Stroupe? Don't know if its true

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kzizok 3/31/2016 10:33am
3/31/2016 10:33am
FreshTopEnd wrote:
Sometimes more than one thing can be true at the same time. I think this is a subject where it's more helpful for everyone to have...
Sometimes more than one thing can be true at the same time. I think this is a subject where it's more helpful for everyone to have a little humility. Wish Stroupe the best, hope he has people who can help him over the hurdles that litter the process of willing oneself to recovery when whatever physical or emotional or mental ruts substance abuse has worked into one's life fight against it.
Good point(s).
harrowguy 4/4/2016 10:07am
4/4/2016 10:07am
perfect example of how f'd the justice system is


“It’s not even funny, 20 years to life for a Snickers bar, or two or three or four,” Zibilich said. If Grimes is found guilty, Louisiana law could leave Zibilich little discretion over the sentence.

Louisiana’s habitual offender law has been in place for 30 years. The result has been that “[s]entences of several decades, or even life, for nonviolent crimes are not unusual in Louisiana.” In other states, individuals convicted of similar crimes “would have received a much shorter sentence or no jail time at all.”

Grimes’ case is an example of how Louisiana became the “world’s prison capital.” A 2012 expose by The Times-Picayune found that the state imprisons more of its citizens than any other states and its incarceration rate is “nearly five times Iran’s, 13 times China’s and 20 times Germany’s.”
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Skerby 4/4/2016 12:47pm
4/4/2016 12:47pm
davistld01 wrote:
In my honest opinion...and this ain't gonna be popular... The "disease concept" of addiction was created, in the early 90's to fund rehab facilities & treatment...
In my honest opinion...and this ain't gonna be popular...

The "disease concept" of addiction was created, in the early 90's to fund rehab facilities & treatment centers in the US. It is a popular ideal even now to relieve the addict/alcoholic of any personal responsibility for his/her actions. If it's not your fault that you're an addict...then it's not your fault that you do the things you do when you're using. Right?

Wrong.

After 20+ years of active addiction, I could only get & remain clean/sober when I took full responsibility for my life & chose, with a lot of help from the God of my understanding, to live life on life's terms without having to put substances in my body.
I completely agree with what you are saying here.

The only problem is when someone gets busted for using, taking responsibility for your actions is a super bad call in today's legal system.

I feel like that approach is a good way to spend the rest of your life in prison for a non-violent crime.

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