THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness

How Did Idyllic Vermont Become America’s Heroin Capital?

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/02/vermont-heroin-capital-of-america-103280/

Governor Shumlin proposes increasing drug treatment centers versus jail time to deal with the epidemic. He offers some valid reasons for this.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/the-new-face-of-heroin-107942/

But in my opinion, teaching unaddicted teenage kids prayerful meditation and self-hypnosis for a natural high, along with low cost vocational training for viable careers, offers realistic hope for the future, preventing poverty, homelessness, and the stigma of deadly drug addiction.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/poverty-homelessness-and-social-stigma-make-addiction-more-deadly-202109282602

It’s rare for the already addicted to reform, yet possible with austere discipline and faith in God. I invite the formerly addicted to comment.

An ounce of prayerful prevention is worth a pound of methadone.