Originally Posted by
actsnoblemartin
im just gonna throw out a question, for anyone who wants to answer.
is getting addicted to a street drug, i.e. marijuana, crack, heroin just as morally wrong, as getting addicted to a prescribed pain killer such as vicodin, or oxycotin.
I was just wondering if you felt they were morally equivalent or one situation worse then the other.
It's a fine hair to split, but I'm going to have to say no, and it has nothing to do with Limbaugh and everything to do with how the addiction starts. To get addicted to a substance that is 100% illegal, you have to first obtain it, and then try it for the sole purpose of getting high. To get started on painkillers only requires a prescription, usually following injury or surgery. Hell, I've taken addictive painkillers and I don't so much as drink. Given that the easiest way to not take the stuff in the first place, I'm gonna have to go with hard drug addiction being on the wronger side of prescription drug addiction, but just barely. The first time the prescription guy obtains his fix illegally, he's jumping right in the gutter with the pothead.
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