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I got arrested about 34 times through the drugs, Alvern over again, over and over, over again.

I was arrested 14 times for being under the influence of an narcotic.

And no one say this is his 14th time through here, Your Honor, for the same charge. He needs help.

What if we try something different?

It's been a rush and it's been many different times.

I've had a couple of possession charges, I've had a couple of prostitution charges, I've had a ton of probation violations.

I really can't even remember what the first thing I got arrested for.

Urban drug addiction has been with us for as long as we've had cities.

So many major social problems come to the criminal justice system to be fixed because there isn't something else out there.

But don't ask the criminal justice system to do it all because the only thing we really know how to do is send people to prison.

So eventually I started living in a tent.

This is kind of my old home. This is what it looks like back here.

It was an endless cycle. It was between tent and jail for like seven years.

I've probably been booked in an out of King County jail like 50 times.

It hurt to lay down, it hurt to stand up. It was really excruciating.

It came to Seattle because I wanted to buy a large amount of oxycadans.

They weren't readily available and everybody kept offering me heroin.

I turned it down for four days. Finally I was so sick, I was puking, I had diarrhea, I was shaking.

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