Substance Abuse
Growing up as an adult child
Scared and angry, a teen who ran wild
Coming from a family disease
Alcoholism, pill addiction, mental illness, and poverty
Just look around, substance abuse, including the Heroin epidemic is quite real
It starts in Middle school, and even younger still
It affects all of our lives
We can all help to keep our kids, youth, and adults safe and alive
By
Reaching out to them
Acknowledge that substance abuse is a society & family disease
It affects you and me
Some of its victims are abused, used, incarcerated, hospitalized, and even die
Denial of substance abuse being a disease, is the biggest lie
Dark clouds shimmer over the horizon
Substance abusers need help, and also the family of origin
Tears are shed and no one is smiling
Rather sickness such as: mental, physical, spiritual, and anguished despair
Rules over the addict’s home, please send some prayers
The home is a built in prison, consumed with this disease
A place where simple boundaries
Are not a safe place to express one’s needs?
Others often learn to be enablers, people pleasers, reactors, kids suffer from PTSD
Children often lose their innocence from their toxic childhoods
Some of these teens end up in the hood
Angry, lost, addicted, torn and abandoned
Substance abuse took away their safe haven
Siblings fight and cry, while trying to survive
Living In a hostile environment
Getting a call for a fatal accident?
Substance abuse can carry a burden of resentment
Carrying toxic energy deep within the victims soul
Leaving scars to the heart, mind and soul
The results are a family’s soul sickness
But for the grace of God it can be treated
It takes surrendering and humility
Most of all the courage to acknowledge that one has been defeated
After that one day at a time, recovery can begin to flourish
The miracle of recovery can be achieved
With the willingness, to be open-minded, and living in honesty
The cycle of Addictions can be changed
To a healthy and happy life of recovery day by day
It is no use to blame, but rather to forgive and love one another, and take responsibility for our own lives
The grace of God can enter us and make things right
If we pray for his will and do the best that we can
All of us will one day see our Heaven