[blastdad51]

Big difference in getting addicted as the result of pain medication following an unsucessful surgery and using coke/crystal to pack your nose to get high. The distintion will be lost on the left!!

[arjay]

It will also be lost on the libertarian members of this forum.

[RS]

"The distintion will be lost on the left!!"

Interesting... so the Right now is the champion of delving into the reasons behind why a crime is commmitted ...
... are we to assume that the Right now feels that certain crimes should NOT be prosecuted, sort of like medical Pot ?

[Sandy]

Big difference in getting addicted as the result of pain medication following an unsucessful surgery and using coke/crystal to pack your nose to get high.

Not really.
Taking drugs to feel better vs. taking drugs to feel better.

[NutCrackerBoy]

Big difference in getting addicted as the result of pain medication following an unsucessful surgery and using coke/crystal to pack your nose to get high. The distintion will be lost on the left!!

Sure, there is a difference. But either kind of addiction lays you low, affecting you morally, physically, and spiritually.

It is all to easy to become addicted: someone who takes an occasional drink can become an alcoholic. In other words, it doesn't take a moral lapse to become an addict.

I don't see a moral superiority of someone who becomes addicted to pain medication over any other kind of addict. I only see people in desperate need of addiction recovery.

[Mick2000]

Speaking of constant pain:

Here are Kurt Cobain's comments regarding a stomach condition and his drug use:

http://www.q.co.za/2001/2002/10/24-kurtcobain.html

"I am not a junkie ... Ive had a rather unconclusive and uncomfortable stomach condition for the past three years ... I decided to relieve my pain with small doses of heroine (sic) for a walloping 3 whole weeks."

" ... I decided to use heroine on a daily basis because of an ongoing stomach ailment that I had been suffering from for the past five years and had literally taken me to the point of wanting to kill myself."

"It was a stupid thing to do and Ill never do it again and I feel real sorry for anyone who thinks they can use heroine as a medicine because um, duh, it don't work."

"I remember someone saying if you try heroine once you'll become hooked. Of course I laughed and scoffed at the idea but I know believe this to be very true."

Rush's take on Kurt Cobain:

"Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentlemen, a worthless shred of human debris"

I'm not seeing the distinction here between Kurt Cobain's illegal use of heroin to self-medicate and Rush's illegal uses of oxycontin "synthetic heroin" to self-medicate. Yet Rush felt strong enough to condemn Cobain for his drug use with the comment above. Wonder if he'd make the same sort of comment now.

[XJarhead]

Big difference in getting addicted as the result of pain medication following an unsucessful surgery and using coke/crystal to pack your nose to get high. The distintion will be lost on the left!!

No, it won't be lost -- they understand it perfectly. They'll just choose to ignore it here because it suits their political agenda.

Its interesting how some others here are setting up all those strawmen regarding those who defend Rush. If whatever he did normally gets prosecuted, then he should be as well. On the other hand, there's nothing inconsistent with drawing a moral distinction between the guy who gets addicated to prescribed painkillers, and the person whose drug use begins as illegal and recreational. The biggest problem I have with those addicted to illegal drugs is that they made the choice to use those drugs when they were not addicted, knowing they were illegal.

Plenty of soldiers got addicted to morphine due to battlefield injuries, and subsequently remained addicted even after the pain left. I had and have a lot more sympathy for them than I do for those who treated drugs as a toy from the outset.

As for Rush's back pain and golfing, back pain can be something that comes and goes. You have good days and bad. Sometimes its sitting for a prolonged period that causes pain, sometimes sleeping, sometimes activity. It varies from person to person, so the mere fact that he was able to golf does not mean that he didn't have back pain.