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Jahr quotes Dan Rather as continuing: "As an example, in 1955 or '56, I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly. When the children were fairly young, and there was so much emphasis everywhere on drugs, it was not possible for them to tell me I didn't know what I was talking about."

Everything about this is just so bizarre and inauthentic... Nobody would ever do that. It is the drugs equivalent of Christmas in Cambodia.

Also, it is obvious Dan has never had a good shot of an opiate. I smashed my leg up real bad ski racing and I went from swearing like a Marine and throwing stuff at the ambulance driver's head to make him go faster to very very mellow and relaxed once I was shot full of morphine. It was no "hell." Nor was I ever worried about being addicted, since I had a total two shots of morphine over the course of having my leg set. Dan is a delusional liar.

[GVnana]

Good point. Years ago I in the hospital on a three day course of Demerol. Man, nothing bothered me. But I bet that stuff is very addictive. You have almost no conciousness of the drug.