The Soul Cries Out

Have you ever seen someone who is in the throes of addiction? It’s a painful sight to watch. It’s painful to experience, even secondhand, and their soul is obviously crying out to be heard by someone who will listen. There is a strain between what is good for their brain and body and what feels good temporarily. This creates a really unsafe situation where they will do just about anything, including putting their brains and their bodies in huge danger, in order to satisfy that temporary need.

That temporary need will push friends and family members and even you out of their lives, perhaps permanently. As long as that temporary need holds sway over their desire and their heart, you cannot help them. You are powerless over their addiction, and really, so are they.

The soul cries out. What a dramatic thing to say. But when you are feeling unimaginable pain, and when you feel as if the pain will never go away and that you will never stop hurting, do you not cry out? Do you not cry out when your heart is hurting if a loved one is separated from you in some way? And we are talking about an addiction which steals both from the heart and from the body. Addicts are notoriously under fed and have low nutrition levels. Addicts are notoriously in deep physical pain from their malnutrition alone, not to mention their withdrawal symptoms, when they are not using.

Workplacedrug testing helps you to determine if this horror as entered into the workplace environment of your own working force. See if there is one employee who is bringing this unwanted pain onto the jobsite for everyone else to be exposed to, either directly or indirectly. Use drug and alcoholtesting to determine if your employees are being exposed to the physical danger and the emotional upheaval of an addict who is allowed on the worksite. This cannot go on. If your company has an Employee Assistance Program, see to it that your affected workers are enrolled right away. Otherwise, consider a termination of employment. After all, this is a professional environment, not a torture chamber. See if drug& alcohol testing is right for your business.

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