NO DIFFERENCE

Susan Mansur Bahr writes to your paper, "... there is a huge difference
between someone who uses drugs to ease physical pain and someone using
cocaine or meth to get high." Really? In what sense?

Both use the drugs compulsively. Both break the law. One relieves a
physical pain; one relieves a psychological pain. Both get "high."

So, what is the difference? Indeed, does she really trust a compulsive
addict like Rush to tell her the truth when he has lied to and deceived
even his wife for so long? Maybe, just maybe, he liked the "high," the way
in which it altered his consciousness. That would appear to be the key
difference for illogical fanatics.

"Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish and wine unto those of
heavy hearts. Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery
no more." (Prov. 31:6-7)

Matthew Hulett

Brick, N.J.