The following is a guest blog taken verbatim from the monthly blog post of Dr. Nora Volkow, director, National Institute of Drug Abuse published April 20, 2017. "At a Congressional briefing on April 6, the President of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Maria Oquendo, presented startling data about the opioid overdose epidemic and the role suicide …
Christianity Today: How Good Church People Become Addicts – and How They Recover
Timothy King's article Just Say No to Shame in the December 2016 issue of Christianity Today includes a very insightful comment: "My recovery from opioid addiction began when I realized my addiction had chosen me." King fell to the disease of opioid addiction following suffering from acute necrotizing pancreatitis caused by a surgical procedure. He …
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