Posted on 06/26/2006 7:04:47 PM PDT by Retired Chemist
MIAMI, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Roy Black, Rush Limbaugh's attorney, issued the following statement today in response to several inquiries by the media:
While going through routine Customs inspection of luggage at Palm Beach International Airport upon his return from an international trip, Rush Limbaugh was detained by customs agents after they noticed a non-narcotic prescription drug, which had been prescribed by Mr. Limbaugh's treating physician but labeled as being issued to the physician rather than Mr. Limbaugh for privacy purposes. After a brief interview, Mr. Limbaugh was permitted to continue on his journey.
Rush's crumbling lower spine and the resulting nerve root compression is probably the reason he needs to use it.
Just so I'm clear. If the doctor hands out samples of Viagra, do they have to affix a label with the patient's ID to it? They don't have to in TN. Just curious.
Exactly!
That's the point I've been making.
Medical practitioners are authorized to dispense drugs directly to their patients. They do it routinely. I myself have received prescription migraine medication straight from a physician's drawer, with no name to be found on it anywhere.
But if a Florida physician dispensed the drug directly to Rush, the law required Rush's name to be affixed to it, and the physician's name was affixed instead, is that a violation? Most likely. Who is responsible? Whoever labeled it. One could really reach here and surmise that Rush conspired with the physician to commit a red tape misdemeanor. But I'm not going there. I'm too tired and it seems just too ludicrous.
And we really don't know all the facts. The whole thing just looks like a bad joke.
Normally the doctor will note in the chart he gave the patient the drug.
Yeah, right.duh, give me a good attorney anytime.
"If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear."
i was once pulled over by a cop because i was driving too cautiously...
teeman
LOLOLOLOL! Too funny, Ali!
Now why am I humming the song to An Officer And A Gentleman? HA!
Ooooh, sofa, she got you good!
Possible, but more likely BPH or a combination of the two, Viagra wouldn't help the pain in his low back.
Nor in California or Arizona.
Rush can and should have some fun with this.
Perhaps a joint commercial with Viagra with Rush and Bob Dole...
Perhaps a Rodney Dangerfield type of monologue where he rants about not getting any respect...
Perhaps he could do an analysis of his need for this drug versus the needs of various limp-wristed lefty's who spend their days sitting in Starbucks and dreaming about writing novels that have a distraught young woman as the main character...
Perhaps he could question why any such law would be enforced - after all, our immigration laws are not enforced - who cares about Viagra?
is reporting the prescription a violation of the new hippa laws...
teeman
But I've been teasing Ali a lot about a certain "oops, excuse me"...she's entitled...love that lady..
Viagra was made as a heart drug orignially, per New Scientist magazine.
"...given that the original purpose of Viagra was to treat angina by opening up blood vessels."
Google it
I believe the law applies to medical personnel only. If it came from the Palm Beach prosecutor's office, probably not.
Well, let's just say... as all journalists/photographers are on the scene automatically everywhere, photogs spotted him from his private plane to customs or even read/heard Limbaugh say he would be in DR and then come home to PB. Does the paparazzi matter as far as the search (shouldn't right, unless CPB did it faster to get them out of there, in fact they wouldn't go for it), and they (the press), got the hours he was questioned by waiting outside, right (guess he was waiting for the lawyer... but how would the press know they didn't whisk him out, unless they saw the bottle)? And they happened to know whose name was on the bottle and what it was, right? Do you think the press had xray glasses to the area Limbaugh was being questioned in? Or do you think they waited and haranged Limbaugh... at which time he told them it was Viagara with the doctors name instead of his? Or was another entity called (you would know, I wouldn't), sheriff or whoever would take over... who then talked, but didn't hold him... while saying they plan on filing later? I don't know...
"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.”
- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged , Ch. III, "White Blackmail" (Dr. Ferris)
this was only done because of who he is. anyone who deals with us customs on a regular basis knows they generally don't care about anything that isn't narcotic (rx or not) oriented.
I don't either.
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