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Eye on the world: Overcoming addiction
In “Obama's $1 billion to fight heroin reflects shifting views of addiction” The Christian Science Monitor reports on President Obama’s seeking of over $1 billion in funding to treat drug addiction. This approach responds to “a sea change in Americans’ attitudes toward opiate drugs,” which is also reflected in law enforcement and lawmakers increasingly turning to “policies that aim not just to punish, but to heal” drug addiction.
Ideas on this subject:
From the Bible:
Thou madest [man] to have dominion …
—Psalms 8:6
Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
—Psalms 145:16
From the writings of Mary Baker Eddy:
The divine Mind is the Soul of man, and gives man dominion over all things.
—Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 307
Related articles from the Christian Science Sentinel:
In “The Christ and the addict”: “... it is the Christ—Love’s message to human consciousness—that is irresistible, not materiality in any of its forms.” And “Prayer that accepts the Christ, the true idea of God, awakens us to spiritual satisfaction. In some measure it releases human thought from its misconceptions…. man has never been separated from God—never drawn away from Spirit.”
In “The answer to addiction”: “Man’s genuine nature is not vulnerable to addiction. Man is, in truth, the expression of the infinite Soul, or Spirit, called God…. the real man is already satisfied as the beloved image of Spirit.” And “Man cannot be subject to any material craving, because he already is complete and the beneficiary of infinite good. This is the truth of our real individuality….”
The articles above and others dealing with this subject can be found on JSH-Online.com or on CSMonitor.com.