"Deaths Of Despair"

As I read this USA Today article, my eyes immediately focused on the above titled phrase. According to the article, this phrase is associated with drug and alcohol abuse, smoking, overeating, and suicide attempts.

As author, Jorge L. Ortiz writes: "The [workforce] engine that powers the world’s most potent economy is dying at a worrisome pace, a “distinctly American phenomenon’’ with no easily discernible cause or simple solution."

Contrary to the above statement, there is an easy discernible cause and a simple solution to the early cause of death associated with drug, alcohol abuse, smoking, overeating, and suicide attempts (see mortality rates article). The answers are found in God's life instruction manual, the Bible.

Beloved, the Bible has solutions to every problem that mankind will ever face while here on earth.

The question is, are we willing to implement them? (see here and here).

As Christians, let us pray that our ungodly society will get back to the Bible, to God, and to moral sanity (see here), for without God, we are one nation gone under (see here), i.e., the "deaths of despair."

---Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets 

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