Poetry: Addiction to prescription drugs 15 Articles

by Randall Flagg

As i lie in my bedroom dying, I want to cry cause of who's crying. My children all beautiful, my wife too. By the bed all so tearful, what can I do? As I yearn for the arrival of the slow coming weekend, The sound o...read more

by Stephanie Gustafson

QUESTIONS If all questions had answers Then I'd wanna know From when did it start To take over control? What was the trigger? And who brought it on? Was it something I said? Or something done wrong?...read more

by Catherine Van Herrin

WHAT PILLS When it isn't enough when pills and sedation and night breeze aren't enough and changes in skin's landscape eludes you and mystery...that too... What then? What next, what blooming flower, What midn...read more

by Stephanie Howery

My hands are shaking My nerves are shot I need my fix I feel so hot The room is spinning I feel so sick I hate the drugs I have to live withread more

by Brennan Curtin

Addict Eyes: Windows to the Black Dark paths spawn desperate places, Where junkies roam the far and wide. Dim lit taverns with no social graces, The courage to live has up and died. Bloodshot eyes adorn sallow f...read more

by Christine Bruness

"Hell" A Senryu Her pill addiction - wakes up to another day in hell . . . without him.read more

by Debbie Kerr

Growing up is a bitch- learning responsibility, being true to your feelings, acting with integrity, putting yourself out there, to experience life on life's terms, It's hard, damn hard. Every time I felt something...read more

by babygrlll

My life is being drained, of taking these pills. A pill for this, a pill for that, A pill to get up, a pill to lie down, This is making me so deranged. Can't see my way through, don't know what to do. The pills a...read more

by H Brown

The Hutschnecker Memo* why can't johnny sit still?* why does he fidget so much? johnny must surely have dysfunction, and he needs a mental crutch; Dr. Hutschnecker, our PTA physician, sends complete support of th...read more

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by Christine G.

PRESCRIPTIONS Prescriptions! Prescriptions! Everyone has a prescription. Do this, do that- TID, QID, or PRN? What must I do to be saved? Maybe rest is the key- a daily siesta like the Mexicans do....read more

by Asia Smyth

Post-Modern Idolatry If I subscribed to religion, pharmacists would be my rabbi-priests and fix-it drugs, my holy water. As a ritualistic pill-popper, would I be a dogmatist? Pharmacology, my Kabbalah, wherein...read more

by Lena Horne

Take a pill When the world gets on your shoulders and the feelings turn to blue when no one seems to listen there is nothing you can do. If the sleep don't want to find you waking up is hard to do yesterday was ...read more

by The Poetess

Oh shes a pill a big one for sure she has all the classic effects and allure she has big eyes and soft lips This world has written a prescription To love to care to admire those with flare But there is ...read more

by John E. Patterson

THE DRUGGIST Like Humpty Dumpty, The bald fat druggist sat perched On his elevated altar, Glowering down at the nervous crowd. Behind and above "His Honor's" head, And spread the length of the wall, Was a l...read more

by Makala Shay

What starts out so innocently, a huge problem it soon can be. Trying to ease a bit of pain, then when you don't have it, you go insane. So easily taken for what ails you, but soon you need more than a few. Fill...read more