Substance Abuse Prevention Sunday bulletin insert
Free, downloadable bulletin insert for use by your church on Substance Abuse Prevention Sunday. To see additional SBC event dates, visit sbc.net/calendar.
Continue...Free, downloadable bulletin insert for use by your church on Substance Abuse Prevention Sunday. To see additional SBC event dates, visit sbc.net/calendar.
Continue...As a public health professor, Christ-follower, and substance abuse researcher, my vocation demands that I consistently reflect upon the intersection of faith and efforts that are intended to protect the needs of the population. As the prevalence and incidence rates of a variety of addictive behaviors continue to increase, the stigmatization and misconceptions associated with …
Continue...This weekend many churches in America will observe Substance Abuse Prevention Sunday. In preparation for the observance, here are five facts you should know about the most commonly abused drugs in America. 1. More than 70,000 Americans died of a drug overdose in 2017, the last year for which complete data is available. The rate …
Continue...They are going to do it anyway. So regulate it, tax it, and we all will benefit. Alcohol is legal, so what difference does it make if pot is legal? Prohibition does not work; we learned that lesson. The government has no business telling people what they can and cannot do in the privacy of …
Continue...Free, downloadable bulletin insert for use by your church on Substance Abuse Prevention Sunday. To see additional SBC event dates, visit sbc.net/calendar.
Continue...Free, downloadable bulletin insert for use by your church on Substance Abuse Prevention Sunday. To see additional SBC event dates, visit sbc.net/calendar.
Continue...President Trump recently signed into law HR 6, the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act. This bipartisan legislation includes almost 200 provisions to provide for opioid use disorder prevention, recovery, and treatment. The legislation, which passed the House by a vote of 393-8 in September and …
Continue...When I met my mother-in-law for the first time, her toothless smile, poverty-stricken trailer, and hard-worn wrinkles, visually confirmed the preconceived notions I had developed about her. She was a matriarch symbol of the ailment of our nation’s time—drug addiction. She was the woman who chose bottles of Jim Beam, bags of white powder, and …
Continue...Pharmacological Neurological Enhancement (“PNE”) is the use of drugs to improve brain function to a beyond-normal level. Methylphenidate, also known as Ritalin, has become increasingly popular among students to improve study habits and test-taking abilities, even though the purpose of Ritalin is to treat symptoms of ADHD. This is just one example of common use …
Continue...I was addicted to drugs at 18 years old. I started developing an addiction at 14 and had a daily habit by 15. When I was 18, I began working for a guy at a mall kiosk who was a Christian. Through many conversations, he would seek to convince me why Christianity was true. For a year, …
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