[Cold Heat]

oversaw his complete and utter addiction to hillbilly heroin as a legitimate treatment plan for back pain.

I am sick and tired of erroneous comment regarding pain treatments and Oxy-Contin.

What I have posted here is the truth and is also based on MY actual experiences with the drug over the past four years. Plus, I have added the research and documentation that I have gathered on the same subject.

Oxy-Contin IS a legitimate treatment for back pain. It is addictive and in this case the addiction is a normal side effect, not a damn sign of friggin abuse of a drug.(excuse my French)

You folks are some of the most bone headed people and you distaste for Rush shines through your bogus and not so insightful argument.

What Rush apparently did was to fail at managing an addiction, not that he got addicted. Everyone who uses the drug over time gets addicted. Read what I have posted on this subject.

Enjoy and relish in your ignorance, and by the way...............Good morning to you too!

[Hemingway's Ghost]

What Rush apparently did was to fail at managing an addiction, not that he got addicted. Everyone who uses the drug over time gets addicted. Read what I have posted on this subject.

I have. I'm sorry you're a drug addict, but that's what you are: a drug addict. Big deal---it doesn't make you a bad person. But the lawyerly way in which you've tried to parlay Rush's drug dependency as something other than what it really is is only so much mental gymnastics.

I also have a hard time believing a medical doctor could abet someone's drug addiction and retain their license to practice medicine, but since I don't know this to be true, and you seem to think it happens regularly, so be it. It doesn't really matter, though, because what's been alleged is that Rush was seeking Hillbilly H on the black market either to augment his legitimate script or horde away for a rainy day . . . whatever . . . which, of course, is highly illegal. If these allegations are proved true, I hope he goes up the river for a long, long, long time---just like any one of us would (except the rich and famous). If and when that happens, we'll see if he's a hypocrite or not.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Get thee to detox, followed by a real pain management clinic.

Those were never meant to be a lifetime med, no matter what the incompetent malpractitioner prescribing it for you is saying.

[CMClay]

"I am sick and tired of erroneous comment regarding pain treatments and Oxy-Contin."

When abused, OxyContin, like other opiates and opioids, can be dangerously addictive. Rather than ingesting the pill as indicated, people who abuse OxyContin use other methods of administering the drug. To avoid the controlled-release mechanism, they either chew, snort or inject the medication to get an instant and intense "high." Frequent and repeated use of the drug can cause the user to develop a tolerance to its effects, so larger doses are required to elicit the desired sensation and the abuser gets increasingly addicted to the drug.

ref: http://www.howstuffworks.com/question706.htm