Justice Rehnquist must have been Rush’s role model — for drug dependency!
A physician at the U.S. Capitol prescribed a
powerful sleep aid for William Rehnquist for nearly a decade while he was an
associate justice of the Supreme Court, according to newly released FBI
records.
A physician at the U.S. Capitol prescribed a powerful sleep aid for William Rehnquist for nearly a decade while he was an associate justice of the Supreme Court, according to newly released FBI records.
The records present a picture of a justice with chronic back pain who for many months took three times the recommended dosage of the drug Placidyl and then went into withdrawal in 1981 when he abruptly stopped taking it.
Rehnquist checked himself into George Washington University Hospital, where he tried to escape in his pajamas and imagined that the CIA was plotting against him, the records indicate.
The justice was weaned off Placidyl in early 1982 in a detoxification process that took a month, according to the records. The hospital doctor who treated Rehnquist said the Capitol Hill physician who prescribed Placidyl for Rehnquist was practicing bad medicine, bordering on malpractice. Both doctors’ names were deleted from the documents before they were released.
Don’t you love the compassionate way our society treats the powerful and moneyed. There always is a job for a junkie with the “Right” connections.
Posted: Fri - January 5, 2007 at 08:44 AM