What Rush is accused of doing is clearly morally wrong as well as illegal. What Rush has going for him is that it's also clear that there's a world of difference between the drugs he used - even though illegally obtained - and thugdrugs like crank and coke and heroin. Buying thugdrugs puts money into the hands of some of the nastiest, most despicable people on earth. And Liddy surived a felony conviction. So will Rush.
Yes there is!
This drug, Oxycodone, is a wonderful pain reliever engineered to relieve pain with the usual morphine side effects.
It works great, but like morphine,over time it takes more to get the same relief.
A human can build up a tremendous tolerance to it over time. As this happens, you become drug dependent, not drug addicted!
Dependency, like addiction is very difficult to beat by yourself. but it can be done depending on your level of intake. It is hard as hell.
But, it is the price that chronic pain patients pay to live a more normal existence. It is not to get high, stoned or screwed up!
Rush let it get out of control. He unfortunately had the resources to do this and I am quite sure he knew that, but he ignored it because to quit, he would have had to go into rehab. His dependency became more of a addiction.
He finally hit the wall, and it happened. I am happy for him, and I hope he has much better doctors working for him now. And that he stays out of trouble with this stuff.
I know this, because I use it too. The difference is that I have learned to control it and how to make low doses continue to work for me.
It ain't easy.
"Buying thugdrugs puts money into the hands of some of the nastiest, most despicable people on earth."
IF Rush was buying drugs illegally for years ( NOT the crime he is currently under investigation for ) - these are the people who were supplying them -
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/beshara1.html