Rush became a drug addict to be able to function with the back pain. Kinda different in my book from someone who snorts coke for fun.
Rush became a drug addict to be able to function with the back pain.
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No doubt it happened accidentally and not because of recreational use. It happens to a lot of people that way. Still, an addict, by definition, does not behave the same way as a non-addict. It changes a person, regardless of how the addiction came about.