I am the oldest child and only daughter of an alcohol/smoking addict. Out of concern for ALL addicts, as well as their families and friends, I write this:
On July 8, I watched Global News at 11 p.m. and saw that this methadone clinic in Calgary, which helps drug addicts, shut down for good because hundreds of people showed up at this protest meeting about it being unwelcome in a residential area and made it so undesirable for the clinic that it went away.
Just when something came into a neighborhood that might open minds and lessen indifference enough that people could help each other out in circumstance improvement, people start freaking out and show up in the masses to stop this from happening, enough so that the clinic shuts down for good and forces recovering addicts to either go elsewhere for help or to fall right back into the habit.
However….
Any time there are those who try to do things to help the addicts, there are also those who whine and complain about how anything that helps addicts will cause harm to people around them.
Don’t people care about those in NEED of help anymore?
Forcing recovering addicts to go elsewhere for help because of ignorance-fueled discomfort is like handing them the drug and turning them back into addicts, as they have no where else to go because of ignorant whining of people who do not understand what addiction can do to a person and that it is miraculous to conquer an addiction, as it is a war within itself.
People complain about addicts of any kind because they don’t understand it and they wish the addicts would seek help so they can be productive members of society.
To the whiners, give it a REST…judge not, lest ye be judged. If people want to judge and crap all over people and choices, as well as those who try to help others in need, they should look at themselves and see how they measure up…they should give themselves a judgment.
Recovering addicts WERE addicts, but they are now trying to FIX IT…
The ideal thing would be if people would help recovering addicts so that they can someday have the willpower to keep away from the addicting substances themselves….
If there were addicts in the days of Christ’s mortality, I am positive He would have reached out to them and if they allowed, He would have helped them through the suffering and recovery. He DIED for all that we go through! It is disappointing that we cannot reach out to others in love like Christ did.
What has happened to us? Allowing a recovering addict to go without support and love is like condemning them as nothing and sending them back to the hell that is addiction. It is morbidly disgusting to think that we are that cruel and heartless to turn away from people in need of support and allow them to suffer.
If society continues to worsen, I forsee a repeat of the Holocaust. All of those with addiction, mental, physical, and any other kind of , as well as all those who try to help the ones with those needs, will be condemned to a hellish suffering and death because mainstream society whines that they don’t wish to be stuck assisting them, or they simply don’t have the time to be a Good Samaritan….like we all should..
We should step out and help those in need, whether it be a recovering addict or one who is truly desiring recovery, or anyone who struggles with issues of any kind that affects their well-being. The best way to help is lovingly donating time and effort to help them. Money is nice, but is a temporal fix……
Reach out….prevent a repeat of one of history’s most devastating tragedies….
Be like Jesus Christ…Love thy God and love thy neighbor UNCONDITIONALLY.
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