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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (478770)	10/20/2003 3:20:00 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Dittoheads are treating Rush like he's a victim. Wishing their blessings on him. They're willing to forgive anyone who's a hard-line right-wingers but no one who's anything else.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (478770)	10/21/2003 12:14:43 AM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Oxycontin is legal, unlike crack, and apparently is so easy to become addicted to by people who start out with a doctor's prescription, that it and its maker, Perdue Pharma, have been the subject of a number of lawsuits. Rush is just one of its victims, lured into it through legitimate means -- a prescription for back pain. Chronic back pain is so difficult to live with that people with it will do just about anything for relief. Put oxycontin + chronic back pain together, and you have thousands of people who are in the same situation as Rush. The main differences I see at first blush between Rush and the street druggies are: -- Oxycontin and the other pain killers Rush used are legal, prescription medications; the street drugs like crack that he descries are all illegal anytime, anywhere, in any manner. -- Initially, Rush was given a legal, legitimate prescription for painkillers to alleviate pain associated with a medical condition, whereas street addicts started by choice, just looking to get high; -- While using it legally, Rush got "hooked" and needed to take more to achieve the same level of pain relief; street druggies, illegal users from the get-go, need more to achieve the same high.