William S. Burroughs Addiction Quotations

There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they say is such nonsense that I didn't believe them about addiction.