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News & Current Events Discuss Actor Heath Ledger Found Dead at the General Forum; Originally Posted by AlicornsPrayer The best help one can give such a person is tough love...People like that you can't ...

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Old 01-22-2008, 08:04 PM
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The best help one can give such a person is tough love...People like that you can't help, cause they have to want to help themselves instead. And by letting him off, all you become is an enabler to their addiction...

If someone had been tough on him, rather then enabling his addiction, he'd be alive instead of a headliner in the obiturary.
Thats right redd. You walk home yourself.
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Old 01-22-2008, 08:21 PM
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Thats right redd. You walk home yourself.
Pretty easy to...

I don't get myself into those situations where a cop needs to interject in the first place...
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Nope...

This action cause the taxpayers time money...

Police, investigators, forensics, and a mortician(And I'm sure others) now have to do extra work because of Heath's actions...
And trying to enforce the drug laws costs the taxpayers FAR MORE money.
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This is very sad news. I thought he was on the verge of becoming a truly great actor.
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And trying to enforce the drug laws costs the taxpayers FAR MORE money.
Yeah...

I guess AVOIDING stuff like this shouldn't be costing anything...
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I'm very sad that Heath is no longer with us. This is yet another example of the need for strict enforcement of our drug laws.
To monitor Ambien CR?
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Nope...

This action cause the taxpayers time money...

Police, investigators, forensics, and a mortician(And I'm sure others) now have to do extra work because of Heath's actions...
I would hate to think he took an overdose of anything just to "inconvenience" the Police, investigators, forensics, and a mortician(And I'm sure others)......
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To monitor Ambien CR?
Which is not what the initial reports indicated. But that like all drug can and have been abused.
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Which is not what the initial reports indicated. But that like all drug can and have been abused.
Thats not the point. In the beginning I saw posts about drug addiction before the facts were coming out.
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Thats not the point. In the beginning I saw posts about drug addiction before the facts were coming out.
Well statistically speaking what would you expect one to think about an overdose?
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