DESPERATE DRUG RUSH

NY Post ^ | 10-12-03 | NY Post

[ambrose]

FEEDING HIS ADDICTION: Radio host Rush Limbaugh is checking into a substance abuse clinic to treat his prescription pill addiction.

A desperate, drug-addicted Rush Limbaugh begged his dealer to score him a final, explosive dope cocktail just two weeks before he attempted to detox last year, a new report says.

[radiohead]

Yeah!!! Our conservative drug addicts are stronger and more resiliant than their liberal drug addicts. Ours can afford better shysters also.

LOL! I shouldn't laugh, I support el-Rushbo and wish him well, but this is funny.

[elbucko]

I was in a bad car accident in 1986. A lot of things in my body were broken. It hurt a lot and it hurt for a long time. I used pain meds because they were necessary, not optional. I can relate "Polar Bear", and I wish for you the miracle you deserve and a doctor that knows what he's doing. Sometimes they are both.

Regards, Buck.

[lonestar]

THe difference is that they stay on it for the euphoria after the acute problem heals, or they use it for pain and then keep increasing the drug to get the euphoria effect. This seems to be Rush's problem.

So he can overlook the chronic back pain? His surgery didn't work. The doctor I saw interviewed said he needed more and more to "just feel normal." There was no euphoria.

[lonestar]

Have you ever considered massage therapy? I have a friend who tried it and it worked beautifully. Or hypnosis.

[ambrose]

People bashing Rush based on "hypocrisy" are themselves hypocrites.

[ambrose]

Should the person who is addicted and has to resort to crime to feed such addiction be thrown in jail while the wealthy get "sentenced" to spas?

Yes. But the better solution is to legalize drugs.

[ambrose]

If, on the other hand, Rush gets off easy, the drug war will collapse because its hyprocrisy will stand revealed.

How so? The Palm Beach prosecutor has a longstanding policy of only going after the pushers. This has been published and commented upon in numerous articles, and I have not seen this refuted anywhere. If there is to be hypocrisy in this case, it would be because the prosecutor decides to deviate from his own pre-standing policy to go after Rush. Of course, I don't see the "Hypocrisy Police" to see this distinction.

[ambrose]

Clinton never made a speech where he said getting a blow job from a fat, brunette, dingy intern was objectionable.

He did give a speech saying he'd have the most ethical administration in the history of the Republic, then proceeded to commit perjury (among other things).

[ambrose]

What's funny is that you seem to be against the WOD except when it is applied to Rush Limbaugh.

That makes *YOU* the hypocrite, buddy boy!

That's what is so hilarious about the Hypocrisy Police that are infesting these forums. Plenty of hypocrisy to go all around.

[lowbridge]

If such claims are "bull," why doesn't he deny them?

Because.

That's why.

[technomage]

Until I see proof that Rush got/did something illegal then I will presume he is innocent. There is no reason to Judge him before the FACTS are out. I stress the word FACTS because I think this woman is about as credible as Bill Clintoon saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman!"

Exactly! Reading through these posts you would think Rush admitted to buying meds illegally (which he did not), that he admitted to the story in the NE, which he did not. It is really simplistic and mentally easy to just jump to conclusions based on innuendo and rumor. Does not take brain power at all for that. No wonder Libs are so good at it.

RepublicanArmy, good advice, from a rational thinking person. Wait until all the facts are out.

[Bluntpoint]

What's funny is that you seem to be against the WOD except when it is applied to Rush Limbaugh.

That makes *YOU* the hypocrite, buddy boy!

I'm not for or against the war on drugs.

I'm just for equal treatment for all.

I'm happy you consider me your "buddy boy." You are my "sugar twigs."

[technomage]

He already admitted to it.

As others have posted, admitted to what??

He admitted to being human, to getting addicted to pain killers prescribed by his doctor after failed spinal surgery and neck problems.

Could you please point me to the transcript of where he said he weas actually buying meds illegally? Could you please point me to the transcript of where he said the NE story was true, ALL OF IT?

If in the end he does admit to these things, or actual PROOF surfaces (and not crap from the Enquirer or this beacon of truth the Maid), THEN you can rant, gloat, flame away all you want.

[technomage]

I would bet a considerable sum that most of those bashing Rush on this site have not had first hand experience of seeing a loved one go through severe chronic pain. It is heart wrenching to see.

It is also heart wrenching to see them inevitably get hooked on the prescriptions that temporarily ease that pain. A terrible, terrible circle.

[Yeti]

People get killed in the illegal prescription drug market, illegal cash profits get made, etc. It's just as immoral - if not more so -

And in those quantities, these pills weren't anyone's prescription leftovers. These pils were stolen from a pharmacy or a warehouse somewhere. Someone has to pay for that.

Rush is driving up prescription costs for the elderly and injured!

[Bluntpoint]

Come on Yeti, its Rush. He hates liberals like all us dudes. Criminal consequences should not be discussed here. It makes us uncomfortable.

[LadyDoc]

no. in pain clinics, they use multiple modalities to treat pain. If you need "more and more" pain medication to "feel normal" you are treating a psychiatric problem, not pain.

Most pain clinics use several levels of pain management. They use anti depressants to make people less depressed (i.e. "feel normal"), physical therapy, local injections of cortisone, exercize, and non narcotic pain killers (NSAIDS like motrin to treat the inflammatory component of pain, and Gabapentin to treat the neurologic pain component).

Unless you have worsening disease, such as cancer, you DON"T increase the dosage of narcotis...because the pain level stays constant...

[lonestar]

In theory, anyway. I'm thankful I've had no first hand experience with chronic pain so I don't have a clue.

When I was 19 and "diet pills" were new, my doctor and next door neighbor, pulled me off the streets to give me some. I had gained my 40 lbs during my Fr. year in college.

I took one and at 3 a.m. I was sitting up in bed with the lights on counting flowers on the wall. Literally. I never took another diet pill. Later they were known as "speed."

That's my experience with drugs.