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If it doesn’t, “we’ll intervene and find out what they’re really doing,” he said.
McBratney is dedicated to helping teens avoid drugs because he knows firsthand how easily they may slip
into addiction. He developed a problem with prescription pills after being prescribed opiates for back surgery
in the 1990s.
McBratney, who was immersed in the promotion and introduction of the “Addiction Project” headed by HBO a
few years ago, has seen what drug and alcohol addiction can lead to.
“Jails, institutions and death, those are the only three options they [addicts] have,” McBratney said.
He realized the truth behind his words when speaking at a prison recently and asking one of the inmates
what he was in for.
The prisoner told him, “I woke up in the precinct handcuffed to the bench and I thought they got me on a
DUI.
“I was laughing and said, “What? Did you get me drunk again?”
“No,” he was told by the officers, “last night you went home and your wife told you to get out and you shot
her six times in the head.¤”
McBratney said the prisons are filled with people with similar stories.
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