RAIDS ON RUSH ARE DETAILED

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West Palm Beach, Fla. - A Palm Beach County law enforcement task force investigating whether Rush Limbaugh illegally obtained prescription painkillers seized the talk show host's medical records from three doctors, according to search warrants made public yesterday.

Records from one pharmacy near Limbaugh's Palm Beach mansion show that during a six-month period in 2003, he picked up hundreds of addictive painkiller pills prescribed by four local doctors, court documents state.

From March to September, Limbaugh picked up 1,733 hydrocodone pills, 90 OxyContin pills, 50 Xanax tablets and 40 pills of Kadian ( time-release morphine ), search warrant records show. The court documents indicate that sometimes less than a week would lapse between him getting different doctors' prescriptions.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n1875/a08.html?1738

Damn, thats alot of hydrocodones. Do you think Rush chewed his Kadians?

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1. It's DU's fault

If we hadn't been so hard on the guy over the past few years.....

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2. What about all the ones his maid was scoring him?

Who knows how many of those went down the hatch.

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3. It's a vast left-wing conspiracy....

[Demobrat]

4. Why is this guy still alive?

I know he's a big dude and all that, but it's sounding like he bought enough of this stuff, on the street and through prescriptions, and who knows how all, to kill a rhinocerous several times over. Do users really build up that much of a tolerance to it ?

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6. Yep you really build up that much of a tolerance

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7. That's what I have been wondering/A question about abuse

That is a massive amount of drugs. Oxycontin has the potential to be quite dangerous, as it is highly concentrated, designed to release hycodone over a long period.

I am a bit naive about its abuse. My terminally ill mother was taking it, and her doctor warned me to be very careful about getting mugged by someone who saw me fill her prescription at the pharmacy.

I did read some stuff on the internet about how it is abused, and some anecdotal stuff from current college age kids about how it is used, but I do not have authoritative info on it.

How do people abuse it? I have heard that some chew it to access all the hycodone at once, but how many they chew at once, I don't know, and I know that lethal overdoses can occur with just a couple of pills. I have also heard that it is snorted (YUK!).

I know that people build up an immunity to it, but still, in the numbers quoted -- which don't include the stuff he got on the black market -- Pig Boy must have been totally blotto for years. His long term abuse explains his sudden deafness, as well as the massive weight loss.

Anyone wish to speculate as to how Pig Boy was misusing this drug, that might also explain the large numbers?

You'll have to excuse me, but people who abuse oxycontin are among my pet peeves. For every accidental overdose and abuse that occurs, pressure is put on the industry to discontinue the drug, and take it out of the hands of people who desperately need it, like my poor mother, who suffered horrific pain in her final illness.

I do know people who have become inadvertantly hooked on narcotic pain killers, because of chronic severe pain. I also know people who have conditions that they use as an excuse to be able to get high on the "good stuff." I know of people who use them only recreationally. I tend to think Pig Boy was one of the second type here.

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8. Youve really got to take alot to OD

I speak from experience. Chewing it, im not sure about oxycotton, but chewing the short release pills makes them 'fast' release pills, fucking you up. I wouldnt waste my time snorting it, it wouldnt get you any higher.

Pig boys ten a day high isnt too bad. Ive seen worse. But he was using for awhile im sure.

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5. So HE'S the one who's been driving prices up!

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