A Way Out of Prescription Drug Addiction

One of the saddest things to see on the evening news these days is someone who has become an addict through reliance on prescription drugs.  One's heart goes out to a man or woman in this condition who feels trapped and hopeless.

But there is a way to combat this and gain freedom from dependence on these drugs.  That way is the healing power of Christianity that Christ Jesus practiced.  His words, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" point to the naturalness of healing from a purely metaphysical standpoint as he did.  They point to unchanging divine law, which any person can turn to with certainty.

Through the study of Christian Science, one is helped to see what that healing truth is, the truth found in the Bible's pages.  There we learn that God is omnipotent and entirely good and that man is the image of God.  As the likeness of his creator, man forever expresses the divine nature.  And because God is Spirit, man is spiritual.  To be sure, we appear to be merely flesh and bones and subject to suffering.  But physicality isn't the actual or ultimate substance of our being.  Life in the flesh is a misconception of man, whose real identity as the image of God is incorporeal, untouched by enslaving and debilitating physical conditions.

The growing understanding of man's spiritual nature has a purifying effect on the body.  It awakens us to the everpresence of Christ, Truth -- of the divine healing influence -- and the body responds to this uplifting influence.  Health is restored.

Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded this religion I practice, writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures:  "To ignore God as of little use in sickness is a mistake.  Instead of thrusting Him aside in times of bodily trouble, and waiting for the hour of strength in which to acknowledge Him, we should learn that He can do all things for us in sickness as in  health."
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As many have found, spiritual healing in Christian Science is more than a recovery of health; it includes moral strengthening.  Turning to God in prayer and relying on Him for healing constitute the genuine Christian way of salvation.  This holy activity regenerates and purifies one's thought and life.

We have a God-given right not only to enjoy sound health but to recover it through spiritual means when it is threatened.  Jesus has furnished us with a precedent, indicating that as we follow his example and make every effort to follow in his steps, we can learn what God is and how to avail ourselves of His power.

The Bible is full of assurances of God's healing help.  These are not empty promises.  They come to life for us in clear-cut healing when we're equipped with practical knowledge of God's eternal law of  harmony and of our relationship to Him.  Empowered with the Christly understanding that a study of Christian Science brings, we can turn to God for every aspect of our well-being.  And this includes freedom from addiction to prescription drugs.  As the Bible records God as promising:  "I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy sounds, saith the Lord."  (Jeremiah 30:17)