Ok, I haven't been keeping up with Rush lately. It seems to me he should be promoting the plight of pain patients, instead of his eerie silence on the subject.

Let's see; he was in pain and needed narcotics, but he got addicted, then busted, so he became un-addicted, and is now a good boy, but still in pain, but taking the narcotics only as directed by his doctor. Do I have this right?

Well, that's understandable, really. What about the rest of us? If we little people are labled drug abusers will we ever get the proper medical treatment again? The last I heard, Rush's only advocacy on our part, is to defend the doctor/patient privacy. He has the mighty soapbox, why doesn't he help out the people who, like himself, are suffering and being proscecuted and persecuted for it?