Drugs are not only killers, they are family ruiners, people ripper-aparters, friendship destroyers and frankly, the scourge of the Earth. Drugs manage to turn someone who was initially crushing on the cute cheerleader to someone who thinks that the most important thing in the world is getting his next high. They turn someone who used to tell her friends about foreign countries she wanted to visit to someone who won't call her friends back.
Addiction is synonymous with loss. It is the equivalent of trapped. Addicts are stripped of their lives, their families, their loves, their hopes and given, in return, nothing but pain.
I want to cry when I think about how much potential has gone unused because beautiful hearts, souls and minds that would have otherwise gone on to fulfill their God given potential, were stopped by a blossoming addiction. Who knows how many cures for disease, beautiful pieces of art, how much world changing music, paradigm shifting diplomacy has been flushed down the toilet because beautiful, intelligent, talented people got caught in an addiction.
My rant is over. It ends in sadness but not futility. This fight is not over. Recovery is possible. People may not be able to change, but God can change them.
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