gustiger12 said:
Robbo1 said:
Dont blame the AFL drugs policy - its not the problem. It will help those who want to be helped.
Cousins has continually believed he is above the law, hung out with the wrong people and avoided being brought to task over any wrongdoings. Others are to blame for this, not Ben.
But - he's refused to admit to his problems and had others do this for him. He shows no remorse, only a smugness that indicates he's bulletproof.
He has the means, family support and and entire club infrastructure around him to assist with his problems if he wanted to. He appears not to have utilised these.
I feel sorry for adicts and others with problems without any support network - I do not feel sorry for Ben.
Keep him away from RFC.
Yeah do blame the AFL drug policy. In so far as it failed to detect a player who has been a regular user of drugs during part of his time in the game. It shows it is not working and needs to be modified.
But your right in that it is not to blame for Cousins behaviour, just the fact that it failed to identify his problems earlier. I think it shows the need for more positive action to be taken earlier if a player is tested positive to try and prevent a repeat of this.
As you say Ben is his own worst enemy in this one.
Hang on, are you saying that the gas chromatograph the drug testers used to test Ben is wrong, and the media and internet forums are right in saying that Ben Cousins is a drug addict?
Has it occured to any of you that the 17 odd times Ben was drug tested in the last couple of years he was clean of drugs, the testing methods with recreational drugs are very reliable, and if he was genuinely taking ice he would have had to have been clean for probably 3-4 days before the test.
So even assuming he was a regular drug user and he rolled the dice and won every single time, there were 68 days in the last couple of years that he wasn't on drugs. And with the nature of the drugs he was taking these were consecutive days.
Appart from the one press conference that Ben gave where he danced around the full story, the only people to call Ben a drug addict have been outside agencies, like the press because it sells newspapers, and the AFL because then he can be catagorised as having a medically treated addiction.
Has it occured to anybody that perhaps Ben isn't an "addict" and is quiet capable of going long periods of time without drugs if it suits him. Perhaps he is just a ratbag who thumbs his nose at the law and society and likes to go out and party hard with his mates for days on end.
I know heaps of people like Ben who hold down normal jobs and go several days during the week without taking drugs, and have no desire to do so. But on weekends they go for 24-36 hours on various uppers before taking a benzo, and passing out for 16 hours, and then get up and go to work again for another week. Ever heard of terrible Tuesdays? I don't call any of these people addicts.
I think if you really want to know what Ben is, forget about addict and get out your dictionary and look up "sociopath".
