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Article #1223Re: Drug-dependent Supremes ( was Re: Rush Limbaugh in pill probe
From: Peter H. Proctor
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:08
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:08
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On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 20:10:09 GMT, KStahl <ktsahl@yahoo.com> wrote:
>"Peter H. Proctor" wrote:
>>
>> "WHEN SUPREME COURT JUSTICES REFUSE TO RETIRE:".... JOHN DEAN
>>
>> http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20010720.html
>>
>> "Justices' mental problems are all too easily hidden. While on the
>> bench, Justice Frank Murphy, who served from 1940-49, had a serious
>> drug problem (Demerol addiction), and was seeing a psychoanalyst. One
>> biographer reports that at one point, he was illegally purchasing
>> drugs twice a day......
>> "Long before Associate Justice William Rehnquist was nominated to be
>> chief justice, he had a serious health issue that may have impaired
>> his decisionmaking. For nine years, from 1972-81, the Capitol
>> physician, Freeman H. Cary, had prescribed a powerful hypnotic
>> medication, Placidyl, because of Rehnquist's chronic lower back pain.... snip....
>Excellent history lesson. I enjoy learning things like that. I had never
>heard about this before. Do you have any other good tidbits along the
>same lines?
This is just supreme court justices... Other stuff that comes
to mind: Both the Pres and VP have DUI busts and the Pres essentially
admits that he is a recovering alcoholic... To his credit, BTW, for
many it is not easy. The Pres also does not deny previous cocaine
use. And then there is the new Republican governor of
"Kalliphonia" , who seems to have been rather intemperate in his
youth<G>...
Dr P
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