[Cold Heat]

There are plenty of examples of alcolohics nad drug users who don't show outward sings.

There is a big difference between abuse and use.

In both cases a person is addicted.

This is a very easy thing to explain, but it is hard for people who are not users to understand.

Anyone using prescription pain killers for a month or more becomes addicted to the drug. It goes with the use.

A person who does not need a legal prescription and uses to get high is an abuser.

If Rush became addicted as a result of legal use he is not a abuser. The fact of addiction is not abuse in any way unless the purpose is not legitamate. It is a fact however, that sometimes legal addiction becomes abuse.

[Howlin]

A person who does not need a legal prescription and uses to get high is an abuser.

Why would Rush need to buy drugs on the black market if he had a legal presciption?

[uncbob]

Anyone using prescription pain killers for a month or more becomes addicted to the drug. It goes with the use

Two years ago I came down with a case of shingles and my Doc gave me a prescription for Percocet
I told him Tylenol was working well enough
He said the pain would get much worse.
I told him I was afraid of addiction and he said people with real pain don't get addicted.

I toughed it out as long as I good but finally had to use the Percocet

However I was able to get by taking ONE at 2 PM and then two tylenol and a I/2 Xanax at bed time

I did not get addicted and had no withdrawal symptoms at all however I was only on it for several weeks