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Just announced on WMAL radio in Washington, DC: Rush has admitted to being
addicted to pain killers and will be off the air for a month while undergoing treatment. Sure hope someone takes up the noble battle! (Come on Hannity!) John On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD |
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"JohnH" wrote in message
... Just announced on WMAL radio in Washington, DC: Rush has admitted to being addicted to pain killers and will be off the air for a month while undergoing treatment. Sure hope someone takes up the noble battle! (Come on Hannity!) Only if he agrees to give up his day job at Fox. You can have Alan Combes too, milquetoast pseudo leftist. |
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:20:37 GMT, bb wrote:
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:28:58 -0400, JohnH wrote: Sure hope someone takes up the noble battle! (Come on Hannity!) Rush noble? Isn't that sorta like Clinton celibate? bb Did someone say Rush was noble? John On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD |
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:28:58 -0400, JohnH
wrote: Sure hope someone takes up the noble battle! (Come on Hannity!) Rush noble? Isn't that sorta like Clinton celibate? bb |
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"JohnH" wrote in message
... On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:20:37 GMT, bb wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:28:58 -0400, JohnH wrote: Sure hope someone takes up the noble battle! (Come on Hannity!) Rush noble? Isn't that sorta like Clinton celibate? bb Did someone say Rush was noble? I guess it's easy to separate a noble person from a noble cause, unless of course the nobleness of the cause is as illusory as the nobleness of the person. |
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Well, Rush did the right thing.
Step down, get treatment, and when he's a recovering addict it will be appropriate for him to return. It would have been really disappointing for him to continue on in denial, especially as he has often stated he has less than no use for drug addicts. Didn't hear it, but I understand he made a "confession" of sorts on the air before signing off. That had to take some 'nads. Just because the guy is absolutley wrong on almost every position he espouses doesn't mean he should suffer harm. I hope he gets treatment, and straightens out. It would be nice if something medical could be done for the acute pain that he says got him involved with the narcotic prescriptions he ultimately became addicted to. Then maybe when he's back behind the microphone, he might have a little different perspective. He has preached that behavior is strictly a matter of choice and that those who behave badly are just lazily choosing not to exercise self control. Life has a funny way of shoving our worst misperceptions right back at us, doesn't it? Guess some things can be bigger than an individual's ability to "bootstrap" over. Rush's misfortune should be a lesson to us all. |
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![]() "JohnH" wrote in message ... Just announced on WMAL radio in Washington, DC: Rush has admitted to being addicted to pain killers and will be off the air for a month while undergoing treatment. Sure hope someone takes up the noble battle! (Come on Hannity!) John On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD Do you have a link to the story? |
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![]() "Harry Krause" wrote in message news ![]() On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:39:58 GMT, "Jim -" wrote: "JohnH" wrote in message .. . Just announced on WMAL radio in Washington, DC: Rush has admitted to being addicted to pain killers and will be off the air for a month while undergoing treatment. Sure hope someone takes up the noble battle! (Come on Hannity!) John On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD Do you have a link to the story? Here's a really interesting piece about Rush and his drug habit. Nice spin Harry, but where is the link to his admission of drug dependence. I asked for proof, not speculation. |
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Statement by Rush Limbaugh
(AP) - Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh told his radio audience Friday that he is addicted to painkillers and will enter rehab: ''You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life. So I need to tell you today that part of what you have heard and read is correct. I am addicted to prescription pain medication. I first started taking prescription painkillers some years ago when my doctor prescribed them to treat post surgical pain following spinal surgery. Unfortunately, the surgery was unsuccessful and I continued to have severe pain in my lower back and also in my neck due to herniated discs. I am still experiencing that pain. Rather than opt for additional surgery for these conditions, I chose to treat the pain with prescribed medication. This medication turned out to be highly addictive. Over the past several years I have tried to break my dependence on pain pills and, in fact, twice checked myself into medical facilities in an attempt to do so. I have recently agreed with my physician about the next steps. Immediately following this broadcast, I am checking myself into a treatment center for the next 30 days to once and for all break the hold this highly addictive medication has on me. The show will continue during this time, of course, with an array of guest hosts you have come to know and respect. I am not making any excuses. You know, over the years athletes and celebrities have emerged from treatment centers to great fanfare and praise for conquering great demons. They are said to be great role models and examples for others. Well, I am no role model. I refuse to let anyone think I am doing something great here, when there are people you never hear about, who face long odds and never resort to such escapes. They are the role models. I am no victim and do not portray myself as such. I take full responsibility for my problem. At the present time, the authorities are conducting an investigation, and I have been asked to limit my public comments until this investigation is complete. So I will only say that the stories you have read and heard contain inaccuracies and distortions, which I will clear up when I am free to speak about them. I deeply appreciate all your support over this last tumultuous week. It has sustained me. I ask now for your prayers. I look forward to resuming our excursion into broadcast excellence together.'' 10-10-03 15:02 EDT Copyright 2003 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL. |
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Nicely done Harry, a good piece showing the two sides of his calling the
kettle black argument. I wonder if now he will put all his efforts into the Florida Drug Treatment Initiative. To keep from going to jail. Coming to a Florida ballot near you in 2004. http://www.drugreform.org/florida/fulltext.tpl If Rush Was a real Man, and believed in what he preaches. He would take the full punishment for using an illegal controlled substance. Then ask his republican friends. To keep him out of jail like Jeb Bush's daughter. But I am willing to bet that he pleads not guilty if charges are brought forth. But he won't be a stand up guy and plead nolo contendere. Jack "Harry Krause" wrote in message news ![]() On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:39:58 GMT, "Jim -" wrote: "JohnH" wrote in message .. . Just announced on WMAL radio in Washington, DC: Rush has admitted to being addicted to pain killers and will be off the air for a month while undergoing treatment. Sure hope someone takes up the noble battle! (Come on Hannity!) John On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD Do you have a link to the story? Here's a really interesting piece about Rush and his drug habit. Rush Limbaugh is going in for detox, the third time. Previously he has gone to the ARI in New York for overnight detox. This time he says he is going in for 30 days - and this the guy that said of the ordinary user: "Send them up." Always destructive, even self-destructive (he destroyed his own hearing), Limbaugh has attempted to destroy others for their vices; but he now blames "severe pain in my lower back and also in my neck now due to two herniated discs" and tells us, "I'll be back." It's just a good thing he isn't judging himself as he has judged others - or he would be up the river for a long time. This article attempts to forestall the lies Rush Limbaugh might tell in answer to the National Enquirer story about his alleged criminal drug abuse. It presents, as Paul Harvey would say, "the rest of the story" that the Enquirer left out -- such details as the doctor's name and location where he went for drug detoxification in New York, the size of the OxyContin tablets he was abusing, the massive extent of his doses, and how drugs caused his hearing problems instead of the other way around. Rush is a Big Fat Crybaby who is going to claim victimization by drugs after years of "send them up" rhetoric about other drug abusers. [LIMBAUGH ON JERRY GARCIA'S DEATH: When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia destroyed his life on drugs. And yet he is being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks." ADDICTION RECOVERY INSTITUTE IN NEW YORK CITY Limbaugh was treated for drug use at least twice at the Addiction Recovery Institute in New York City. His cleaning lady/drug pusher told the Enquirer that, "Several months after she began supplying him...she got a shock when he confided to her that he was leaving town to undergo a rapid detox technique at a New York hospital." Actually, it was not a hospital but a secret clinic location of the Addiction Recovery Institute. The ARI operates two centers for detoxification. Its web site gives the location of the one in New Rochelle, NY, north of the city. The secret location on the exclusive upper-east side of Manhattan is at 128 East 91st Street. There, Dr. Joel A. Nathan performs Ultra-Rapid Opiate Detoxification. If you were a celebrity drug abuser who could afford the price, you would check in there and they would perform a full history, physical examination, and laboratory tests. Then they would anesthetize you and administer buprenorphine (an opiate, but milder than the opiate you abused) to accomplish the detoxification. Being asleep, you would not experience the worst effects of withdrawal. Two hours later, you would be awakened and then monitored overnight. You would be given medication to help with any lingering side effects and would be discharged onto 91st Street at about 7 a.m. the next morning. The story began when the multimillionaire radio host bummed a few pills off his $370-a-week housekeeper in March 1998. She continued supplying pills off a prescription for her husband until early 1999. Then the prescription ran out and Rush bullied her into being his pusher. Several months later Limbaugh went to Nathan for his first detox. This time frame means that you could have seen Rush on E. 91st some morning in the summer of 1999. The Enquirer reported Cline as saying: "It lasted for a month. Then he told me his left ear was acting up and he was in pain." Instead of seeing Dr. Nathan for drugs or an otologist for his ear, he turned to Dr. Wilma, who began supplying him with OxyContin (oxycontin hydrochloride), which has a street name of "Hillbilly Heroin." [RUSH LIMBAUGH ON SENDING DRUGGIES TO JAIL: "There's nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborheads which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up." WILMA CLINE accused him, and Limbaugh promptly hired dream-team attorney Roy Black, who won a rape acquittal for William Kennedy Smith. Smith, ironically, was once a victim of Limbaugh's hypocritical tirades. THE AIED CLAIM This will be the crux of the plea that Limbaugh cops with the public: He acquired an ear disease that made his ear hurt and he took prescription medicine for the pain. The medicine happened to be addictive and he, inadvertently, became an addict. Of course he didn't consult a physician but instead consulted his erstwhile pusher. And of course he had never abused drugs before (except the ones he bummed from Cline). Only the story won't wash. Limbaugh said his hearing loss began on May 29, 2001. On October 11, at the House Ear Clinic, there was a press conference with Dr. Antonio De la Cruz and Dr. Jennifer Derebury, of House, and Dr. Michael Weisman of Cedars-Sinai Hospital. Dr. Derebery said: "We are treating Rush Limbaugh for hearing loss resulting from autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED). We base our diagnosis on Mr. Limbaugh's medical history and hearing tests. Other symptoms of AIED may include fluctuating hearing, dizziness, ear fullness, rapidly progressive Meniere's disease or sudden hearing loss. Mr. Limbaugh does not display most of the symptoms associated with AIED, but he has suffered rapidly progressive hearing loss since May 2001, which we are currently treating with medication at the House Ear Clinic." In other words, he didn't display most of the symptoms of AIED, but the was the diagnosis regardless. She said it was based on his medical history, and it is a safe bet he didn't tell them about Dr. Wilma. House began treating him with prednisone (a steroid), methotrexate, and entanercept (antiinflamitory). In response to questions, his physicians explained that overuse of medications was not a factor in Mr. Limbaugh's case, and while noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is common among professionals in radio broadcasting, Mr. Limbaugh did not demonstrate the symptoms of NIHL. Of course he didn't demonstrate the symptoms of AIED either, but that is the official line. The symptoms of OxyContin abuse include somnolence, dilated pupils, and slowed respiration. A physical exam may reveal these symptoms. Of course the drug can be detected in the urine and blood. It stretches credulity that these doctors did not test Limbaugh for ototoxic drugs before treating him with more drugs. This is especially incredible considering that the House Institute was among the first to connect the painkiller Vicodin with hearing loss http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/f98fa.htm . Vicodin is a Schedule III drug consisting of 9 percent hydrocodone bitartrate (a narcotic) and the rest acetaminophen (active ingredient in Tylenol). "Lorcet" is another trade name for the same thing and is a drug Limbaugh allegedly abused. The Los Angeles Times reported on September 10, 2001, in an article on Vicodin abuse, "Doctors at the House Institute reported the hearing loss incidents to the Food and Drug Administration in 1999, and then again last month." This (August 2001) was just before they treated Limbaugh. Dr. Richard Wiet, a professor of otology at Northwestern University, said he began noticing cases of hearing loss tied to Vicodin use after learning of the findings of House Institute researchers. "Then I started watching for it and found two patients. There's definitely something to this." Why didn't the House doctors watch for this problem and why did they instead leave Limbaugh to his "house doctor" (Wilma Cline)? If Limbaugh took the drugs House prescribed, wouldn't they have dangerous interactions with the painkillers? Limbaugh's preferred drug was the even more powerful Schedule III drug OxyContin (ocycodone hydrochloride), which is mostly what Cline supplied him with since at least after his first detox in summer 1999, according to Cline. Oxycodone is an opiod analgesic that is about twice as strong as morphine. He apparently was taking the 40- and 80-milligram versions, since in his emails to Cline on May 28 and May 29, he said he had been using the "little blues" and seldom had only the 80s. "Blues" are OxyContin tablets, and 40s and 80s are the 40- and 80-mg sizes. The Vicodin House had reported on contained about half a milligram of hydrocone. The OxyCodins contain 80 to 160 times as much narcotic. Limbaugh was reportedly buying them at the rate of 93 per day at one time. One wonders how he could have survived and what the interactions with the AIED drugs would have been. RUSH ON EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN SENDING DRUGGIES TO PRISON: "What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with traficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river, too." THE AIED TIMEFRAME CLAIM One of the most likely deceptions, once Limbaugh makes a statement about drugs, is to argue about the time frame of the hearing loss. Limbaugh says it took place over 4 months. According to Newsweek: "In light of last week's news reports [originating with the National Enquirer and Wilma Cline], the Institute reaffirmed Limbaugh's AIED diagnosis and noted that he lost hearing over several months, while hearing loss from Vicodin usually occurs over a period of days." Actually, the first patient that House diagnosed with Vicodin-caused hearing loss had lost his hearing over a period of one month. http://www.latimes.com/features/heal...1vicodin.story Immune-mediated hearing loss occurs over a similar period -- weeks to months. Also, AIED is rare, probably accounting for less than 1% of all cases of hearing impairment or dizziness. It is diagnosed by seeing if the patient responds to the drug therapy. http://www.tchain.com/otoneurology/d...mune/aied.html Limbaugh's case didn't respond, because it wasn't a case of AIED; and two months after the news conference, in December 2001, Limbaugh received a cochlear implant (an electronic transducer that converts sound to electrical impulses that are applied to the auditory nerve by tiny electrodes) at the House Institute. One wonders whether, before this surgery, House did blood and urine tests and whether they asked Limbaugh what medications he was on and whether he told them. Surgery without this information would not be standard medical practice and would be risky. During the period of his hearing loss (June, July, August, and September 2001) and the period of his steriod therapy, October and November 2001, Limbaugh continued to take massive doses of OxyContin. The chance for improvement under these conditions was nil. RUSH ON TED KENNEDY: "Ted Kennedy, whose liver is said to be shaped like a Chivas Rigas bottle..." AND WHAT IS RUSH'S SHAPED LIKE, A SQUARE BOTTLE? Limbaugh might claim that pain drove him to painkillers, and he became innocently addicted to them. However, according to House: "Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease (AIED) is a disease that causes progressive hearing loss or dizziness. The hearing loss usually affects both ears and progresses over a period of just a few weeks to months. A ringing, hissing or roaring sound in the ear often accompanies the hearing loss. AIED is rare, occurring in less than 1% of all cases of hearing loss and dizziness." http://www.hei.org/news/factshts/aiedfact.htm Pain is not one of the symptoms. HOW BAD WAS IT? Over one 47-day period, Limbaugh was buying OxyContin tablets from Cline at the rate of 93 a day. If these were 80-mg tablets, he was ingesting 7440 mg a day! Even if he was taking 40-mg tablets, that's 3720 mg a day. The maximum therapeutic dose is two 80-mg tablets a day, or 160 mg. Limbaugh was taking 465 times the maximum dose, if Cline sold him that much and if he didn't give it away. At other times, he was "only" using 30 tablets a day. THE SECOND DETOX AT DR. NATHAN'S Even after he allegedly had destroyed his hearing with drugs and been fitted with a cochlear implant, Cline says she continued to supply OxyContin to Limbaugh. His email of May 29, 2002, told Cline that he needed the drugs for just a little over 2 weeks more. Then he apparently went back to Dr. Nathan's for his second detox. Around the beginning of this year, the Clines reported Limbaugh to the Palm Beach County Assistant State Attorney. [RUSH ON LEGALIZING DRUGS, IN 1993: :I'm appalled at people who simply want to look at all this abhorrent behavior and say, 'People are going to drugs anyway - lets legalize it.' It's a dumb idea. It's a rotten idea, and those who are for it are purely, 100 percent selfish." RUSH IN THE WILMA CLINE ERA (1998): "What's missing in the drug fight is legalization. If we want to go after the drugs with the same fervor and intensity with which we go after cigarettes, let's legalize drugs. License the Cali cartel. Make them taxpayers and then sue them. Sue them left and right and then get control of the price and generate tax revenue from it. Raise the price sky high and fund all sorts of other wonderful social programs." |
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