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Originally Posted by manaboutown
Why do you not want the public to know the whole story?
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Not sure if we need to know the whole story. This is just some woman experiencing some kind of addiction problems or whatever. Really only the business of her friends and family and the legal system if something else is involved.
I am wondering if the moving away from religion in many communities is a problem in all this? I went to BYU Law School on a Merit Scholarship for about ten days in the Fall of 1982. I had a recent covert as a roommate-- a Puerto Rican dance major-- and he wanted to get some points with the local Mormon leaders by getting me to accept the Mormon religion and I needed that time to study for my First Year of law school. I was also still in braces and had a terrible corduroy suit sold to us by a salesman when I went shopping with my Mom.
The Mormon church does take care of its own though and it looked this included members with various kinds of addiction problems. Or at least they try a great deal.
Opioid addiction in the heart of Mormon country | CBC Radio
There was a very strict code at BYU as well that controlled intake of many substances. And the people there are very nosy about the conduct of everyone else even if I had a few girls wanting me to try to sneak into the girls' dorm. Which would have probably got me kicked out of BYU, if caught. I was a law student and the Mormon undergraduate girls-- some of them -- were very much there to find a husband. I think I was the only single male in the Class of 1985 at the BYU Law School. There were only 2 or 3 women in my Class that year.
The University of Denver, where I went the next year (starting in May of 1983) to get a MA in Librarianship was often called "Drug University" because of the money of many of the rather rich students and the availability of drugs of all kinds. Quite a change from BYU. It is a Methodist School though but getting involved in the religion was a choice of the student unlike a BYU where you had to attend Mormon services as a BYU student.