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Devotional by David Jeremiah

“Many respondents reported higher rates of past-month drug and alcohol use. The rate of past-month alcohol use grew with household income: 40% of lower-income households, 45.96% of middle-income households and 52.69% of high-income households.” https://sflcn.com/study-shows-how-south-florida-residents-are-coping-with-covid-19-based-on-income-level/…

Nadine Kaslow, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University provides some guidance on coping with COVID-19 pandemic stress to the readers of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She says, “During these warm, spring days, just being outside can be a pleasant experience. Consider planting…

Airport administration officials in Moscow say an intoxicated, forty year old man drove his car into the airport terminal departure gate. Video footage shows the car drive past a check-in desk and into a departure gate before going back outside to a railway terminal. As you might expect, authorities…

The Red Cross has medical treatment facilities at Oktoberfest, one of Germany’s biggest celebrations that treat up to 10,000 people every year. “About 800 celebrants become what Germans call Bierleichen—‘beer corpses,’ or people who drink so much they fall unconscious.” -- Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell…

The same old guy gets pulled over for DUI. When he gets to court the arresting officer testifies that the defendant, when asked to produce his car registration, had fumbled around endlessly in the glove compartment. Well, he’d hired a good lawyer, and the lawyer, wanting to earn his money (go figure)…

You heard about the alcoholic didn’t you? (By the way, when I was coming up, we called them drunks.) You heard about the drunk didn’t you? He’s married and he comes home late and sneaks upstairs being as quiet as he can be. He sneaks into the bathroom and looks at his face. His hair’s messed up and he’s…

In his book On Writing, Stephen King confesses suffering from an alcohol addiction that nearly destroyed him. Thanks to a family intervention, though, he overcame it. Reflecting on the experience, King writes: "It's been almost twelve years since I took a drink, and I'm still struck by disbelief when…

Some lies are easier to detect than others. A Washington State Trooper saw an intoxicated driver who, after he noticed the officer, turned into a driveway and pulled into an empty garage. He was trying to convince the Trooper this was his home. Trooper Trevor Downey had no problem detecting the false…

ANGER Robert Caton apparently had had a little too much to drink. Employees at the Tesco store in Andover, England refused to sell him anymore. The agitated Caton simply returned to his Rolls Royce and drove it through the front window crashing into the store and injuring six people. -- World Magazine,…

FORGIVENESS In 1992, a horrible Christmas Eve DWI crash that claimed the lives of a mother and her three daughters shocked residents of the state of New Mexico. Three years later, a court convicted Gordon House, a onetime high school basketball star and the executive director of a halfway house for troubled…

She told me we couldn't afford beer anymore and then I found she had spent $65 on makeup. I asked her why I had to give up beer but she could spend money on makeup. "Why, I use the makeup to make myself look prettier for you!" Without thinking I replied: "Baby, that's what the beer is for!"

High School Yearbook Shows Alcohol, Pot Most likely to succeed? Try most likely to go to jail. The yearbook for the high school in Conifer, Colorado published photos of students smoking marijuana and drinking beer, drawing the ire of parents and administrators. Hannah Fredrickson, the senior who served…

Sin, as defined by a new Ellison Research study, is something almost always considered wrong, particularly from a religious or moral perspective. Out of the 30 behaviors studied, adultery was most often described as a sinful behavior by American respondents (81%). Next was racism (74%); using “hard”…