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Rush Limbaugh Statement on Prescription Pain Medication Stories
Friday October 10, 2:55 pm ET
NEW YORK, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Rush Limbaugh today issued the following statement on his radio program:
"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."
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I have to say, as someone who has had what can be debilitating migraines for almost 30 years, pain isn't fun. The problem becomes how to live with it and not become addicted to pain medication.
Ya know, I used to e a big EIB fan. Rush exsposed me a long time ago to facts that I had always been told were not true. Now I will be the first to say some of his politics do not match my own, but I respect how he says whats on his mind and how he has gone from a small town in MO to what he is now. He motivtes me to excell in whatever i do, and has shown me that if you work hard enough, and have a little luck, you really can make it in this country.
I still like Rush. I hope he comes back and kick the habit.
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I have a bit of sympathy for someone who got strung out on pills when they were originally taking them for very legitimate reasons. And that's the case here. This is very different from someone who is strung out strictly for recreational purposes.
He's handling it perfectly so far. He fessed up to everything, told the whole story and is checking himself in to dry out.
While the case could be made that he had "legitimate" reasons, he never
at any time had a legally issued prescription by any physician for these
drugs. They were a prescription issued for another party. That alone
makes them illegally acquired, even if they are legally produced drugs.
He has only been forced to "fess up" by the press coverage and his
own hardline stance on drug use... and this is the 3rd time he has
checked into rehab. I find it highly annoying that considering the
amount of pills he allegedly acquired would result in hard time for
most without his financial means. He will check into rehab, come
out, and likely will never even be charged criminally... ironically
on the same day that Tommy Chong starts a prison sentence
for selling bongs on a website.
I'm not sure which is more ironic... the situation above, or
last week's incident of the magician Roy getting attacked by
the tiger in his show... I mean when is the last time you heard
about a gay man getting eaten by a pussy ??
Maybe I just didn't read it closely enough, but I was under the impression he got hooked as a result of failed back surgery. So those first pills would've been legit prescriptions.
The reason narcotics are so addictive, and this is true of pretty much any addictive substance, is because the body adapts and it takes more and more of the substance to achieve the same effect. Thus for someone who is living with pain, a pain killing narcotic is a dangerously addictive substance, and that's why I said I'm inclined to have a bit of sympathy for them.
That's all. I have no opinion either way about Rush otherwise. I'm neither a fan nor a hater. I've never listened to his show.
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I'm not sure which is more ironic... the situation above, or
last week's incident of the magician Roy getting attacked by
the tiger in his show... I mean when is the last time you heard
about a gay man getting eaten by a pussy ??
Groan!
I saw where Sigfried tried to say the tiger thought it was "protecting" Roy by picking him up and dragging him off stage after he fell. They're in denial, that cat followed it's instincts and went for the jugular.
Though I have to admit it's amazing that they had a run this long and that's the only real incident with the animals.
I really don't have that much of an opinion overall about Rush as I
do not listen to him either... But I am a huge Tom Leykis fan and
he has been following and commenting on the story overall.
As I had posted previously the most interesting aspect to me is the
circumstances that ensued for Rush to have caused his own hearing
loss, as outlined in that timeline I posted the link to.
I lke many on this board am Libertarian (sp?) in my views on legalizing
drugs, and at the same time though *not* spending any public money
on "rehab" which many times doesn't work. Personal responsiblity
in this country is harder and harder to find, thanks to the litigeous
society we've become...
I have done some *incredibly* stupid things in the last few years,
and there are aspects that it would be nice to try and sue for some
losses... but I do take full responsiblity for my own actions, and will
not go that route. I'll STFU now... as Confucy has noted, I get too
serious sometimes.
It's surprising how many people do get addicted to prescription medicine after they have been prescribed it for legitimate purposes. Not doing it to get a buzz, just because they've become addicted.
Doctors are also VERY hesitant to "over prescribe" pain killers which means if you're in a lot of physical pain, many times you DO have to go elsewhere for the medication. As HP said, the more you take, the more your body adapts and the more you have to take to kill the pain. I've been taking pain killers for migraines for so long that when I broke my leg and the strongest thing they'd offer me in the Virginia hospital was Tylenol #3, I had to have my Atlanta doctor call them and request something stronger.
Thankfully, with the Imitrex, I don't take that many pain pills, but if it weren't around and I was taking physically addictive narcotics, I can assure you'd I'd probably be hooked also.
Doctors are also VERY hesitant to "over prescribe" pain killers which means if you're in a lot of physical pain, many times you DO have to go elsewhere for the medication.
That's a good thing
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Thankfully, with the Imitrex, I don't take that many pain pills, but if it weren't around and I was taking physically addictive narcotics, I can assure you'd I'd probably be hooked also.
If that's the same/similar thing i've seen for migraines then it is not addictive at all - but does the job superbly. Gets the eyes sorted out compared to paracetamol etc. It has a different name where i am, which i can't remember right now.
Originally posted by Mr Benn@Oct 11 2003, 12:25 PM
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Doctors are also VERY hesitant to "over prescribe" pain killers which means if you're in a lot of physical pain, many times you DO have to go elsewhere for the medication.
That's a good thing
I disagree. For the same reason I think people have the right to take recreation drugs, I think they have the right to take prescription pain medication which will make their life easier.
Though I don't understand why he had to resort to getting his housekeeper to get it for him - I get 200+ emails a day offering me every prescription drug known to man, lol!
I think he would have had more support, and less mockery if he would have went on his own, rather then being outed by a newspaper and forced to take action.
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For what it's worth I was driving yesterday and listening to the show and Rush says he was prescribed pain killers for a failed back surgery and 3 herniated disks in his neck. He decided not to have further surgery and became addicted to pain killers.
I feel sorry for anyone that gets addicted to drugs. I have a highly addictive personality so I know what it's like. Thankfully I've never been addicted to drugs but I made a conscious decision never to take them because I know if I like something I can get addicted to it. Fortunately my addiction is golf which is fairly harmless.
This isn't a link to the death of the guy i was originally thinking of, but a new person. The person dying from ordering prescription stuff on the net was in the 18-25 year range IIRC.
Actually, after reading the article on that link more - it DOES reference the 24 year old who was on a cocktail of stuff and took his life. He probably would have done it anyway.. but who knows
They even got some Ritalin! Do you know how hard that is to get hold of if you go to a real life doctor?
I have taken it before, after i asked a legit taker of it to give me 2 tabs on one morning when there were hangovers all round. I had heard it was like a mixture of coke and speed, and thought it would act as a pick me up. Then found it wasn't. Monks you out.
It's strange how drugs affect people differently.
I heard that one of Rush's pills was Vicodin. To me, that stuff is the essence of evil. My dentist gave it to me earlier this year. I got into a spot a couple weeks later where I really *needed* it and after three pills (taken on the prescribed schedule) I was so violently ill that they had to do my dental work *in between* dry heaves. I had a nice little routine going for about 12 hours after taking the third pill... heave, pass out, wake up and heave, pass out, repeat repeat.
It was nasty. I can't understand anyone getting addicted or even willingly wanting to take that drug. But I've got a nearly full bottle of it here; maybe I should sell 'em on eBay.
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Originally posted by Carrie@Oct 11 2003, 03:45 PM But I've got a nearly full bottle of it here; maybe I should sell 'em on eBay.
Prescription pills are the original form of "recurring" charges...
I as well, have a history with this subject... it's been so many
years I don't remember the name of the drug, but my mother
had to overcome a 15 year addiction to a prescribed sedative
being an early user of it initially in the 50s... yet it was not until
the mid 70s that they officially removed the drug from the market
as being too addictive. It got to the point that my mother was
doing the multiple doctor route, juggling 3 at a time with them
all more than willing to write these RXs on not much more than
a complaint/request...
My blood brother was prescribed Methadone when he had throad cancer...the doc told him, "You're going to become addicted to this; and the addiction is unbreakable; but in your case, I don't think it matters.".
Questions: Why do we need more addictive drugs out there? Can't science remove the addictive component before the send the drug to the street?
Originally posted by Torone@Oct 12 2003, 08:50 AM Questions: Why do we need more addictive drugs out there? Can't science remove the addictive component before the send the drug to the street?
So maybe we should take booze off the market until they can find a way to remove the addictive component from it?
Prescribing narcotics for anxiety and sleeplessness is totally different than prescribing them pain. There are other drugs that help anxiety and sleeplessness, but I don't know of anything except a narcotic that will truly dull pain.
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do I need to start looking for cure????
and YES, most of those addictions ARE like recurring billing
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