by Mark Shaw | Jan 28, 2018 | Addiction, Current Events
Addiction cuts across all professions and all people because it is a spiritual heart problem. An article about drug abuse in the medical profession of nursing addresses the added temptation nurses have of handling medications. Most cases involving the discipline of...
by Mark Shaw | Jan 26, 2018 | Addiction, Announcements, Answers, Biblical Counseling, Current Events
Homicides have nearly doubled in Tijuana. 1,744 people died in 2017 and many of them were connected to drug dealing, drug abuse, and addictive choices. These deaths are the unintended consequences of addiction. The world-wide addiction problem could become our modern...
by Mark Shaw | Jan 11, 2018 | Addiction, Current Events
Imagine you are watching a drug bust into a home and much to your surprise, you recognize the house. It’s your own home! That’s what happened to Kaitlyn Endres as reported in a Jacksonville news article. She said she was surprised about a drug bust in the...
by Mark Shaw | Jan 6, 2018 | Addiction, Current Events
I could blog about a drug-related story at least every day if not three times per day. And each of them is sad in its own way. A very grotesque news report out of Missouri involves a 48 year old meth addict who sexually abused an 8 year old girl and fed her meth. Yes,...
by Mark Shaw | Jan 4, 2018 | Addiction, Current Events
Having visited Egypt twice now, I have learned much about the culture there, especially in the area of addiction. Recently, I read an article about an arrest of a British woman who was carrying a lot of Tramadol, a widely abused drug in Egypt. Tramadol is cheap and...
by Mark Shaw | Dec 24, 2017 | Addiction, Biblical Counseling
For the first time since 1962 and 1963, life expectancy in the United States has DECREASED two years in a row and the opioid crisis is suspected to be the major factor contributing to this dismal news according to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). A...
