By Alicia Cruz
For The Readers of The Black Urban Times
For The Readers of The Black Urban Times
When a loved one, friend or family member struggles with addiction, it can affect everyone around them.
Before you know what to do or if you can do anything, you may have become an enabler thinking you're trying to help the addict.
The death of actor Corey Haim likely has many of you thinking about friends, family members and acquaintances who may be struggling with their own battles against addiction.
I dredged up some poems and words of inspiration for those individuals and their loved ones. The staff of The Black Urban Times sends their deepest condolences to the family members of Corey Haim.
Foxnews.com brings us a piece on celebs who have fought battles against addiction. Everyone from Eminem to Whitney is featured. Check it out here
Read about Meth addiction
Effects of Meth and Before/After Pictures
Vicodin Addiction
Symptoms, signs of a prescription drug addict
NEED DRUG TREATMENT ADVICE? CALL Call 866.288.7176
SOBER COLLEGE
This is no ordinary drug treatment facility.
I’ve known you for over 12 years now, yet it seems like only yesterday
That you first caught my attention when I saw you looking my way
At first we would only see each other for a weekend fling
I didn’t even notice how quickly you had become an everyday thing
I remember at first I used to think that we were right from the start
It took me years to realize how you were tearing my life apart
Although I cannot lie nobody has been a friend like you
You were always there to comfort me whenever I felt blue
I remember as a child I thought anyone who knew was dumb
Until I grew older and fell in love with you for your ability to make me feel numb
I can remember each time I fell apart and felt I couldn't go on anymore
You were there promising that you would always be there because that’s what friends are for
I turned to you for help because you seemed to make life easier for me
Of course I was the only one who could see that, everyone else didn’t agree
Instead they disapproved of you right from the start
And each time I stood up to defend you because you had become I part of my heart
Even though I knew they were right about you being the reason I lost all I once had
I felt I had to make excuses just so you wouldn’t look bad
I didn’t want to hear them say that my addiction is all in my head
I think yeah tell that to my body when I can’t get out of bed
My mood swings can be bad and periodically my body will shake
A better description is the after shocks that come after an earthquake
My addiction has been something that I have tried so hard to hide
I just didn’t want to admit it; I just had too much pride
So many times I have given my word that you and I were through
Yet to this day I find myself still struggling with you
I used to think that ending things would be easy, but now I will be the first to admit
That this is by far the hardest thing that I have ever tried to quit!
Every day I wish that you would go away and never return!
But as the days go passing by without you the more I begin to yearn
For just one hit to bring me back to the old me
Oh how do I break this vicious cycle?! Oh how do I break free?!
My addiction is so strong! How do I cure this disease?
Release your grip on my life I’m freakin begging you please!
You’ve taken so many things that I once possessed inside
You took my will, my strength, you even took my pride
The day that I made you a part of my life is a day I will always regret!
My life would have been so different if you and I had never met!
I understand that it is impossible for me to turn the hands of time back
So I must find a way to deal with you so that I can get my life on track
So I am here to tell you that there is no room in my life for anymore
It is time I see all the other things that God has planned in my life for me to explore
But I’m not going to lie it was fun while it lasted
But this addiction is over it is time I move past it!
The Lying Truth Written By: Seyhan Sable February 18, 2010
Living beneath the surface rotted and decayed was where my expectations with you laid.
All my trust, lust and pain was frayed. Nothing but a drunken affair with no love lost there.
I gave in to selfish ways, thinking your memory would fade within days.
I was wrong, I know, because feeling you on my skin sets me ablaze.
Just do it and push me to the floor don't give up until I'm done begging you for more
Just do it and push me to the floor make me think that you're the one that I adore.
A relationship built upon sex and lies would soon meet its demise.
Muddled and lost with spider webs of deceit you arise.
Reconnecting one night to hook up, nothing less nothing more.
Didn’t go as planned, something told me to stay and I knew I was damned.
An addiction to your flesh so rare and dangerous, a brush with danger you were no stranger.
A lasting embrace was soon to erase what ever the trace of what it was we were before.
With fire and passion it all changed and became so much more, you are something that is worth trying for.
Sometimes life is altered with uncovered lies that make you change your mind. In this moment in time we can never be anything more than what we are today, yet somehow that's more than ok.
Swallowed the lies I cant blame you for cutting the rope that ties.
Binds your hand so tight I know its alright.
Testing the limits you remove the trace of all my glitter and lipstick on your face.
When our time is gone and done my body will bear the scars on my back, moments of ecstasy stuck in time.
Never a regret will cross my mind. Hope someday you think of me and know someday I will think of you.
What’s that that they say? Seize the day?
Not a regret for the time we lost in life because don’t forget, we all die someday.
Before you know what to do or if you can do anything, you may have become an enabler thinking you're trying to help the addict.
The death of actor Corey Haim likely has many of you thinking about friends, family members and acquaintances who may be struggling with their own battles against addiction.
I dredged up some poems and words of inspiration for those individuals and their loved ones. The staff of The Black Urban Times sends their deepest condolences to the family members of Corey Haim.
Foxnews.com brings us a piece on celebs who have fought battles against addiction. Everyone from Eminem to Whitney is featured. Check it out here
Read about Meth addiction
Effects of Meth and Before/After Pictures
Vicodin Addiction
Symptoms, signs of a prescription drug addict
NEED DRUG TREATMENT ADVICE? CALL Call 866.288.7176
SOBER COLLEGE
This is no ordinary drug treatment facility.
This treatment facility, serving ages 17-25, offers an innovative residential Life Skills Program unlike any I have ever worked in as it provides the residents the opportunity to continue high school and college courses while still in treatment. Visit SOBER COLLEGE to tour the program and facility.
Candidates for Sober College may have:
- need for primary addiction treatment
- struggled to finish high school
- struggled to succeed in university or college
- completed a primary treatment experience
- attended boarding school
- attended therapeutic boarding school
- attended wilderness programs
- drug and alcohol issues
- dual diagnosis related issues
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I’ve known you for over 12 years now, yet it seems like only yesterday
That you first caught my attention when I saw you looking my way
At first we would only see each other for a weekend fling
I didn’t even notice how quickly you had become an everyday thing
I remember at first I used to think that we were right from the start
It took me years to realize how you were tearing my life apart
Although I cannot lie nobody has been a friend like you
You were always there to comfort me whenever I felt blue
I remember as a child I thought anyone who knew was dumb
Until I grew older and fell in love with you for your ability to make me feel numb
I can remember each time I fell apart and felt I couldn't go on anymore
You were there promising that you would always be there because that’s what friends are for
I turned to you for help because you seemed to make life easier for me
Of course I was the only one who could see that, everyone else didn’t agree
Instead they disapproved of you right from the start
And each time I stood up to defend you because you had become I part of my heart
Even though I knew they were right about you being the reason I lost all I once had
I felt I had to make excuses just so you wouldn’t look bad
I didn’t want to hear them say that my addiction is all in my head
I think yeah tell that to my body when I can’t get out of bed
My mood swings can be bad and periodically my body will shake
A better description is the after shocks that come after an earthquake
My addiction has been something that I have tried so hard to hide
I just didn’t want to admit it; I just had too much pride
So many times I have given my word that you and I were through
Yet to this day I find myself still struggling with you
I used to think that ending things would be easy, but now I will be the first to admit
That this is by far the hardest thing that I have ever tried to quit!
Every day I wish that you would go away and never return!
But as the days go passing by without you the more I begin to yearn
For just one hit to bring me back to the old me
Oh how do I break this vicious cycle?! Oh how do I break free?!
My addiction is so strong! How do I cure this disease?
Release your grip on my life I’m freakin begging you please!
You’ve taken so many things that I once possessed inside
You took my will, my strength, you even took my pride
The day that I made you a part of my life is a day I will always regret!
My life would have been so different if you and I had never met!
I understand that it is impossible for me to turn the hands of time back
So I must find a way to deal with you so that I can get my life on track
So I am here to tell you that there is no room in my life for anymore
It is time I see all the other things that God has planned in my life for me to explore
But I’m not going to lie it was fun while it lasted
But this addiction is over it is time I move past it!
The Lying Truth Written By: Seyhan Sable February 18, 2010
Living beneath the surface rotted and decayed was where my expectations with you laid.
All my trust, lust and pain was frayed. Nothing but a drunken affair with no love lost there.
I gave in to selfish ways, thinking your memory would fade within days.
I was wrong, I know, because feeling you on my skin sets me ablaze.
Just do it and push me to the floor don't give up until I'm done begging you for more
Just do it and push me to the floor make me think that you're the one that I adore.
A relationship built upon sex and lies would soon meet its demise.
Muddled and lost with spider webs of deceit you arise.
Reconnecting one night to hook up, nothing less nothing more.
Didn’t go as planned, something told me to stay and I knew I was damned.
An addiction to your flesh so rare and dangerous, a brush with danger you were no stranger.
A lasting embrace was soon to erase what ever the trace of what it was we were before.
With fire and passion it all changed and became so much more, you are something that is worth trying for.
Sometimes life is altered with uncovered lies that make you change your mind. In this moment in time we can never be anything more than what we are today, yet somehow that's more than ok.
Swallowed the lies I cant blame you for cutting the rope that ties.
Binds your hand so tight I know its alright.
Testing the limits you remove the trace of all my glitter and lipstick on your face.
When our time is gone and done my body will bear the scars on my back, moments of ecstasy stuck in time.
Never a regret will cross my mind. Hope someday you think of me and know someday I will think of you.
What’s that that they say? Seize the day?
Not a regret for the time we lost in life because don’t forget, we all die someday.
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