Ksee, are you saying this guy with the bad spinal condition WAS using illegal drugs before he was finally diagnosed?
IMO there are varying degrees of dependence and/or addiction. I know dissabled vets who have more pain than the VA will treat, and don't have insurance. They hang out at the bar swapping WHATEVER kind of pain medicine they can get, and sipping beer. Do they ever overdo it and get high, even wasted? You bet they do, some more than others. Most of them, most of the time are only trying to maintain a bearable level of pain. They get their drugs from the same dealers who sell to hard core junkies who really live only for the high and are willing to do anything to get it. Don't tell me that everyone who is in real pain and getting proper treatment wouldn't resort to extraordinary measures if they were cut off. Every hunter knows that the most dangerous animal is a wounded one. Pain makes people angry and desperate.
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