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Coleridge was a regular user of opium as a relaxant, analgesic, antidepressant, and treatment for numerous health concerns.He wrote Kubla Khan under the drug's influence, but the degree to which he used the drug as a creative enhancement is not precise.
Crank is a novel by Ellen Hopkins published in 2004. It is based loosely on the real life addictions of the author's daughter to crystal meth. [1] The book is required reading in "many high schools, as well as many drug and drug court programs."
Francis Joseph Thompson (16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907) was an English poet and Catholic mystic.At the behest of his father, a doctor, he entered medical school at the age of 18, but at 26 left home to pursue his talent as a writer and poet.
Chemistry, not moral failing, accounts for the brain’s unwinding. In the laboratories that study drug addiction, researchers have found that the brain becomes conditioned by the repeated dopamine rush caused by heroin. “The brain is not designed to handle it,” said Dr. Ruben Baler, a scientist with the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
This article is a weaving together of original writing by Eric Avery with some personal history he told Matt Thompson on a rooftop one sunny day. We left Los Angeles as a band in the mid-’80s in ...
Cook released The Other Side of Addiction in 2017. It is a collection of essays about drug addiction. The book informs and comforts people who are affected by addiction, especially the families of who witnessed heir loved ones suffer in addiction. [18] In 2018, her second poetry book I Hope My Voice Doesn't Skip was released by Andrews McMeel ...
Image credits: The Addict's Diary #2 2 Years And 6 Months Sober Off Meth And Pills. For most of my life I struggled with addiction. Today, I am 2 years and 6 months sober off meth and pills.
The poem was originally written by Rosen, who worked at the Stage Delicatessen on Seventh Avenue in midtown Manhattan.It was written from the point of view of the drug, and explained in graphic detail by first-person narrative the effects heroin addiction has on people who use it, from fashion models neglecting their looks, to "the most virile of men losing their sex," to committing murder, to ...