Dying to Survive Quotes

“Addicts choose to take that first drug, and only the addict him or herself can walk away.”
― Rachael Keogh, Dying to Survive: Surviving Drug Addiction

“suggested. ‘Are you for real? Why would I want to put myself out there to be judged and criticised? I do that enough myself.’ Going to the papers with my story was the last thing I wanted to do. Nobody wants to be exposed as a drug addict, especially one with a history like mine. I could barely understand the nature of my own addiction and I certainly didn’t expect others to understand. With such stigma and shame attached to drug use, people just didn’t want to know. Junkies like me were pushed to the side and marginalised as though we had leprosy. Like some sort of forgotten race.”
― Rachael Keogh, Dying to Survive: Surviving Drug Addiction

“I took drugs to hide my anger at the family I felt had abandoned me and at the emptiness I felt inside, which only drugs seemed to fill.”
― Rachael Keogh, Dying to Survive: Surviving Drug Addiction

“INTRODUCTION”
― Rachael Keogh, Dying to Survive: Surviving Drug Addiction

“The unexamined life is not worth living’ SOCRATES”
― Rachael Keogh, Dying to Survive: Surviving Drug Addiction

“Almost everything I had learned about the streets, drugs and crime, I had learned in prison. I would usually finish my sentence being less rehabilitated and more streetwise than ever before. That was it, I thought. I had no hope of getting clean now.”
― Rachael Keogh, Dying to Survive: Surviving Drug Addiction