It's been working great. Really it's just one of those drugs you just hope they come up with.

You appreciate life so much more when you think for a moment that it might be gone. I guess that is one of those benefits I get in life.

It might only be $5 or it might be $500, but every little bit helps.

Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

We try a new drug, a new combination
of drugs, and suddenly
I fall into my life again

like a vole picked up by a storm
then dropped three valleys
and two mountains away from home.

I can find my way back. I know
I will recognize the store
where I used to buy milk and gas.

I remember the house and barn,
the rake, the blue cups and plates,
the Russian novels I loved so much,

and the black silk nightgown
that he once thrust
into the toe of my Christmas stocking.

Both black and white children are using drugs of choice. We are concerned and we hope we can make a difference by them hearing our stories, ... To the average person, my life seemed successful, but when they look past the appearance of education , skill, business deals and church service, I’m a man with a disease of addiction. I don’t want black or white children having to deal with what we’ve had to deal with. Somehow we’ve got to get across to them.