PokerBlade
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I wonder why it all took so long to conclude? If there were appeals and retests I'd have expected it to be in the news.
But anyway, on the subject of help, he may not need any. Plenty of people do the odd line and aren't addicted (though most of them are tossers). I remember James Shield writing that he liked Baxter because he seemed an ordinary bloke who happens to be good at football. Whilst top players are obsessive about football, Baxter ain't.
On that basis he might be just fine with an ordinary job, a big fat gut, and spliff now and again. Either way I'm glad he's nothing to do with us.
One of the measures of addiction is when it starts to impact other aspects of your life negatively. The first time he gets caught can be put down to stupidity, but after that how hard is it for a non-addicted person, knowing that he'll face another drugs test, to stay clean?
Could be he just doesn't care about football and likes the occasional recreational drug. I'm no psychologist but my suspicion is that at the point you ruin a lucrative career because you couldn't stay off the party drugs, it's more likely that you have some kind of problem.
