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Helping someone suffering from substance abuse.Helping Through Substance Abuse
In this 8-part series, Rev. Tony Marciano helps you with a person in your life whose world is spiraling out of control due to drugs and alcohol.
Dealing with someone, suffering from substance abuse, Part 1
Dealing with someone, suffering from substance abuse, Part 2
Dealing with someone, suffering from substance abuse, Part 3
Dealing with someone, suffering from substance abuse, Part 4
Dealing with someone, suffering from substance abuse, Part 5
Dealing with someone, suffering from substance abuse, Part 6
Dealing with someone, suffering from substance abuse, Part 7
Dealing with someone, suffering from substance abuse, Part 8
Real Help For Real Living
Should he have evacuated?
If you would rather listen to this blog post, check out our Real Help for Real Living podcast here. In the early 1920’s, my grandfather arrived at Ellis Island from Italy. He settled in a town eight miles away. He and my grandmother raised six children. While four of...
I got too close and it went whoosh
If you would rather listen to this blog post, check out our Real Help for Real Living podcast here. I am the crazy person who enjoys mowing the lawn. However, I don’t enjoy using a “push” mower. Even if it is self-propelled, I don’t enjoy mowing with it. Since I’ve...
I didn’t want her to cut the cord
If you would rather listen to this blog post, check out our Real Help for Real Living podcast here. My dad loved to be the first in everything. We had the first color television in the family when everyone else had black and white TV’s. We were the first with an above...
I needed a teacher
If you would rather listen to this blog post, check out our Real Help for Real Living podcast here. My father had a love of water. It started with an above ground swimming pool in the early 1960’s. There were fishing trips in sixteen-foot row boats. His best friend...
Acme is more than a company the Road Runner buys from
If you would rather listen to this blog post, check out our Real Help for Real Living podcast here. I was a commuter student in college. My first three semesters, I took two buses to get there. In my fourth semester, I purchased a ten year old car. I thought I...
My alarm clock tricked me
If you would rather listen to this blog post, check out our Real Help for Real Living podcast here. I’m still old fashioned. I don’t use my smart phone as an alarm clock. I have a clock radio. Try finding one at your favorite department store. You’re going to...
Sixty years of fishing line
If you would rather listen to this blog post, check out our Real Help for Real Living podcast here. My dad loved to fish. When I was seven, he took me fishing in a leaky, wooden sixteen-foot rowboat with a ten horsepower Mercury outboard on the back. We fished...
It was there. I just didn’t see it.
If you would rather listen to this blog post, check out our Real Help for Real Living podcast here. My father was a master fabricator. He could make anything with steel. He would wake up in the middle of the night with an idea, grab some paper and design his...
I remember the Toilet Paper Shortage of 1974
If you would rather listen to this blog post, check out our Real Help for Real Living podcast. Click here. I was in high school when the toilet paper shortage of 1974 struck America. We had just gone through the energy shortage in January where there were gas...
Sometimes I feel as if I’m in the movie Groundhog Day
If you would rather listen to this blog post, check out our Real Help for Real Living podcast. Click here. You’ve probably seen the movie Ground Hog Day. Bill Murray wakes up and it is Ground Hog Day every morning. Yes, every morning. My “Groundhog Day” goes to the...
Stories of Hope
Nikki — “God knew that I needed to be here . . .”
Nikki grew up surrounded by addiction and abuse and believed it was just part of life. But after being nearly destroyed by her own addiction, she sought help in changing her life forever . . . “I was at rock bottom, sleeping in the woods,” Nikki says. She wanted to...
Curtis — “Coming here was a Godsend. . .”
When Curtis came through the doors of Charlotte Rescue Mission, he had been robbed and stripped of everything that mattered to him. The thief was addiction, and it crushed all of Curtis’ hopes and dreams—just as it did countless times before. “In one week, I lost...
Angela — “I do have worth; I do have value . . .”
After Angela’s husband of more than 30 years passed away from cancer, her pain and grief led her to drugs. Addiction soon took over her life, burning every bridge . . . “I gave addiction my home, my job, and the love and respect of my parents and my children,” Angela...
Anthony — “I was lucky to find Charlotte Rescue Mission. . .”
Anthony’s love of sports and desire to perform better is what first led him to experiment with drugs. But addiction didn’t find a foothold until he was in his thirties. That’s when he was introduced to the hard drugs that would eventually take over his life . . . “I...