I heard what he said, he is no druggie. He is a man in pain and if you had been in the same situation you would have done the same. I don't give a darn how he obtained the pills, it should not be illegal for someone in his situation to have to get them in the first place.
It is not about back pain, the kind we all have. It is about excruciating pain. You are just a Rush basher, you are not taking any high road, but a very low road.
As for "whatever organization.....which have allowed this country to be filled with hard drugs", I assume you are referring to illegal, not prescription, drugs as "hard drugs."
Yup, hard drugs. That druggies use this stuff does not mean that Rush is a druggie, he is a man with serious medical problems trying to continue to function. He is a man with dedication to his work. Any other man would have taken his money and gotten out of this crazed out situation. He is not doing that, he wants to continue to do his work and the sob's who should be chasing the real drug criminals are going after him. Why don't that bunch of cowards go up against some Colombian or Mexican drug lords? Afraid to get shot? That's why our cities are infested with drug crime - so called defenders of society going after headlines instead of criminals.
You SHOULD "give a darn" - if YOU were caught with prescription drugs that you bought under-the-counter do you think the cops would just drop you and go after your supplier? Nuh-uh! If your kid was caught with oxycontin he bought from a kid at school who was supplied by someone else wouldn't YOU want the supplier AND the middleman held responsible?
it should not be illegal for someone in his situation to have to get them in the first place.
It IS NOT "illegal for someone in his situation to have to get them in the first place": you go to your physician and SEEK help the RIGHT way, so they can monitor your condition and see when your pill consumption starts getting out of hand. It's a closed-loop system: when your condition doesn't improve then the course of treatment changes to suit. The system WORKS that way. Sitting at home honking-down pills while your physician remains clueless as to your condition is absolutely, positively asinine and irresponsible.
I hope he gets straightened out as much as the next person, BUT I also hope he's treated (judicially) the same as the next person: possession of prescription medicines without a prescription is a crime and, consequently, he must be called to account for it. Him AND his supplier. Personally, I hold the buyer AS responsible as the seller: just because someone's selling it doesn't mean you have to buy it.
With the bazillions of dollars he's said he makes he's gotta go get his pills from his HOUSEKEEPER rather than maintain the doctor/patient relationship he had? After surgery, you just don't walk out the door without the therapy/followup that would have detected his lack of improvement. He's either infinitely cheap OR worried about his personal, private actions becoming public. Either way: the actions of a fool; he should have known better.
Of course, now that he's been found-out and exposed to the public he's got nothing to lose by trying whatever means necessary to 'get clean' and making it the "I'm doing what's right"-thing. More character would have been evidenced had he brought this all to light HIMSELF the FIRST time he went into the tank.
Spontaneous revelation/apology/acceptance/restitution shows a HECK of a lot more character than "oops! you caught me. yeah, I did it. It happened. I'm sorry. I'll 'get help now'. I promise."