Drugs are a constant battle for many in the world, sobriety is a bigger fight for most, but anyone can overcome the hardships with support and love from those close to, and even those who are mere strangers...
I have witnessed people at bus stops nodding off, looking very sick, and flipping around like a fish out of water. Moments like those have left a permanent image, and fear within me that I can't seem to remove.
Whether it be in an urban community or the suburbs, lives are taken from a needle to the arm, powder of some sort inserted through nostrils, or drinking themselves to a temporary coma. Drugs DO NOT DISCRIMINATE, and welcomes everyone, with all types of currency.
It is an epidemic that must be handled immediately, but will ever be controlled when the government seems to profit also ?
This beautiful poem was written by eswaller, and was published today.
When You Self Medicate
You are wrong to think that you can self medicate
With it all… sex, pills, drugs, self-harm, or alcohol.
You are not on the right path to see things straight.
In the middle of the night I will not answer your call
When you are suffering from withdrawal because
You no longer have what you need to get high and
Strung out. You only needed me when the buzz
Wore off, making you feel empty. I understand
Where you were coming from, but not where
You were going because you try to hide yourself
Behind it all so well, always masking your bare
Emotions. Your hands, browsing the bookshelf,
But never being curious enough to open a book
And discover the world’s wonders. You would
Rather believe your own twisted lies and hook
People with your version of the “misunderstood”
Truth. Your words are doing nothing to match
Your actions, walking away without a scratch.
Most of the reasons for the spread of drug
Excessive freedom of children
And lack of awareness of teenagers how dangerous it is
The worst is the corruption of the drug control system from the top of the pyramid
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The misinformation is definitely a huge part! Especially with things like heroin, kids are always told it'll destroy your life, lose all your money, your family, all you hold dear, ect...
Buuut then they or a friend try it and go "whoa! this isn't so crazy, I'm floating along on a cloud for the whole afternoon, and it only cost a dollar or two"
And with all the misinformation they don't realize how horribly slippery of a slope they're on until they're doing anything for the next hit and its hundreds and thousands of dollars a week because the tolerance explodes up disturbingly fast, and they can't ever stop because they Need it now.
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Beautiful!
Pls, upvote my post
https://steemit.com/poem/@joebest/love-by-samuel-taylor-coleridge-1772-1834
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Superb Poem and Lesson
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i totally agree with u
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We need more people like you to continue to bring awareness to the drug epidemic that's going on right now. I love that you are spreading the word for us to pay attention to it. We can't just keep ignoring it and throwing people who are hurting into jail to try to solve the problem. You are right, profit is to be made at the expense of very special people and lives.
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It takes great empathy, but don't bleed yourself dry giving too much love and compassion.
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joseph!! Thank you, your Post.
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Wonderful words!
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Drug addiction, to eradicate the addiction it needs a strong willpower and commitment. If willpower gets weak just a miner the subject can't survive.It also needs a full support from family and friends. Also, Keep him busy in work.
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Drugs when taken in prescription can save lives; drugs when abused can ruin lives. Many have been saved through drugs, many have been ruined through drugs. Oh drug, what a two-edged sword you are? Oh man, what a capacity to choose you have either to abuse or to respect the master called drug.
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I had a friend who was a drug addict. he was dying before our very eyes. for a few years it has become, as is customary, a throwback of society. it is a pity that in general this can be
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I think it is a complex addiction and you cannot quit using drugs overnight. But I believe deciding to overcome an addiction to drugs could be the most important decision of someone's life. We should help those people looking to quit.
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Excellent post, very well articulated. thank you so much.
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this is a wonderful piece
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Nice advise
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We are all just searching for love and happiness, that is what we try to fill the void with drugs. This will be a never ending battle because drugs, substances, and alcohol cannot sustain it. We must understand how how mind, body, emotions all work. Then it is just a choice we can hold within ourselves.
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Great poem with a great advise
-cheers-
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beautiful post about an urgent issue. i hope for more people like you to continue to spread awareness. we lose so many to this disease every day we put off fighting it together as a society. <3
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Addiction kills and too much of everything thing is bad. Lot of lessons learnt from that poem. Keep up the good works @joseph.
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Poetry touching, many people are losing their way using drugs. just for pseudo and temporary pleasure, he dumps into the abyss. It is very difficult to return.
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nice attempt good going upvoted the post
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Beside critics, looking from the shoes of the one who is "supposed to be grateful", I can't see anything. There is occasional rhyme and tricky word combos that do call for some respect for the author but this is not art. Too much stress and accumulated hatred towards the "one who is supposed to be grateful" but isn't, grew to express itself in this form.
After all
Who plays the victim role
Wasn't the author the one who stole
Pointing his finger
When he was just supposed to answer a call
Is this poem ungrateful's one biggest fall
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@originalworks
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for you to quit using drugs have to do with yourself decision and with love i think you can overcome it! @joseph
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Strong words.
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Addiction is a family disease. One person may use, but the whole family suffers.
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This is really powerful. Beautiful analysis of such a painful topic too. All the best.
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Good poem.
I wrote this several years ago, it's along the same lines. It's posted on my page and I'll be adding more of my writings as time goes by.
EVEN PROSTITUTES PICK FLOWERS
July 24, 2012
I was stopped at a red light on my way to work today. I noticed a woman walking down the street. Based on the way she was dressed, the way she carried herself and the part of town she was in, I assumed she was a prostitute. As she walked, she passed by a bush that had one lone large flower on it. She stopped and looked at it. She then picked it and walked off with it.
It struck me. Here is a woman that society would say was too far gone, that was too hardened by her life, more than likely strung out on drugs. Like most caught up in her lifestyle, I’m sure she carries herself as if that were true. Yet, she stopped admired and wanted to possess something of innocence and beauty.
How often do we make the decision that someone is just too far gone? How often do we conclude that they are just too hardened by life? How often are we wrong? What if, instead of looking down our noses in judgement (and pitying someone is a type of judgement), we instead presented them with the one lone beauty of Christ love? If they choose to reject Him, that is their decision. But imagine for just a moment if they don’t. If they pick Him and take Him as their very own. Unlike the flower picked by the woman today, He won’t wilt and die. Quite the opposite, He will breathe a life into them that they have never dreamed possible.
Even prostitutes pick flowers.
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This was deep. Wow!
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Beautiful!
Pls, upvote my post
https://steemit.com/poem/@joebest/love-by-samuel-taylor-coleridge-1772-1834
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