I sympathize that it sucks to be falsely investigated, but if you consider that there are people like those described above, who have become expert manipulators

I sympathize that it sucks to be falsely investigated, but if you consider that there are people like those described above, who have become expert manipulators and liars to conceal and feed their habits, and DCFS has to investigate them too, you can understand some skepticism on the part of the agents. I am so bitter and cynical about the whole ordeal that I have come to believe that you can do anything you want want so long as you let them check off their list of social programs they ran you through. The father and high school friend that I spoke of had a stand off with the cops (DCF was trying to enter the home to investigate his brothers call), in which he was brandishing a weapon on the front porch claiming that he was going to kill himself and his family if the cops tried to enter his house (he was protecting his drugs). When DCF got a hold of him and he agreed to "enter" their program, the judge released him into the care of DCF and the DA dropped the charges so long as he entered a facility (1 month). The brother (who is still a good friend and not a drug addict) called me so mad when he found out that because his brother complied that he would (a) not be getting the kids out of the situation and (b) his brother was being administered a cocktail of legal drugs in the facility. In my situation this was the point that my sanity started to weaken. I know that they deal with all kinds of manipulators and these two individual where class acts when in came to manipulation, but man they had so many red flags with these people, meanwhile with us, they found a single pipe and neither my wife or I, tested positive for a substance other than one I had a prescription for. Anyway, I am glad it has long been history for us, but from my experience if you jump through their hoops you can get away with murder. If you don't, they are going to come after you with everything they have got. I would be half serious in saying that there need to be a support group for DCF false investigation survivors. It was the worst hell we ever experienced and we did not feel secure in our house for years. The article talked about the journalist being in live fire situations and it not being as bad, I believe it whole hardily I would have rather been in a situation where I was being constantly shot at, than to endure that again.