Warrants: Limbaugh Was 'Doctor Shopping'

My Way.Com ^ | 12/4/03 | Jill Barton

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Investigators raided the offices of Rush Limbaugh's doctor Thursday, saying in search warrants that the conservative radio commentator engaged in illegal drug use and "doctor shopping" for prescription painkillers.

The warrants show investigators were looking for records including prescription disbursements, appointment schedules, receipts and a medical questionnaire.

"Mr. Limbaugh's actions violate the letter, and spirit" of the law that relates to "doctor shopping," stated one of warrants, signed by Asim Brown, a law enforcement agent assigned to the state attorney's office anti-money laundering task force. Doctor shopping refers to looking for a doctor willing to prescribe drugs illegally.

Limbaugh denied any wrongdoing to listeners on his radio show earlier Thursday and accused prosecutors in Palm Beach County of going on a "fishing expedition."

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I didn't either, in fact I never heard of "doctor shopping". I thought doctors were a personal "choice". After all it is our bodies we are talking about.

Is it any wonder the democrats want to force us all into mandated government health care so that the government employees can track and make decisions concerning our lives and health.

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Gosh, I wonder how many US and State Senators and Representatives, their staff, their families, the entire federal employees union, state employees, public school teachers, democrat presidential candidates, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC news anchors are hooked on painkillers?

Heck, I recall that over 1/2 of Clinton's whitehouse staff could not even pass a drug test testing for illegal drugs. Where was this zealot DA then?

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Why would you trust a desperate drug dealing ex-maid who sold her story, and it is her story only, to the National Enquirer?

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"The prescriptions were issued sometimes in the same week and less than 30 days apart," the warrants said. "Mr. Limbaugh alternated physicians to obtain overlapping prescriptions" and failed to tell each doctor that he was seeing others."

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Oh, now Rush is being accused of doctor polygamy?