He was addicted to prescription drugs that he had been taking for a painful ailment, apparently this was one of his best forms of relief and in the process he became addicted. If anyone who's had chronic pain conditionsknow they can be hard to diagnose and treat so your're left with two decisions, 1) live with chronic debilitating pain, or 2) take medication, for alot of the people it's so severe and with some medications you can become addicted without hardly even knowing it. I can understand that more than i can understand someone who takes heroin or meth or whatever, but even that has it's circumstances. So i think people bashed Rush Limbaugh for that a little too much, but i think he's an ignorant, overbearing, hollier than thou, blow hard, know it all, that needs to walk in the shoes of some of the people he judges before he says anything, but i'll say that much for him.