I read your comments at 8:27PM and 12:31AM with empathy. I have never tried any street drugs or Rx pain killers (other than maybe 3 or 4 prescribed pills in total my whole life after surgeries or tooth extractions). So I’m clueless.

The Lord’s prayer has the phrase “and forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who tresspass against us.” It’s not possible to simultaneously say that prayer and sustain a hard attitude about people caught in drug addictions. So, many of the other notes left here deliver more pain where more than enough pain had already existed.

I’m feeling sad right now that so many people are trapped in this. It’s too many people. The core strength of our society is unravelling one family at a time under the weight of drugs. The mess seems to be accelerating.

How do we fix this? Legalizing it doesn’t help fix the addictions and the personal crashes like Mr. Leaf’s. Criminalizing it is creating a massive prison population …. probably the incarcerated headcount exceeds the soldiers in our armed forces during WWII.

There are bullets coming into into Texas from across the border. Can’t we at least stop that flow of drugs? How about taking some of the types of inventory siezed by law enforcement and treating it with something creative … maybe a chemical that blocks eyesight for a week …. and then bleeding that back into the supply chain down in Mexico after publicizing the plan?

The USA definitely needs a much, much, much more effective approach than any strategy that has even been tried so far. If the situation is out of control in Montana, imagine the grief in our major cities.
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Anyway, and just for the sheer fun of it, I’d like to point out that without the Green Bay Packers giving Favre his 2nd, 3rd, and especially 4th chances (fishing him off Atl’s third string, sticking with him in mid ’94 when Favre was sporting an inspiring 78 QB rating, and, of course, the VICODIN addiction). If it weren’t for the Packers, BEFORE ALL THE MVP’s, we’d have been looking at similar mug shots of Favre. Of course we got other kinds of still pictures along the way…

Given all the drinking and drugging Favre DID AS A STARTER just imagine how he would have fared as a backup to Elway, or perhaps Montana in KC, which were the only two teams other than the Packers to show interest in Favre. Without the Packers, and being presented with a choice to either get it together or be gone, Favre would have ruined himself without a doubt.

Once upon a time he was on top of the world and because of his personal demons and addiction it’s been taken away.

If jail, followed by a 1 year rehab program, doesn’t help him, nothing will, and he will be come a three time loser and spend life in jail.

Wake UP Leaf! Time to grow up and be a man

You know nothing, so really take a pass on this conversation. Pain killers are purified, controlled amounts of opium. Essentially heroin with out all the crap they cut it with. Opiates are the single worst thing to come off of. Along with alcohol it can actually kill you during detox.
In fact most of the people who are addicted to pain killers, originally had them prescribed by a doctor.

I am an addict (currently sober). But as they say once an addict always an addict. I am not one of those people who use drugs and blame other people or society for my addiction. I willingly used them and liked it, in the process I nearly lost everything, and severely hurt my family and friends. I was a dirt bag of the worst variety. I did my jail time and deserved very second of it. I don’t pity myself or other users because we all did it to ourselves, but I do feel terrible for people who were given a medicine to releive pain only to become
dependent on it.

I’m just saying if haven’t walked in those shoes, don’t run your mouth because it can happen to you. If and when it does you will feel kinda stupid for talking trash

They didnt know something bad could happen?

Didnt think so……he’s a TOOL!!!!
Remember him flipping out on reporters?

Good timing for this to come out for Indy, it’ll remind them NOT to pass up on a REAL STAR, Andrew Luck.

I just don’t understand how having him stay with robbers, rapists, murderers, child molesters, etc for 24 hours a day for a few years is going to fix him.

The money spent imprisoning him could be much better spent on treatment.

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Nor could it be for hundreds of thousands who suffer the same addiction. Its a bad thing to have happen and a tough problem to fix.

He doesn’t need jail. He needs an in-care rehab and suboxone treatment.