Drama: Drug addiction

by Nikki Meagher

Today I learned another life lesson. Now this can be a touchy subject for some so....for those of you who suffer from closed minds, and easily offended personalities, this is the time to hit the escape key. Oka...read more

by misskitkat12

Amy Watson anxiously waited as the tiny rock melted over the heat of her lighter. Her hand was shaky as the spoon she held kept jerking around. The rock eventually became a tiny puddle of clear liquid. "Thank , God," Amy s...read more

by Marian Huyck Grossi

DANCING WITH THE DEVIL DRESSED FOR A WEDDING "Come! Come and dance with me," she said in her sweet voice. I was overpowered by the gentleness of her when we began to dance. We made a marvelous couple on the dance floo...read more

by Letisha Morris

Drug Addiction... To get away to a land where you are accepted. The sweet rush of fulfillment. Man that rush that high, just to make a little time pass by. A misunderstanding of a delusional truth, thats better than re...read more

by Valarie Topp

I held the small package I'd just drove through hell to get against my chest like I needed to hold it for dear life. I also peaked through my front picture window to make sure that my husband was not in the living room. I ...read more

by Melissa Evans

When I first decided to do something about overcoming my addiction problems, I was told to let go of people, places and things. Only I saw some exceptions to the rule of letting go. Like for instance, my husband. Afte...read more

by Wendy Nichols

The Addiction of Alcohol As a child I always told myself this horrible addiction my mother held would one day go away. I'd tell myself she loved me more than the alcohol. To ashamed to bring my friends home afraid of wh...read more

by Aunnah Mission

On March 18,2000 I buried a bitter sweet friend, her name was Cocaine. I met her back in 1990, we were friends in the beginning her and I. It was love at first light, I was overcome by her beauty her taste was intoxicati...read more

by Latoya Lawrence

One summer i accompanied a relative to the emergency room of a nearby hospital and as we waited in the lobby to be seen by a doctor a young man there who was also waiting to be examined approached the both of us to strike ...read more

by Ronda Ogilvie

She looks out her window to see the police squad car pull into her drive and park. The officer seemingly in slow motion approaches the house and knocks on the door. Upon opening her door she finds they are here for her s...read more

by Cheyanne Cooper

Adah How do you succeed when everyone is rooting for you to fail? I don't know how, I was hoping you could tell me. Adah, it means beautiful addiction. It's also my name. When the clinic asked me to keep a journal I was...read more

by Carla Doyle

The day was just another normal day the same as any other but it was now ending and soon things would change, the atmosphere was changing already with the anticipation of an expectant arrival. There were four women in the...read more

by Teresa Fonseca

Drug Addiction: A Mother's Worst Nightmare A mother looks for the first time into the face of her newborn child. She marvels at each tiny feature and her heart overflows with love. She watches this miracle of bir...read more

by Screwloose

Drug addiction is a cold and lonely place to be and if a person does not get help with their addiction, they will be lost in a society that has no place for them. There are so many kinds of drug addiction, that it would...read more

by Andy Hitch

"The future now turns so bleak and black, some of my friends ain't coming back, it's not an opinion-it's a fact, way off the train tracks and addicted to crack"-hip-hop lyrics from underground rapper "heavy dope". To a...read more

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by MichaelNolan

As I lay on the bed dying, I thought to myself this isn't happening. This can't be happening to me. One grandfather smoked three packs a day for longer than I'd been alive and died of undiagnosed lung cancer. The other...read more

by Danielle Valenzuela

I'm only 15, and yet I have so many friends who do drugs. I know so many drug dealers, and it is kind of scary. I'm not actually scared of them, but everyday I think about my friends getting hurt. What if one of them actua...read more

by Roma Spencley

POPPIT. (Scene: A wooden bench within college grounds) (Tamsin enters, followed closely by Tarquin) Tamsin ....and then moms and pops only went and found my stash. (she sits, languidly, at one end of the bench) ...read more

by Keith Hastings

As far back as I can remember, my whole life has revolved around the notion of getting high to fix my problems. For me, it was never a choice of if I should become a drunk and an addict, it was more or less when. I fought ...read more

by keisi j

Scattered and passionate, Janey struggles to transform the addiction. Her creativity supports her intention but her weak will tells her the addiction cannot be contained. Still, this writing seems so powerful; if only she ...read more