SOCIAL SERVICES ARE NOT ENOUGH

We are in an age of apostasy and lawlessness is increasing. Remarriage and murder has become an everyday thing in the US. Unlearned pastors are promoting myths and deceiving many people. Those who support these lies, crimes and their promoters are enablers just as much as those who support heroin addicts.

Find a better way to serve God and ministry. The way you can help is by learning and correcting those who err. Drug addicts are automatically considered living in a position that should be penalized. Society's police need to enforce laws that were made years ago, and not be suppressed by subversive officials. Jail, prison, road gang, the psyche ward or a rehab should be a mandatory response to seeing an addict stagger or intrude upon the public.

Cali's problem seems to be the undue influence of “my man”. She needs a whole new environment and to be free from any immorality and drug addiction culture. Social services can help her in many ways, but as long as she is deceived and not willing to change toward moral advancement and repentance, she can never get out of her conundrum. She will be misled by social workers and others to think that a life of immorality has benefits as the Hunts Point prostitute.

Rehabs are very expensive and money makers for addiction recovery entrepreneurs; many addicts use them for temporary housing services and state services hand over money to pay for them easily. Hardly any addicts fully recover without relapse. A free room (rehab) also may be a negative temptation for a mere homeless person to find a way out of sleeping under a bridge or other shelter.

A person's personality is developed in his or her youth. Many young people suffer the lack of a parent. A youth or addict can add in a rehab what he missed in his early years. He can also make it a point to learn self-development to make a better life.

Nevertheless, it is necessary for an addict to get clean (stay off drugs) through a particular environment that teaches against being controlled by a drug. So, even with the shelter of a detox or rehab, the success rate is still not encouraging.

However, the chance of recovery through a Christian rehab such as Teen Challenge would be much better in my personal opinion. To regret, it also fails as to morality in many ways also.

So, concluding simply, the only full deliverance has to come through study of the Scripture: the Holy Bible. A personal relationship needs to be established through the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no other way to God. An addict or homeless person has to learn to seek God and find strength through him. This may take a lot of suffering and bouncing around so to speak, but it can begin with hope and searching.

I personally believe recovery camps should be available to the homeless and addicted: places like an army barracks, not lavish, expensive rooms, could be used to house men and women, guarded by police or authoritative persons to deter criminal activity and substance abuse. Just a place to live sober and search for a way of recovery would be a great help to the degraded person and society. A place like that may have saved Damien, whom we recently lost in Kensington.

Links:

The Sin Of Enabling

Kenneth Copeland's Laughter Can't Cure An Addict Laughter

My Recovery From Parental Desertion And Drug Addiction (Samson Edition)