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You have the pathology of this addiction down cold. The one thing that I would add is that in a number of these patients, the pain experienced after the addiction takes hold has a psychosomatic quality which is brought on by the addiction.

If you look at the affidavit in support of the warrant, the thing that jumps out at me is not the level of narcotics he was taking but the amount of acetominophin/tylenol. It's a miracle it didn't shut down his liver and kidneys.

Maybe the Lord is working in mysterious ways to save Rush from himself.

I had a client who did pretty much the same thing, and now gets pretty good relief from liquid methadone and acupuncture. The liquid methadone doesn't have the kind of side effects you get from taking hundreds or thousands of pills with additives. Maybe a morphine pump would be another good thing, I haven't spoken to him in a long time. Of course, if you take methadone, that makes you a "drug addict" and all of a suddent you're a pariah.

Tough to keep your chin up when society turns against you, but maybe Rush can help change that, too.