Alcohol is most abused drug

Published 12:00 am Friday, November 13, 2009

When we talk about drug addiction, most people think of illegal drugs (marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.).

The most abused drug, alcohol, is legal, except for anyone under 21 years of age. It is a socially acceptable drug that robs more people of their God-given potential than any other drug.

Many years ago, Rev. Walter E. Esenhour of Taylorsville, N.C., described the effects of alcohol on our society as follows:

Alcoholism prevents more people from being successful lawyers, doctors, fine businessmen, school teachers and ministers of the Gospel because they were licked by liquor – gone and forgotten by their community and country, except through bitter and remorseful memory.

Alcohol will

lick the roses

from a woman’s cheeks, the beauty from her face, the health from her body, the pearls from her character and will send her to an early grave. It will lick the wife’s affection from her husband and her

precious children from her home

and most important, away from

God.

It is licking tens of thousands of husbands and wives into the courts of our nation for divorces, sending them forth as moral and spiritual wrecks. It is licking the support, care, love and protection of fathers and mothers from many precious children.

Yes, liquor licks – it is a drug – it is legal.

I would like to share the following which was given to me by a recovering alcoholic:

I am more powerful that the combined armies of the world;

I have destroyed more men than all the wars of the nation;

I have caused millions of accidents and wrecked more homes than all the floods, tornadoes and hurricanes put together;

I am the world’s slickest thief; I steal billions of dollars each year;

I find my victims among the rich and poor alike, the young and the old, the strong and the weak;

I loom up to such proportions that I cast a shadow over every field of labor;

I am relentless, insidious, unpredictable;

I am everywhere – in the home, on the street, in the factory, in the office, on the sea and in the air;

I bring sickness, poverty and death;

I give nothing and take all;

I am your worst enemy;

I am ALCOHOL.

Anonymous

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