Actually, Florida authorities announced several years ago that they were going to crack down on doctor shopping (which is what they're trying to nab Rush for). They've arrested and jailed a number of people for it (but it's not so highly publicized because they are nonentities).
no they have not.
When this originally broke it was revealed that palm beach had ONE case and that case was ONLY prosecuted when the defendent had reniged on a negotiated cooperation plea.
The bottom line is that the State Attorney is not actually after doctor shopping, the State Attorney is trying to charge rush of being a dealer. As a dealer a defendant is not automatically shunted into first time drug offender court which has the net result of ZERO criminal record.
It would be same as that south florida democrat who was caught with perscription drugs she was not supposed to have.
They let the Democrat politician go, though. She admitted doctor shopping for addictive drugs, so they just said "Oh. OK then. You're free to go."