In 1987 I was responsible for producing a monthly recovery newsletter to support addicts in the Vancouver British Columbia area. This poem "I Am Addiction" was an anonymous contribution, and I have yet to find out who wrote it. It was - and still is - so clear and honestly revealing of the agenda that addiction has, and how addiction works. I've found this to be tremendously helpful during the subsequent years! I've found it helps me recognize when and how the voice of addiction is trying to defeat my recovery work. (For my purposes, I use the word addiction and alcoholism interchangeably, as alcohol is a drug.)