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A family affair Nov. 3: Eagles coach Andy Reid says his sons' recent legal issues have been trying.

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“You have a system around you taking care of you ... maybe enabling you,” he told Garrett Reid.

Coach Reid offered the first real glimpse into the family’s struggles at a team press conference Friday.

“This has been a battle we have dealt with here for a few years,” Reid said. “Our prayers are obviously with the boys, for their future.”

According to arrest papers filed Friday over the jail contraband, Garrett Reid told a cellmate he smuggled the pills into prison because he “didn’t want to go through what (he) did last time,” apparently referring to drug withdrawal after his prior arrest.

The new charges could jeopardize his chances of applying to the drug-court program.

Britt Reid, who was jailed until sentencing after an August re-arrest, has been weaned of some of his prescriptions, his lawyer said.

“I feel a lot more clear now that I’m not on all those medications,” Britt Reid said in court.

Yet O’Neill questioned whether he had the maturity and desire to survive the rigorous 15- to 24-month drug-court program. Participants attend weekly court sessions with other addicts — and have no parents or lawyers to lean on.

“I’m totally willing to go along with that,” Britt Reid said.

His brother, facing few good alternatives, agreed.

“If that’s what it’s going to take to get clean and sober,” Garrett Reid said, “I want to do it.”

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