Ryan O'Neil Pleads Guilty

[southcitymom]

If he was trying to keep the drugs, that police found in his room, away from his son, why didn't he just flush them down the toilet the second he took them away from Redmond?

Not buying that they weren't his.

Good point.

 

[MCDRAW]

I don't have any problem at all believing Ryan and Farrah are jerks.

I am a drug addict (currently clean but with a history of relapse and returning to drug abuse) and I am just always interested when people consider drug addicts losers. It's a common perception (though not my own) and I don't take it personally - it just interests me.

I think addiction destroys families from the inside out - certainly it has done a number on this family - and I think that it is sad. As arrogant and obnoxious as this family has always seemed to me, I come from a family that has struggled mightily with addiction and so I have always felt a lot of compassion for them (Ryan, et al).

You know, unless someone has a drug addict in their family or is one, it's easy for them to consider them losers. My brother is a drug addict and I know how hard it has been for him to stay clean for any length of time. For the most part, I don't think people understand addiction. I have often told my brother to make other choices, to try harder. I try to think of how hard it is for my husband to give up tobacco and how hard it was for me to give up caffeine. I know it has to be 100 times harder for my brother. I also have compassion for the O'Neils because I know what my brothers addiction has done to my family. Mostly, I think if the drugs were his, how sad that by the age of 67 he still can't kick the habit. I hope my brother will someday, some how, some way, be able to get clean and stay clean so that he can one day have the life he both deserves and wants.