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.
There's a difference between "pain relief" activity and "getting high on stuff you're supposed to be using for pain relief." We don't have to yield to temptation. (A guy I know has had enough experience with Oxy to know it can be a dangerous beast...) FReegards ;<)