Addiction is lonely!

May 31, 2009

For 23 million Americans, drugs and alcohol are more than personal addictions, destroying the health and future of those held in its devastating grip.

Addiction is a family tragedy, sweeping spouses and children into the whirlpool of its physical, emotional, and spiritual desperation.

The light-hearted fun and friendships of the party lifestyle soon give way to the loneliness and despair; the dark bondage of addiction!

In the hopeless torment of addiction, everything changes…

As the insidious grip of addiction tightens around the addict, the once wide world of fun and friendships and parties narrows to a confined, restricted world controlled by a power so profound everyone and everything is valued only as a means to the “next hit,” the next drink, the next round in the casino.

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The Power of Surrender

In our day of civil liberties it is difficult for us to comprehend what it was like for people living in biblical times under the authority of a king.
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Addicts Are Aging

In 2005, 184,400 Americans who were admitted to drug treatment programs (roughly 10% of the total) were over 50 years old, up from 143,000, (8%) in '01.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration foresees 4.4 million older substance abusers by 2020 vs. 1.7 million in '01. The numbers are "likely to swamp the current system," says agency executive Deborah Trunzo. (New York Times 3/7/08)

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