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Anonymous #1
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friend broke probabtion
#23570966 - 08/23/16 10:14 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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You may remember my post a few months back about my homeboy getting busted for coke and that we were able to bail him out after 3 months. Well fuck, he signed for 3 years probation and he already failed for coke. He stayed cleaned for like 2 weeks after getting out of jail then quickly went back to doing coke every day and slanging. I think this is his 3rd time going to probation. The first time he didnt get tested, the 2nd time, he quit like 3 days before probation and took a supplement to detox., and today he went back and out he failed. So im guessing next time he goes to court hes in for 2-10. Its not always worth getting high. Im probably one of the worse, but i have enough control to pass a test, at least when i was in his position.
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Anonymous #2
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do you know how long of a break he took before he failed or was it none at all?
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Anonymous #1
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Yeah. About 3 days. He's a heavy user thou. Gets high off his own supply so he did it day, day out, from wake to sleep. I suggested to take the supplement cause might as well, better than not trying. Still failed thou. Maybe he didn't use it right
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Anonymous #2
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if you use heavily you need to take at least a week break
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Anonymous #3
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Detox supplements are bunk.
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Anonymous #4
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He might be able to ask to go to rehab instead. It is an addiction after all and it's obviously something that he can't control.
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Anonymous #1
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ill tell him that , idk if itll work thou
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Anonymous #4
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It's a lot easier for the courts to tell an addict 'don't use or you go to jail' than it is for the addict to be able to follow those instructions, regardless of how much they may or may not want to.
It's not as easy as just up and quitting to an addict. This is obvious, being as your friend is only one in a sea of people stuck in the system because, even with the threat of literal years of jail time hanging over their heads every time they cut up their line or prep their shot, they still couldn't stop. That's not a choice in many cases, it's a compulsion. There is mounds of evidence to support that probation without some sort of support system in place to help an addict actually deal with their addiction is a system set up to fail.
If they wanted him to quit they should have helped him quit. My opinion is that at this point, his best bet is to play that card and sincerely ask to receive actual help at least once before casting their final judgement on him, because he has been unable to do it on his own.
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Anonymous #5
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They can get their own treatment.
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