Chasing the Scream

Chasing the Scream

by

Johann Hari

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Richard Husman is a railroad worker and biker who dated Marcia Powell for several years before her death in one of Joe Arpaio’s Arizona prisons. Husman blames Arizona’s extremely harsh drug laws for Powell’s death, since she had fully quit drugs and built a stable life with him—until she was forced to stay in Arizona because of a years-old arrest warrant for a small amount of marijuana and relapsed into serious drug use.

Richard Husman Quotes in Chasing the Scream

The Chasing the Scream quotes below are all either spoken by Richard Husman or refer to Richard Husman . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 8 Quotes

“[Marcia] was an addict…Addiction can be overcome with proper help. It ain’t a jail thing.” He believes the solution was to get her into “a mental hospital—that’s probably what would have helped her. Get her whatever she needs—Xanax, morphine, to get her chemical imbalance right…Get her on the right meds. Show her some respect. Give her some working skills. Get her a GED so when she comes out she has a place, like a woman’s shelter, [can] get a job…Give her respect, that’s how it’s supposed to be.” [...] “If you’re calm and cool and know you’ve got a life ahead of you that’s going up the steps…if you know you’re going up in the world, you’re going to stay going up in the world.”

Related Characters: Richard Husman (speaker), Johann Hari , Joe Arpaio , Marcia Powell
Page Number: 114
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Richard Husman Quotes in Chasing the Scream

The Chasing the Scream quotes below are all either spoken by Richard Husman or refer to Richard Husman . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Drug Legalization and U.S. Policy Theme Icon
).
Chapter 8 Quotes

“[Marcia] was an addict…Addiction can be overcome with proper help. It ain’t a jail thing.” He believes the solution was to get her into “a mental hospital—that’s probably what would have helped her. Get her whatever she needs—Xanax, morphine, to get her chemical imbalance right…Get her on the right meds. Show her some respect. Give her some working skills. Get her a GED so when she comes out she has a place, like a woman’s shelter, [can] get a job…Give her respect, that’s how it’s supposed to be.” [...] “If you’re calm and cool and know you’ve got a life ahead of you that’s going up the steps…if you know you’re going up in the world, you’re going to stay going up in the world.”

Related Characters: Richard Husman (speaker), Johann Hari , Joe Arpaio , Marcia Powell
Page Number: 114
Explanation and Analysis: