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ARTICLE
"ADDICTION AND ITS DANGERS"
Rep. Act No. 8423 [ Traditional and Traditional Medicine Act of 1997]
recognizes and legalizes traditional healers [Sec.4(h) RA No. 8423]. People
with back misalignment are likely to become addicts, per findings of the
Divine healing. As preventive measure, these special misaligned people must
be located and identified in our midst and be warned that they should not
be users because even small usage/dosage of the regulated/prohibited drugs
are already dangerous to them. Unfortunately, science misses this
point[misalignment] and this explain the proliferation of many addicts,
victims of "addiction by defects" due to their incurable back
misalignment.
This revelatory information on "back misalignment" as
causal pattern for addiction may be a starting point of research by the
Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care
[Secs.5-6(a), RA No. 8423].
Drugs abuse are dangerous to
users.
Incontrovertibly, drugs users are endangering themselves.
First,
they endanger themselves of being caught in possession of
prohibited/regulated drugs and when convicted they are to serve prison
sentence and for life have criminal records making them socially
undesirables and unwanted.
Second, they are driven to commit economic
crimes such as theft, robbery, estafa, etc. in order to obtain money to buy
the needed drugs and in the process they are either caught to face the
court of justice or be mauled/injured or be killed by people they robbed in
the latter's exercise of self-defense of person or in defense of their
property.
Third, users have high suicidal rates/tendencies;
Fourth,
addiction may lead to troubled minds and high incidence of nervous
breakdown is attributable to drug abuse.
Fifth, users are likely to lose
their homes and family due to their neglect and irresponsibility of their
duties to themselves and to their families.
Sixth, economic dislocation-
laziness and boredom being felt by drug abusers.
Seventh, users
disqualified themselves to travel abroad for most countries bar addicts and
those with narcotic records to enter their respective countries.
Finally,
their spirituality is highly questionable: they become atheist; they
neglect sacramental obligations and above all, religion and God has no
place in them.
Avoid dangerous drugs if you love good life.
ARTICLE
"SOCIETAL PROTECTION AGAINST ADDICTION"
Divine healing has been recognized and legalized by Rep. Act No. 8423
[Alternative Traditional Medicine Act of 1997] and being the highest form
of healing in the world it discovers that addiction has linkage to back
misalignment in some special misaligned people .Hopefully, the Philippine
Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care may initiate an
investigatory research on this matter [Secs. 5-6,(a), RA No. 8423].
Addicts are social outcast.
Most schools disqualified addicts for fear
of the safety of their studentry and the influence they may yield later on
their students. They are refused admission and if admitted, they made
themselves liable for expulsion.
Society consider them dangerous. Most
heinous and bizarre crimes are perpetrated by addicts. They kidnap, carnap,
abduct, rob, and rape ; in other words, they are capable of committing all
crimes listed in the Revised Penal Code, with no regrets, with no remorse
to speak of.
Addicts shattered many lives. Many lost their properties and
loves ones because of them. They destroyed not only their own families but
also the families of their friends and that of the people unknown to
them.
Addicts are unwanted. They are socially and psychologically outcast
and feared by many. Addicts are however misunderstood. They deserve
sympathy and understanding of the highest order by society. Society must
understand why addiction is in ourmidst.
How society protect itself from
addiction?
Primarily, prevention is the best approach to all forms of
addictions: smoking, drinking[alcoholism] and drug abuse.
Addiction may
be prevented by proper development of parent-children relationship because
the restoration and uplifting of humanity begins in the home. The Savior's
early years are more than an example to the youth. It is by the youth and
children of today that the future of society is to be determined and what
these youth and children shall be depends the right home training. Parents
may lay for their children on the foundation for a healthy, happy life.
They may send them forth from their homes with moral stamina to resist
temptation, and courage strength to wrestle successfully with life's
problems. They may inspire in them the purpose and develop that power to
make their lives an honor to God and a blessing to the
world.
Secondarily, other steps taken to eradicate addiction and protect
society in the process are as follows:
First, proper enforcement and
implementation of laws governing drugs such as full implementation of the
the Dangerous Drugs Act as amended or the sincere enforcement of the
incoming New Dangerous Drugs Act, deliberated presently in
Congress.
Second, addiction and alcoholism are made grounds for annulment
of marriage. { Art. 45.(3); Art. 46(6),Family Code] and for legal
separation [ Art. 55(5) , Family Code].
Third, licensing laws and high
rate of taxation being imposed on cigarettes and liquors.
Fourth,
rehabilitative confinement of drug dependents in recognized drug
centers.
Fifth, proper application and imposition of the stiff penalties
on the violators of drug/alcohol related cases.
PRAISE THE LORD !
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