I'm sorry that someone close to you is dealing with that struggle, but I have two questions:
1) Do you think that your friend was at all dissuaded by current US drug policy? Of course this is impossible to know for sure, but I'm curious to hear your view.
2) Is having their door kicked through in the middle of the night by SWAT, and being sent to prison in any way advantageous to someone struggling with addiction?
The yellow lines marks the line to gain for a first down, not the line of scrimmage. Some broadcasts are showing the line of scrimmage now usually as red or blue IIRC, but yellow is used across the board for the line to gain.
"sweat equity" specifically means doing repairs to a property to increase its value, as opposed to building equity by making payments. A tech worker's income is not sweat equity.
People often claim that, but it's not a particularly credible argument. Emergency room visits account for less than 2% of total healthcare spending in the US.
