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MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 7:59 am

youthathletics wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:05 pm

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:36 pm

youthathletics wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 2:48 pm

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 2:02 pm

jhu72 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 1:45 pm Mosby's lack of drug possession prosecution is not responsible for uptick in crime, according to researchers.

Interesting.

I'm no fan of Mosby, but I do think the criminalization of drug use and prostitution, and arrests and incarceration for same, does nothing for actual public safety.

Especially when its a a revolving door...might is well let the Hot Dog and food truck vendors sell crack....both kinds. Maybe we can "the block" back in shape, like ole' times.

I know you're just trying to be funny, but let me be clear, I'm all for locking up the illegal drug pushers and anyone violent. Just not the users.

That said, I'd be in strong support of full de-criminalization of regulated drug usage.
Black market illegal and punished hard, but taking the profit out of the vast majority of the current drug trade.
Vastly reducing the incentives to murder one another over drug selling corners.
Vastly reducing the incentive to employ children in the trade, and vastly reducing pushing incentives.
Vastly reducing incarceration.

But that's going to need to be national legislation and no one has yet had the political balls to get it done.

Have you read this? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... rss_sd_all

https://twitter.com/WeinerPhD/status/14 ... 59877?s=20


I tend to agree on the user issue you mention, to a degree. But jail is is the one stop that can get them clean and the help clean the riff-raff from sprawl....it'd be nice if there was some form of intercessory before jail, but acted like it.... something like a bootcamp to get them mentally and physically in shape. that fed their brain with quality addiction.

Jail is an extraordinarily expensive as well as ineffective intercession for drug users. As a conservative, I'm interested in spending money wisely and effectively. Addiction is a health issue.

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:25 am

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 7:59 am

youthathletics wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:05 pm

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:36 pm

youthathletics wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 2:48 pm

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 2:02 pm

jhu72 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 1:45 pm Mosby's lack of drug possession prosecution is not responsible for uptick in crime, according to researchers.

Interesting.

I'm no fan of Mosby, but I do think the criminalization of drug use and prostitution, and arrests and incarceration for same, does nothing for actual public safety.

Especially when its a a revolving door...might is well let the Hot Dog and food truck vendors sell crack....both kinds. Maybe we can "the block" back in shape, like ole' times.

I know you're just trying to be funny, but let me be clear, I'm all for locking up the illegal drug pushers and anyone violent. Just not the users.

That said, I'd be in strong support of full de-criminalization of regulated drug usage.
Black market illegal and punished hard, but taking the profit out of the vast majority of the current drug trade.
Vastly reducing the incentives to murder one another over drug selling corners.
Vastly reducing the incentive to employ children in the trade, and vastly reducing pushing incentives.
Vastly reducing incarceration.

But that's going to need to be national legislation and no one has yet had the political balls to get it done.

Have you read this? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... rss_sd_all

https://twitter.com/WeinerPhD/status/14 ... 59877?s=20


I tend to agree on the user issue you mention, to a degree. But jail is is the one stop that can get them clean and the help clean the riff-raff from sprawl....it'd be nice if there was some form of intercessory before jail, but acted like it.... something like a bootcamp to get them mentally and physically in shape. that fed their brain with quality addiction.

Jail is an extraordinarily expensive as well as ineffective intercession for drug users. As a conservative, I'm interested in spending money wisely and effectively. Addiction is a health issue.

Addiction is a death issue. You ever checked out the stats about how many rehab addicts are still clean 5 years later? They ain't very impressive. W hen i went to some meetings when my friend was in rehab years ago at Park Ridge the counselors said only one out of every hundred people would still be drug free 5 years later. My best friend was dead long before those 5 years had passed. He was back to snorting coke usually in less than a week. All the intervention in the world will never save a person, unless that person finally decides they want to live. There is nothing more painful and hopeless than watching someone you love give up on life. The very sad truth about ALL addicts... they are the very best liars you will ever meet.

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 9:57 am

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:25 am

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 7:59 am

youthathletics wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:05 pm

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:36 pm

youthathletics wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 2:48 pm

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 2:02 pm

jhu72 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 1:45 pm Mosby's lack of drug possession prosecution is not responsible for uptick in crime, according to researchers.

Interesting.

I'm no fan of Mosby, but I do think the criminalization of drug use and prostitution, and arrests and incarceration for same, does nothing for actual public safety.

Especially when its a a revolving door...might is well let the Hot Dog and food truck vendors sell crack....both kinds. Maybe we can "the block" back in shape, like ole' times.

I know you're just trying to be funny, but let me be clear, I'm all for locking up the illegal drug pushers and anyone violent. Just not the users.

That said, I'd be in strong support of full de-criminalization of regulated drug usage.
Black market illegal and punished hard, but taking the profit out of the vast majority of the current drug trade.
Vastly reducing the incentives to murder one another over drug selling corners.
Vastly reducing the incentive to employ children in the trade, and vastly reducing pushing incentives.
Vastly reducing incarceration.

But that's going to need to be national legislation and no one has yet had the political balls to get it done.

Have you read this? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... rss_sd_all

https://twitter.com/WeinerPhD/status/14 ... 59877?s=20


I tend to agree on the user issue you mention, to a degree. But jail is is the one stop that can get them clean and the help clean the riff-raff from sprawl....it'd be nice if there was some form of intercessory before jail, but acted like it.... something like a bootcamp to get them mentally and physically in shape. that fed their brain with quality addiction.

Jail is an extraordinarily expensive as well as ineffective intercession for drug users. As a conservative, I'm interested in spending money wisely and effectively. Addiction is a health issue.

Addiction is a death issue. You ever checked out the stats about how many rehab addicts are still clean 5 years later? They ain't very impressive. W hen i went to some meetings when my friend was in rehab years ago at Park Ridge the counselors said only one out of every hundred people would still be drug free 5 years later. My best friend was dead long before those 5 years had passed. He was back to snorting coke usually in less than a week. All the intervention in the world will never save a person, unless that person finally decides they want to live. There is nothing more painful and hopeless than watching someone you love give up on life. The very sad truth about ALL addicts... they are the very best liars you will ever meet.

Yes, addiction is brutally awful.

Many of us have shared stories about friends or family lost to addiction.
A nephew by marriage was lost 2 years ago at age 25 to an bad batch heroin/fentanyl, that killed a bunch of people over a week on Cape Cod. Same age as my son. He'd gotten hooked by opioids after a back injury in the military. Also series of head injuries. In and out of rehab. His dad had thought he was clean, saw him the night before he was found dead, having not made it to work that day...

On the other hand, I know a whole bunch of people who have battled addiction, mostly successfully, for many years. My brother in law hosts meetings on his lawn next door every few weeks and attends meetings regularly. People make it, relapse, come back, battle...Some do so quite successfully, but it's a daily battle.

Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 4:12 pm

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 9:57 am

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:25 am

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 7:59 am

youthathletics wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:05 pm

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:36 pm

youthathletics wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 2:48 pm

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 2:02 pm

jhu72 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 1:45 pm Mosby's lack of drug possession prosecution is not responsible for uptick in crime, according to researchers.

Interesting.

I'm no fan of Mosby, but I do think the criminalization of drug use and prostitution, and arrests and incarceration for same, does nothing for actual public safety.

Especially when its a a revolving door...might is well let the Hot Dog and food truck vendors sell crack....both kinds. Maybe we can "the block" back in shape, like ole' times.

I know you're just trying to be funny, but let me be clear, I'm all for locking up the illegal drug pushers and anyone violent. Just not the users.

That said, I'd be in strong support of full de-criminalization of regulated drug usage.
Black market illegal and punished hard, but taking the profit out of the vast majority of the current drug trade.
Vastly reducing the incentives to murder one another over drug selling corners.
Vastly reducing the incentive to employ children in the trade, and vastly reducing pushing incentives.
Vastly reducing incarceration.

But that's going to need to be national legislation and no one has yet had the political balls to get it done.

Have you read this? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... rss_sd_all

https://twitter.com/WeinerPhD/status/14 ... 59877?s=20


I tend to agree on the user issue you mention, to a degree. But jail is is the one stop that can get them clean and the help clean the riff-raff from sprawl....it'd be nice if there was some form of intercessory before jail, but acted like it.... something like a bootcamp to get them mentally and physically in shape. that fed their brain with quality addiction.

Jail is an extraordinarily expensive as well as ineffective intercession for drug users. As a conservative, I'm interested in spending money wisely and effectively. Addiction is a health issue.

Addiction is a death issue. You ever checked out the stats about how many rehab addicts are still clean 5 years later? They ain't very impressive. W hen i went to some meetings when my friend was in rehab years ago at Park Ridge the counselors said only one out of every hundred people would still be drug free 5 years later. My best friend was dead long before those 5 years had passed. He was back to snorting coke usually in less than a week. All the intervention in the world will never save a person, unless that person finally decides they want to live. There is nothing more painful and hopeless than watching someone you love give up on life. The very sad truth about ALL addicts... they are the very best liars you will ever meet.

Yes, addiction is brutally awful.

Many of us have shared stories about friends or family lost to addiction.
A nephew by marriage was lost 2 years ago at age 25 to an bad batch heroin/fentanyl, that killed a bunch of people over a week on Cape Cod. Same age as my son. He'd gotten hooked by opioids after a back injury in the military. Also series of head injuries. In and out of rehab. His dad had thought he was clean, saw him the night before he was found dead, having not made it to work that day...

On the other hand, I know a whole bunch of people who have battled addiction, mostly successfully, for many years. My brother in law hosts meetings on his lawn next door every few weeks and attends meetings regularly. People make it, relapse, come back, battle...Some do so quite successfully, but it's a daily battle.

I’ve explained this it’s driven by only one model taught and executed in rehab and that’s the addiction as disease model. Because he had a friend doesn’t mean Jack I’ve gotten balls deep into this topic of recent times and studied it, went outside the handed to me resources. Basically don’t listen to cradle when he states these things. There’s numerous models, the problem is it’s covered by insurance which has to tie it back to
Medical conditions which mental health is largely not so
They shoehorn everyone into the one model and refuse to
Teach and administer the others down to the language used-I insisted given I got 45min (at best) with the CMO and zero time in a month with anyone else with an MD, maybe 2.5hrs with a RN over that period and the rest is split between drug/alcohol counselors (largely recovering themselves and taught only the one model) and therapists, that they not call me a patient but client or customer because it makes a difference. The 30 days or AMA is based off insurance baseline payment for 28 days. They have you in 8 hours of class and the classes run by counselors and therapist who are paid nominal salaries then based on heads per class per hour, as a offset or matching with how insurance pays the facilities and even self pay or out of network they run the “one side fits all model”. I was lucky I sniffed out a therapist (with a masters but it wasn’t psychology) who cared more about the right help and would give me outside time so I could learn about the other models. She’s gone from my well above average place.

The disease model is straight out of the AA big book from 1938 with little iterative adjustment and it’s ponzi like with their insistence in self control/responsibility but will always tell anyone who “relapses” they failed because they didn’t follow every step perfectly yet is cool with 80yr history of a 60-70% fail rate while not retooling their own model ever (the concept of relapse is only true, if subsequent behavior is controlled/limited, if you buy into the disease model which is a state of perpetuity for all under that model, one can’t possibly touch anything again, but compare with cancer, a true disease where they can try to cut it out but can’t guarantee it’s eradicated when discussing disease-a musician had serious cancer whom I was housed with in the model house and was a mentor and hated when folks would lean into “it’s not my fault I have a disease” as a mentor within the community). How there isn’t more socially driven “marketplace” competition to this AA/NA model is shameful but clearly driven by insurance’s role in the rehab industry (it is what it is but tied back to our healthcare model writ large and ignoring mental health almost completely even though everyone acknowledged people who has habit turned addiction has some mental health problem and 99.9999%, if not 100%, the mental health issue came first).

It’s a $42Bn industry going to $52Bn in 2020-21. Strong growth off a decent sized number.

Most importantly, people who care should shut up and listen more and talk less. Anecdotal or personal experience does little to no good to others who have these issues.

*Update had this guy I’ve tried to help out recently over for lunch. So far so good. He’s started methadone, hotel stay is Au setting but has some friends he can stay with in Marietta (suburb) and is working now 5-6 days a week. We will see but I can say for sure just being there to help and support him covering some of his most basic needs with regard to feeling safe and covered in this initial phase improved the odds tremendously. That’s all people who want to help can do. Listen, be there and help them to be able to focus on what they need to do, not substitute ones own opinion, anecdotal beliefs or judgement. Or get out of the way altogether. Anything in between is just noise and friction for the person struggling.

Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 6:57 am It’s a shame all you see is a liar.

But you give prescriptive advice and call them all liars. That’s what I’m referring to, you’re (frequent) extrapolation of singular relative experiences to everyone and everything. It’s one thing to tell an anecdote to make a broader point it’s another to make the anecdote a universal truth.

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 10:00 am

Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 6:57 am It’s a shame all you see is a liar.

But you give prescriptive advice and call them all liars. That’s what I’m referring to, you’re (frequent) extrapolation of singular relative experiences to everyone and everything. It’s one thing to tell an anecdote to make a broader point it’s another to make the anecdote a universal truth.

runrussellrun wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 5:25 pm Once again, US lax, Johns Hopkins and the Baltimore community reveal their ugly, racist heads.

A very eligible Johns Hopkins player, didn't get into the 2021 HoF class.

But BOY......Dave Petro sure made it his first year of eligibility.....as many other white players have.

Where is all the outrage from DocB

The us lax website has a few pictures.......makes up for years of neglect ???????? that continues?

What a cesspool of community Baltimore has. Johns Hopkins IS in Baltimore, still, yes?

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 6:38 pm

runrussellrun wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 5:25 pm Once again, US lax, Johns Hopkins and the Baltimore community reveal their ugly, racist heads.

A very eligible Johns Hopkins player, didn't get into the 2021 HoF class.

But BOY......Dave Petro sure made it his first year of eligibility.....as many other white players have.

Where is all the outrage from DocB

The us lax website has a few pictures.......makes up for years of neglect ???????? that continues?

What a cesspool of community Baltimore has. Johns Hopkins IS in Baltimore, still, yes?

How about you share with us exactly what and who you're talking about...which JHU player didn't get into the US Lax HoF this year and why is it a snub, much less racist snub?

Has the player been retired from playing at least 15 years?

And how would Hopkins much less Baltimore have anything to do with such a snub?

runrussellrun wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 9:49 pm

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 6:38 pm

runrussellrun wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 5:25 pm Once again, US lax, Johns Hopkins and the Baltimore community reveal their ugly, racist heads.

A very eligible Johns Hopkins player, didn't get into the 2021 HoF class.

But BOY......Dave Petro sure made it his first year of eligibility.....as many other white players have.

Where is all the outrage from DocB

The us lax website has a few pictures.......makes up for years of neglect ???????? that continues?

What a cesspool of community Baltimore has. Johns Hopkins IS in Baltimore, still, yes?

How about you share with us exactly what and who you're talking about...which JHU player didn't get into the US Lax HoF this year and why is it a snub, much less racist snub?

Has the player been retired from playing at least 15 years?

And how would Hopkins much less Baltimore have anything to do with such a snub?

What is the 10 years part of the "rules" refer too? Circle back, when you can explain that.

Didn't Petro play for team USA.....twice.

Pietramala was an All-World selection at the 1990 and 1994 ILF World Championships

IS this what the ten year rule applies too? Petro inducted, in 2004....TEN years after ...umm.....retiring from the game.

Ryan Boyle.....yup....in after 15 years POST college.......should we go on? Who else, who played "pro" or on team USA, that got inducted in the racist Lax US HoF

Dude......it's obviously a slam dunk.....and your protests against the obvious belie, nay, reveal, the Baltimore belly and the racist beast that it is.

NOw.......Baltimore systemic racist......can you name any of the indigenous members of the laxUS HoF....all eyeballs.

carry on.......Doc B is strangely silent.........

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 11:28 am

runrussellrun wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 9:49 pm

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 6:38 pm

runrussellrun wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 5:25 pm Once again, US lax, Johns Hopkins and the Baltimore community reveal their ugly, racist heads.

A very eligible Johns Hopkins player, didn't get into the 2021 HoF class.

But BOY......Dave Petro sure made it his first year of eligibility.....as many other white players have.

Where is all the outrage from DocB

The us lax website has a few pictures.......makes up for years of neglect ???????? that continues?

What a cesspool of community Baltimore has. Johns Hopkins IS in Baltimore, still, yes?

How about you share with us exactly what and who you're talking about...which JHU player didn't get into the US Lax HoF this year and why is it a snub, much less racist snub?

Has the player been retired from playing at least 15 years?

And how would Hopkins much less Baltimore have anything to do with such a snub?

What is the 10 years part of the "rules" refer too? Circle back, when you can explain that.

Didn't Petro play for team USA.....twice.

Pietramala was an All-World selection at the 1990 and 1994 ILF World Championships

IS this what the ten year rule applies too? Petro inducted, in 2004....TEN years after ...umm.....retiring from the game.

Ryan Boyle.....yup....in after 15 years POST college.......should we go on? Who else, who played "pro" or on team USA, that got inducted in the racist Lax US HoF

Dude......it's obviously a slam dunk.....and your protests against the obvious belie, nay, reveal, the Baltimore belly and the racist beast that it is.

NOw.......Baltimore systemic racist......can you name any of the indigenous members of the laxUS HoF....all eyeballs.

carry on.......Doc B is strangely silent.........

+1

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 9:29 am Please stop with this nonsense.

Ok, you're talking about Kyle Harrison.

Harrison wasn't eligible in the last cycle because he was still playing pro ball; he officially retired this year. He'll be eligible for HoF selection next cycle. The rules are clear, apply to everyone.

I'd expect him to get in this cycle, slam dunk.
Would be surprised if not, but he'd then be eligible the following year again.

https://www.usalacrosse.com/sites/defau ... 0Final.pdf

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 7:35 pm

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 9:29 am Please stop with this nonsense.

Ok, you're talking about Kyle Harrison.

Harrison wasn't eligible in the last cycle because he was still playing pro ball; he officially retired this year. He'll be eligible for HoF selection next cycle. The rules are clear, apply to everyone.

I'd expect him to get in this cycle, slam dunk.
Would be surprised if not, but he'd then be eligible the following year again.

https://www.usalacrosse.com/sites/defau ... 0Final.pdf

Someone questioning whether Kyle is going into the HOF?

Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 7:56 pm

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 7:35 pm

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 9:29 am Please stop with this nonsense.

Ok, you're talking about Kyle Harrison.

Harrison wasn't eligible in the last cycle because he was still playing pro ball; he officially retired this year. He'll be eligible for HoF selection next cycle. The rules are clear, apply to everyone.

I'd expect him to get in this cycle, slam dunk.
Would be surprised if not, but he'd then be eligible the following year again.

https://www.usalacrosse.com/sites/defau ... 0Final.pdf

Someone questioning whether Kyle is going into the HOF?

He blows. If not for the Baltimore mafia he wouldn’t be considered better than a second string D middies at Holy Cross or Merrimack

kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Fri Dec 17, 2021 11:47 pm City Council Candidate uses covid relief cash for renovations and plastic surgery:

https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2021/12/1 ... novations/