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Article: Drug abuse cuts across all social lines.(The Seattle Times)
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- October 20, 2003
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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 ...