Christ in Post-Christian Culture
By Steven Barto I am no stranger to addiction. I started drinking and getting high the summer after high school graduation. It was 1977 and pot and southern rock went hand-in-hand. I found my answer to all the anger, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and feelings of not belonging. Of course, I had no idea where it …
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Every day 91 Americans fatally overdose on an opioid drug. It may be a prescription analgesic or heroin–4 to 8 percent of people who misuse painkillers transition to heroin–but increasingly it is likely to be heroin’s much more potent synthetic cousin fentanyl. In the space of only two years, fentanyl has tragically escalated the opioid …
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"Raw, powerful, and honest." - The Bookseller "A raw and sad account, vivid in its depiction of the pleasures and tunnel vision of addiction and the challenges of sobriety." - Bulletin of the Center of Children's Books Nic Sheff writes a memoir that is searingly honest, detailing a downward spiral that seems to have no …
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People who have used cocaine for a long time report a paradoxical-seeming experience: The pleasure they get from taking the drug decreases even as the drug intensifies its hold over their behavior. A recent NIDA-supported study sheds light on why this might be. Researchers shows that, in mice, a cocaine-induced imbalance in the activity of …
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Christ in Post-Christian Culture
'So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.' John 8:36
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