[MS.BEHAVIN]

This whole thing is absurd..

I dispense medication for a living..the recommended dose for Oxycontin, OxyCodone, or Lorcet is pretty universal..

The recommended dose for adults is 10-30mg every 4 hours..

This maid is accusing him of taking what..100 pills a day?

Surely you guys don't believe that!

Let's get real here..

It is a CNS (central nervous system depressant)..

Even a mild overdose could put you in a coma, or kill you

Reading right out of the "playbook" as it were..

Overdosage symptoms include..respiratory failure, stupor, coma, no response to pain stimulation, delirium, convulsions, cardiac arrest, and so on..

A young girl in my town crushed TWO Oxycontins, and snorted them, her little brother found her DEAD at the kitchen table,(next morning) on her 21st birthday..she was beautiful..her fiancee is shattered..and Rush is being accused of taking HOW many a day?

and all this hooplah about drugs possibly causing hearing loss, and THAT is why Rush lost his hearing..

It is true that drugs can affect your hearing, something as simple as aspirin will make your ears ring and hiss and whistle, so does coffee and tea..(caffeine)..so does Nyquil.so does alcohol..

Read all labels and act accordingly...

I have the same immune system disease that Rush has..it wasn't caused by any of the things I have mentioned regarding drugs..it robbed me of my hearing, and that has been hard..

Does he have a drug problem?

I hope not! I don't always agree with Rush..but this sort of attack and the amount of drugs he is accused of taking is just beyond anything even remotely credible..

Take care everyone..

Ms.B

[nopardons]

Thanks for your insight !

[slimer]

This maid is accusing him of taking what..100 pills a day?

After reading the story again, I couldn't find where she said how many he actually took a day except that she kept a log for a time. She said how many she bought for him in a 47 day period

[Your Nightmare]

The recommended dose for adults is 10-30mg every 4 hours.

This maid is accusing him of taking what..100 pills a day?

The package insert for OxyContin (http://www.pharma.com/PI/Prescription/Oxycontin.pdf) shows that it is available in tablets from 10mg to 160mg (the 80mg & 160mg tablets are for opiod-tolerant patients only - which I would guess an addict has become opiod-tolerant). The Pharmaceutical Journal states "The maximum dose is 200mg 12-hourly for most patients. A few patients may require higher doses and doses in excess of 1,000mg have been reported." If Rush got 10mg tablets (I would guess on the black market you take whatever dosage you can get), 100 tablets would be 1000mg. That's more than the recommended maximum dose but less than what has been given safely.

I just read an article in the Annals of Emergency Medicine where a 45-year-old woman (I'm guessing her body weight was much less than Rush's) ingested 4000mg of OxyContin at one time in a suicide attempt and survived.

So, if Rush got low dosage pills, 100 a day would not be out of the realm of possibility, especially for an addict who might be "opiod-tolerant".

[BigWand]

Not to mention the fact that he would be so constipated that he couldn't move!