A Banquet in the Grave

Can you see how the biblical theme of idolatry fits hand-in-glove with modern addiction? Drugs and are the modern golden calves erected by addicts to find meaning, power, or pleasure apart from God. Addicts often believe they have found life, but any payoff they experience is short-lived and deceptive. They are blinded to the fact that they are having a banquet in the grave. They are truly out of control, victims of their own .

Welch, p. 53.