Levi Johnston's Mother Tries to Explain Drug Arrest

I am very familier with pain killer addiction. No, I am not the addict, but someone very close to me is. There is usually no one who can help these people other than themselves. And that unfortunately does not happen. They lie, steal and do whatever necessary to fund their habit. They very often hurt the ones they love the most, because they do not realize what they are doing. Or etither they ahave lost the ability to care because of their addiction. As someone whe has been dealing with this type of addiction with a family member for almost 10 years, it makes me very angry for people who have no idea what the situation is really like. It is most often not the addict that is hurt, but the people who are close. They are not able to do anything to change the situation and it is heartbreaking. I do feel for this woman, but I feel mostly for the family. I for one know what it is like.

I could not have said it better. Thank you. So many people are on here to judge really fast just because maybe it is something that they read in the paper or on the internet, or saw and heard on tv. Until you can pass judgement on yourself then how can you pass it on someone else. Nobody is perfect and there is always TWO sides to every story. Everyone needs to think before they react.

To CK, Palin doesn't make excuses, just facts. Something you and the liberal media can't comprehend

No it sounds like she went to the Rush Limbaugh school of excuses.

Typical druggie .. Lying throught her teeth.

Many of the commentors no nothing about addiction.. Being addicted frequently reduces the opportunity for employment and the drugs bring much more selling to people without prescriptions producing the money to continue feeding the addiction. Until you've delt with the problem just criticise. Wait until it's one of yours and lets hear the excuses

Okay...okay. Calm down before you have a stroke.

I agree with you 100% !!!

Cearralyn, Have you had a hysterectomy/castration? If not, please don't judge her for being on pain killers. This surgery is a barbaric act against women and has to stop NOW! All women after their surgery react different; some have more pain, some have more side effects, some have more surgeries to repair what their doctor has done to them and some just can't fight their pain anymore and take their life!

It is not an easy life after this damaging surgery especially when you lose everything you worked so hard for because that zest for life is gone.

If doctors were castrating men to the tune of women, a law would have been passed years ago. Why do women have to fight so hard to get something passed to protect the young girls and women?

Grace, you obviously did not actually READ my previous post! I am NOT judging her for being on pain killers. I have been in a lot of pain myself during my life. As I said, my daughter has chronic pain. She was beaten in the head within an inch of her life and has suffered immensely in the seven years since then! Most people who are in pain do what they can to control the pain. What is this woman doing SELLING drugs!? Yes, I HAVE had a hysterectomy, so I know what that entails. BUT, what this woman did has NOTHING to do with pain! SHE WAS SELLING DRUGS! What part of that do you NOT GET!!?? Another thing, she did not lose everything in her life. She CHOSE to sell ILLEGAL drugs, and now she has been caught and is trying to lie her way out of it! Personally, I do not think any woman should have a hysterectomy, there are other, less invasive ways instead of doing that, but, again, there is no excuse for what this woman got caught doing, and there is no excuse for anyone supporting what she did!

Look, I HAVE had a hysterectomy. I know a lot of women who had had a hysterectomy. Some were and are in a lot of pain! They do not sell drugs! My daughter was beaten with a mag flashlight again and again about her head to within an inch of her life, and she is in far more pain than Mrs. Johnston ever thought of being! All day, every day, for years and years...sometimes she can hardly move to even sit up! She no longer draws. She no longer writes poetry. She no longer dances. She did not decide she had to sell illegal drugs! Mrs. Johnston is a crook, no matter HOW you people try and whitewash what she was CAUGHT doing! It has NOTHING to do with pain! She was SELLING! She did not lose everything in her life. You want to talk about pain? How about having a torn cervix in several places and trying to take care of two small babies. Why don't one of you try draining an old wringer washer into a bucket and lifting seven pails of water to a waist-high sink because there is no drain in the floor, with your insides all torn up? Do you want to know what kind of pain THAT is?! Anyway, all this talk about chronic pain is irrelevant! Mrs. Johnston was selling drugs...SELLING! What if she had decided to sell those drugs to one of your children? Would you then be so lenient towards her! By the way, just because a woman has a hysterectomy, it does not mean she is going to lose her husband and everything else! There is such a thing as rising above what happens to you and carrying on without resorting to illegal activities. I would think more of Mrs. Johnston if she would just admit to what she got caught at and stop lying!

How bout some drug and booze stories on the george bush

AMEN. I AM IN PAIN MANAGEMENT, TOO, AND YOU ARE EXACTLY RIGHT ABOUT HOW IT GOES DOWN. MY DOCTOR WANTED TO KNOW WHY I HAD TWO EXTRA DOSES LAST FALL. HE WAS PRETTY UPSET. IT FINALLY HIT ME THAT IT WAS BECAUSE I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL WITH PNEUMONIA FOR TWO DAYS. I HAD BETTER NOT HAVE TOO LITTLE OF TOO MUCH. DOCS DO NOT WANT TO LOSE THEIR RIGHT TO WRITE THOSE SCRIPTS. ALSO, THEY DON'T WANT TO RISK LANDING IN JAIL THEMSELVES. THE WOMAN IS OBVIOUSLY TRYING TO LIE HER WAY OUT OF THIS BUT IS DOING A VERY POOR JOB OF IT. JEANNIE NEEDS TO GET A GRIP. SHE NEEDS A REALITY CHECK.

It just burns me, folks who must rely on heavy pain management do not look any different than any one else. We are better schooled in how to avoid aggravating our pain levels and we take responsibility for it. When any one can sell part of their script they are lying 7 ways from Sunday. Just because you have learned how to jerk a doctor around does not justify the action. This is why the laws are so strict and the doctors so closely regulated. I am not saying she did not develop a pill problem while undergoing her excessive surguries, but seriously, wouldn't they have made her tribulation part of a story in the campaign for the big office? It would surely make the pleas for improved medical care look very sincere on any side. I do not know a human alive who would not have been in court suing for that many surgires after a botched operation.
But we are asked to believe and sympathise with a woman willing to sell her presrciption drugs to an undercover officer. Don't. think. so. nope someone truly addicted to a pain med is not going to bewilling to sell them for something like 5-8 00 a tablet. Yes we know these things because being in pain management people are always asking if you have spare meds or would be willing to sell any? A flat no is acceptable, you would not sell your insulin if you were a diabetic .... wrong is wrong.