"Although $6 billion in federal money has been spent since 1971 on trying to control illicit drugs, more Americans than ever are using drugs and the trend will continue for several more years, according to national report." (Drug Abuse Council, as reported in The Boston Globe, April 9, 1980.)
The Christianly scientific way to still the discords of life is to silence the witnesses to them—that is, to overcome mortal mind and the personal senses through more spiritual reasoning and living.
Sometimes the simple affirmation of God's goodness and the emptiness of all claims of evil, deeply felt and specifically related to some illness, will quickly heal.