Religious Barricade
Drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing brain disorder for which surprisingly few effective therapies have been developed. Trying to stop the addiction can be practically impossible. 12 step programs are what people deam to be working but they aren’t very efficient and some people come out with psychological issues after. People while being assigned to a drug relief program that attend church once a week have a ten percent greater chance of kicking their habit from those that go less than once a week.
Josh Hamilton was drafted straight out of Athens High School in North Carolina. The Devil Rays had picked him first round first overall in the 1999 draft with a four million dollar signing bonus. Josh started his career off …show more content…
One night he is absolutely strung out and cannot handle the cravings, he finds himself walking down the middle of the highway because he needs a fix so bad and his truck ran out of gas. Josh walks to his grandmother 's house at two in the morning, she knows of his problems but still lets him in because of unconditional love. Josh is now doing crack in the extra bedroom that his grandmother is letting him sleep in. She smells it. She calls Josh out to the living room and she is crying, this is the final source that drives Josh to get clean. He figures out what he needs to do himself. A higher power.
Josh finds God. He asks him for the strength every day to keep him away from the drugs. People that engage in religious activity at least once a week have a nine point six percent better chance of getting a negative drug sample (Petry 4). They are also on have clean for three and a half weeks longer for those that don’t go to a religious event once a …show more content…
Impulsivity is defined as an individual’s tendency for premature, excessively risky, poorly conceived and inappropriate actions without due regard for future consequences (Jupp 2). Josh did not know what he was doing to himself. He still thinks he’s “daddy’s little boy”(Hamilton 54). Josh says he doesn’t believe that his addiction/failure is based on his mom and dad babying him, being introduced into the major leagues at eighteen years old or the four million dollars he acquired with his signing bonus he just believes it was his destiny to make him
Drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing brain disorder for which surprisingly few effective therapies have been developed. Trying to stop the addiction can be practically impossible. 12 step programs are what people deam to be working but they aren’t very efficient and some people come out with psychological issues after. People while being assigned to a drug relief program that attend church once a week have a ten percent greater chance of kicking their habit from those that go less than once a week.
Josh Hamilton was drafted straight out of Athens High School in North Carolina. The Devil Rays had picked him first round first overall in the 1999 draft with a four million dollar signing bonus. Josh started his career off …show more content…
One night he is absolutely strung out and cannot handle the cravings, he finds himself walking down the middle of the highway because he needs a fix so bad and his truck ran out of gas. Josh walks to his grandmother 's house at two in the morning, she knows of his problems but still lets him in because of unconditional love. Josh is now doing crack in the extra bedroom that his grandmother is letting him sleep in. She smells it. She calls Josh out to the living room and she is crying, this is the final source that drives Josh to get clean. He figures out what he needs to do himself. A higher power.
Josh finds God. He asks him for the strength every day to keep him away from the drugs. People that engage in religious activity at least once a week have a nine point six percent better chance of getting a negative drug sample (Petry 4). They are also on have clean for three and a half weeks longer for those that don’t go to a religious event once a …show more content…
Impulsivity is defined as an individual’s tendency for premature, excessively risky, poorly conceived and inappropriate actions without due regard for future consequences (Jupp 2). Josh did not know what he was doing to himself. He still thinks he’s “daddy’s little boy”(Hamilton 54). Josh says he doesn’t believe that his addiction/failure is based on his mom and dad babying him, being introduced into the major leagues at eighteen years old or the four million dollars he acquired with his signing bonus he just believes it was his destiny to make him