Obviously self medication has drawbacks. For one, it cost Rush his hearing, but should self medication be a crime?
Were you laughing at Brett Favre when he got addicted to pain meds?
See what our glorious little War on Drugs does for us? I have absolutely no problem decriminalizing possession and use of any drug or narcotic by adults for their own use. None. Are there laws preventing an adult from drinking oneself to death or destriction? Or smoking to death? Nope. And there shouldn't be, either.
I don't laugh at anyone's pain.
I was in 'real' pain myself, but my dentist refused to prescribe any more Vicadin (I think) because he thought I was mis-using it. Told me 4 advils do the same job.
Point is, once you make yourself spokesperson for Conservatism, you have certain responsibilities, and one of the primary being, DO NOT EMBARASS your-self otherwise you make all conservatives look like hyporcrites.
Look at Bill O'Reilly. What a joke. He writes the O'Reilly factory about Kids, always spouting about family values, offended by Paris Hilton Commercial for Carl's Junior, and meanwhile he is harrassing his co-worker in most disgusting way.
You think next Republican/Conservative cadidate would sit down with him for interview and talk about family values? Would look like a fool if they did so.
It was my understanding that the hearing loss was not related to this. Do you know for a fact that it was?