By: Dr. Mark E. Shaw September has arrived again and during this #NationalRecoveryMonth you will be hearing lots of reminders about various pharmacological and therapeutic solutions. In today’s world, this is the main solution for the problematic behaviors of idolatrous “addiction.” But the current view of what is happening in recovery is short-sighted and here’s…
Hey Friends, Wow! “Best Summit yet!” is what we heard often and we agree. Jesus was glorified, relationships were forged, and we renewed our enthusiasm for reaching the lost with the hope of the gospel. Long-time friends of TAC had the opportunity to meet some of you for the very first time in person. What…
“Now, I’m going to use a scary word to describe your situation but I think we got to it early: melanoma.” My doctor spoke these words to me this past July. The reason I had gone to the dermatologist that day was to have him look at a sore on the back of my lower…
Until this past week, it had been 13 years since the last Surgeon General warning. That one had to do with pregnancy and drinking alcohol. The advisory this week encourages those taking opioid prescriptions and friends/family of those who take those prescriptions to carry naloxone, an overdose-reversing drug. But will this advisory help? I guess…
I could write a blog or two every single day about someone somewhere who has accidentally overdosed on opioids because of the alarming rates of accidental overdose deaths (note: these are not suicides but accidental deaths due to taking too much of a drug). On the same day that my blog entitled “Gospel Hope for an Epidemic”…
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 nurses in Connecticut were substance abuse related (82%) and 51 additional cases involved a…
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 day bubonic plague that killed 25 million people in under 5 years in Europe…
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 home she owns and vacated after an estrangement…
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,…
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 accessible. Drug laws in Egypt are very…
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