NY Daily News: Rush Limbaugh in Pill Probe -- Talk radio star had drug habit, maid sez

NY Daily News & Drudge ^ | October 1, 2003 | Tracy Connor

[onyx]

Posted by onyx to Howlin; nopardons
On News/Activism 10/01/2003 11:59 PM PDT #364 of 553

My husband is a medical doctor and I've just awakened the him to get his opinion:

"You woke me for this? Use your head. 4,000 and some odd pills in a 47 day period, and you would be reading his obit, not some salacious news article."

[T. Jefferson]

People react differently to drugs. I use to take two or three vicodin at a time and they would pick me up because the pain would go away.

How would you react taking 97 vicodin in a day?

[Ichneumon]

I don't see the snitch lying about wearing a wire.

I can see a scenario where that might work out for her.

Imagine if she dealt drugs to various people (although in this scenario, *not* Limbaugh), then got caught at it. To try to save her butt from jail, she says, "wait, what if I turn evidence against someone big, like... Rush Limbaugh?" Then she gets wired up and goes to talk to Limbaugh in a way calculated to make his responses *sound* possibly incriminating...

[Pro-Bush]

lol..Thanks I needed a laugh.

[Howlin]

All this drug talk is making me sleepy!

[radiohead]

IF RUSH PLANNED TO BUY DRUGS IN A PARKING LOT, IT WOULD BE RUTH'S CHRIS, NOT DENNY'S.

LOL! I needed a laugh. Tonight I had the first drink I've had in 3 years (not an alcoholic, just prefer diet pepsi). I'm sure this is bunk, but it is worrisome bunk nonetheless.

[slimer]

Thanks for the info. Now that we're heading for socialized health care, it's only going to get worse. I for one do not want the government to regulate one more damned thing.

[lainie]

I suppose all this talk of 90+ pills per day could be meant to imply the "drug ring" angle -- meaning, he couldn't possibly have taken them all, so he must be selling them to others? (in which case, lmao)

Yeah, he'd risk it all to sell penny-ante controlled painkillers he got from his maid.

[GeronL]

She is defeinitly trying to get off for something, it is a very prominent, high-powered defense lawyer she has. Can't be cheap, defeinitly not your regular maid.

[woodyinscc]

You said it all in one paragraph, there is no need for one more sentence.!!

[CyberAnt]

What's strange to me is that qiite a few of the ones who are ready to dump Rush - are also the ones who are supporting Arnold on all the Tom threads. Interesting ..??

[Timesink]

I don't see what the big deal is with oxycontin when taken in pill form. It takes the edge off my pain, and it makes me drowsy, like an antihistamine. I've taken the same dose for four years and it is still effective. Is there supposed to be some buzz you get from it? If so, I'm missing out.

Oxycontin is in time-release form. If you take it as directed, you're right, you won't get any buzz from it, because only enough is in your bloodstream at any one time to take away the pain. However, if you crush up the pills and then take it (whether by swallowing or snorting), you get the full hit all at once because all the time-release coatings have been busted, and it is supposedly one of the ultimate buzzes out there ... as well as one of the most addictive.

[Fledermaus]

And he'd have used valet parking.

[GeronL]

Now if he had been advertising them on his show, then that would be incriminating

[hmmmmm]

Don't forget the "maid"'s lawyer is a F.O.G!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/glicken071098.htm

[ElephantMan]

I'm not a Doctor, and I did not stay in Holiday Inn Express last night, but 90 pills a day sounds fatal

I am currently recuperating from a massive spinal fusion (that's back surgery for those of you in Rio Linda!)...and I am taking about 10 pills a day.

I do not believe it is humanly possible to take 90 of these things a day. But I will confirm this with my sister, who is a pharmacologist (that's pharmacist for those of you in, ah nevermind...)

But having said that, even if Rush did have a problem with pain killers, I must say, that even though I have been able to stay at a consistent level with these things for a year and a half, I could not possibly pass judgment for anyone becoming addicted--it has happened to far too many of some of the finest people I know.

And shouldn't the liberals shower Rush with sympathy and understanding? Compassion, is the word I thought they liked to use in situations like this. I always thought that judgment, finger-pointing, ridicule and the like were off limits for the poor addicted souls. I thought we needed to accept their behavior because "they can't help it."

Yeah, there's no double standards here. And definitely no liberal bias.

[razorbak]

If there is even a shred of truth to this, it sounds like something you would get out of someone's RAW F.B.I. FILE. Now who in the world would have access to something like that?

Is the Clinton mafia going to literally take over the whole country?

Take care, Slick One. Remember what happened to Huey P. Long.

[slimer]

How would you react taking 97 vicodin in a day?

I would cease reacting. The story doesn't say he actually took 97 a day. It just says he bought 4000 and some in a 47 day period.

[Fracas]

You have a smart husband. Thank him for his service to Free Republic. LOL.

[radiohead]

People react differently to drugs

And I think you probably react differently at different times. I had some vicodin for pain before I could schedule a root canal. Some times it worked, sometimes the same dosage laid me out. And you're right about pain zapping your energy. I didn't feel quite right for about 2 weeks, whether I was on the pills or not.