Posted on 05/01/2006 11:21:29 AM PDT by veronica
That is my understanding. There are many doctors who will prescribe large amounts of narcotics to patients. Elvis Prestley's doctor is a good example.
I had lung cancer back in 1997. The cancer doctors prescribed huge amounts of narcotic drugs for me. They told my wife I was going to die.. so it did not matter if I became adicted. I took very few of the drugs... I just lived with the pain.
You're homepage on Free Republic says you're in your early twenties. I bet you haven't gotten to the age where back injuries and surgery become common. Having had back pain and surgery on a herniated disc that was completely surrounding my spinal chord, I think I have some understanding of what kind of pain he was going through. I have also on occasion in the nearly 5 years since my surgery, experienced extreme back pain that got me to seriously think about taking a vicodin to stop the pain. I can understand why someone might get addicted to narcotics when dealing with that level of pain.
No one knows anyone else's marriage and for you to speculate as to why Rush and Marta split shows your stupidity.
You have NO clue.
Best to keep your mouth shut.
For a man who loves to talk about personal responsibility
El Smackbo sure had the lawyers working overtime to save him from the "common man's" justice.
Me thinks I smell a troll!!!
And then when the charges expire after 18 months of inaction by the prosecutor, the records are completely expunged.
It was all lies they were telling us in the beginning. Rush told us this. Not all of us believed him.
I forget how many pills they said he was taking a day. I know for a fact there was no way he could have taken 1/4 the amount that they claimed.
Charges should be brought against the prosecuter for personal harrassment.
Exactly, it's drug diversion like he should have received two years ago but he was still arrested.
Yes. It was an outrage. And I'd like to have a word with Rush's ex-Housekeeper.
He is indeed, an amazing man. :)
...the state attorney, Barry Krischer—a politically active liberal Democrat—has insisted on filing a charge which he well knows will never be tried. Insisting, that is, on further media churning of an allegation of doctor-shopping that he’ll never prove.
Rush is entering a plea of not guilty. The case will be dismissed in 18 months, when Rush completes the treatment he undertook on his own. There is no reason to file a charge that is without foundation and will never result in a judgment of conviction. But, under Florida procedures, this means a person is “processed.” That is, by this petty maneuver, Krischer has arranged for a mug shot of Rush Limbaugh.
You're free to dislike Limbaugh for whatever reason, but surely you understand this entire fiasco was nothing but an invented, politically driven witchhunt. Seriously -- what is the "spin" supposed to be? With what part of the above do you disagree?
Oh. You can't be glad that someone didn't get wrongly nailed? Says more about you, than Rush.
No. Mere speculation. (non sequitur snip--description of poster's sudden hearing loss correction attributed to regimen of steroids.)
Several years ago my sister was prescribed OxyContin and lost a great deal of her hearing before its use was discontinued. Rush's hearing loss is curiously correlated with OxyContin [ab]use. I don't know what other drugs she or he may have been using concurrently, but OxyContin appears ototoxic based on these and similar cases.
I'm firing off an email to my otoneurologist now to get his take on the ototoxic properties of OxyContin.
bttt
Spin is when you take facts out of context. It seems that's what you want to do when you just want to repeat "Rush was arrested".
I think you make a very valid point, and I agree that that kind of pain can make one sink into addiction. My point of contention with Rush is not that he abused drugs, but that he consistently advocated the government step in and arrest anyone doing that same thing. The War On Drugs may be the most wrongheaded policy in America and it hurts many families by sending parents off to prison. I wish for your good health as well.
Rush on crack would still dwarf these other three mental midgets combined.
Hannity especially. When was the last time Hannity had an original thought? He's an embarrasment.
Spare me. Was Rush arrested or not?
Why not and don't cut and paste from Levin's article.
What happens if he has a dirty test?
Why can't he own a gun if wasn't arrested?
Was Tom Delay arrested?
Spare me. Was Rush arrested or not?
Why not and don't cut and paste from Levin's article.
What happens if he has a dirty test?
Why can't he own a gun if he wasn't arrested?
Was Tom Delay arrested?
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