products fancy name like Cabernet Sauvignon or Pilot Noir, or if they put bubbles in an ethanol product and call it champagne or beer-everyone is selling ethanol.

— Chris Prentiss

The whiskey was a good start. I got the idea from Dylan Thomas. He's this poet who drank twenty-one straight whiskeys at the White Horse Tavern in New York and then died on the spot from alcohol poisoning. I've always wanted to hear the bartender's side of the story. What was it like watching this guy drink himself out of here? How did it feel handing him number twenty-one and watching his face crumple up before the fall of the stool? And did he already have number twenty-two poured, waiting for this big fat tip, and then have to drink it himself after whoever came took the body away?

— Michael Thomas Ford

Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society.

— Chris Prentiss

We do not want to believe that we cannot control alcohol and that alcohol is, in truth, controlling and dictating our lives. When you free yourself of a dictator, like alcohol, the freedom that you experience is totally amazing and so empowering. You get your life back.

— Liz Hemingway

When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.

— Chris Prentiss

You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. Furthermore, you have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.

— Chris Prentiss