{"id":570,"date":"2017-08-09T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/?p=570"},"modified":"2017-05-18T18:11:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T18:11:57","slug":"drug-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/drug-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"DRUG ABUSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Definition:<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Drug abuse is a habitual use of drugs to alter one&#8217;s mood, emotion, or state of consciousness.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brief Explanation:<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unlike alcohol, non pharmaceutical drug use is clearly forbidden in \u00a0scripture,\u00a0 both\u00a0 the\u00a0\u00a0 use\u00a0\u00a0 and\u00a0 abuse.\u00a0 When\u00a0 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.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Drug abuse does not only affect the health of the person abusing\u00a0 the\u00a0 substance,\u00a0 but\u00a0 also\u00a0 the\u00a0 family\u00a0 and\u00a0 friends.\u00a0 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 \u00a0DeKoven.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Word of God:<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">2 Timothy 1:7<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFor God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">James 1:14, 15<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBut 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.\u201d<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition: Drug abuse is a habitual use of drugs to alter one&#8217;s mood, emotion, or state of consciousness. Brief Explanation: Unlike alcohol, non pharmaceutical drug use is clearly forbidden in \u00a0scripture,\u00a0 both\u00a0 the\u00a0\u00a0 use\u00a0\u00a0 and\u00a0 abuse.\u00a0 When\u00a0 drugs become a problem, help is readily available. Of course, though help is readily available, often it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-counseling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}