David Sheff

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. ”

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. ”

Many doctors are stuck in the idea that addiction is a choice, and they don't treat that. ”

You know, we think about addiction as a morally reprehensible choice, but addicts act crazy because, in a way, that they are. ”

Addiction is a disease like anything else. It's like cancer, like heart disease, like diabetes. ”

Like so many of us, I'm brokenhearted about the death of the remarkably talented actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. ”

To try to help somebody who doesn't want to be helped is ludicrous. It doesn't work. ”

David Hockney is best known for his work with paint and canvas, but he has also worked in media as diverse as Polaroid-photo collage and fax painting. ”