Rep. Patrick Kennedy to Hold News Conference at 3 P.M. 5/05/06 (Live Thread)

Friday, May 5, 2006 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

CNN reports Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) will hold a press conference today at 3 p.m. in Washington, D.C. to discuss his recent traffic incident on Capitol Hill.

[river rat]

Hell, The government has been "dumping" on me for decades....

And, I've been close enough to an exploded latrine to have been "colored" by airborn "fragrance"....

Semper Fi

[steveegg]

ROFLMAO!!!

[Thumbellina]

Personally I don't know why anyone would want to lie about having bi-polar disorder. Good grief. They are one step away from schezophrenia.

[Steve0113]

The bar might not want the tab out there implying the over served a drunk.

True, but if he was at more than one bar that night, it might well not show overserving.

[mrs tiggywinkle]

**It's NOT a pain medication.**

You're right. It's anti-nausea medication. Big diff!

[mrs tiggywinkle]

hahaha ooops.

BLURRED vision.

[maineman]

"Pay attention. Shep asked about the safety of Ambien, and the doc said he would prescribe Ambien for Shep if it were necessary."



You pay attention. Shep said that the Doc. he was interviewing has prescribed Ambien to him....GOT TIVO??? Apology accepted.

[martin_fierro]

Got a link for the bar tabs?

[pitinkie]

I have never used it as an antihistamine...only nausea. Give it preop with the narcotic but not like I would use benadryl.

[JFC]

Phenergan is used when someone is throwing up and can not stop. Not addictive!

[pepperhead]

Shouldn't he be saying "lithium" in there somewhere among his medications? If he's bi-polar, that should be his main drug, shouldn't it?

Right

[steveegg]

I doubt there'd be any written record of it.

You know it because written records are public records. Repeatedly giving a Kennedy a ride home after his having a few too many isn't exactly something the powers-that-be want to be public knowledge.

[spectre]

So he has a Doctor in the family? Not surprising.

Thmbellina, I'm no expert, but Ambien is a sleeping aid. This is the first I've heard of it for anxiety disorder, unless someone has anxiety before bedtime.

Anyway, I totally agree with you, Ambien is bad stuff, and highly addictive. Coming off of it is pure hell. But if he was taking it along with other stuff, he would have passed out and not been able to drive.

[vrwcagent0498]

That is BS.

My son and I have been prescribed that particularly for nausea and vomiting after illness and surgery respectively.

A Democrap doc, perhaps?

[Rte66]

Some people take Benadryl to make them sleepy, rather than for its antihistamine effects. I have to take a super sinus Benadryl every day for new asthma and it doesn't make me fall asleep - but it does some people.

The little pink Benadryls are super safe - my vet had me give it to my dog sometimes to calm her down and because she was allergic to fleas.

[steveegg]

No, no TiVo here.

[tgslTakoma]

"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive"..

That's the problem with lying... it's so difficult to keep the lies straight.

[mrs tiggywinkle]

Phenergan is not an antihistimine.

[andy58-in-nh]

MAYO clinic tonight is what FNC just reported

In Patches' case, I believe that would be the Cinco de Mayo Clinic! 

[Crawdad]

Anyone who has ever known one knows that lying is what drunks and addicts are best at, until right at the end, when they decide to ask for help or they die.