I take empathic exception to the article "Rush Limbaugh no different from any other drug addict." My answer to you is that you should listen to Rush Limbaugh then, you too, just may learn to listen to other news media and learn to think for yourself. I sincerely hope that you are never in such pain that you would take a narcotic, legal or illegal if you had the opportunity to. You see, I have been in such pain and I assure you I am not "extremely wealthy." (And I really don't understand how a person's ability to earn a small fortune through hard work has any bearing on this case.) I do consider myself very fortunate to endure such constant pain. In addition, my brother, a white, low-income - as you would call it, an addict - was seriously injured in a farming accident when he was quite young. The doctors kept him on narcotics for weeks just to get him through the first few weeks following the accident. When he was able to go home he was supplied with narcotics to enable him to endure the terrible pain one would experience when half of his calf and part of his foot had been torn away by an auger and a cotton puller. [continues 154 words]