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Addiction

of heart?

Most people can describe at most people would stay far

least one instance of how away from this heart-alter-
alcohol and drugaddiction ing substance. God warns us
has had a negative impact because we cannot outsmart
on their own lives or the lives addiction. It will change
of people they love. Children our hearts! God designed the
today, regardless of age or heart, therefore He knows far

ethnicity, grow up in a soci- above what doctors, psychia-
ety where access to drugs and trist, substance abuse coun-
Memory Column alcohol is extremely easy. selors and the media know

Parents who misuse alcohol about the damage that hap-
and drugs also influence how pens to an addicted heart.
their children perceive and
.
understand the use of alco-

hol and drugs. At a Christian
ministry conference recently,
participants were asked to
share how drugs and alcohol
had personally affected their

lives or the lives of people
they know. Nearly every-
one in attendance shared
stories about their sons
and daughters, aunts and
uncles,mothers and fathers,
and grandparents whose lives

were negatively in-posted by
addiction. If a person could
foresee the unnatural change
that takes place in their
heart before substance abuse,

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