Patrick J. Kennedy Addiction Quotations

A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some point in their lives.

People are going to keep getting prescribed medication that is counter to what their real disease state is, which is addiction.

Opioid replacement therapy is the standard evidence-based model to treat people with acute opioid addiction, and that is unassailable according to every research study that's been done. If that is the evidence-based model, then why can't we meet the large-scale need that's out there? We can't because one, there aren't enough doctors who can prescribe [drugs like methadone], and two, there are these artificial limits [by insurers] on who doctors can prescribe to.

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.