A few weeks ago (February 4, 2005) one of the major TV news networks (ABC Nightline) presented a powerful and amazing true story about the redemption of a notorious drug addict who had been lost… and then found. The program was entitled, The Doctor and the Reverend.
The Doctor was an African-American man who was well-known and much feared in one of the roughest and toughest sections in the United States… the Badlands of Philadelphia… a run-down inner-city neighborhood infested with drug addicts of all ages and drug-deals of the most dangerous kind. He was called "the doctor" because he had been doing drugs, dealing drugs and shooting himself and others up with heroin for 35 years!
He had been thrust out onto the streets of Philadelphia when he was only 13 years old… and had been a drug…