[Swordmaker]

"I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling. I'm just saying that one of the things was that I did not put my health first."

The point RS is that Limbaugh did NOT SEEK OUT drugs to take but because addicted to his prescriptions. Why he took them after that is irrelevant. He is right to take the blame for that. He also made three attempts at rehab privately. Getting the monkey off your back is extremely difficult.

There is still a world of difference between seeking recreational drugs and being prescribed legal pain killers to which you become addicted.

[RS]

"The point RS is that Limbaugh did NOT SEEK OUT drugs to take but because addicted to his prescriptions. Why he took them after that is irrelevant. He is right to take the blame for that. He also made three attempts at rehab privately."

Why he took them EVER is irrelevant as far as I'm concerned - how he obtained them is - after that it doesn't matter if he took them or flushed them.

According to what I see, he made two one-day attempts at rehab, before his addiction became public knowledge.
This would actually strengthens a doctor-shopping case... do doctors who KNOW their patient considers himself addicted and takes the drugs because he "likes them" continue to prescribe large overlapping prescriptions ?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

There is still a world of difference between seeking recreational drugs and being prescribed legal pain killers to which you become addicted.

A HUGE difference!