"Your mind whispers to you when you’re a junkie. Twenty-four hours a day, your addiction begs to be fed. You may know that going clean would be what’s best, but the addiction won’t let you listen to yourself. It’s the craziest, gnarliest obsession and drive you could ever possibly feel. That’s why people sell their bodies and their children to get high. It’s torture and prison and slavery, and you cannot escape. That little dude in your head will just keep whispering forever, “Let’s get high . . . let’s get high . . . let’s get high . . . ” The more you ignore him, the louder he gets, until you can’t ignore him anymore."
- Erik Sandin of NOFX, a former heroin addict