Welcome to AskCASA.com

This is a forum for Christians to share their experience, strength and hope in regard to addiction and related issues. Feel free to post questions or share what has worked (or not worked) in your life. This site is not staffed by counselors but is a place for people to share biblically based solutions to addiction and ideas about ministering to hurting people.

About Us

CASA is an acronym for Christians Against Substance Abuse/Sexual Addiction. It is a nation-wide addiction-recovery program used in at least 110 churches and more than 50 correctional institutions. The Bible is the basic text used by CASA. Members of CASA turn to God as defined in the scriptures and His Son, Jesus Christ, for guidance and grace. CASA was founded in 1988 in Corpus Christi, Texas.

How to use this site

Click on “FORUMS” to the left and you will find discussion boards dedicated to the following subjects: questions about CASA, the 12 steps, alcoholism/drugs, sex/pornography, help for loved ones of addicted people, eating disorders, gambling, ministering to addicted people, and addiction recovery in prison ministries. Feel free to post on the board or boards that are most appropriate to your addiction or interest. Please let us know if we need to add new boards for topics not yet covered.

All are welcome to browse our website. If you wish to post in our forums, you must register. For posting purposes, you may select to use your first and last name, a first name or a pseudonym.

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NOTE: Inappropriate posts or those containing profanity will be removed.

“An addiction is widely recognized as an individual becoming psychologically and/or physiologically dependent on a substance, behavior or pattern of thinking.

From a Christian standpoint, an addiction is also a form of idolatry because something other than God becomes number one in an individual’s life.  An addiction controls the mind of addicted individuals; it is where they put their faith; it is where they turn when the chips are down. This puts them at odds with the First Commandment, “You shall have no other gods before me.” (Exodus 20: 3) and the “first and greatest commandment” described by Jesus as, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. (Matthew 22: 37-38)”

- From the Introduction in Overcome By Addiction: How to Help the Hurting in Your Church and Neighborhood, Quarry Press, Dallas, Texas, 2010