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Originally posted by Astrocloud
If you remember that Rush was busted by the National Enquirer. He was not "flaunting" his addiction to "blue babies". I can't think of one celebrity who flaunts a prescription drug habit... which would be akin to flaunting a heroin addiction...
Oh yes wasn't Keith Richards arrested for heroin or something? I wonder if you would complain about the police man-hours being spent on him?
Of course Rush Limbaugh is nowhere near as culturally important as Keith Richards and the comparison is only incidental
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Way to dismiss the main points of the discussion. HOW MANY RUN OF THE MILL ADDICTS DO THE POLICE INVESTIGATE TO THIS EXTENT? I could care less about Keith Richards' arrest a quarter of a century ago. If the police took resources away from other investigations simply to "get" him, then I am absolutely against it. Additionally, I never said Rush flaunted it I said there are plenty of celebs that DO flaunt their drug use and the police do not go into large scale investigations.
The other point, was that medical records should be difficult to get because they are so personal. How long until the information within them becomes public? How long before you start hearing about the hang nail he had treated or the wart he had removed or whatever? Fishing expeditions into medical records should not be the norm. I'm not saying that this is a "fishing expedition" but it certainly seems out of the ordinary for a prescription drug case. There have been plenty of cases in my local area of people abusing prescription drugs and not once were medical records examined. And many of these cases involved far greater crimes than doctor shopping or abuse of the drug. These included defrauding clients, vehicular manslaughter, robbery, and assault.