Rush Limbaugh reportedly bought prescription painkillers
Quote: CNN reported that sources close to the investigation that it did not identify said Limbaugh had turned up as a buyer of powerful painkillers but that he was not the target of the investigation.
Wilma Cline, 42, was quoted by the Daily News as saying Limbaugh was hooked on the potent prescription drugs OxyContin, Lorcet and hydrocodone, and went through drug rehabilitation twice.
"There were times when I worried," Cline told the National Enquirer, which also carried the story in an edition being published today. "All these pills are enough to kill an elephant -- never mind a man."
Cline could not be reached for further comment, but her lawyer, Ed Shohat of Miami, said his client "stands behind the story."
Cline told the Enquirer she went to prosecutors with information about Limbaugh and others after four years of drug deals that included clandestine handoffs in a Denny's parking lot.
She said she wore a wire during her last two deliveries and gave the tapes to authorities.
She also gave the Enquirer a ledger documenting how many pills she claimed to have bought for him -- 4,350 in one 47-day period -- and e-mails she claimed Limbaugh sent her.
In one e-mail, Limbaugh urged Cline to get more "little blues," the street name for the powerful narcotic OxyContin, she said.
"You know how this stuff works ... the more you get used to, the more it takes," the May 2002 e-mail read. "But I will try and cut down to help out."
The Enquirer story has a lovely sidebar quoting a few of Limbaugh's anti-legalization screeds, like this....
By legalizing drugs, all you're going to do is define further deviancy downward. We have a duty to pass on values to our descendants. Values that will maintain the standards of behavior and ensure the survivability of the American way of life.
And drugs are no different. You end up destroying more than yourself. (Playboy interview, Dec 1993)
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