As a recovering painkiller addict still nursing the wounds of a five-year habit, I'm probably the last person you'd expect to come out in opposition to a ban on Vicodin and Percocet. Unless you think I'm anticipating a relapse and don't want my candy taken away from me.

Not...

Heroin was never my drug -- I loved painkillers. Pills like Vicodin and OxyContin gave me a pure, clean high similar to the euphoric effects one gets from heroin, but I never had to worry that the pills I was getting came from a bad batch. Remember the big heroin...