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in serious pain cases they put a inmplant a pump on your body and you have a constant flow of the pain killer into your body. Typically its a morphine pump.

You stop when the physical cause for the pain is gone and there is no more reason to be taking the drugs. That is when. Is the physical cause of Rush's pain gone? According to him, not gone.

Ruptured disks are excrusiating. Some people have to take pain killers every day. No pills, no life. Some here would call them addicts.

Ruptured disks are excrusiating. Some people have to take pain killers every day. No pills, no life. Some here would call them addicts.

See, this is where Rush COULD have done it legally. If he were really in that much pain, go to a pain management specialist. I don't think the guy selling Oxycontin in a parking lot is a legitimate pain management specialist. If Rush had gone the legal route, obviously we wouldn't be having this discussion.

Someone taking massive doses of painkillers to legitmately manage pain may indeed be an addict, but an understandable addict. In that case, the addiction might not be detrimental, but necessary.

But Oxycontin is a Class A drug. Law-and-order people don't just acquire Class A drugs off the street. And any legit doctor will tell his patients that self-medicating is NOT the way to go, especially when you're self-medicating with a Class A opiate. It can lead to bad times, like losing your hearing.

I submit that it's likely Rush would not say he was addicted if he had not progressed to the point where he was taking drugs for more than physical pain. One of the questions we will likely be chewing over here for a while is what constitutes "addiction."