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My support for Rush won't change in the least.

I became addicted to prescription pain killers a few years ago after having major surgery; being addicted was easy, admitting it to someone is not. I can still remember how scared I was to finally tell my husband and seek help.

Good for you Rush for taking this all important first step, and God speed.

A question, hope you don't mind: You became addicted to pain killers, but your doctor/hospital was prescribing them? Just because you became addicted does not mean you obtained the drugs illegally, right?

How does one become addicted on a pharmacy prescription?

Just asking because some of the main accusations against Rush seem to be that in order to be addicted he had to have been obtaining the drugs illegally. This may not be the case.

Good to hear that you beat your addiction. Johnny Cash beat his long addiction to pain killers and refused to take them in his later years even though it meant enduring much pain; he didn't want to have to fight that addiction again.

I only took painkillers for back pain (from a car accident) for a few days. They made me sluggish and clouded my mind. Even after just a few days I had painful muscle spasms in muscles that had not been experiencing pain; I attributed this to withdrawl. When I took the medication, those spasms subsided (these were muscle relaxers). I toughed it out for a few days (including some painful spasms that would wake me up in the middle of the night). If it was that bad after just a few days of use, I didn't want to have to contend with a more intense withdrawl.