I honestly don't know what all the equities are, or where things will finally land with Rush. On the face of it from what I've seen in this discussion so far, 2100 pills in ~200 days is about 10-12 pills per day, distributed among a number of painkillers. Niacin you can get OTC, I'm taking a gram a day under doctor's orders, but he didn't have to give me a prescription for it -- it's used to reduce LDL cholesterol. Clonidine is an interesting one to have show up; it's usually not given to men because of embarrassing side effects (gynecomasty). But it's an "old" drug, a relatively inexpensive, generic veteran of the blood-pressure wars. So if you subtract those drugs from what he was taking, what does it come down to, six-seven pills a day of OxyContin and other painkillers?
Still, if Rush broke the rules of pharmacy, then he has to stand up for it, and I think he will.
But your comment about Bubba rang a bell. I smell the same thing ..... the Stainmeister and his hyperugly buddy, Larry Flynt. Flynt was digging around for years in GOP House members' laundry; I'll bet Stainmeister has got Flynt working on leading conservatives like Rush as an avocation, tossing their trash, reading their mail, getting their phone records and talking to the vice peddlers in their area.
Justice Jackson, a former US Attorney General and later Justice of the Supreme court wrote: "With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some sort on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who committed it, it is a question of picking the man, and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him."
A busy bunch of tumble bugs for certain.