[Mr. Buzzcut]

Is there at all any difference between the "street" drug addict who initially uses narcotics solely to get high and the addict who was prescribed the drug for a medical condition and subsequently gets hooked.

Seems to me there is.

Additionally, the guy apparently tried twice (on his own dime) to beat this thing, so it's not as if the "outing" by the NE has "forced" him to deal with it.

Let the DU'ers gloat. When the sun comes up tomorrow most of them will still be dependent on the productive class for their subsistence and will resume their lives of sniping at their superiors. ;)

[wardaddy]

Is there at all any difference between the "street" drug addict who initially uses narcotics solely to get high and the addict who was prescribed the drug for a medical condition and subsequently gets hooked

The difference is that the street user started out to get high. Someone like allegedly Rush or Elvis etc. ends up in the same boat as the street user...getting high.