All these people, successful, doing things. Departing to their desired destinations. I see inside them, they carry baggage, loneliness and insecurities. I can feel their guilt slowing them down. All have their loads but it’s the way they carry them that shows who they really are. And to me their all gems. The nightmares I'll give you while lying in bed, the voices you'll hear from inside your head, the sweats, the shakes, the visions you'll see; I want you to know, these are all gifts from me, But then it's too late, and you'll know in your heart, that you are mine, and we shall not part.

Curtis Fox: The book is made up of quotations from poems, from prose, from diaries, all sorts of stuff. You know what’s astonishing for me is that no one has done this before! addiction is a race between bank accounts and bodies..and its hard to tell which one will cross the finish line of complete emptiness first To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

I am your disease.

Once the enabling stops, the recovery is given the opportunity to start. Recovery Poems From Famous Poets Robinson took ‘near eighty drops of laudanum’ for pains in her leg and that night she had dreams about a homeless madman she had seen in the streets of Bath that day. In the morning she dictated the poem to her daughter and then later claimed to have no memory of the incident,” said Crawford. In this love poem, the you is unabashedly ambiguous; perhaps the self, perhaps another, the admired is the poem’s little secret. As the speaker masturbates, her love ripples outward from her body to the you, to the senses themselves, and to semen, her euphoria expanding until it seems the whole world could be her you. From speaking to moaning to screaming, knowledge for the speaker comes through communicating, with touch another way to talk. Why not speak with song? With a nod to The Five Satins famous doo-wop “In the Still of the Night,” Olds rides pleasure itself into an unpunctuated end. You just can’t dismiss all the good times we’ve shared, When you were alone… wasn’t it I who appeared? When you sold those possessions you knew you would need, Wasn’t I the first one who stepped in and agreed? There are also organisations that run helplines and local support groups for people living with a person who uses drugs. FRANK

Curtis Fox: And I wonder if you can tell us just a little bit about your own experience with addiction.The refused, the ones with hope but no money or scholarships; tread the streets with the echoes of electro house pulsing in their skulls. Just as the euphoric experiences of all kinds of hard drugs differ significantly, so are their withdrawal symptoms. Despite their seeming surface unrelatedness, whichever hard drug it may be, the creation of an illegal and dangerous dependency in users is a common denominator. There is evidence to suggest that emotional tears contain additional proteins and hormones that have relaxing or pain-relieving effects that help regulate the body and help it return to its normal state! Begin to forget your baggage, the problems that don’t matter anymore, the tears that cried themselves away, and the worries that are going to wash away on the shore of tomorrow’s new beginning

Families Anonymous is based on the same principles as Alcoholics Anonymous. It runs support meetings for the family and friends of people with a drug problem. We talk about how hum drum out lives have become and what we could to put some color in our world but don’t. If you’re struggling to overcome an addiction, no one needs to tell you it’s tough – you’re living it. Sometimes you could use a few encouraging words to remind you that you’re not in this alone and that, yes, change really is possible. With that in mind, here are some words for those in recovery, each designed to shine a little light when things look dark. Now look at you bastards, you’re thinking clear, You escaped with your lives when you found your way here. Only fools think they’re winners when admitting defeat, It’s what you must say when you’re claiming that seat. To step out of bed and splash water onto a severely distressed face and staring into a mirror with a despairing look.While male indulgence was seen as both antisocial and creative, women did not write about it this way,” said Crawford. “The concept of ‘addiction’ was still in its infancy, but there were clear views about the social acceptability of kinds of usage. It was judged not on the basis of whether someone was dependent upon the drug, but in terms of whether they took it as a stimulant or a relaxant, and whether their reasons for doing so were moral or immoral, selfish or selfless.” Including a meaningful quote or poem in the eulogy can bring comfort and offer a different perspective. Choose a piece that speaks to the person's character or reflects on overcoming life's challenges. Quotes

Texting away for hours trying to court those who now occupy our minds and possess our hearts hoping they may allow us to acquire their attention and affection. Calling them only to receive futile dial tones and know we are being evaded. In my opinion, nothing we do that reinforces their poor choices does any good whatsoever, however much we wish otherwise or the effort we put in to try and make them change their attitude. This poem has touched my heart because my boyfriend decides to do coke when he is upset or something bothering him that he can't fight it to make it change. Coleridge’s writer daughter, Sara, also took laudanum, as did the social activist and author Harriet Martineau and the poet and novelist Letitia Landon. Other notable women writers of the era with a habit were Henrietta O’Neill and Anna Seward. I sent this very powerful poem that I found on the Internet to my son in the hope that he would realise that drug addiction is the wrong way to go !!!!Wishing you well Maxine. Also sending strength to anyone else out there feeling sad because of a loved one's poor choices. We cannot change that. We can only change the way we respond! That's what the FA program is all about!