Court Ordered Drug Rehabilitation

This is not a police bashing question so if your here just to say the police are evil don’t bother commenting!

If a person gets caught with Marijuana misdemeanor charge and suffers from hardship in finding employment that requires background checks and pays the fine how are they any better off after that happening compared to an individual that smokes marijuana but doesn’t get caught?

Now that same analogy with a more illicit and more dangerous drug like cocaine

An individual who get’s caught with misdemeanor quantity of cocaine that ends up doing jail time and sentenced to court ordered rehab and community service and pays a huge fine..
Now comparing that to a individual who is also a cocaine addict but doesn’t get caught and continues there drug of abuse .

This makes good sense to me since the cocaine addict will eventually destroy there health and turn on there family by stealing and hurting the people who are close to them so it would be better off if they had been handcuffed and put in jail to get clean. So what is there governments reasoning?

My husband started acting weird three or four years ago. I found out October 2007 he was using crack. He swore he stopped. In September I filed for divorce after he threw a phone at me and said he would kill me. In October 2008 he went to rehab, after the court ordered drug test came back VERY positive (off the charts according to the judge). I told him I wasn’t stopping the proceedings just because he did this. I am about to be forced into bankruptcy because he maxed out my credit and left me to pay the bills and care for our two children.

Here’s the rub. I do love him. I didn’t speak to him for a month, thinking the feelings would lessen….but they didn’t. He wants me to give him another chance. I want to, but so many people have helped me survive the past few months and if I take him back it is like I don’t appreciate it. I don’t know what I should do.

Should state medical licensing boards and the courts be allowed to order mandatory AA/NA participation?
I was an RN who self-reported a substance abuse problem to the NC board of nursing. One of the requirements is that the nurse not just attend meetings, but do all the “stuff” that the 12 steps require. With the main requirement that you profess to the group a belief in a “Higher Power”. Evidence of your participation and attitude have to be documented by your “sponsor” and submitted monthly to the NC Board of Nursing. Well, I believe that AA is inherently religious, and that this requirement violates the 2nd amendment. There were several Rn’s who were atheists and understandingly objected to the higher power nonsense, since by their nature as atheists they of course do not believe in a higher power. But the Board would not lift the requirement for them. I’m Christian, but I believe AA/NA are religious cults and my religion teaches against praying in groups outside of church services.
Sorry this is so long, but I’m dying to hear everyone’s opinion.
typo: “understandably”, not “understandingly”.
mnwomen:
As a matter of fact when I received my nursing license the subject of Board disciplining programs wasn’t in the by-laws. No one knows what their particular disciplinary actions will be until aech case is reviewed. But when I went to nursing school I didn’t plan to become addicted to drugs, so there was no reason to go before the board and say: “BTW when and if I get on drugs what is the board’s discipline policy”?
As far as the judicial system is concerned most people who drive impaired know what the consequences are before they do it, but that still does not give the government the right to violate the constitution as part of the punsihment.
Read the 2nd amendment.
Rosen: You’re definately in the minority amoung your colleagues I’m sure.
The NCBON wouldn’t hear of giving an option to choose behavioral therapy like R. Recovery, Lifering, etc. It’s so damn frustrating because I don’t think there are any hard studies that support AA’s claim that they have a “97%” recovery rate. Unfortunately the majority of SA IOP programs are run by step-nazis, at least here in Charlotte.

… when steps like this are required for completion?

“Make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.”

Does anyone see this as conflicting with the Constitution?

My fiance is locked up for 9 months at a court ordered drug rehab 9 hours away and i am depressed , im losing weight too fast, have no desire to do anything and keep wishing i was in a coma till she gets back. i really love her and i dont know what to do.