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You automatically assume that he has a "drug dealer" giving him "illegal" drugs. That is not an established fact at this stage. I'm willing to give the man the benefit of the doubt.

Have you read any of the accounts of HOW he got the drugs? Exchanging goods in restaurant parking lots? Getting the maid to score for him (allegedly)? This was not a case of Rush heading to the pharmacy to get his legit precription.

There is a reason why doctors have to give precriptions in this country for certain drugs. You are aware of this, yes? So when someone scores those same drugs on the street, they are CERTAINLY illegal drugs. If you were caught with hundreds of Oxycontin narcotics on your person, without a legitimate precription, I can assure you that the VAST majority of law enforcement personnel in America would slap a set of handcuffs on you. If you were caught in a parking lot exchanging hundreds of pills of Oxycontin for a bundle of cash, with no doctor precriptions in sight, you'd be arrested.

This, of course, assumes that his housekeeper's story, and the NE story, are based in truth.

I've not heard Rush, or anyone, for that matter, suggest that Rush had a precription for his narcotics. If this were a case of Rush simply taking a lot of drugs given to him by his doctor, all of which were bought at a pharmacy, I could see your point. But that's not part of any story I've read on it, and I think Rush MIGHT have defended himself if that were the case.

Personally, I think Rush should be allowed to take whatever he wants. It's the rank hypocrisy here, with the attempts to minimize his usage, and to attempt to justify his addiction to narcotics by suggesting that prescription narcotics are somehow different than cocaine or meth, that is bothersome. The idea that he had some 'pain' that required buying narcotics off the street... these ideas would never fly if it were Joe Schmo who was addicted, or worse yet, some liberal.

"The idea that he had some 'pain' that required buying narcotics off the street... these ideas would never fly if it were Joe Schmo who was addicted, or worse yet, some liberal."

Perhaps not to the hard-core WoD'ers here. I don't think they're the majority. I could be wrong. Are they? Longer-term Freepers would have to attest to that, I'm too new yet.

There are certainly some posters here who might be subject to the hypocrisy accusation here... BUT, I still don't think we've established that Rush himself deserves the label. If he was playing a victim now, or evading responsibility, then yes, he most definetly would.

Qwinn

I'm sorry, I can't take the Enquirer report as gospel. And until it is proven, either in official documents or in confirmation from his own lips, I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.

You are making the opposite leap. That's your business. But it also shows your level of support - or the lack of it - given the gravity of the situation.

If this were a case of Rush simply taking a lot of drugs given to him by his doctor, all of which were bought at a pharmacy, I could see your point. But that's not part of any story I've read on it, and I think Rush MIGHT have defended himself if that were the case.

Rush said that he had saught treatment for his addiction on two previous occasions. I SERIOUSLY DOUBT any doctor would currently be prescribing oxy's to anyone who has been treated twice for addiction to them. Therefore, I think that it is reasonable to assume that he was obtaining them illegally.