He was no doubt sick of this case. It's over now. He's not going to break the law so his probation doesn't mean anything. $30K (+ Black's couple o' bucks) isn't going to break Rush and now it's behind him.
Ironic that the MSM is screaming about how "they" arrested Rush on drug charges today (as if he was caught ingesting today, geez) of all days, when Rush just collected untold sums of money for the leukemia lymphoma foundation on his show today. He is way more saint than sinner today.
Too bad he didn't get community service (h*ll, he delivers more community service to this country than most, 15 hours a week). What a jailbreak fantasy to scoop him up in his orange jumpsuit as he picks up papers on the side of the 405 freeway...
Let's see. Rush was addicted. He admitted it. That is not an unusual result of intractable back pain being treated with narcotics. There is a strange thing with these drugs... if someone is not in pain takes these "pain killers" they will feel euphoria and be in a drugged up state, demonstrating slurring speech, lack of attention, and a tendency to fall asleep... but if a person is really in pain, the same or higher dosage merely relieves the pain and does not provide the euphoria, cause speech slurring or lack of attention, or create drowsiness.
During the period of Rush's addiction, he functioned for 3 hours or more per day on air handling conversations and carrying on complex conversations or speaking off the cuff for minutes on end in complete, well structured sentences and paragraphs, read copious newspaper articles, watched multiple television programs, doing research for his programs, AND traveled around the country speaking, making public appearances, or attending football games, ALL without demonstrating a "Drugged up" slur in his voice or showing a diminution of his powers of observation and repartee. That would indicate to me that the drugs were doing their job... blocking pain... and not providing euphoria.
In addition, Rush did not have a "handful of doctors"; he had THREE... two were partners in the clinic that was treating him for his back pain and both had access to his medical history and prescriptions each had written for him. The third was the California doctor who performed the surgery to place his cochlear implant. Rush took the prescriptions he received from all three doctors to the same pharmacy, hardly the act of a person intending to conceal his "multiple" prescriptions as the pharmacy would ALSO have a list of what they had filled for him. The prosecutor has subpoenaed the records of only that ONE pharmacy. In other words, they did not find another.
The 2000 pills in a six month period filled by the pharmacy is a mere 11 pills a day. I have a bad back. Occasionally, I have been prescribed some pretty heavy duty pain pills. Some of these prescribe that I take 1 or 2 pills every 4 hours as needed. If I were in extreme pain, I could take a total of 14 pills, perfectly legally, in each 24 hours. It would not have been unreasonable for my doctor to prescribe a total of 2,548 pills (14 X 182 days) for a six month period! If I had been in pain for that period (Thank God I was not), would I have become addicted? You bet your bippy i would have.
These are the facts of this "case".