Illegal DRUGS- THE SWEET PROMISE AND COOL FEELINGS BEFORE KILLING AND BURNING YOU AS A SLAVE!
“I had no more future. I did not see how I could escape my cocaine dependence. I was lost. I was exploding and unable to stop myself from continuing to seriously abuse cocaine. I had hallucinations that animals were crawling under my skin. I felt them each time I shot up and scraped myself with the point of my syringe until I started bleeding in order to make them leave. I was once bleeding so heavily from this I had to be taken to the hospital.” —Susan
“Don’t touch cocaine. I spent two years in jail because of this drug. And when I got out, life was so hard I started taking the drug again. I know ten girls who became prostitutes because of coke. It’s much more extreme and degrading than we believe. At the time we don’t realize to what degree it destroys us.” —Shawne
“In sixty years I had never done drugs and drank only socially, but never to excess. I retired as a successful corporate exec who had put two daughters through college and had earned my retirement. My retirement party was however the beginning of five years of hell. That was when I was introduced to crack cocaine for the first time. Over the next five years, I would lose my home, my wife, all my financial resources, my health and almost my life. I also spent two years in prison.” —William
COCAINE
Short-Term Effects (About.com)
When cocaine is used it interferes with the reabsorption of dopamine, a brain chemical associated with pleasure and movement, producing a euphoric effect. Shortly after cocaine is ingested the user may experience the following symptoms:- Constricted blood vessels.
- Dilated pupils.
- Increased body temperature.
- Increased heart rate.
- Higher blood pressure.
Long-Term Effects
Repeated cocaine use can cause the following health consequences:- Irregular heart beat.
- Heart attack.
- Chest pain.
- Respiratory failure.
- Stroke.
- Seizures and headaches.
- Abdominal pain and nausea.
EFFECTS OF CRACK COCAINE
(Foundation for a Drug Free World)
http://www.drugfreeworld.org/home.html
SHORT-TERM EFFECTS
Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
- Loss of appetite
- Increased heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature
- Contracted blood vessels
- Increased rate of breathing
- Dilated pupils
- Disturbed sleep patterns
- Nausea
- Hyperstimulation
- Bizarre, erratic, sometimes violent behavior
- Hallucinations, hyperexcitability, irritability
- Tactile hallucination that creates the illusion of bugs burrowing under the skin
- Intense euphoria
- Anxiety and paranoia
- Depression
- Intense drug craving
- Panic and psychosis
- Convulsions, seizures and sudden death from high doses (even one time)
LONG-TERM EFFECTS
- Permanent damage to blood vessels of ear and brain, high blood pressure, leading to heart attacks, strokes and death
- Liver, kidney and lung damage
- Severe chest pains
- Respiratory failure
- Infectious diseases and abscesses if injected
- Malnutrition, weight loss
- Severe tooth decay
- Auditory and tactile hallucinations
- Sexual problems, reproductive damage and infertility (for both men and women)
- Disorientation, apathy, confused exhaustion
- Irritability and mood disturbances
- Increased frequency of risky behavior
- Delirium or psychosis
- Severe depression
- Tolerance and addiction (even after just one use)
SHORT-TERM EFFECTS
Loss of appetite
Increased heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature
Dilation of pupils
Disturbed sleep patterns
Nausea
Bizarre, erratic, sometimes violent behavior
Hallucinations, hyperexcitability, irritability
Panic and psychosis
Convulsions, seizures and death from high doses
LONG-TERM EFFECTS
Permanent damage to blood vessels of heart and brain, high blood pressure leading to heart attacks, strokes and death
Liver, kidney and lung damage
Destruction of tissues in nose if sniffed
Respiratory (breathing) problems if smoked
Infectious diseases and abscesses if injected
Malnutrition, weight loss
Severe tooth decay
Disorientation, apathy, confused exhaustion
Strong psychological dependence
Psychosis
Depression
Damage to the brain similar to Alzheimer’s disease,3 stroke and epilepsy
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paranoia: suspicion, distrust or fear of other people.
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cardiovascular: related to both the heart and blood vessels.
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Alzheimer’s disease: a disease affecting some older people that is accompanied by memory loss.
YOUR BODY IS A TEMPLE...
The Human body is a temple or a vessel that is given to us at birth. It is in the fleshly birth that we have it. We are stewards of this vessel. Our body is following the laws of nature that God had embedded in us with the survival instincts and the most important is the decision making as a steward of this body. The laws limits and gives us the rules to be healthy and wise. We need to eat, to drink, to breath, to exercise, to dress, to learn to grow in order to survive and many things to enjoy and to be productive and complete as a person. We are responsible to the decisions of selecting and doing what is best for this fleshly temple. We are to take care of this and to preserve this until the appointed time that we give up our ghost and leave this earthly temple called death.
This temple is temporary and will surely experience suffering from its limitations, sickness, and death. For this reason we need to take care of it because it is so fragile that if you lose it by abuse and recklessness, you are hurting yourself and all who care about you.
To preserve it is to know what is best for you, you should know what can harm and what are your allergies, and what can cause you diseases or lower your immune system. But from all of these, there is a more important thing to decide and that is to secure its eternal destination. When you die, and rut and converted to dust, you will someday be CHANGED into a more stable and eternal body for heaven or for hell. In that moment, you will not be consumed or annihilated, you will continue to exist...
That is what you need to prepare yourself now. Our temporal life here is the period of decision, you are to choose what eternal destiny to take and it is by knowing the person, by believing in Him that will make the biggest difference of your entire life.
The man of your hope and your future depends on Jesus Christ, the MAN-GOD, the savior. His death is the payment to our sins and the answer to the death problem of our earthly temple. If you have Him, if you have repented of your sins, and believe in His sacrificial death as your substitute, and receive Him in your heart and life, you can experience spiritual birth. He adopts you as His son or daughter and even when you die physically, you will some day be resurrected like Himself and your body will be changed incorruptible to live with Him forever in heaven.
1Co 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1Co 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
DISOBEYING THE LAWS OF THE LAND HAS CONSEQUENCES because Drugs it is ILLEGAL!
(Deuteronomy 17:2; Ecclesiastes 8:2-5; Matthew 22:21; 23:2-3; Romans 13:1-7; Titus 3:1; 1 Peter 2:13-17; 2 Peter 2:9-11) The only instance to that we are allowed to disobey is when it violates God's direct commands. (Acts 5:29)
LIFE IS SHORT WHY WASTE IT.
Jas 4:13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
Jas 4:14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Jas 4:15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
NO REAL HAPPINESS COMES FROM ABUSE AND EXCESS
Pro_29:18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
1Pe 4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
1Pe 4:2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
1Pe 4:3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
1Pe 4:4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
1Pe 4:5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
1Jn_2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Eph 5:15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
Eph 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Eph 5:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
Eph 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Ecc 5:15 As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
Ecc 5:16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
Ecc 5:17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Ecc 5:18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
Ecc 5:19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
Ecc 5:20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.
ADDICTION IS SLAVERY AND PRISON WITH NO WALLS
Joh 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
THERE IS HOPE
Rom 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Rom 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Rom 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Rom 6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Rom 6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Rom 6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
Rom 6:21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
Rom 6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
SALVATION IS FOR ALL EVEN FOR THE WORST SINNER
1Ti_1:15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD
Mat_19:26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Mar_10:27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
Luk_1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
FINALLY, ITS YOUR HARD CHOICE
Tit 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Tit 3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
Tit 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Tit 3:6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
Tit 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Joh 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Joh 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Joh 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Joh 3:20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Joh 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
