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Unfortunately, Rush's body does not know he is addicted to prescription drugs but only that is addicted to a substance.

The road to recovery for Rush will be as difficult as someone who is addicted to heroin or cocaine, perhaps even worse given his back pain. During his treatment, doctors and councilors will tell Rush that he must fight his addiction without the excuse that he is only addicted to a prescription drug.

When Rush enters group therapy if he states that his addiction is not as bad as a street junkies, the doctor and the other patients will tell him that they are all the same. I used to work in a drug treatment center and all the stories are sad. Some find recovery, some maintain a sobriety and the rest fight the battle for the rest of their lives.

For Rush this will be the biggest battle of his life.

"For Rush this will be the biggest battle of his life."

People keep repeating this. I figure that no matter whether one is a "dittohead" or not we on FR largely know how to pray and do not, like the liberals, "judge another man's servant".

So we pray and hope that he does, too. This is his opportunity to prove all the liberals and nay-sayers wrong. May the Lord enable him to do so in the same way He enables Bush to show up the choke-up liberals.

I figure this can give Rush a bigger ear in the public long term.

Indeed. Many persons who are addicted to prescription medication are rock solid about how their doctors prescribed them and thus, they are not junkies. (My own dear mother thinks it is "okay" to take a million Vioxx a month because her doctor prescribed them.)

Good luck to Rush. This is a thing that is going to dog him for the rest of his life.

The road to recovery for Rush will be as difficult as someone who is addicted to heroin or cocaine, perhaps even worse given his back pain.

Rush was a 3 pack a day smoker and quit cold turkey. Many heroin addicts have talked to the ease in quiting heroin compared to cigarettes. Rush will make it and come out stronger than ever.

During his treatment, doctors and councilors will tell Rush that he must fight his addiction without the excuse that he is only addicted to a prescription drug.

When Rush enters group therapy if he states that his addiction is not as bad as a street junkies, the doctor and the other patients will tell him that they are all the same. I used to work in a drug treatment center and all the stories are sad. Some find recovery, some maintain a sobriety and the rest fight the battle for the rest of their lives.

So sad to see someone cede his reason to liberal cant. This philosophy of functional equivalence is behind other claims such as "all sex is sex; so no form of sex is really any different from any other form" or "all killing is murder because those killed are equally as dead no matter what the reason for their deaths" or "all societies have rules and societal expectations, so there's really no society that is better than any other society" or "all religions are basically the same since they serve a similar function amongst many and varied societies" or "human and chimp DNA is almost exactly alike so there's no real difference between the two animals".

Although one's body may not know the difference between a prescription narcotic and some smack from Mexico, the reasons one has done the former versus the latter are extremely important because they go to why someone did what he did to begin with, how he acted while in that state, and whether he is likely to do so again. After all, it's the difference that makes the difference, not the similarities.

Incessent severe neuropathic pain from failed spinal surgery requires a different plane of existence, one hardly worth living.

Without adequate pain meds, a cocktail including muscle relaxers and neuropathic meds such as Neurontin with some sort of sleeping pill, Rush may not be able to move or sleep. The injured nerves are on fire; alone, the body and mind fail from exhaustion. Forget golf and well researched, pleasant, informative conversations 3 hours a day.

Burning, stabbing, grinding pain along the entire spine simply overwhelms the body and soul. One's brain, even if one half tied behind the back, sits atop a constant firestorm.

Been there.

Incessent severe neuropathic pain from failed spinal surgery requires a different plane of existence, one hardly worth living.

Without pain meds, muscle relaxers and neuropathic meds such as Neurontin, Rush may not be able to move or sleep. Forget golf and well researched, pleasant, informative conversations 3 hours a day.

Burning, stabbing, grinding pain along the entire spine simply overwhelms the body and soul. One's brain sits atop a firestorm.

Been there.

During his treatment, doctors and councilors will tell Rush that he must fight his addiction without the excuse that he is only addicted to a prescription drug.

OK, why? If the drug gets rid of the pain, why quit? Why not just stay on the drug? So he's addicted, so what? If you just maintain enough to take care of the pain and no more, I don't see what the big deal is. Yeah maybe it made him deaf, we don't really know that, but that damage has been done.