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Article #1077Re: Rush Limbaugh in pill probe
From: Andy Walton
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:59
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:59
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In article <3d9f92bf.0310131157.68695cec@posting.google.com>, Guido Marx <guidosjunkmail@yahoo.com> wrote: > Yep - many people take recreational drugs to assauge psychic pain. > Who is to say that psychic pain is any more or less "real" than > physical pain. In addition - these things aren't so cut and dried > anyway. I imagine that Rush got introduced to the painkillers because > of his back surgery. It could well be that he simply decided that he > liked the way they made him feel - and pain control was only one > component of that. I suspect that that is in fact - what occured. Taking the drugs felt good -- and, after a while, stopping felt really, really awful. I'd guess that both of those factors mattered, but to what degree would be a mattter of conjecture. I'd also guess -- and this is pure conjecture on my part -- that it was easy for Rush to tell himself that he didn't have a problem, right up until it became public. Me, an addict? Can't be. I show up for work on time every day, do my job well, write books, make speeches all over the country. Whatever the initial motivation, whatever condition the drug user is self-medicating himself for, the central point is that addiction is a public health problem, not a criminal justice problem. Treating it as a criminal justice problem has resulted in the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars with little effect. I hope that when Rush emerges from his personal crisis, he'll have gained a little perspective on the issue. -- "I'm just a stranger [who] loves the blues and the Braves." -- Al Jarreau, "Moonlighting" -------------------------------------------------- Andy Walton * http://atticus.home.mindspring.com/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e1e4,6fed9dd2abfacd91 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e1e4,public X-Google-Thread: f54fa,6fed9dd2abfacd91 X-Google-Attributes: gidf54fa,public X-Google-Thread: 10374a,6fed9dd2abfacd91 X-Google-Attributes: gid10374a,public X-Google-Thread: 10a587,6fed9dd2abfacd91 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a587,public X-Google-Thread: f514b,6fed9dd2abfacd91 X-Google-Attributes: gidf514b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-16 03:59:48 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Subject: Re: Rush Limbaugh in pill probe From: Andy Walton <atticus@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: misc.rural,alt.appalachian,nc.general,atl.general,talk.politics.drugs Message-ID: <161020030659479239%atticus@mindspring.com> References: <3f7ca043.2850222@news.io.com> <1v5vnvkpenqqcc8fuojdr6h6hshuaq1o61@4ax.com> <3F803020.F3966AD@gotemon.com> <b0c0ovss9qd9gu05292ed2a6iel61k3c1o@4ax.com> <3F803308.31AFD2D4@yahoo.com> <BBA614FD.2E45F%erj66@xs4all.nl> <3F80E902.E7974B3C@yahoo.com> <BBA6E7E3.2E53B%erj66@xs4all.nl> <3F813BAB.28898869@yahoo.com> <BBA710EC.2E654%erj66@xs4all.nl> <3F883534.817F04F4@yahoo.com> <vopgovcub6hrn10kpoc48ogf1in2pbc25i@4ax.com> <Ib2ib.7797$dn6.4302@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net> <3d9f92bf.0310131157.68695cec@posting.google.com> Organization: Waltonschauung MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Thoth/1.7.1 (Carbon/OS X) Lines: 32 Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:59:47 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.164.214.87 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1066301987 68.164.214.87 (Thu, 16 Oct 2003 06:59:47 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 06:59:47 EDT