[goodnesswins]

BECAUSE there's a difference between taking drugs to eliminate or reduce PAIN and taking drugs to just get HIGH....that's the Difference!

[lucysmom]

BECAUSE there's a difference between taking drugs to eliminate or reduce PAIN and taking drugs to just get HIGH....that's the Difference!

What's the difference? Pain comes in a variety of forms.

Why should we make excuses and feel compassion for Rush while condemning others? Is it because we agree with his politics and can more easily identify with him than some black kid that was born without much of a chance?

[Little Ray]

I don't see any difference between illegally purchasing drugs to quell an addiction to pain killers or to quell an addiction to "recreational" drugs. For example, Demerol is just a synthetic heroin whether it is used for pain or recreation. Either way, you are supporting a criminal sub-culture.
Rush really should have found someone to write him a prescription...

At some point I acquired a understanding, probably erroneous, that there mandatory Federal sentences for some drug offences that put otherwise inoffensive druggies in prison, using space that could have otherwise been filled with violent offenders. I guess I was wrong.