The chances of success for an addict from physical pain like rush's back and neck situation are far more promissing than someone who is using drugs for recreation. In terms of treatment, you're right, but scoring narcotics off the street... at what point do you STOP being addicted for physical pain, and START being addicted due to its psychological impact? Regardless, they're both still addicts.
If his pain were really that great, why couldn't he find a doctor to manage his pain? Using your housekeeper to manage your pain seems to be the mark of an addict, the kind that WOD lovers want to lock up.
in serious pain cases they put a inmplant a pump on your body and you have a constant flow of the pain killer into your body. Typically its a morphine pump.
You stop when the physical cause for the pain is gone and there is no more reason to be taking the drugs. That is when. Is the physical cause of Rush's pain gone? According to him, not gone.
Ruptured disks are excrusiating. Some people have to take pain killers every day. No pills, no life. Some here would call them addicts.