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It's obvious that once Rush's doctor stopped prescribing the pain pills for him, he sought other ways to get them.

What's even more obvious is that his doctor wouldn't have stopped prescibing the pills if Rush needed them for pain. And if Rush is still experiencing bad pain, why would he stop taking the pills? The story doesn't add up. It's a safe bet that this rehab isn't the least bit voluntary.

Well he says he already went through detox twice. So if I was his doctor, I would be aware of it - and would carefully monitor what pain pills I gave him. And once you are a true addict, it takes quite a few to do what one would do before.

Besides, even when your pain has greatly diminished, you often have one of "those days". I just had two great months, but this past week I have been woken up every night by pain.

I have always suspected Rush is an addictive personality - he just seems the type - expansive, confident, independent. He has had a weight problem and admits freely he enjoys smoking. Nobody is probably more surprised than him to find this happened. It just sometimes takes a cold bucket of water to wake them up to what they have allowed to happen to them.

What's even more obvious is that his doctor wouldn't have stopped prescibing the pills if Rush needed them for pain.

Actually, that's not obvious at all, because it's very common for doctors to be quite "paranoid" about prescribing strong painkillers on a long-term basis, and cut off patients who still badly need the medication. In fact, the heavy federal regulations concerning "controlled" medications very strong encourage such things -- doctors can lose their license or go to jail if a panel of bureaucrats thinks they prescribe "too many" controlled painkillers. My wife had acute chronic pain for many years, and we saw this first hand, and have met and read about countless other people experienced the same problem.

The prescription habits of doctors licensed to prescribe controlled painkillers (and most are not) are watched so closely that the prescriptions have to be written on special "triplicate" forms, one copy of which is mailed directly to the government oversight body, which computerizes the information and can easily review it for anything they consider a "red flag".