With all due respect, Rush Limbaugh does not fit the profile of an addict. I have known the administrator of a drug rehab center. I have taken former addicts into my home (when I was single) and had them as room mates. I saw them battling their addictions even after they were clean. I have worked with AA members and sat in numerous meetings with them. I have listened to "Clancy", the head of the midnight mission in Los Angeles speaking on his addiction and why he was an addict- and how he recovered. I have been in rooms in AA meetings that had over 500 recovering addicts attending. Rush Limbaugh does not look or sound to me like an addict that is taking up to 30 pills a day.
If he was an addict, he would not be able to fulfill his obligations to his job, his marriage, or to anyone else. There is no way he could keep up that large of a charade for so long.
The ingesting of drugs not only impairs perception and judgement, but physical health. The addict also is attracted to other addictions as well. It doesn't stop with the pills, it goes with booze, prostitutes, gambling, or other combined addictions.
It is impossible for me to concieve of an addict who could have the mental acuity to do what Rush Limbaugh does on his show, or keep his schedule. In our world, anything could be possible, but this seems highly improbable to me.
I respect your work with addicts, but Nachum, how can you say that they can't function? What about "functional alcoholics?" I've known one my whole life. You wouldn't know he was an alcoholic if you worked in his office with him. You'd only know "after hours." He has a genius I.Q. Yes, he was a chain-smoker also. I don't find it unbelievable, for this reason, that Rush was or is addicted to medication. And seriously, it doesn't make me think he must therefore be wrong about everything else.