By Alison Bowen

Original Source: Chicagotribune.com

Staying clean is in fact my number-one goalbut I am craving drugs and alcoholI know I shouldn’t based on how much it caused me to fallI’m not going to lieI want it, and I want it allArmone Mays knew she had to do something about her addiction. It had cost her a job she enjoyed, precious moments as a present parent to her baby girl and the self-respect that came with saying, “I will never do cocaine.”Mays tried to get clean. But she was hooked on cocaine, next meth, then both, combined. She wrote poetry, including the lines above, cataloging her cravings.Eventually, she said, at an Illinois facility where she sought help, employees concerned about her mental wellness separated her from her daughter.And that was the moment she stopped caring about getting better....click here to continue reading