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He didn't get off - he got ordered to treatment. These same decisions are made in courtrooms everyday - if we sent every single person who broke the law for things like DUI or DWI (where people drive cars and endanger lifes) our prisions, which are already bursting at the seams and costing you a lot of money, would be even more over-run followed by calls for more and more money, to build more and more prisions and jails. And as for prision being a place where rehab occurs in cases like this - forget it. Here is a chance for a very young person to reclaim his life - and instead of being a drain on society, to be a contributor. Many people, and I daresay some on this board, have made mistakes, and sometimes these mistakes pile on top of another and suddenly you are in a place you never imagined - it happens to perfectly good people. One reason people get in trouble with drugs is that for a long time they can maintain the facade of a perfectly normal life --- after all - you do Herion and run 5th in a race - what's the problem? Well suddenly you have to do drugs in the parking lot of an amusement park -- Let 's remember the most important thing he said "getting arrested saved my life" He has a very hard fight in front of him - and one that he may not win.