Addicts like Limbaugh don't change without honesty.

I have never known an addict to narcotics that has ever spontaneously quit without some sort of critical self-examination and honesty concerningtheir condition. Not everyone quits using a 12 step program, but rarely does a person quit without some sort of structured approach, jail or death.

You can bet that Limpballs is STILL doing drugs. Heroin in any form is a very tough monkey to shake. Yeah, Rush is still using. If your a betting person, the odds are way in your favor betting that he is.

I wouldn't be surprised if rather than quit, he just decided to hide it better.

Relapse rates are indeed very high, and very few do quit cold turkey. For now though, I will give him the benefit of the doubt but wait and see...............

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He sure the hell has no honesty

They know all about it, how hard it is to walk away, they see it everyday, now they've given the pigboy enough rope to hang his own self, all they did was put the noose around his neck. It's just a matter of time.

When he hits bottom because of his problems, then and only then will he make a decision....

because they rationalize that since they're taking prescription drugs with or without a prescription, they're somehow different from the guys in the alleys shooting up black tar. They rationalize that since they can afford to pay black market prices and/or pay multiple physician fees and go to pharmacis, that they can't possibly be common addicts with the same problems as those guys who ended up in prison.

Addiction is always a desease of denial and lying, especially lying to oneself. Money shields the pillhead from ever having to confront lies head on. He doesn't risk having the police intrude into his mansion like they do slum apartments. He knows what does he's getting so he's less likely to OD. He's not shooting up shit cut with gawd knows what so he's less likely to end up with life threatening problems from shooting baking soda, cement dust, or even the bacteria that can infect his heart valves. He's taking nice clean prescription tablets made by reputable drug companies. Bottom is a long way down, and the rich pillhead generally doesn't find it, not ever.

Yeah, the statistics say he's probably using. If he's not back to Oxy, you can bet he's using something else.

but I honestly don't care if he's an addict. I think our drug laws are a disgrace, and I'm not going to be a hypocrite just because it's Rush Limbaugh with his dick caught in the wringer. The best approach to opiate addiction, IMO, is registration and maintenance on controlled, prescribed doses of heroin or something similar (this system works very well in the Netherlands).

snorting not shooting. once they got past the puking stage it would be very hard to tell by their behavior. One of the guys I was with got into it and you couldn't really tell he was high if you didn't know what to look for. He done his job just like the rest of us and most of the people he came into contact would never have guessed he was doing heroin. Heroin is not good no matter how you slice it but the present laws only compound the problem. Drug Addiction should be handled in the Medical field not the Judiciary. Courts can only make a bad situation worse.

really, if you're on smack, once you're really ADDICTED you need it just to stay straight and function normally...another case I know of was a doctor named William Stewart Halstead, who was one of the founders of Johns Hopkins medical school, highly respected surrgeon, etc., and it was discovered after his death that he was a junkie who shot 4 grains (260mg) of morphine a day. Treating it as a criminal problem rather than a medical one causes WAY more harm than good, too...the fact that it's illegal in the first place leads to the creation of a lucrative black market and gives incentive for organised crime to get involved, punishing addicts with imprisonment doesn't do anything because in most cases drugs aren't too hard to get IN prison, either...Americans have a really fucked-up, Puritanical attitude to drugs that just really makes no sense at all.

you may need a program yourself :evilgrin: