Article September 14, 2009 Issue

To break the hold of addiction

BY ELISE L. MOORE

If you or a loved one is struggling with addiction, there is hope. There is a law of good operating in your life and in their life.This law of God isn't dependent on our understanding of it, any more than the law of gravity operates only for those who understand physics. The law of gravity functions whether one understands it or not. The law of good is operating in the universe whether we are aware of it or not. This law of good is a divine principle acting to protect what is worthy and remove what isn't.

As I was writing this article, a mother e-mailed me to ask what parents can do about young people using drugs. And a dad told me he was spending his life savings for a treatment program to keep his daughter from cutting herself.

There had been newspaper reports, too, about people (some of them students) who had become enslaved by videogames and pornographic websites.