Article: Drug abuse cuts across all social lines.(The Seattle Times)

Byline: Jerry Large

I've been hoping that news of Rush Limbaugh's abuse of painkillers will help people see two things about drug abuse: It happens in every social stratum. And there are no good people's drugs and bad people's drugs.

Prescription drugs and the people who abuse them occupy a different category in our brains than illegal drugs and the people who use them. We treat them differently, and both suffer as a result.

We often ignore one group and think prison is the only answer to the problems of the other.

The Limbaugh episode hasn't been much of a catalyst for change in our perception yet, but there are a lot of Limbaughs out ...

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