Limbaugh med records seized

[longtermmemmory]

more to follow

[Nov3]

I wonder how many pro WOSD people are outraged when it happens to Limbaugh.

[pageonetoo]

Just to get that taste out of your mouth (using that vile name, that should not be repeated)! Check this site! It will help provide relief from the cold!


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2003_freshfaces/

[honeygrl]

" My stepdad insists that no doctor would prescribe enough drugs that someone could get addicted to them. "

That is completely false. I use to be a pharmacy tech. As a tech I saw lots of Rx's for lortab with 5 refills and 120 pills each refill. There is a doctor in just about every town that is generous with the pain pills. Tell your stepdad to go say that to a pharmacist and watch them laugh at him.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"Perhaps the doctors are the actual target of the investigation."

NO WAY.

When I see the 4 doctors put on public display and press releases being issued to sway public opinion against them, I will believe it. Plus, they will never take on the doctor lobby and set a precedent. It's all about Rush.

The govt routinely hunts and kills selected individuals, while ignoring thousands of others. Like the illegal alien raid at Walmart. One bust, and now nothing.

When the DA does this, it is dangerous. DA's and prosecutors are getting away with murder in 2003.

[honeygrl]

Oh I forgot to add that when doctors give ritalin to kids to take everyday, the kids get addicted to it. And a lot of doctors give out ritalin.

[honeygrl]

"That has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that if he legitimately needed the drugs as he claims, his doctors would have given him prescriptions for them."

I haven't been watching this closely lately.. did Rush ever admit to buying drugs on the blackmarket or is that still based on accusations? (just trying to see what's going on now)

[Saints fan]

Yes! Help is on the way. I feel the temperature rising already, so to speek. Many thanks.
I only spelled that vile name so it's not as bad.

[Howlin]

Of course he didn't admit that; they'd have taken him straight to jail.

It's all based on accusations and leaks; this is not a court of law; we're free to speculate.

[SirAllen]

"Those who blindly defend Rush's illegal use of prescription drugs should just switch their party registration to Democrat right now, since that is the party where there is no "right" and "wrong," "

I'm not blindly defending Rush's illegal use. It was wrong. Before he went to rehab I wouldn't have had an issue with him being prosecuted.

What I'm saying is this: prosecutors rarely waste time going after users, and when they do they sure don't go after a "clean" user who just went through rehab. If this were anybody else (non famous Republican) this wouldn't be happening. It's happening for political, unfair reasons and that's all I was saying.

[honeygrl]

"I wish we get editing next."

I wouldn't want them to allow editing unless they put a link to the original unedited post. It could cause problems with people going back and changing stuff during flamewar threads and making arguments a bit more intense.

[pageonetoo]

"I'm not blindly defending Rush's illegal use. It was wrong. Before he went to rehab I wouldn't have had an issue with him being prosecuted. "

It depends on what the definition of 'is' is! IMO, he went to rehab, as a result of his beigng "caught". His "road to Damascus" came about because he was being 'outed', and had been unwilling to face it...He is addicted, he says, so it wasn't his fault (I know, he says it's "his fault", but then adds his disclaimers)

It is classic, "the devil made me do it"!
I am not positing that he should go to jail. I am also not saying that he should not be supported, and beloved. I am saying that what he says, and what he does, AIN'T ALWAYS THE SAME"!

[brianl703]

No doctor would prescribe enough drugs that someone could get addicted to them? I would qualify that statement...no conscientous, careful doctor would prescribe enough drugs that someone could get addicted to them.

Not all doctors are conscientous and careful.

[GRRRRR]

Information regarding the Dr.s and the medications prescribed are now being posted by Yahoo...

It seems to be in violation of the recently enacted Medical Information Privacy Act.

Nobody is able to view or release medical information without the prior approval of the patient or family. At work now, I am not even allowed to ask employees about what their illness was if they miss a day. I have to have them talk to employee health and THEY have to obtain permission from the employee to tell me...

Seems like RUSH will be on firm ground...Medical records are supposed to be confidential!!!

GRRRRR

[Lurking Libertarian]

Right -- that's exactly the point: there seems to be no Constitutional or legal provision for grabbing records without either an announced investigation or a criminal charge being involved. He will own Palm Beach County.

I believe they had a search warrant.

[Saundra Duffy]

I hope they prosecute Rush's quack docs. If they'd been doing their jobs, maybe he wouldn't have gotten hooked. (Or am I out to lunch?)

[bvw]

Those who blindly defend Rush's illegal use of prescription drugs should just switch their party registration to Democrat right now, since that is the party where there is no "right" and "wrong," only moral relativism.

Dr Jimmy, during the Prohibition many a good Republican drank every day of distilled spirits. And many still do in "dry counties".

There is no "MORAL" relativism here. Drug use is not a moral issue. Alchohol use is NOT a moral issue.

Drunkeness is a moral issue. We identify levels of use and abuse of behaviour modifying consumables, or at least when we as a nation were more sane about it then we seem to be today,

With regards alchohol, we have learnt for hundreds of generations that that state called "drunkeness" is nearly always prone to such dangers and injuries that it is nearly always immoral to be found in that state.

Let's look at another "drug" -- caffiene. Do you know, we all do, I suspect that more then 12 cups or so a day causes toxic effects? Intoxication, that is. Yet coffee is not illegal. Yet to be over-caffenated in public can be as dangerous as being drunk.

While obedience to the Law is a moral course, that obedience is NOT without judgement, without refinement. There are many LAWS that are immoral, most of that class of immoral laws are rarely imnplemented, yet some are.

"NO NEGROES" was once legal, yet it was always immoral.

Please do not take blind absolute lawfullness as morality. It is NOT.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

That has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that if he legitimately needed the drugs as he claims, his doctors would have given him prescriptions for them.

I agree.

[Lurking Libertarian]

a pattern of transactions just under the reporting limit, made with the intent of avoiding the reporting limit is illegal.

Kinda like driving "just under the speed limit" for the sole purpose of avoiding a ticket. If true, it's just the most stupid legal principle devised.

Richard Nixon gave us the law requiring banks to report any transaction involving $10,000 in cash. Justice Rehnquist wrote the opinion for the Supreme Court upholding its constitutionality. Robert Bork argued that case for the government.

Ronald Reagan gave us the amendment to the law making it a crime to "structure" a transaction (split the withdrawal up into two smaller ones, each under $10K) in order to avoid reporting.

[k2blader]

Well, Rush admitted it was entirely his problem. He said he'd lie to anyone to get his fix. I imagine he could have easily lied to his doctors.

That said, I'd rather wait to see the hard evidence before pronouncing judgement.

[cyncooper]

he went to rehab, as a result of his beigng "caught". His "road to Damascus" came about because he was being 'outed', and had been unwilling to face it..

He tried detox twice before and it didn't work. He did not do the 30 day rehab visit, but some quicky program. He also has stated, and I see no reason to disbelieve him since it's how he quit smoking cigarettes, that he tried quitting on his own several times.

I'm not on Rush's "side", I'm actually rather annoyed with him. But I like to stick to facts.