The Positive Cure to Drug Addiction

Yes, the old has gone and the new is here! I must confess that I’m not a medical doctor, not even a theological doctor. So, what right do I have to call addiction a lie and claim that there is a positive cure for all drug and alcohol addiction? Valid question! I have seen the effects of drugs and alcohol abuse on thousands of people, along with the ripple effect on their families, communities, and society.

This does not qualify me to be The Answer Man for Addiction, but it gives me

reason to offer hope and help because of what I do know and have personally experienced.

My journey into the asphalt jungle (as New York City was called in the early 1960s), began when, together with my brother David, we started working with street gangs through unusual and remarkable events documented in the bestselling book and subsequent movie, The Cross and the Switchblade.2 We were not social workers. We were, however, peacemakers. We offered the Mau Maus, the Roman Lords, the Chaplains and other gangs God’s Gospel of peace. If they made peace with Him—the Prince of Peace—they could also find peace with other

gangs, instead of constantly drawing blood.

We had only moderate success working with those gangs in Brooklyn, the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Harlem, and the Bronx. What we were unable to do, neither the special police assigned to work among the street gangs nor anyone else could do; that is, break up those notorious gangs. What destroyed the gangs over a relatively short period was a brownish white powder contained in small cellophane bags initially called “stuff” and “horse,” better known as heroin.

Between that potent drug and the greedy drug pushers, in less than a year the gangs were gone, gone to the needle as if an invisible, powerful force had quietly and completely captured one gang after another. They disappeared into “shooting galleries” abandoned and burned-out buildings where it was every person for themselves. They had to, as they called it, feed the monkey on their back.

What began in the inner city spread eventually across the country from the poor, the rich, the middle class, and millions getting hooked on all kinds of drugs. Right from the beginning, the mantra was, “Once an addict, always an addict.” Unfortunately, then as now, everyone basically believed it; and unfortunately, so did the users and abusers.

So, what do you do if you feel your calling is to help the helpless and the completely hopeless as my brother David and I felt that call? Well, you pray a lot. Also, being people of the Big Book—the Bible—we turned to what we knew best. We saw what happens when we call on the same Jesus who walked the earth and healed the incurable lepers of His day. He still heals those labeled as incurable!

My brother and I were given our mission statement right out of the Bible, found in the Apostle Paul’s second book to the Corinthians, chapter five, verse seventeen. It reads in the King James version:

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Read more in the book G.O.N.E. God Offers New Evidence: THE ADDICTION DISEASE CAN BE GONE, IN JESUS’ NAME! available here:

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