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I can understand the contention that people with pain should do what they can to live with it without meds... (I suspect you'll want to ban aspirin next)...

And it may not be an "excuse" in the sense that it doesn't make being addicted acceptable...

But to call extreme pain "a -ridiculous- excuse" is just downright scary. I guess by your standards one should not feel ANY sympathy for a POW being tortured until they cracked and talked. Hell, cracking to a war enemy under physical torture would be a hell of a lot worse because the person being tortured would have sold out his friends, putting his own needs above those of his countrymen - but I'd -still- feel sympathy for him! Getting addicted to pain meds is like breaking to torture but without even the sin of turning in one's friends. He hurt no one but himself.

Your empathy is in the negatives. I've never heard even the most arch-conservative say they would feel -no- sympathy to someone who cracked while being subjected to torture. If you're the example that the pro-drug lobby around here is decrying as having no sympathy for addicts.... I'm sorry I defended you.

Qwinn

to a war enemy under physical torture would be a hell of a lot worse because the person being tortured would have sold out his friends, putting his own needs above those of his countrymen - but I'd -still- feel sympathy for him! Getting addicted to pain meds is like breaking to torture

Somehow I just can't relate what you are rambling on about to anything having to do with a pompous arrogant radio windbag turned junkie.

Richard W.

There is a doctor on Fox every Sunday, can't recall his name. He advocates use of pain killers, even addictive ones as being preferable to living with pain. There was an older lady that called in to the Kimmer show on WGST after Rush's show, she admitted she was addicted to pain killers as there is nothing else that the doctors could do for the pain. She said she would do anything to get the pills if the doctor cut her off.