CHRISTIANS SHOULD REJECT INJECTING ROOMS
Drugs are evil
Christians accept that they must “do unto others what they would wish to be done to themselves”.
Because of this command of Jesus, Christians should treat others as they would want to be treated themselves.
In the event that a person is drug addicted, Christians accept that they should assist the addict to get drug free.
As followers of Jesus Christ, Christians know that Jesus always completely cured people with a command to change their lifestyle.
In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus gives witness to the way a Christian should behave towards those who are addicted, bringing them to full health with love and kindness even to the point of inconvenience and personal cost.
All Christian denominations condemn drug taking as an evil because of its self-destruction and self-centered life style.
Our free will, a gift from God, is taken away by addiction.
Addicts overwhelming need for drugs is destructive of free will and leads them away from God and the wholeness of life He provides to us.
Addicts must be cured
Christians see the current methods used to help those who are drug addicted as second rate and designed to maintain or minimize the effects of drugs not to bring the addict to fullness of life.
Life is good as it is a gift from God to be used to worship God and to eventually to spend eternity sharing Gods life.
Christians cannot accept practices, which maintain or minimize addiction knowing full well that drugs often lead to death and will lead to permanent bodily damage and shortened life of an addict.
By offering addicts clean syringes, injecting rooms and alternative legal drugs, which maintain self centered and destructive behaviors for addicts, is part of the current nihilistic and consumer culture, which is opposed to Christian principles.
Legalized drug pushing is evil
Christians accept that drug pushing is an evil because it uses greed to prey on those in society who are vulnerable because of their addiction.
Injecting rooms will allow evil to flourish and prosper as addicts buy drugs for use in the injecting rooms.
Christians endorse prohibiting addictive drugs, as they are dangerous.
Injecting rooms will legalize for the first time known dangerous drugs allowing for an increasing number of users and an increase in evil.
Harming others is evil
Christians also know that addicts use evil by harming others to obtain money to purchase drug from drug pushers.
Injecting rooms by legalizing dangerous drugs and drug pushing, increasing addiction and harm to others will allow evil to flourish.
Christians must heal
Christians are and must be at the forefront of help to addicts and those who have been harmed directly and indirectly by evil.
Christian agencies in charity towards addicts and their victims have provided detoxification and rehabilitation to bring back a wholeness and love of life to addicts.
Drug free is essential
Firstly, detoxification brings the addict to rationality by removing the need for drugs and returns to them their free will to take control of their life the greatest gift from God.
It also removes from the addict the likelihood of early death or permanent damage to the body.
By getting an addict drug free, Christians do unto others out of love for Jesus but also to reduce evil in the world.
Return to wholeness
Secondly, rehabilitation of the addict must follow detoxification otherwise the drug free state may not last.
Rehabilitation to be permanent must be comprehensive and may take many years of rebuilding.
Christians accept that the family of the addict is essential in rehabilitation, or if there is no family available, then a substitute is essential to provide the support and love for wholeness of life.
Prayer for Gods Grace for forgiveness and to overcome a self centered lifestyle is the starting point of a new life.
Less addicts not more
Don’t legalize drug pushing
Less crime not more
Taxes for injecting rooms must be used to get addicts drug free
More detoxification & effective rehabilitation programs
Prisons & youth centers must get addicts drug free
FACT SHEET 7/2000
Drug Advisory Council of Australia Inc.