In any case, addiction to medication is by definition a need or craving that is strong enough to overwhelm one's willpower or the body's ability to do without it. A person who becomes an addict has a medical problem, and we need not to lose sight of that. Medical problems ought not to be criminalized. Perhaps Rush will become the poster child of drug decriminalization, by his own example. Worse things have happened.
Drunk driving should not be a felony, it is a problem for medicare.