Support Group for Families with Children caught in Addiction Thursday Evening Gatherings @ Sharptown UMC Thank you for coming! We are so glad that you are here! October 3, 2019 DISCUSSION TOPIC Herbert Kleber www.cnet.com/news/google-doodle-honors-dr-herbert-kleber-changed-how-drug-addiction-is-viewed Herbert Kleber, who changed how we view drug addiction, was honored by Google Doodle on 9/30/19, the 23rd anniversary of his election to the National Academy of Medicine, a volunteer organization that provides advice on health and medical advice. The American psychiatrist saved countless lives in the process. just a few days before the first anniversary of his death, at the age of 84 he died Oct. 5, 2018. (article by: Steven Musil) Real Hope Support – Sharptown UMC . Dr. Herbert Kleber dedicated more than half his life to treating drug addiction, spending more than 50 years studying the causes of substance abuse and developing treatments to reduce the effects of withdrawal. His work changed the way addiction is viewed and treated and helped save countless lives. When he began his career, substance abuse wasn't a major focus of research for the medical community. His research in addiction began when he was deployed to a prison hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, where inmates were being treated for addiction. After noticing that the majority of patients would relapse after release, Kleber developed his "evidence-based treatment," treating addiction as a medical condition instead of a failure of moral character. His approach stresses the importance of research, employing the use of medication and therapy to prevent patient relapses. In 1964, he took a faculty position at the Yale University School of Psychiatry, where he founded the Drug Dependence Unit in 1968. He served as the unit's head for more than two decades before being appointed in 1989 by President George H.W. Bush to serve as deputy director for Demand Reduction at the Office of National Drug Control Policy. During his five-decade career, Kleber authored more than 250 papers and articles on addiction and how to treat it and was co-editor of the American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment. During his time at Yale, and later Columbia University, he mentored generations of researchers who would go on to be leaders in the substance abuse field. ___________________________________________________________ Be Encouraged! Lives are filled with various forms of temptations. It’s our forgiving God’s words where people can find the encouragement and strength to overcome these cravings. This Bible verse provides inspiration to overcoming the power of addiction with the faith and spirit of the Lord. No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. 1 Corinthians 10:13 Real Hope Support – Sharptown UMC Serenity Prayer - Long version God grant me the Serenity To accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And the Wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time. Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace, Taking, as he did, this sinful world as it is, Not as I would like it. Trusting that he will make all things right, If I surrender to his will. That I may be reasonably happy in this world And supremely happy in the next. The Twelve Steps of Co-Dependents Anonymous 1. We admitted we were powerless over 8. Made a list of all persons we had others - that our lives had become harmed and became willing to make unmanageable. amends to them all. 2. Came to believe that a power greater 9. Made direct amends to such people than ourselves could restore us to wherever possible, except when to do sanity. so would injure them or others. 3. Made a decision to turn our will and 10. Continued to take personal inventory lives over to the care of God as we and when we were wrong, promptly understood God. admitted it. 4. Made a searching and fearless moral 11. Sought through prayer and meditation inventory of ourselves. to improve our conscious contact with 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to God as we understood God, praying another human being, the exact nature only for knowledge of God's will for us of our wrongs. and the power to carry that out. 6. Were entirely ready to have God 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the remove all these defects of character. result of these steps, we tried to 7. Humbly asked God to remove our carry this message to other co- shortcomings. dependents, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. Real Hope Support – Sharptown UMC .