[Republican Wildcat]

Although what Rush has found himself in is not right, and showed a lapse of discipline to allow himself to get hooked...getting stuck on prescription medicine you were originally given for a very real purpose--to suppress back pain, is not exactly like deciding to go out onto the street and by some crack and start smoking it. There's simply no comparison, and the repeated attempts to do so by the left is just dishonest.

[Republican Wildcat]

by=buy

[weegee]

I still haven't heard the details of his addiction. What were the symptoms of his withdrawl?

He had twice gone into rehab already.

Was he still having back pain? Did the doctor say, "you aren't positively responding to the medication anymore" or "you are building up a tolerance to the medication and eventually will get hooked" and stop writing prescriptions? Or did the doctor continue writing low dosage prescriptions which Rush exceeded (and needed an additional source for)?

Was the addiction mental or physical? Did he have cold sweats without it and nervous disorders or did he have muscle spasms and sharp pains?

Some on FR seem to be of the mind that he was just getting off on getting dosed by an opiate. This does not seem to be the case.