How should we view the war on drugs? Is it a failure and should we try something

different or are drugs so dangerous that waging war on them is the only

appropriate response? We'll discuss these questions and more with our guest, Christina Dent.

She's the author of a brand new book called Curious.

Subtitle is really what will get my attention.

A Foster Mom's discovery of an unexpected

solution to drugs and addiction. I'm your host Scott Ray and I'm your co-host

Sean McDow. This is ThinkBiblically from Talbot School of Theology here at Biola University.

Christina, thanks so much for joining us.

So glad to have you on with us.

Thanks so much for having me, Scott.

Now, you start out in your book and you make quite an admission that your parents, your kids,

and yourself have had no experience at all with illegal drugs or addiction. So what gives you such a passion

for the subject of ending addiction and changing how we approach it? Yeah and actually that's one of the reasons why I wrote the book.

I was hopeful that my particular experience as a bit of an outsider on the issue who came in in a unique way through being a foster parent would give a voice and maybe a

perspective to people that felt a similar connection to maybe my background growing up in conservative Christian

culture born and raised in Mississippi have lived here my whole life and I really

wanted to help people see what I got to see through being a foster mom.

And that was meeting one of the moms of one of our, or the mom of one of our foster sons.

And her name is Joanne.

Before I had met her, I did not, like you said,

didn't know anything about drugs, addiction.

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