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Why should there be an article on smoking in an issue on drug rehabilitation? Surely, smoking is a pleasant social habit! Advertisements for smoking lead us to believe that it helps us to feel in control of our lives, it helps us to relax and makes us attractive to the opposite sex!
Resource Type: Bible studies
Security in God’s love. We can help people to face up to huge problems in their lives, without feeling insecure, by remembering always that God is in control. He wants the person we are helping to be totally free. Being honest about our own life and weaknesses can bring great freedom for someone else to be honest about their own life. Security in God’s love helps us to have the security to let others fail.
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A community-based drug rehabilitation programme: a project of the Diocese of Karachi, Church of Pakistan
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The La Roca Community, Viña del Mar, Chile. La Roca began after much discussion and prayer as concerned Christians in Viña del Mar, Chile saw young people turning away from their drug addiction when they became church members, but later leaving the church and going back to drugs. They felt these young people were not supported enough in their everyday lives. Their spiritual growth was not sufficient to keep them from falling back into old ways.
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The dictionary describes the word rehabilitation as ‘to restore to effectiveness through training’. There are many different types of rehabilitation projects available for those who are seeking help in recovering from drug dependency. In these pages and also on page entitled 'Changing Lives - case study 2' we look at some case studies of different approaches to drug rehabilitation.
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by David Partington.What is it that encourages people to begin taking addictive drugs? We all have things in our lives which bring special pleasure, things that we want to experience over and over again, things that we would struggle to give up. We all lean on something – the only difference is that drugs and solvents (glue) are very harmful, both physically and mentally.
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by Dr Taha Baasher. Throughout the history of mankind, nearly all countries and cultures have had problems with the use and abuse of drugs. Since the earliest recorded times, drugs have been used for different reasons – mainly religious, medicinal and pleasure. For example, alcohol and opium were both well known in ancient Egyptian culture. Cannabis was commonly used in Hindu ceremonial rites as well as in Indian and Chinese medicine. Drug related problems, therefore, are not new.
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After heavy rainfall, water will drain away. If soil conservation methods – such as barriers and plant cover – are not used, the rain water may carry soil with it. Small channels begin. As these grow, they are known as gullies.
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The hospital of St Francis, Katete, in Zambia’s Eastern Province, is well supplied with mango trees. This is typical of hundreds of other hospitals throughout tropical Africa, Asia and Latin America. What may not be so typical is the waste of mangoes at the beginning of the season. Small boys knock down unripe mangoes by throwing stones or sticks. A few are edible but most are bitten once and them thrown on the ground. A good solution for this waste (and a way of making money) is to use them ...
Resource Type: Articles
What should we think? by Dr Halimatou Bourdanne. Excision is a common ritual practice in certain African countries, especially the Ivory Coast where I live. It is carried out by certain ethnic groups. It consists of removing a greater or lesser part of the lips (the fleshy folds of skin around the vagina) and clitoris of women and young girls. The clitoris corresponds to the man’s penis.
