It's so frustrating that pain patients have to be compared to medication "abusers". My body is used to my meds (Hydrocodone 10/325 2 pills 4 times daily, Ultram ,Neurontin, Cymbalta), so I never feel any mental effects- no "high" or even pleasant mental effects. In fact, NOTHING really ever kills my pain, but I'm afraid to ask for anything stronger. I have been offered Methadone, but fear the side effects, so for now, I'll just suck it up and be thankful for the fact that I don't feel the full effects of my pain anymore. I hope that if it turms out that MJ did overdose on pain medications, that the authoritites will treat it as that- an overdose by an individual. Unfortunately, it happens every day. A celebrity being the one who passed away doesn't change the circumstances of the medication use. I think he was a great musician, but he was just a person, and could have made a mistake with his medication. The person, not the medication, caused the problem.