07-01-2009
On the show today Mark and Debbie talk about an alarming new strategy a North Carolina school is using to keep young college-bound girls from getting pregnant.
A man who’s not ready to get married, is upset about the timeline his girlfriend is imposing and shares his concerns about getting married. Mark provides direction on how to change the narcissistic direction of our society, and the spiritual renewal that our county needs. A wife has discovered that her high profile husband is struggling with perscription drugs, and needs direction.
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Tags: marriage, spiritual renewal, teen pregnancy
I have a friend with a very similiar problem as the lady with the husband addicted to prescription drugs. They only recently married and she found this out a few months before the wedding. She confronted him several times and he would get very defensive and storm out of the house. I encouraged her to put the wedding off until he agreed to get help but she didn’t do so. He is an extremely high profile person in their city and a millionaire. She knew that by delaying the wedding, questions would be asked as to why. You guys asked how this guy was getting these medications….in my friends situation, he gets his “regular” prescription from his family physician but he also gets the same meds filled at an online pharmacy where he evidently does not have to obtain a prescription and get the quantity he wants. She found out about the online pharmacy when she was looking over the credit card statement. I have worked in the medical field over 25 years and see that people will “doctor hop”, going from one physician to the next and obtaining prescriptions from each one for the same drug. Then they will go to different pharmacies to have each one filled and pay cash instead of filing it on their insurance. Then you throw in these online pharmacies (and you don’t know what you are truly getting from these pharmacies) and you can have quite a little medicine chest going for you. The amount of pain killers he is taking is very dangerous. I have encouraged her to give him an ultimatum…admit he has an addiction and seek help or she leaves and questions will be asked by everyone, which she will answer honestly. I hate to say that I seriously doubt she will leave, she will not want to put him and his social status on display. I have told her that I believe she is putting all of this above her marriage and I seriously doubt that the marriage will last…if this does last, it won’t be much of a marriage.