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News (Media Awareness Project) - US TX: PUB LTE: STAR Drug Court Gives Reason For Applause
Title:US TX: PUB LTE: STAR Drug Court Gives Reason For Applause
Published On:2005-11-06
Source:Herald Democrat (TX)
Fetched On:2008-01-15 09:06:40
STAR DRUG COURT GIVES REASON FOR APPLAUSE

Kudos to Judge Rim Nall and the entire Grayson County STAR Drug Court team
for their initiative, hard work and caring for those who are less fortunate
than we, who succumbed to peer pressure or who was just in the wrong place
at the wrong time.

We are beginning to see a glimmer of hope for our society after all. We
have watched as our children succumb to drugs and alcohol, jails overflow
with no end in sight, hope for families and addicts gone and we talk about
building more and bigger jails. People in the medical field have known for
years that just incarcerating a person would not cure them of their
addiction. In most cases, prison makes them a hardened criminal in addition
to a drug abuser.

The connection between crimes and drug addiction is well documented. Drug
addicts, to satisfy their addiction, operate meth labs and commit a large
percentage of robberies. After release from prison, offenders have no
support system and return to their old habits and friends.

We applaud Judge Nall and his STAR team for their efforts to make this a
better community in which to live and hope society has finally come to
realize that treatment is the answer, not jail. Now it is the community's
turn to step up to the plate and back their efforts to provide this
much-needed drug rehabilitation and counseling.

Bobbye Wynne-Stoolfire

Arthur W. Stoolfire

Sherman
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