BETTER GRUFF THAN GRIEIVING –
June 16, 2025 – My law practice is dedicated to helping families utilize the court system as a form of intervention in matters of Substance Use Disorder (drug addiction). My firm gets calls seven days a week.
Not long ago, one of those calls concerned the matter of cannabis-induced psychosis derailing the life of a young college athlete, as well as the lives of those who love him. His family was successful in getting this young man into treatment multiple times. But he would not stay in treatment. It wasn’t until family members connected with a facility where the clinicians understood the neuroscience of addiction that things began to change. These recovery industry professionals, well-versed in the health benefits of long-term structured treatment advised the family on how Florida’s Marchman Act can help facilitate the time their loved one needed to regain autonomy he’d lost to substances. This family was exhausted, depleted, and desperate for relief from a relentless cycle of life or death addiction-related emergencies. They hired my firm to petition the court to intervene.
We managed to get a court order the very same day. And with the help of law enforcement, we found this young man just moments before he was due to board a flight to leave Florida. Threat of legal consequences for defying clinical guidance now added leverage to the family’s pleas.
