In 1994, Mrs. McCain dissolved the charity after admitting that she had been addicted to painkillers for years and had stolen prescription drugs from it. She had used the drugs, first given for back pain, to numb herself during the Keating Five investigation, she confessed to Newsweek magazine. “The newspaper articles didn’t hurt as much, and I didn’t hurt as much,“ she wrote in an essay. “The pills made me feel euphoric and free.”
Full article is here http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/us/politics/18cindy.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=politics

Makes me angry, non-drug users just assume that doctors know what the fuck they are doing when they are prescribing psychoactive meds. I'll bet that the back pain was certainly not good justification for opiates, hit that bitch with some apap.

http://exiledonline.com/is-cindy-mccain-still-a-junkie/

Also fuck all drug laws, and fuck McCain for being a hypocrite.