I hardly see how a guy suffering from unsuccessful back surgery using pain-killers is a "druggie".
A guy in extreme pain becoming addicted to pain-killers... gee, that's so decadent and unusual.
He did't start using them just to get a high, for the sheer pleasure of it. He was in pain.
I had a neighbor who was dying for six years of prostate cancer, who in his last two years was addicted to morphine. A real estate agent, who continued to work and support his family, and took the strongest pain-killers available, so he could function.
I suppose you think he was a "druggie" too.
Likewise, Rush Limbaugh used them so he could function. He didn't rob liquor stores to support his habit, or mug people or kill anyone or beat his wife. He had a painful disability, and he did it so he could function. Not for a cheap high, but so he could function.
I think it's very malicious the way you're delighting here in his misfortune.
