Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. C.C. DeVille More Quotes by C.C. DeVille More Quotes From C.C. DeVille Any day you wake up and the ground C.C. DeVille shaking good-day wake-up Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it's a disease... If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, that's a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not fair to the real diseases of the world. C.C. DeVille cancer growing-up real