Drew Pinsky

“Ages 18 to 22 is such a hard transition, everyone's depressed.”

“I tell everybody, no one understands how challenging and stressful practicing medicine is.”

“I suppose I'm a healthier role model than, say, Slash of Guns N' Roses.”

“If someone wants to offer me some money to talk about something that I feel strongly about on Twitter - and I don't feel it's diminishing in any way my messages - I don't see why not.”

“The way people get hooked on fame... it can behave very much like an addiction.”

“We are trying to learn from the consequences of one's peers' actions.”

“From a health standpoint, I have metabolic syndrome, I have high triglycerides, low HDL, body fat centrally located, high blood pressure. Running really helps control my weight and that problem a lot. So if I am not running three days a week, I really miss it.”

“It's so self-evident that I have to live my own history, to remind people the fact that I got into radio back in the early '80s was because of AIDS and HIV. It was what motivated me - that was the topic that I felt was so important that I had to talk about it, educating young people about it.”

“If you don't want the world to see something you're sending, stop and think before you put it out there.”

“Medicine saved my life, quite literally. I woke up every day of my training thinking, 'I love doing this,' feeling like it was so important what I was doing.”

“I rescue people.”

“What motivates most people to change their behavior is consequences. No consequences? No behavior modification.”

“Here's the acid test for appropriateness: Pretend that someone near and dear to you is witnessing what you are writing or sending, or knows what you are thinking about sending. If, say, your partner saw this behavior, how would he or she feel? That you are asking yourself this question could mean that you shouldn't be doing it!”

“I trust my recovering peers completely. I'll occasionally look sideways at them because they're addicts but it would break my heart and surprise me to find out that any of these people were lying. Still, addiction is cunning and baffling and you never know.”

“I've been busily lifting weights since I was 14, but in college I started running as a way to reduce stress, as I recall.”

“Many aspects of the George Zimmerman trial have deeply affected me.”

“Addiction is not a curable condition.”

“Millennials really don't perceive hierarchies. They either don't perceive them or don't like them.”

“In love addiction that experience of: 'Oh my God, I'm in love... I feel whole, and I feel like I've known this person forever.' That is a feeling that you have to have all the time. You become addicted to it.”

“There are different techniques - some interventionists are really loving, others are very tough.”