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"We're all human. Rush will get the help he needs and he'll be back bigger and better than before."

You're probably right. Now, what I wonder is whether those who are expressing sympathy and support for Rush today will extend the same sympathy and support for everyone else who is fighting with an opiate addiction.

Rush is addicted, just as much as are thousands who are serving jail terms for their addictions. Yet, the tendency here on FR is to call those people, who are not celebrities or wealthy, the scum of the earth.

I hope a lesson is learned here, a lesson that even our heroes can become addicted to drugs. All addicts need treatment. Rush is fortunate; he can pay for 30 days at the Betty Ford clinic or some similar and expensive place.

No such luck for most addicts.

Now, what I wonder is whether those who are expressing sympathy and support for Rush today will extend the same sympathy and support for everyone else who is fighting with an opiate addiction.

A snowball has a better chance in hell than that. A year after this episode FReepers will be asking to extend the WOD and locking up people trying to get off of drugs.

I share that hope with you. At times I've found some of the holier than though responses to people who were addicted almost enough to turn me away from FR.

Maybe the people who are willing to offer their support, prayer and love to Rush will extend the same to strangers who are in the same boat.

Addiction, whether it be to alcohol or drugs, is heartbreaking and it not only affects the addict but the people around him/her.