This is episode 1,757. Welcome to the Daily Meditation podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and thank you for joining us as we continue through our series on how to use meditation to manage addiction.

And this could be a serious addiction you may have to a substance or gambling or pornography.

Or you could have a more mild addiction, such as maybe you are addicted to

coffee or you are addicted to exercising. You put that before time with loved ones.

You feel a rush and a high after you exercise,

and you just can't seem to get enough.

Whatever your addiction may be,

throughout this series,

you have discovered a different meditation technique in each episode on how to help

you navigate your way out of an addiction or away from an addiction. And you may not be the one

with an addiction, but you may have a loved one or even a friend or a neighbor who struggles with addiction.

In this series, you have discovered insight to help you help others who are struggling with the debilitating effects of addiction.

Now, throughout the series, you discovered just how widespread and expansive addiction is

and how many lives it touches.

And in yesterday's episode, you were treated to an interview, a pretty in-depth interview

with an attorney who helps others in a crisis such as being Baker acted.

Baker acted means being involuntary committed to a behavioral health type of center or more accurately these places are warehouses for people who may have

overdosed on drugs or maybe they're on the street. Well, these places are also where people who are

feeling depressed or suicidal and really looking for help are also housed and often put

on drugs and not really taken care of in the way they should be treated. While at the same time, these places are literally lifesavers for people who are

really strung out on drugs and need a place to detox. So whichever state in the U.S. you happen to live in or whichever country you may live in the world,

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