Rush Limbaugh admitted he’s an addict. I hope he gets the treatment he needs, but I hope he recognizes that he now has a disability and stops bashing laws like the ADA. Addiction is a recognized disability under the ADA, although it only applies to addicts in recovery, which I find odd. I also find odd the reactions of many in the disability community to categorizing addiction as a disability. I once got flamed several times by people in a newsgroup discussion after I pointed out that addiction is and should be regarded as a disability. They howled that addicts choose to be addicts while they never chose to be disabled. The implied moral superiority in these statements annoyed the hell out of me. I absolutely believe in a genetic predisposition to addiction. And, as I’ve commented before, it disturbs me that an “us-vs.them” attitude persists in some quarters of the disability community.
