Raids On Rush Are Detailed (Warrants: He Broke Drug Laws)

Newsday ^ | Dec. 5, 2003 | Jon Burstein

[Wolfie]

RAIDS ON RUSH ARE DETAILED

Warrants: He Broke Drug Laws

West Palm Beach, Fla. - A Palm Beach County law enforcement task force investigating whether Rush Limbaugh illegally obtained prescription painkillers seized the talk show host's medical records from three doctors, according to search warrants made public yesterday.

Authorities are looking into whether the conservative commentator violated the state's "doctor shopping" law by getting doctors to write him overlapping narcotic prescriptions and failing to tell them about each other.

From March to September, Limbaugh picked up 1,733 hydrocodone pills, 90 OxyContin pills, 50 Xanax tablets and 40 pills of Kadian ( time-release morphine ), search warrant records show. The court documents indicate that sometimes less than a week would lapse between him getting different doctors' prescriptions.

"Doctor shopping" is a third-degree felony under Florida law, punishable by up to 5 years in prison.

[Wolfie]

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[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[Rodney King]

Uh oh, he got 50 Xanax's.

[Batrachian]

It's not totally inconceivable that Rush could do time because of these doings.

[headsonpikes]

"Crucify him! Crucify him!"

[deaconblues]

Rush should go straight to jail for the rest of his natural life for committing such atrocities!!

Meanwhile, anyone who is diagnosed with "chronic" alcoholism or drug addiction, should be eligible for continued "disability" income from the government. < /sarcasm >

[Tall_Texan]

1,733 hydrocodone pills,

If we're discussing six months, that's approximately ten pills a day.

[Jacquerie]

If he faces charges, let alone does time it will be a bold faced political act on the part of lefty prosecutor.

[shrinkermd]

Sad to say, but the case against him is not going to be that difficult to prove if he was doctor shopping.

[robertpaulsen]

"Authorities are looking into whether the conservative commentator violated the state's "doctor shopping" law"

No need! No need! "Crucify him! Crucify him!"

[Hank Rearden]

So, seeking out doctors to treat you the way you wish to be treated is a third-degree felony?

Big Stupid Republican Government can go straight to hell.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Gee, I'm starting to think Rush is being prosecuted because he's white!

[Batrachian]

I think Rush is in trouble, and he can't automatically count on a pardon from Jeb Bush as some people think.

[Skooz]

I have broken more drug laws than Rush will in a lifetime.

I'm a free man. Rush will be, too.

[Wolfie]

Just plain bad timing for Rush. The zeitgeist holds that prescription drug abuse is the new scourge requiring a big crackdown (not to mention a sacrificial lamb). To wit:

Congress Tackles Oxycontin

[antiRepublicrat]

If he faces charges, let alone does time, it will be because he violated the very drug laws he's supported all these years. That's a lot of crow to eat, no matter what the spin is.

[scouse]

A Palm Beach County law enforcement task force

That says it all for me! I wonder if they have the hammer and sickle on their underwear.

[nhoward14]

In all of this I've still heard nothing about the dosage contained in each pill.

[Howlin]

That's just the ones he had an RX for.

[dadokane]

"fishing expedition"

only problem with that is his million dollar kennedy family lawyer wrote that for him, and that cliche's the best he can come up with

no Court is going to sign an application for such a search warrant against a famous person with money to burn on the finest lawyers for a mere fishing expedition

there has to be strong factual support for granting it