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DEALING WITH ADDICTION
What Is Addiction?

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Getting the Eye Opening Facts

For years I have wanted to stop all my using.
I'd try but I always would fail.
I didn't know why, it was all so confusing.
Why was it I couldn't prevail?

I had every reason. I had the desire,
To see that my problem was axed.
In order to do it, I had to acquire,
all of the eye opening facts.

Did you know that addiction's a deadly disease?
Did you know it was highly aggressive?
Did you know it was more than the average eye sees,
it was chronic and it was progressive?

Compulsive behavior, that makes us do things,
Things we would rather not do.
Despite all the problems and trouble it brings,
our quitting is never seen through.

Our lives fall apart. Our feelings get buried.
Relationships fall by the road.
We add to the burdens, we always have carried,
increasing our life draining load.

Some of us die at a very young age.
Most go through Hell 'fore they die.
Some break the law and end up in a cage.
Most of them never know why.

Most do not know, that help is worth getting.
They have no idea where to turn.
And so they remain in their miserable setting,
though they are filled with concern.

I just couldn't deal with my troubling burden.
My pain was totally maxed.
I put a quick end to my sufferin' and hurtin',
Once I'd got all of the facts.