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Back surgery may be a reason. I did read his whole statement, he did use some good statements, but some important things remain:

He only did this after being cornered, not on his own. He has serious credibiliity on this, and we would say this about some guy who didnt have millions of his own money and had to rob a store to get his painkillers on the street.

Rush knew better, his own comments proved it, his lifestyle, actions, Rush knew he had a problem. While he said he tried twice to go clean, he KNEW from those time he had a problem, and he had to be cornered to do it a 3rd time.

Going twice on your own is commendable, but to go the third time because you were caught, that is not, not commendable at all. You did know by then.

Rush knew and he avoided it, and it is clearly his fault. He did make statements to that effect, but he needs to really face it. His money wealth and power tell me he will have a bad time doing just that

A reason, yes, but not an excuse. I agree with everything you said. It's going to particularly hard for him now because it wasn't his honest decision to go back to rehab. I've been around this kind of thing myself, and a friend of mine is going through it now. That's how I recognized that you know what you are talking about, and I understand what you are saying, and I think you are right.

There is one strange thing I wonder about: how could his employer enable him by keeping him on the air? The network HAD to have known the guy wasn't clean, if not after the first stay in rehab, then certainly after the second. I guess the money was too good; they didn't give a damn.