“Drugs provide pleasure; they cannot provide happiness. For happiness, you need people.”

Source: Choice Theory (1997), p. 88

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American psychiatrist 1925–2013

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“Drugs provide pleasure; they cannot provide happiness. For happiness, you need people.”

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