By Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, El Paso Matters The last time Paul Enriquez was arrested in El Paso for driving while intoxicated was in 2017. It wasn’t his first time drinking and driving, but he had planned to make it his last. Enriquez, who said he battled depression from childhood trauma most of his life, had the intention to kill himself that day while behind the wheel. Instead, a police officer arrested him, the state suspended his license, and the following year an El Paso County judge sentenced him to 10 years of probation.

At first, his habits followed him during probation and he made up excuses to skirt court-ordered drug testing. Alcohol was what got him in trouble, legally, but drugs, particularly methamphetamine, consumed his life, Enriquez said. Then in 2020, Enriquez surren

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