meth use...it's here...now we need to take action!
Every time I think I have life figured out, it strikes me a curve ball to let me know I have no control over what begins. I can, however, take on what happens after that--although sometimes I am left scratching my head in wonder at how everything comes together at all the right times and for all the right reasons.
Case in point: the above picture is from a new book that is currently available on Kindle through www.amazon.com . It is a story of a little girl who lived through her mother's abuse of meth. It is something that I would never hope to see in my own life time but am not so naive as to believe it doesn't happen. It was written by a gal who happened along my blogsite and finding something familiar about one of my respondents, realized that a page from her past has come full circle. In the course of those events, her mother passed away, leaving the alley wide open for pain, sorrow and anger. She put that anger towards good, penning in under a week, her story, which I felt was so relevant and timely, that when she asked for my help, I obliged. Thus, you see the book now available to download either on a Kindle or even to your own PC from amazon. I encourage one and all to read it, feel free to discuss it...feel free to share your thoughts here with me. Meth use/abuse is so horrific and yet, we wear blinders in the hopes that it will disappear. It won't. Please read....I hope this motivates action and encouragement on the part of all of you. Thank you!
OMG...you're speaking to me. I am 45 and just quit meth last year. I did it for four years and what did it leave me with? well...I have no home, no job, no girl, she took the kids and scrammed.I am bumming off my little brother, my health is shot. oh yeah, for anyone looking for cheap thrills, this shit will pull you in and never let go with collateral damage. I gotta get me that book somehow..would a library have one? got a library here in town. I have never seen anything relevant about this but for sure you're breaking ground. You may not realize it, but I think yer gonna be savin' some lives. thanks...I am only glad prison didn't find me, because they really lay the smack down on this shit.
ReplyDeletehmmm..shot health...if you mean no teeth, hair falling out, constant bad breath, dark circles that don't go away and thin, you're right. I began meth at age 16 to lose weight. I lost sooo much more. Why don't anyone tell us this shit is bad? WHAAAAAAAA!!!! What I began for kicks became my hostage. I stole to keep it, I lied for it, I did time for it. I just got released from a halfway house last week. First offense, yet I did four years in prison! Now I have no life, no job, no hope for the future. I should have just let it do me in. I am talking experience here, peeps...this shit will kill you...eventually. take heed.
ReplyDeleteBobby, Know it all >>>>
ReplyDeleteI've been both of you. And combined once or twice. Sorry to say. Holy (bad words) what can you say? That sh** makes me bat sh** crazy, and the like?
However, there is hope for you! I've been down lower than whale sh** on the bottom of the deepest ocean, yet, somehow I came back to a somewhat normal life. Bobby, I did that sh** for several years, all my adult life here and there actually, you know how young adults can be, right? Injecting it before I went into prison. Prison wasn't because of it, I f'd up on a drinking thing, maybe tweekin, who knows, but, lucky enough, I wound up in prison before it killed me.
Knowitall .... Holy crap! Here you are and there I was! The whole friggin world is against you, isn't it? I know, the whole world still hates me, and I've been around a while! Fuggers! Oh well, fugg them! It's gonna be a struggle for a while, I have struggled with the best of them! Lost most, won some! I don't know where you are or even if I can help, but, lose the know it all attitude, forget the past and concentrate onyour future, DO NO MORE DOPE AND FIND A SIMPLE JOB TO START AT, you will go places. Don't go lookin for congressional jobs, but you will be all right!
Guarentee ya!
hey rob....you sure have your shit together. my lil sister did meth about 10 years ago. I say "did," because she'll never do it again. She died in an OD during a party. We knew of her addiction but couldn't stop her. we even tried an intervention, all that got us was that she went into hiding. we found out only by chance from Maricopa county cops that a body had been located in the desert just outside of town, turned out that it was hers. How it got there, we don't know, maybe one of her druggie friends dumped it there. "No Foul Play indicated, said the coroners report. HA! what the hell about the meth that was overloading her system? Whatever can be done to make others aware of this crap, I am all for it. So Reverend, you and "anonymous" and whoever else, doo what you have to...in memory of "Judy." thanks.
ReplyDeleteWow! The above mentioned book was all in Maricopa county! Meth is a tight little world, is it not? Yet it happens in every city and state. Y'all really should read it. It should open your eyes, even if you're lucky enough to not have to deal with it.
DeleteI think even the Jackson character down below could learn something from it.
seems to me this is turning into a depressing commentary about booze and drugs. get over it! If folks are so dumb as to do that shit, they deserve what they get, right? One less idiot in the gene pool. Drugs and booze are for losers.
ReplyDeleteThen Jackson needs to do some drugs and booze. Because Jackson is a loser.
ReplyDeleterob...you sound as if Maricopa co was your stomping ground. People listen to what he says he has been there. You know for all you who judge us who have "been there" are more waiting to be educated. Who the hell better to do that than one who has experienced the shit? God, to look down on us as if we are dirt is just stupid! I used meth, yea, and I am not proud of it! I now work in rehabbing those who are still on it, who can't escape it. and yes, I have been called in the middle of the night to a hospital bed of one of my clients who is dying from it...and watched them pass away. I know all about it. Jackson, maybe you should crawl back in your shell and live your life as you see fit to. The rest of us are doing what we can to keep the rest of you alive! hey rob...you are doing good...don't EVER stop talking sense to the rest of us. we need it!
ReplyDeleteyou know, those of you who KNOW the risks of drugs/alcohol and then DO THEM ANYWAY make me sick! It's like I know all about speeding in my car, do it, get hurt then cry, "oh boo-hoo, I'm crippled, feel my pain!" bullsh*t! Didn't your mothers ever tell you about danger? then you get hurt and it's the taxpayer who pays the burden because you're in prison, or you need welfare cause you can't work or medical care cause you are now so retarded you can't function. Do us a favor...overdose, then I don't need to feel your pain. Feel MINE just once...to care for you is expensive! Knock off the crap already!
ReplyDeleteyes, it's me. I have read your comments and wow! some of you have absolutely NO idea, do you? I was an innocent party to the life my mom lead. Was it MY fault? No. Did she know the dangers OF GETTING HIGH? probably. LET'S SAY YES, GIVE HER THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT. BUT YOU HAVE NEVER DONE METH...YOU DON'T KNOW HOW IT SUCKS YOU IN, THEN DOESN'T WANT TO LET GO. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE SAYING, JUST PROTECTING YOUR WALLET! Let me tell you...it's the child who pays! We all do things that in hindsight are stupid. To be judged is ridiculous! Work WITH me to make others aware of this insidious desire to be high...help me to make others see what they are destroying...and believe me, it isn't YOUR friggin' precious bank account! Save a life...make a difference, that is all I ask!
ReplyDeletemeth. Yup, I watched as my ma did it. For 12 years she tried to hide it,but soon her teeth fell out, as did her hair, she was way too skinny, she was a tramp, bringing home every guy she found in a bar and why? In the hopes of having a new toy pay for her drugs. People, I have read this book online and I URGE YOU ALL TO get it. amazon.com, you can download it to your PC, you DONT need a Kindle. My God, whoever wrote this book sure knew what she or he was speaking of, it described my very own life!I was placed in foster care when I was 15, best thing that ever happened. I finally had food and went to schools. Mom is serving time in prison, she'll be out in 8 more years. I think /no, I HOPE that prison will save her. I also HOPE that everyone reads this book and stages an intervention. If you see it happening, take charge, especially if there are kids involved. As the poem in the book said, "it's the child who pays." I copied that and sent it to my ma...I hope it sinks in. Thanks to "anonymous, I am finally feeling whole once again.
ReplyDeletepoem? what poem? been lost too, if you see this, can you put that poem here?
ReplyDeletesaw your comment, John H. and to everyone else, here is that poem that was referenced to:
ReplyDelete“…here I am, fighting without even a gun only, there's no one to face me- her family's out for fun.
"I love you too, Mommy," were the words that she said. And while I looked into her eyes, my heart broke open--and bled.
All the trust and love this child pours out- unconditional love...without a doubt!
As the hours and days go by, and the child lays waiting, what are the fears and doubts that mommy is baiting?
Some folks would kill to receive this child's feelings; sorrowfully, the intended recipient is out--wheeling and dealing.
"I want to see her, I know she'll call soon!" It starts every day, well before noon.
"When's mommy coming? Why don't she call?" The truth I hide within me, and when alone--I bawl.
These deals and moves and guys- staying awake for days, it's a living and oh! what a life! too bad--it's the child who pays…”
Just saw the news today about a child whose mom neglected her while she was strung out on meth...and I grieve. This poem really hits home, who wrote it, because I haven't been able to find it on Google...can I copy it for myself? Thank you
ReplyDeletethis poem is in the book, "little girl lost..." by anonymous....sorry, if you want to use it, just put ~anonymous as the writer. or use Diane Ganzer Baum's name. I just watched a movie and a quote in it hit me hard, "I am important because I am somebody." Now THAT should be tattooed on everyone's forehead!
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