I am 48 years old and have 5 children.  I have been a drug addict most of my life starting with heroin in the early 70s.  I got off that in 1996 until my mother died in 1998 when I started using methamphetamine thinking it wasn't addictive.  I was wrong!  I was a single Mom and my children were always fed, clean, and had the best of everything.  They never went without and I was selling drugs to support them and my habit.  Maybe if I had some sort of help with schooling and rehab I would have made other choices.  Surely I don't deserve a LIFE sentence for selling drugs to support my family.  Prison is not the answer for drug addiction