And for anyone contemplating weighing in on this thread as an authority on the evil of addiction and how to overcome it...
please don’t bother unless you are an addict yourself.
It takes one to know one.
Beg your pardon? I spent 10 years in addiction and was confined to 3 addiction facilities within those 10 years. I also spent years in AA. AA, rehab facilities, psychologists, and psychiatrists, were unable to set me free. Where have I been? For thirty years I have lived clean and free for addiction, have sought the face of God in prayer and Bible study, and worked with many addicts along the way. I wrote this book and spent my own personal money to publish it. Chances are I will never get back what it cost me financially to publish it. I wrote with the sincere desire to help others find the freedom, joy, peace, serenity, forgiveness, purpose, and meaning that I have found in life. For the past 30 years life has progressively and increasingly become the greates gift that anyone can ever experience. Your suggestion that I'm in this for the money is hogwash -- and I have actually given away several books to folk who can not afford the $14 they retail for. You know not of what you speak, and are guilty of judging a man's heart of whom you do not even know.
I am a former addict who spent ten years in addiction. I would eat, drink, smoke, or snort anything to get high and stay high. There were times in my 20’s when I stayed drunk for days. I was in three rehab facilities for addiction, and lost everything. I wrote this book on ten years of personal experience in addiction, 30 years of prayer, 30 years of biblical studies, and nearly 20 years of working with other addicts as God brought them across my path. I am the author of this book.
If that were true, we could not hear or heed the teachings of Jesus Christ because He was never an addict. The truth is, we can learn a great deal from those that have not been addicted. God gives insight and knowledge to those who gain discernment through reading and studying His Word the Bible.