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Son Sues Mother Over Facebook Posts
Most kids hate having their parents join in on a discussion on Facebook, but one 16-year-old in Arkansas hates it so much he has filed suit against his mother, charging her with harassment. From the article: "An Arkadelphia mother is charged with harassment for making entries on her son's Facebook page. Denise New's 16-year-old son filed charges against her last month and requested a no-contact order after he claims she posted slanderous entries about him on the social networking site. New says she was just trying to monitor what he was posting." Seems like he could just unfriend her.
Yes. And I work for a human services agency. Come work here and see what some people are capable of and then get back to me about how "very few people are truly worthless". I can find nothing redeeming in the individual that would put her drug habit and boyfriend ahead of her kids. I can find nothing redeeming in the individual that prostituted her 11 year old out to repay a drug debt. I can find nothing redeeming in the individual that uses lame ass excuses like "I can't afford gas" (particularly when my agency GIVES THEM GAS MONEY) to avoid having to see their kids.
And I work health care. Once you are addicted to drugs it is considered a disease. You could never begin to imagine how extremely difficult it is to get over meth addiction and stay clean unless you have tried it yourself. Pick out any single meth addict from the population and odds are better than 50% they will not be able to get clean even with rehab. The addicts brain is permanently affected by meth. It simply works different after long periods of meth use. I consider that a physical handicap. You can call it how you see fit.
The addiction is insanely strong. The word "need" gets thrown around a lot and it loses meaning. These addicts _NEED_ as in "MUST HAVE" their fix. They will do ANYTHING they have to to get it. An addicts brain will think of nothing else until they get their meth fix and even then they will start worrying about getting the next one. If they go too long without meth (like 1 day) they become very sick and have massive amounts of pain.
That same addict who will do anything for their meth fix would do ANYTHING to go back in time and never take that first hit.
They are not trash. They are human beings who made a huge mistake and now have a terrible disease that causes their life to rot slowly. Every day is miserable.
They do not ONLY ignore family and responsibilities they also completely ignore their own health and well-being. Labeling them as selfish is a little awkward because they actually ignore their own needs except the need to get the next hit. Their health goes to crap, their teeth rot and fall out (google meth mouth for images) and they begin to look like death. It is a slow painful way to rot and eventually die.
Having friends or family who love you unconditionally will give you a chance to get better. Unfortunately, so many addicts do not have this or the family and friends avoid them because of their drug use. That leaves many addicts with no family or friends to turn to at the exact same time they need them more than they ever could have imagined.
Addiction is nasty, nasty business. But the affected people are not trash. They are treatable. They can get better. Often when people do recover they make it part of their life goal to warn others about addiction and try to keep people from having to experience the absolute misery they experienced.