Helping Your Loved One Find Freedom From Addiction
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
When addiction steps in, your family may be turned upside down. In this compelling interview, Victor Torres shares his dramatic story of growing up on the streets of New York City as a gang member and a heroin addict and how God intervened to change his life. He’ll identify some signs of substance abuse and offer some first steps toward hope and healing for your addicted loved one.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.2 | today. Parents, one of the things that parents must do when they suspect that |
| 0:37.0 | their child or their loved one is involved in some suspicious activity, drugs or |
| 0:43.1 | whatever it is, that they know it's not right. It's not to be so naive. |
| 0:48.4 | Uninformed, you know, these are the traits, these are the circumstances, these are |
| 0:54.1 | the consequences of this lifestyle. So if your son and your daughter is acting |
| 0:59.8 | kind of funny, suddenly there's a lot of money or no money or constantly |
| 1:04.4 | asking for money, something is wrong. Victor Torres shares his insights with us |
| 1:11.8 | today on focus on the family. Your host is focus president and author Jim |
| 1:16.3 | Daley and I'm John Fuller. We live in a culture of self-medicating. It's all over |
| 1:21.9 | the place. I think my self-medication is maybe a little snack or two I shouldn't |
| 1:25.6 | have and whether it's innocuous, like retail therapy, I think people understand |
| 1:31.4 | what that means are treating yourself with sweets as I have to escape life |
| 1:36.0 | struggles. There are more dangerous substances like drugs and alcohol. Since |
| 1:41.2 | 1999, nearly one million people have died from a drug overdose and that |
| 1:46.0 | number continues to rise every year. We've got the fentanyl problem coming over |
| 1:50.4 | the southern border. Lots of stuff going on in this category of addiction. More |
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