H is for joy; Treatment programs, part 6

The following program is produced as a public service feature by the radio division of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Nothing. With cooperation from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the Illinois division of narcotic control. WE PRESENT. News. H is for joy a thing. Going. With. Oh h is for joy. Yes the title is curious. But we hope that as you've listened to this series you have learned the real implication of the title. In other words that age does not really stand for joy but can only mean the painful destruction of a human being. His body his mind and his father JONES indicated on the last programme.

His soul. Before we go on to other treatments other cures other methods of rehabilitation Let's go back briefly if you'll remember. You've heard the voice of an addict on a just for joy it was a recipe drugs taken voice of a man old beyond his years. He explained to us how he first became an addict how his addiction progressed his sensations of withdrawal and how he obtained enough money to supply his habit. Now we'd like to bring him back via tape recording so that he might tell you one more impression his addiction made upon his mind. In the interview with him we were impressed with one fact that seemed to stand out above all others. He faced his habit his addiction his pain his life alone. There was the overwhelming sense of loneliness and it prompted us to ask the question. Does an addict have any friends. Then as he answered the question is a blanket of loneliness seemed to spread itself over

us. As he said can't we read with let you be his sisters and brother look down on you give you a good first no. If she goes Well she don't want to do it because you know she's a junkie you can put look out of it and how it goes you're rather glad to tell the truth. Oh she stayed about it. Yeah yeah the one friend of the world is God. God the first mention he had made of the supernatural of the spiritual. Of the intangible. We can draw from his statement that if he is cured it's to be affected. He believes by a power other than man's. Some other will must be involved. And in this involvement he will somehow find cure.

But what of cure. We've been told that there is no such thing as a cured drug addict. Remember Joseph for the oral. In my years in this field I have yet to find a cure and addict while attending the federal narcotics school in Washington D.C. We had asked many of our instructors who were brought here from all parts of the world whether they had ever heard of a cure being infected and all the answers were in the negative. Myself I've never found a cured addict. I have found those that can abstain for a short period of time and then they revert back to it again. I would say in caps that there is no end o cure for drug addiction. Once you become addicted to the heroin drug you are lost forever

lost lost forever in a world of loneliness that no human can seem to penetrate. And the world revolves about one idea one thought. Where can I get my next shot. We've spoken to an addict who thinks that God is his only solution his only cure. We've also spoken to a retired Chicago policeman who believes there is no cure for the addict. Once again we turn to someone who believes there is a solution. This time we spoke to Chaplain Lewis arcane chaplain of the Chicago house of correction and Cook County jail chaplain King explained his views this way. I venture to say about 40 percent even a little bit of those men and women have been Word uses of drugs in our cards prior to the time of their arrest. That's my privilege as I walk with them and talk with them and listen to their problems. They tell me that they want something.

Some say they want someone to love them. Others say they want to be successful because they have failed as they call it. They were driven to drugs. Others find excuses they lost their loved ones. They all have some excuse blaming somebody or something for their problem and their downtrodden condition. But as a matter of fact I find that we don't have any drug addicts I've always been opposed to that terminology because it isn't true. If we were to find a way to addict that means one who can't do without something that's an addict one who's addicted to something and can't do without it would be called a drug addict. But we have no such presence that I know of in any institution because I know in our particular institutions here when they come in at the death sentence the 30 60 90 days or months are bad so yeah. They don't get one iota of drugs in our colleagues off

barbiturates and any fall because of the condition they were in when they came into the institution. They get that as we would call the cold taking treatment nothing at all. They give in the hard way. Plenty of food and time to rest. And we find that hard work is a temporal help and curing these man. But when they talk about wanting something and they don't know what they want but they will blame everybody for their problems. Everyone for that situation. We've got to face facts and realize that they greatest need of every one of those uses of drugs is love. When I say love I'm not talking about the limited thing which is unmanned as we call it love man's love is not love. Love has to begin with someone I learned from someone who is above mine and there was only

one who was above mine and that has allowed who is alive and that's the Lord Jesus Christ. Unless man poses Christ in our hearts they know absolutely nothing about life. If man is shown a man receives Christ the Savior he receives the love that overwhelms and overtakes the love of all man. Man is a temple thing just as the world is but the love of Christ is eternal. Man even as medical doctors and I respect the medical profession I respect the medical profession in every phase of it. Psychiatry and psychology and medicine and all. I respect them but they are limited. They can do so much they can give a remedy they can give atemporal help but they do not have a cure. The only cure is the Lord Jesus Christ. We've got to face facts a user of drugs is one who likes to

use it. Of course if we imbibe in anything whether it be drugs or drink or anything else or even normal daily food if we have too much of anything we're going to get sick. Drugs is no different than anything else. The only thing it takes its toll upon the human body and the human mind more than anything else. However my response to this whole drug situation my replied to this false cry of drug addiction is the Lord Jesus Christ can take away that desire. When when the Lord Jesus Christ removes the habit. That present all persons well never go back to it if you with a place i thousand pounds of marijuana before them. If you were to give them 1000 grains Owens's of age or am well anything you can think of. They will not touch it. When the love of Christ wells in their hearts.

Another was Christ is the answer to the drug problem and nothing else. That was chaplain Lewis our king chaplain of the Chicago house of correction and Cook County jail chaplain Kings Point of View has been quite different from many of those you've heard. And he states it so positively that it might even seem incredible. But let's go on the following tape is only a small portion of a quantity sent to a church for joined by a gentleman in California named Mr Kenneth JONES Mr Jones directs a nonprofit organization called the Christian anti narcotic Association. He will begin on this program telling about the cure he has found and conclude on the next. He's Mr. Kenneth Jones of the Christian anti narcotics Association and the first years that I was hooked on dog. I look down on those who would turn themselves in for a cure. I thought myself

above that and I thought that was a sign of weakness. And of course I realized later that it was because the novelty in the romance hadn't as yet worn off. But anyway that was the attitude that I had down through the early years of my drug addiction. It was a kind of a condition that I went to Fort Worth in and then I went there with practically a seven year run. I had been in the sanitarium you know those couple of times were just days. And then I had done three very short sentences in the county jail one where I'd turn myself in. And then two other times. So I hadn't really really gotten off and straightened up any time during the seven years which made me go into Fort Worth the first time was practically a seven year run. And of course these four times I was in Fort Worth United States Public Health Service Hospital which is a combination hospital and Penitentiary in that and many of the

inmates there are doing well anywhere from one to ten years two three five seven ten years for a federal narcotic violations. I went there and it was eight days in the reduction Ward which is a couple of days more than the average. And I went out from there into what they call a population where I was supposed to make it to the mess hall and get well from there on on my own. But for five days I was twisting and turning in the bed and I just wasn't making it. And assert without murmuring or complaining they put me back into the reduction ward. After five days where I stayed another six days so that made 19 days. When I had gone by from the time I entered the hospital to like time I came out of the reaction where the second time. And then I was hardly any better no better that I could see. Then when I came out the first time and I was still in my fourth week almost an unheard of

thing that illustrates how the best cure that science could produce after multiplied millions of dollars research constantly 24 hours a day down through the years mothers boys and girls for guinea pigs along with animals rabbits mice rats I guess goats and dogs to use in their research. And there I was taking the best cure that they could produce and suffering like that. I never saw anyone or to my knowledge come out and really stay off the stuff in life except at the large Jesus-Christ. So there you have it. Some who think there is no answer to the problem of drug addiction no cure. Others who believe that stronger laws stiffer sentences and tighter controls and other solutions. There are some but few who believe that with the proper controls narcotics could be legalized and this would kill the underworld market and eventually addiction. Others feel the best cure rests in the hands of the medical profession augmented by

psychiatric clinics. And then as we've heard today there are those who believe that the only true solution rests not in the hands of men but in the hands of a loving God. This is what you must evaluate so that you will further know h is not for joy. It's gripped by advantage of production below birth. This is Ted Seeley speaking. The preceding recorded program was made available to the station by the National Association of educational broadcasters. This is the Radio Network.