[VRWC_minion]

but ultimately, he says, he still ached even after a dozen pills a day. At the nadir of his habit, while in London for a command performance for Queen Elizabeth II, he found himself in Soho buying 10 tablets of the stuff for $200 a pop. "I was a doper of the first rate," he says.

He describes himself as a doper for taking pills because "he still ached even after a dozen pills a day."

It that an addict or a person who needs the drugs for pain calling himself an addict ?

[StriperSniper]

It that an addict or a person who needs the drugs for pain calling himself an addict ?

I would guess he was being hard on himself for allowing his tolerance to build to such a high level.

[William McKinley]

Is your point that despite the fact that he considers himself to be an addict, he really wasn't?

If so, I don't really feel the need to argue over it.

[Burn24]

I became extremely fond of Percoset post-appendectomy, and would never condemn anyone who needs drugs for pain. (There's enough pain in the world already.) After a month or so, a slow and steady withdrawal as the wound healed.

But I don't know what I'd do if the pain simply didn't stop. Do you?