Rush can't handle Recovery......

[liberalnurse]

He is doomed. A thirty-day program is not adequate....He needs the Long Program. He won't do that and miss out on his radio program. He obviously is just jumping thru hoops....looking for simpathy to slide out of this public jam... He is not serious.....


He will be right back at it once he goes back on the air. He knows what he says is a lie, hateful and damaging rhetoric. That behavior is not the 12-Step way.....he will be back using...Maybe alcohol since it's legal but he can not stay sober. He will self medicate.

It's only a matter of time now.....The disease is much more powerful than he is.....His ego and arrogance alone will take him back to his comfort zone......and to his demise....

So, when he is back on the show, slamming and lying about democrats, liberals and how great the *schrub is.....remember that each word takes him closer and closer to the end....

So be it...Make it so....

[Cha]

1. That's right ...I forgot about the "12 steps"...I would

imagine it's the same for any kind of "Recovery"!

[Iris]

2. Don't some 12 step programs warn their participants to avoid politics?

[liberalnurse]

4. I don't think it goes to that extreme,

but if it has a direct affect on one staying sober, then indeed it would be essential to avoid to stay sober.

For Rush, the radio show feeds his disease...sets him up to use...

His behavior, arrogance, lying, dishonesty, ego etc....all are contradictory to maintaining sobriety. It's his trigger to use. He needed it to deal with the shame and guilt.


Look here...Can you see Rush doing a daily moral inventory and being honest? Look at Steps # 4, #8, #9, #10 for starters....Can you see Rush actually preforming these steps in a humble fashion? Ha, Ha, Ha...no way !!


www.oc-aa.org/1212.htm

[NightTrain]

16. Yes! Which is why I dropped out of that scene altogether

Well, that and all the "god" talk. I inferred that I wasn't worthy of "recovery" unless I accepted a god into my life. As a lifelong atheist, I said, fuck that!

[Booberdawg]

18. Doesn't have to be "God" Simply a "higher power", or

"a power greater than yourself", whatever that is to you.

[Interrobang]

20. That sounds like the same thing to me.

If I need to delude myself into believing that there's some sort of Power out there that's going to help me get better, well, then I haven't really recovered at all, have I? I've just swapped one crutch for another.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

21. At the risk of angering the Friends of Bill W

Yes. That is the only sure way we have found to rid one of a dangerous addiction, replace it with another addiction which is harmless, or at least legal, for as long as neccessary to rid the body of the physical cravings for the other.

Then healing can commence.

[Booberdawg]

24. Well, I'm not an addict, but I do believe in a higher power

Call it grace, call it fate, maybe it is God, I don't know. But where we differ is that you see it as a crutch, I see it as growth and letting go.

[44g]

25. It is growth and letting go

Where else to lay all of your heavy trips? Call it what you want. I call it God. No one, no act, no drug can truly relieve us of intangible brain feces. Churches, dope, cults, sex and other worldly fun stuff can and sometimes does kill us. God won't. He is the invisible emotional septic tank pumper truck. That's why I loves me some Jesus.

[qwertyMike]

27. Don't worry

God still loves YOU :)

[NaMeaHou]

3. Recovery takes self analysis and change

I don't see either happening there.

[Jose Diablo]

5. Also too wealthy

Money has a way of shielding people from there own mistakes. There is no way he is even close to hitting his bottom. Look how he continues to lie about how he got addicted to 'prescription' medication. Looking for sympathy.

He is seeking an out for getting busted. That is all. He is far from the bottom and cannot see death at his door.

I don't like seeing anyone going down the road Rush is on. And I hope he is successfull in his 'recovery'. But I think his chances are slim to none for the above reasons.

[liberalnurse]

7. I hope he actually has a spritual awakening....

To be successful, he has to quit the show. I'll be happy then...:)

Otherwise, the disease will do it for us....

I have no simpathy for this one.

[meow2u3]

15. And too fascist

In case you didn't know, Rushie would be surrounded by so many liberals he'd shit bricks just to remain in "recovery." ;)

[Avalux]

6. I agree

if Rush was taking up to 30 pills a day, gonna have to wean him off the stuff and it won't be easy; certainly much longer than 30 days to deal with the physical dependence plus the psychological addiction. Here's a list of withdrawal symptoms: restlessness, lacrimation, rhinorrhea, yawning, perspiration, chills, myalgia, and mydriasis. Others may include irritability, anxiety, backache, joint pain, weakness, abdominal cramps, insomnia, nausea, anorexia, vomiting, diarrhea, or increased blood pressure, respiratory rate, or heart rate. Sounds like fun, huh??

He deserves every agonizing moment of it. May not be right for me to say that, but oh well.

[liberalnurse]

8. The physical detox is the easy part.....

They'll have him on methadone....It's the 12-Steps that he won't be able to do! Thats the life-long daily chore he isn't going to appreciate...thus he will continue to use...it's only a matter of time.

Like said, he may start off with rationalizing it's okay to drink alcohol then back to his drug of choice, oxycontin.....or maybe heroin......

He won't take the naltrexon, a drug that inhibits the effects of opiates. He is planning on taking" controlled" doses of pain medication for his cervical herniated disc....Oh, he's already setting up to continue to use.....

He's doomed!!!!!!

[bigwavebobby]

9. I'm thinking......

He's probably already clean. This is a move to fend off prosecution. Just my humble opinion.

[liberalnurse]

10. Not even close in my educated opinion.....

It's just not that easy....You can't click the heels of your ruby slippers for this one!


He's in deep shit.....And the best is yet to come......

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

14. Especially since he has tried the rapid detox program here

in NYC. and, according to the Enquirer, almost died during it. It will be harder for him to do regular detox now.
They have found that those who go through with rapid detox and subsequently fail do very poorly at traditional detox programs.

[liberalnurse]

22. Currently, there is no such thing

as an excelerated program.....

[qwertyMike]

28. Real recovery

takes 3-5 years the professionals say.
That's IF you give up the old life.
Then he can look for a new career.

[Mikimouse]

11. I don't know about that

He sounded pretty shaky yesterday. He had better start thinking about getting used to Tordal (spelling?) for pain management.

[xJlM]

12. Yeah, right

Just like it was really only a pretzel that put those knots on Bush's head.

[liberalnurse]

13. Exactly.......the media didn't touch that one for the truth

did they!!!!!

[Booberdawg]

29. No way. He was blotto on his Thursday show.

Apparently wasn't able to put together a coherent sentence by the end of the show. He's still using.

[MissMarple]

17. Just what the doctor said on Anderson on CNN, before they

"ran out of time". He said the addiction is so strong because of the opiate nature of the drug, it takes a long time to get over the craving. And that is after the first three weeks of initial treatment.
If he's back in a month, he still an addict.


And sweetheart, be careful what you wish to be so. It can come back at you.

[Booberdawg]

19. He won't last the 30 days in treatment

bet me.

[ReadTomPaine]

26. LOL, I'd rather not lose a bet...

[mitchum]

23. No he can't (and it makes me smile)