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This whole thing is political. I have been a Doctor (M.D.) for twenty years and have only ever even heard of ONE CASE of prosecution for this sort of thing, and that was 22 years ago in St. Louis as a Med Student and I am pretty sure the charges were dropped. The lady was seeing 5 docs a day for Dilaudid.

Try to find a case of prosecution for this. You can't. I have called the authorities for these kinds of things and they won't even listen. You can't get a cop or prosecutor to even stay on the phone when you try to report this kind of stuff. Try it. Call your local prosecutor and tell him you are Doctor so and so and you have a patient (use your own name as patient) that you know is "doctor shopping for Percocet" and see what happens. You can't even get him (or her) to stay on the phone.

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And nobody should understand better how politics works than Rush.

Rush lit this fuse.

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----Potential punishments----

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