Jeanne and Coy Carreker
Living in Birmingham, AL
Total page views: 104,320
Published Content: 110
Fans: 29
On AC since: 11.10.06
Bio:
One of the Top 1000 in 2007. Convicted felon, reformed drug trafficker, recovering methamphetamine/OC addict, Christian, wife, mother, grandmother. Jeanne describes the chaos of the lifestyle she once chose. Contact her: h2oforthegaslit@hotmail.com
One of the Top 1000 in 2007. Convicted felon, reformed drug trafficker, recovering methamphetamine/OC addict, Christian, wife, mother, grandmother. Jeanne describes the chaos of the lifestyle she once chose. Contact her: h2oforthegaslit@hotmail.com
Education/Experience:
Some College, Major: English & Mass Comm
Some College, Major: English & Mass Comm
Interests:
Writing, Political Reform, Drug Policy Reform, Drug Sentence Reform, Racist Sentencing Reform, Ranting, Copywriting, Graphic Image/Art Creation, Blogging, Soap Box Collecting, Drug Awareness Resources, Political Activism, Art, Drawing, Scetching, Painting
Writing, Political Reform, Drug Policy Reform, Drug Sentence Reform, Racist Sentencing Reform, Ranting, Copywriting, Graphic Image/Art Creation, Blogging, Soap Box Collecting, Drug Awareness Resources, Political Activism, Art, Drawing, Scetching, Painting
Motto:
Learning to smile through the fire helps to enervate the painful burn. -JSC
Learning to smile through the fire helps to enervate the painful burn. -JSC
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Crime has no preference an observes no religious holidays.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 12/30/2008 | Read more »
Is your child using crystal meth? Watch this video to learn what signs to look for.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 11/17/2008 | Watch here »
All seemed wonderful when Brian married Maria - until she hid his shoes and intentionally humiliated him in public. What happened to show him she was an abuser?
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 11/13/2008 | Read more »
My child doesn't use drugs - guess again.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 11/6/2008 | Watch here »
I lived in a pit of misery while addicted to meth and oxycontin.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 10/29/2008 | Read more »
When one abuses drugs, they become a different person, only realizing the differences once they get clean.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 10/29/2008 | Read more »
My family had a wonderful life before drugs entered the picture.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 10/20/2008 | Watch here »
The United States constitutionally protects the "artistic" expression of a lifestyle that encourages and supports actions that we then imprison drug addicts for.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 10/20/2008 | Watch here »
Addiction scatters, ravages, destroys, and then imprisons an addict in many ways. Then to top it all off, the State imprisons addicts, stating the addict will be helped, but actually just separating them from society.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 10/9/2008 | Watch here »
The celebration of Father's Day is not yet understood by my eight-month old granddaughter, but it one day will be.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 4/20/2008 | Read more »
Poem I wrote while addicted to and dealing methamphetamine.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 3/1/2008 | Read more »
Quality family time for an addict
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/23/2008 | Read more »
Visual representations of different thoughts on drug addiction.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/20/2008 | View here »
Sunni insurgents are reportedly using homeless and mentally disabled Iraqis as unwilling suicide bombers.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/20/2008 | Read more »
Rhonda's husband used different gaslighting techniques to cover up affairs he was having. His persistent denial of fact, over time, made Rhonda less able to trust her own perception. Was she insane, as he stated, or was he really cheating on her?
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/12/2008 | Read more »
Rehab isn't so bad! Recovery from methamphetamine is possible.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 1/29/2008 | Read more »
Those who have never been addicted to drugs justifiably have a hard time understanding the mindset of those who have. This article is not an attempt to justify action, but rather to explore the type thinking leading to the choices made by addicts.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 1/23/2008 | Read more »
The courts now believe Lindsay Lohan will be better helped if she witnesses the fatalities in a morgue as part of her DUI plea agreement. I believe it is a waste of time and this article explains why.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 1/18/2008 | Read more »
The dark pit of drug addiction cannot be easily described.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 12/24/2007 | Read more »
American courts believe they are helping drug addicts by locking them up. Are they really helping?
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 12/23/2007 | Read more »
Visual Poetry #1
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 9/11/2007 | Watch here »
Years ago, I believed that I could not give up my little pain pill habit. I found a Methadone Maintenance Program that promised relief from withdrawals and professional support. I wound up with a new addiction instead.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 8/6/2007 | Read more »
Resubmition of a poem about gaslighting (NPD)
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 8/5/2007 | Read more »
The paralyzing effects of guilt and how they contribute to "the circle of high," until another addict just gives up. I wrote this a while back, no, it is not representative of a guilt that I cannot come to terms with - and I'm not suicidal :) Just thought I'd submit it.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 7/28/2007 | Read more »
Abstract representation of being taken over by the new Warden of an addiction's self-imposed prison.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 7/28/2007 | Read more »
A child was rushed to Children's Hospital on Friday evening after being shot and it seems we've played this song before.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 7/21/2007 | Read more »
Did you know it is your constitutionally protected right to artistically express ideas which directly undermine what the constitution protects? America is contradicting her own beliefs, and we, as a people, allow it.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 7/10/2007 | Read more »
I found this in a stack of old papers. I decided to submit it because I do not even recall having written it, which to me, says a great deal about the mindset of a drug addict.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 6/10/2007 | Read more »
If we were all so priviledged, the "least of these" would be cared for.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 6/8/2007 | Read more »
Just wait until you find another.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 6/8/2007 | Read more »
New reasons to quit drugs every day.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 5/30/2007 | Watch here »
Ordinarily, women's shelters are established for a variety of reasons. For the battered and abused women and children of our society, these homes can mean a safe and secure place to live, sleep, and begin a new, productive life.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 5/21/2007 | Read more »
Falling off a wagon, of sorts.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 5/21/2007 | Read more »
Maybe you could say I have too much time on my hands or need to "get a life." However you deem my opinion, there still remains a strangeness in the flow of our media and the way it grabs America's attention away from the real issues at hand.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 5/17/2007 | Read more »
Apparently, the three American soldiers who were kidnapped in the ambush South of Baghdad over the weekend have become the tool for Al Qaeda's vengeance.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 5/14/2007 | Read more »
Two gunmen robbed the Bessemer branch of Wachovia Bank Monday, fatally shooting two employees and wounding two others.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 5/14/2007 | Read more »
No reason for conspiracy against their own is a good reason for any leader.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 5/13/2007 | Read more »
Perhaps it's the tail wagging the dog. Perhaps it's the cover-up of a possible infiltration that if explained in truth, would scare the world and send shock waves through the "impenetrable society" known as the United States.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 5/10/2007 | Read more »
Should you go? What should you look for in a rehab? How do you know you should try?
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 5/7/2007 | Read more »
The problem is, they're good people. Yeah, I know, I know - selling drugs is wrong, socially unacceptable, and contributes to the creation a degenerative future for America. I agree
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 5/7/2007 | Read more »
Dying inside while you are gone.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 5/7/2007 | Read more »
It's almost like arresting myself.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 5/7/2007 | Read more »
Which old wives' tales do you follow? You may be surprised to find out which tales are completely false!
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 5/3/2007 | Read more »
ATF has completed a major raid involving an investigation into the cover up of a large amount of explosives spanning across North Alabama.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 5/1/2007 | Read more »
"War is cruelty and you cannot refine it." Gen. William T. Sherman 1820-1891
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 4/30/2007 | Read more »
No one begins an addiction by finding out the origins of a drug or what country has cornered the market in its manufacturing. So here's some honesty for you, if you're considering that unending potential of energy called meth.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 4/17/2007 | Read more »
Due to having siblings whom he does not wish to upset, the names used in this interview are not those of the real victims and family members.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 4/10/2007 | Read more »
I wrote this about seven years ago during a life I do not miss.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 4/1/2007 | Read more »
I once battled with leaving the past, only to return again.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 4/1/2007 | Read more »
Just the facts: crystal meth can kill you.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 3/29/2007 | Watch here »
People making their way along I-59 in Bessemer, Alabama Friday morning witnessed a frightening scene only yards away from the Interstate.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 3/23/2007 | Read more »
Because it is natural to fear what is unknown to us as humans, there are different things with which the average citizen should make himself aware in the event that they ever find they are going to jail.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 3/22/2007 | Read more »
There is never enough good feeling and peaceful escape that will ever even come close to the prices and losses you will encounter when listening to the screaming whispers of drug addiction.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 3/22/2007 | Read more »
Taha Yassin Ramadan became the fourth man to be executed for his part in the killings of 148 Shiites in 1982, early Tuesday morning in an Iraqi prison
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 3/20/2007 | Read more »
One would think that we could avoid what has been historically accepted as "the casualties of war."
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 3/20/2007 | Read more »
In all our attempts at humanitarian efforts, all our liberating wars in which we seem to be on a mission to free the world of oppression in all forms, we Americans sure don't seem to be doing enough to help the smallest and most vulnerable victims.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 3/19/2007 | Read more »
This could very well be the greatest hoax perpetuated on citizens by their government in all of history.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 3/18/2007 | Read more »
I submitted this poem hoping for review comments on the ease of figuring out what the poem means. It is the opening of a fiction novel I am working on, and I would really appeciate the input :)
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 3/17/2007 | Read more »
Ashley Ann Pierce, nineteen years old, lay dead under a pile of dirty laundry while her roommate scammed the dead girl's father for three weeks.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 3/17/2007 | Read more »
A 12-year old Maryland boy died of an abscessed tooth, his family having lost their Medicaid coverage.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/28/2007 | Read more »
The famous director claims to have found the body of Jesus Christ
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/25/2007 | Read more »
But what's all this here talking about? -Sojourner Truth, 1851
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/23/2007 | Read more »
Women are mysterios, cunning, clever, and aware that it is race day for the Daytona 500.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/18/2007 | Read more »
A lette to the President concerning the loss of a soldier in Iraq, the letter-writer's son.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/16/2007 | Read more »
I can certainly blame someone for my addiction to chocolate, though I won't name any names.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/16/2007 | Read more »
The "War on Drugs" is becoming something more along the lines of a sweat bee that will not give up on being able to do nothing more than just pestering a massive horse, no pun intended with "horse."
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/15/2007 | Read more »
This Valentine's Day is sure to be filled with chocolate delights, aphrodisiac wishes, and the desire to share delicious treats with man's best friend.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/13/2007 | Read more »
This Valentine's Day is sure to be filled with chocolate worship, aphrodisiac wishes, and the desire to share chocolate delight with man's best friend.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/13/2007 | Read more »
It's hearing a funny joke out somewhere,
And rushing home to share a laugh with him;
Or smiling thoughtfully to yourself when
He then tells it to friends and laughs with them.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/12/2007 | Read more »
Our twentieth Valentine's Day together :)
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/12/2007 | Read more »
There had been rumors for years in the small town about the Chalkville Youth Campus and its bad girls court-ordered to stay there.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/11/2007 | Read more »
Welcome to Jerusalem...you certainly will pray a great deal more during your visit, and it would probably be wise to kneel, as not only is it a sign of respect and humility to Jehovah, but may very well serve as a safer position when the gunfire erupts.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/11/2007 | Read more »
So if I investigate all of your lies,
Make all of your promises transparent inside,
Decline sitting like foolish sleaze
(I'm clearly capable of seating myself with ease),
Never trump up truth to show you more capable,
As if you are more than truly able....
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/10/2007 | Read more »
To an addict, there is nothing more difficult than managing a habit, and nothing more impossible than controlling its chaotic nature. There exists another world, catastrophic by choice, unfortunately endured by many, and raging within an addict near you.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/8/2007 | Read more »
One woman's plight to bring secret injustices to the light has landed her in a world of danger and unrest.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/7/2007 | Read more »
Written after an acquaintance lost her son in the ambush at Karbala recently, where he was kidnapped and executed shortly after.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/5/2007 | Read more »
If alcoholism is a clearly seen as a disease by our gvernment, then why is drug addiction not seen as a disease, and even punishable by our courts when a user acts on the symptoms of the disease? The double standards in America should be noticed.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 2/1/2007 | Read more »
A childhood in Alabama is full of beauty, love, and downright lies.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 1/15/2007 | Read more »
Living to die little deaths
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 1/13/2007 | Read more »
A poem about a crystal meth dealer
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 1/12/2007 | Read more »
If the words we speak display the content of our hearts, then mine was pitch black at one time....
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 1/10/2007 | Read more »
I'll just relieve everyone of the misery I spread,
Gashes to gashes, cuts to cuts.
Maybe you'll have memories of good times with me, instead.
Crashes to crashes, guts to guts.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 1/9/2007 | Read more »
Very shortly after the execution of Saddam Hussein, protestors quickly announced that he be martyred.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 1/8/2007 | Read more »
"As a result of his rebellion, Cain...became the first mortal to be cursed as a son of perdition...The Lord placed on Cain a mark of a dark skin, and he became the ancestor of the black race. (Moses 5; Gen. 4; Teachings, p. 169, Mormon Doctrine by Bruce McConkie, page 109.)
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 1/5/2007 | Read more »
Men and women alike suffer emotional abuse within their relationships. When extremes are implemented by abusers, a victim of Gaslighting can be driven insane.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 1/5/2007 | Read more »
The moment you try a drug for any reason different than what a pharmaceutical is prescribed for (and there is never any reason to try an illegal street drug), your life, your limits, your past goals and beliefs, change.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 1/4/2007 | Read more »
Can you imagine searching and pushing and struggling to get to the entrance to Heaven, only to have Peter tell you that he was not allowed to aid the fact that you were in limbo, hungry, thirsty, scared, and homeless?
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 1/2/2007 | Read more »
...Perhaps I forget that my old nemesis still wants to devour my life rampantly,
Wishing to give me hell on earth, since I will not be one of the damned.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 1/2/2007 | Read more »
A poem I wrote literally while waiting on my husband to return from picking up a large amount of drugs.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 1/2/2007 | Read more »
Every long-term relationship goes through ups and downs. Perhaps you can relate?
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 1/1/2007 | Read more »
Within the world of drugs, there is one addiction that is so cruel, so merciless, and so rampantly approaching a home near you.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 12/30/2006 | Read more »
Waking back forward and up again, though far sustained from all clear,
And reality begins to percolate, dripping foul, molten honesty here.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 12/29/2006 | Read more »
'Tis true, I have lived the ultimate enigma:
I've raged inward by questioning my own mind.
And the "Catch 22" that you ultimately threw
Has left me bitter, enraged and unkind.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 12/27/2006 | Read more »
Nothing is expendable where another is concerned. Betrayals, big or small, take their toll on mankind.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 12/26/2006 | Read more »
I have loved my husband since I was a child. This poem was written for him.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 12/26/2006 | Read more »
"Ennui" is another word for "Apathy," and is the personified subject (then, protagonist, perhaps?) of this poem.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 12/25/2006 | Read more »
For me, a poem can explain, describe, and express emotion which I usually cannot otherwise :)
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 12/23/2006 | Read more »
To an addict, there is nothing more difficult than managing a habit, and nothing more impossible than controlling its chaotic nature. There exists another world, catastrophic by choice, unfortunately endured by many, and raging, beneath the Ice.
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 12/19/2006 | Read more »
A man would not know what to do with a heart
If it came with instructions. And even if they
Did come with instructions,
He would not bother to read them...
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 12/19/2006 | Read more »
The glass folding in, folding out, folding around me,
Beautiful colors to all you watching from a distance;
Outward to inward, so death can claim a finder's fee,
Hoping to dismay the weak one who takes the chance....
By Jeanne and Coy Carreker | Published 12/19/2006 | Read more »
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