Tag: ADDICTION

Sports gambling is a growing threat to our children that too many adults still underestimate.

A pillar of addiction recovery in Birmingham, Squire Gwin has died at 81. He helped hundreds.

Ignoring the idiom "You can't judge a book by its cover," AL(dot)com, an outlet owned by Alabama Media Group, a subsidiary of New York billionaires Donald and Samuel Newhouse's Advance Publications, recently wrote a story focusing on three minutes of a one-hour-and-a-half podcast to shame a Christian podcaster and former reality TV star Madison Prewett Troutt for a previous addiction to sexual sin, ignoring the broader message of her confession and faith based recovery.

A life gripped by addiction is a series of short farcical victories that spell long tragic defeat, where even the so-called daily winners end up losers in the long run. This is true for individuals as well as entire nations.

Alabama is known for a church on every corner, but somehow those corners are also plagued with drugs and crime. How did it get this way and what is being done to bring Alabamians back to God and break the chains that are binding and killing His people?

Christians United Ministries, a believer-supported international ministry of prayer, has been around since 1999. It started in the Elberta home of Jan Hicks after she got into a little bit of trouble herself. Well, Hicks got into a lot of trouble and to this day is thankful to be alive.

Former NFL quarterback and 1997 Heisman Trophy finalist Ryan Leaf spoke at the Grand Bohemian Hotel in Mountain Brook on Thursday about his struggle with opioid addiction. 

Reclaim. Rebuild. Restore. That’s what His Way, located in Huntsville, is all about. The Christian-based non-profit is using all of its resources to help men and, in some cases, women recover from addiction.