Not because ideas kill, but because bad ideas die hard and these ideas form the hot beds for addictions to thrive. Most people do not realize they have killer ideas floating around in the sea of their emotional and conceptual functioning. However, if you attempt recovery from addiction and achieve sobriety, you will eventually deal with these bad ideas. Just use your program and you will be okay. The better shape you are in, the better your recovery program will work for you.
Thoughts are as important as feelings to sustain recovery.
Pain can kill you. Pain cannot kill you. What you do about pain can. The high road to recovery is something outside yourself, a program, a person, a book or what others think of you. Your thoughts and actions feed you, not what you get from others.