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To: I Am Not A Mod
You know, for many years Jerry Lewis was horribly addicted to PERCODAN- he once bragged that he bought them from someone who stole drums of 25,000 tablets from the loading dock of a pharmaceutical manufacturer.

How many people know that Jerry used to take enough PERCODAN to kill the average horse every single day?

Should we care? I do- I am sorry that his addiction ruined his health, and he appears to be in the late stages of kidney and liver failure. This is sad, not funny, and I won't be attacking him here or anywhere else for his problem. (I believe he bercame addicted because of a painful back problem caused by his goofy pratfalls, etc- not recrreationally).

Drug addiction is really a medical problem, and although I'm probably one of the most "conservative" people on this thread, I think it should be treated as such. That includes the privacy restrictions that attend other sorts of serious medical conditions.

Recreational drug use is another story- but the dicussion would take up enough bandwidth to sink FR!

52 posted on 10/10/2003 9:33:13 AM PDT by RANGERAIRBORNE ("Si vis pacem, para bellum"- still good advice after 2000 years.)
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To: RANGERAIRBORNE
Lewis is 77. I hope I'm as active and doing that well at 77.
56 posted on 10/10/2003 9:36:14 AM PDT by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
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To: RANGERAIRBORNE
prescription drugs ARE used as recreational drugs by some people. you do get a high or buzz from some...they're no different than "illegal" drugs.
drug abuse, or alcohol abuse, or prescription drugs are the same.
people get addicted because they're in emotional as well as physical pain.
333 posted on 10/10/2003 12:17:51 PM PDT by contessa machiaveli
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