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In fact, I think Rush, if he gets through this struggle, will be just as anti-drug as he was before the painkiller addiction.

I wish him the best, but if it turns out he obtained his medication illegally, and he still supports criminal charges for possession for personal use, or confiscation of property, he's a hypocrite.

but if ... he's a hypocrite.

Not if he continues to advocate that such drug use be illegal and prosecuted, even against himself.

If someday I end up robbing a bank to get money to feed my child (unlikely scenario, but if), then I would expect the police to try to hunt me down and throw me in prison with other bank robbers.

It would be hypocrisy if I claimed such laws shouldn't apply to me.

If criminal conduct is true he should be treated the same.

In this case the prosecutor's office generally does not prosecute ANY of the end users.

or

if they actually catch someone in the act red handed buying drugs without a prescription, first time offenders are simply sent to drug court where upon completion of treatment the case is dismissed.

That is what is done for everyone else.

Hardly a hypocrit, BTW, until you have seen what people in accidents and ruptured disks have to endure in terms of paid you have no clue. Nerves which are pinched can cause unbelievable, incapacitating pain. Some of these pain drugs truly are a miracle to people.

In law school there was one woman who was on a morphine pump. By the some definitions she was in fact adicted. She was going to be on that pump attached to her body for the rest of her life due to the out of control pain that consumed her body. She like rush was not taking these pills/drugs for fun. There was a real cause and a real pain.

This has nothing to compare to those potheads or cokheads who are just getting stoned for amusement.