Pubdate: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 Source: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Copyright: 2003, Denver Publishing Co. Contact: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/371 Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?232 (Chronic Pain) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/Rush+Limbaugh Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/opinion.htm (Opinion) LIMBAUGH'S ADDICTION Rush Limbaugh admitted Friday he is "addicted to prescription pain medication. "I first started taking prescription painkillers some years ago," he added, "when my doctor prescribed them to treat post surgical pain following spinal surgery." We wonder: Was that before or after his talk-show riff in 1995 in which he said "if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up." To be sure, later in the same show he seemed to refine the position to focus on those who trafficked in drugs, which no one has accused him of doing. And it is also true that a person caught in the vice of addiction can sincerely advocate cracking down on people like himself. It hardly matters. Limbaugh has been done in not just by his behavior but his own merciless words. - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake