Definition:

Drug abuse is a habitual use of drugs to alter one’s mood, emotion, or state of consciousness.

Brief Explanation:

Unlike alcohol, non pharmaceutical drug use is clearly forbidden in  scripture,  both  the   use   and  abuse.  When  drugs become a problem, help is readily available. Of course, though help is readily available, often it is not availed of due to the defense mechanism known as denial. Like the alcoholic, the drug abuser denies the need for help.

Drug abuse does not only affect the health of the person abusing  the  substance,  but  also  the  family  and  friends.  It is an insidious problem, yet God can heal. All members of the family will need help, support and strength, but families who deal with the denial, confront the abuser and if the abuser receives help, healthy family life is more than possible. For more, see the books Addictions Counseling and 12 Steps to Wholeness by Dr Stan  DeKoven.

The Word of God:

2 Timothy 1:7

“For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.”

James 1:14, 15

“But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.”