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<p>(05-01) 09:14 PDT West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP) –</p>

<p>Rush Limbaugh must submit to random drug tests under an agreement filed Monday that will dismiss a prescription fraud charge against the conservative commentator after 18 months if he complies with the terms.</p>

<p>He also must continue treatment for his acknowledged addiction to painkillers and he cannot own a gun.</p>

<p>The agreement did not call for Limbaugh to admit guilt to the charge that he sought a prescription from a physician in 2003 without revealing that he had received medications from another practitioner within 30 days. He pleaded not guilty Friday.</p>

<p>“This is a common sense resolution and the appropriate way the state should treat people who have admitted an addiction to prescription pain medication and voluntarily sought treatment,” Limbaugh’s attorney, Roy Black, said in a statement Monday to The Associated Press.</p>

<p>Prosecutors launched their investigation in 2003 after Limbaugh’s housekeeper alleged he abused OxyContin and other painkillers. He entered a five-week rehabilitation program that year and blamed his addiction on severe back pain.</p>

<p>“I spoke recently with his doctor who told me Mr. Limbaugh has made an exceptionally strong recovery and remains firmly committed to continued treatment,” said Black, who said Limbaugh has been drug free for 2 1/2 years.</p>

<p>The Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office may revoke or modify the deal if Limbaugh violates the terms, according to the agreement."</p>

<p>And so if the $30000 is small to Rush, it is big to many…if the judge had ordered more money to cover the expenses, I can see his supporters, going wait, that is too much…</p>

<p>Yep, he has to take drug tests, can’t own a gun, and has to be a good boy for 1 year and a half, then, the charges will be dropped</p>

<p>Its interesting that prescription drug addiction is so much more tolerable by a nice white guy, then a oxicontin addict on the street</p>

<p>Same drug, but different attitude from Mr. Limbaugh</p>

<p>I beleive in treatment for addicts, not jail, but not Rush, he likes jails for addicts, so long as its not him</p>

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<p>Yeah, I think we should throw Kitty Dukakis and Betty Ford in the slammer as well. That’ll teach 'em to be white and allow themselves to get addicted to prescription drugs.</p>

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<p>FF, you would put them in jail?</p>

<p>Do you not read my posts at all…the last line, please…it says that Rush thinks drug addicts should be in jail, cause, well, its bad to do drugs and be an addict, unless you are Rush of course</p>

<p>And God Bless Betty Ford…</p>

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<p>CGM, why don’t you admit that you added the last 2 lines after initially posting?</p>

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<p>I did not!!you misread my sentence, and if you bothered to read my other posts, I advocate for treatment all the way…</p>

<p>Find where I said he should be in jail, he is the one who says drug users should be in jail…I think and have always thought that he was wrong, that he should not be in jail, but he is a hypocrit to the nth degree, and go ahead and try and turn my words</p>

<p>you just look silly</p>

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<p>ANd, if Rush was any kind of man, with his resources and his audience, he would speak out about the dangers of addiction, the dangers of oxicontin, and the benefits of treatment and how more treatment should be more available to addicts, so all could benefit from the type of program he went through</p>

<p>He would do that, instead of stay in denial, but I guess that would be asking too much from him</p>

<p>Doing the right thing and doning something that good benefit others is to much a liberal idea</p>

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<p>Unlike most CC posters, I’ve never seen an Oprah show. I’ve seen clips, I’ve seen quotes attributed to her, but I really have no understanding of the whole Oprah phenomenon. I submit that the same is true for most CC posters with regard to Rush Limbaugh. You’ve heard clips, you’ve seen a few quotes, but you have no idea what he’s about.</p>

<p>The quotes about drug users in this thread are all from one radio program, several years ago, when the same crowd that was proclaiming a crack cocaine holocaust in “the black community” before the 1992 election changed their tune when stiff anti-crack laws were implemented, and young black men began getting stiff federal penalties for crack use (they were the biggest users, then). You may even recall that Rep. Maxine Waters claimed at that time that the “crack epidemic” was part of a CIA plot to destroy “the black community.” </p>

<p>Anyway, around the time of the 1996 election, the tune was changed, and the same characters (Waters, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton) began calling the laws that they had previously demanded “racist,” because the participants in the “black crack holocaust” were getting stiffer penalties than white people who were snorting the more expensive pure stuff. All the quotes that have been attributed here are from one radio show, during which Rush repeatedly said that the answer wasn’t to relax penalties for crack so that they matched penalties for coke, but the opposite. It was one show. I heard it. You didn’t.</p>

<p>Rush’s show is 99% about politics and media, which is why I like it. He was, in a sense, the first blogger–he just did it over the airwaves. He’s not a law-and-order ranter, although I’m sure he would take back some of the things he said on that one show, having subsequently experience drug addiction himself. If you have any other questions about Rush, feel free to ask, and I’ll feel free to ask you all about Oprah.</p>