DJ AM, Track Palin,Sherry Johnston, Rush Limbaugh, Rudy Giuliani, Pharma and OxyContin

The foremost best advertisement for Rudy's product is Rush Limbaugh with easy skirting of consequences and continuing help from his doctors. Both Rudy and Rush help to obscure the results of OxyContin's destructive addictive quality. Without Rudy Giuliani, the representative for OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, where would teen access to Oxy be?

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Reported high-profile users include Lindsay Lohan, Jack Osbourne, Courtney Love and Winona Ryder. Britney Spears reportedly swallowed two bottles of OxyContin before an intense stand-off with armed police and a specialist SWAT team in which she refused to hand over her sons.
DJ AM, Sherry Johnston, Rush Limbaugh& Rudy Giuliani
Pharma and OxyContin

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The high-profile disc jockey, DJ AM, 36, whose real name was Adam Goldstein, overdosed. An accident or suicide? He was found dead in his SoHo apartment August 28, 2009. Mr. Goldstein had struggled with alcohol and drug addiction as a young adult, but said he had been sober for about 11 years.

Nine OxyContin pills were found in his body. Eight undigested pills with the letters “OC” on it, were found in his throat, and another in his mouth, an official said.

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Oxycontin addiction has become one of the leading problems in prescription drug abuse/addiction in America today.

The following OxyContin excerpt is from the must read blog
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THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY ENGINEERED OUR CURRENT PRESCRIPTION DRUG ADDICTION EPIDEMIC

The problems of addiction to Oxycodone drugs is growing and the withdrawal symptoms are excruciating, thus leading to crimes such as robbery, theft, and prescription fraud. Lives are being ruined and people who trusted their doctors, drug companies, FDA, and DEA now have criminal records because they just could not stop using the drug. To add to the problem early on addicts figured out they could crush the long acting pills and take all of the oxycodone it contained at one time. Some Oxycontin addicts have turned to Heroin because it is cheaper to get.

The company that makes the narcotic painkiller OxyContin and three current and former executives pleaded guilty today in federal court here to criminal charges that they misled regulators, doctors and patients about the drug’s risk of addiction and its potential to be abused.

To resolve criminal and civil charges related to the drug’s “misbranding”, the parent of Purdue Pharma, the company that markets OxyContin, agreed to pay more than $600 million in fines. That is the third-highest amount ever paid by a drug company in such a case.

Federal officials said that internal Purdue Pharma documents show that company officials recognized even before the drug was marketed that they would face stiff resistance from doctors concerned about the potential of a high-powered narcotic like OxyContin to be abused by patients or cause addiction.

As a result, company officials developed a fraudulent marketing campaign designed to promote OxyContin as a time-released drug that was less prone to such problems. OxyContin is made of a long-used narcotic, oxycodone. But unlike other medications like Percocet that also contain the narcotic, OxyContin is pure oxycodone and, because it is a time-released drug, contains it in very high doses. The drug is valuable in treating serious, long-lasting pain, but is being prescribed for moderate pain by a lot of doctors.

(Under Attack, Drug Maker Turned to Giuliani for Help)

Just a few years after the drug’s introduction in 1996, annual sales reached $1 billion. They told doctors Oxycontin was less addictive than other pain pills in the same category knowing full well the opposite was true. They targeted family practice doctors who had little experience treating people with severe pain or recognizing when their patients were addicted. Some of the sales people even made up fake graphs and charts. They created an epidemic of people who are unable to stop using this drug on their own. Not one of them went to jail even though there were criminal charges, with the help of Rudy Giuliani.

One of the things which is really bothering me about medicine right now is it’s denial about addiction. They call addiction from narcotics prescribed by a doctor physical dependence and claim this is different from addiction. We have been told all kinds raltionale such as people who have real pain do not get addicted. Of course they do. It may be a situation where it can't be helped and a patient has a very good reason to take the medication, but come on, addiction is addiction is addiction. I have to wonder which drug company paid for that idea to be disseminated in the medical community. They changed the name and made prescription medication caused addiction a whole different disease, which they would say I just can't understand. Oh, I understand it intimately. It is a lot less litigiously risky for a doctor to tell a patient they have a dependence or tolerance than you are addicted now isn't it?

The truth is anyone can become addicted if they take a narcotic long enough. Narcotic use for pain management is a blessing in the appropriate patients with proper medical management. I do not advocate suffering. I have seen many people who narcotics have helped. What I am opposed to are the lies and manipulations to get people addicted to increase drug sales and make millions off of the suffering of thousands of people. They influence doctors to use narcotics when other choices would be better for the patient and society. We have a sick care system instead of a health care system, there is little time to teach about or little reward for using non-narcotic methods of pain management. It is easier and cheaper to just give patients pain pills. I hoped for a health care system which changes this and a lot of other issues, but my hope is fading fast. If I had been told Stadol was highly addicting I would not have taken it in the early 90s. If my colleague had know Tramadol was a narcotic she would have taken Acetaminophen or Ibuprofen instead for her headache. Our addiction to narcotics has been engineered by the pharmaceutical industry. They did it with the intent of getting a captive group of consumers without regard for the suffering it has caused. Our regulating body the FDA has been complicit as well as politicians who are bought off and pass regulations making it easier for them to market these drugs to an unsuspecting country.

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by Greg Palast Thursday, August 13, 2009

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more than an addict ....

Cindy McCain Ain't No Betty Ford, she lawyered up and went to the school of Rush Limbaugh "rehab." The left alone Mrs. Mc was off the deep end and it involved more than stealing from needy children. Not a problem when you have connections, her daddies are always well connected. It is quiet a story. We have a flawed political system if the likes of people like this can even get into a campaign. Her absent hubby McCain is old and he's been around D.C. for decades, he was born into privilege as he was the son of an Admiral who was the son of an Admiral. He learned how to get out of trouble from day one.

Cindy McCain was a well behaved mafia princess that was trained for charity work. All well and good to a point. She showed a deep character flaw with her half sister, Kathleen Hensley Portalski, Cindy wanted all Daddy's fortune and to be an only child. Strange.
Daddy Jim Hensley was a felon and a goon for the mafia.

Cindy's former employee and a close friend of the McCain's, Tom Gosinski, describes his experience with the McCains, they are not nice people. Here is Mr. Gosinki on video: Did McCain Tamper with the Drug Enforcement Agency to Protect His Career?
Gosinki kept detailed journals, it is shocking. You can see some ways they were simpatico with Sarah Palin. Why a cover up would not seem like an obstacle. They may have shared things like drugged children.

Rush Limbaugh and doctor shopping seem tame next to Senator McCain's wheeling and dealing for his wife. Saving his career was what drove him, the wife was the problem he had to clean up. Neither Limbaugh nor Cindy McCain did any time nor did they appear to do any rehab worth mentioning. So Rush Just Wanted a "Rush"

Sherry Johnston gets treated more like the rest of us. She gets a double whammy that a Cindy McCain or Rush Limbaugh can't comprehend. She is hit on as a victim of both the drug war and the health care system under control of Pharma and the insurance industry.

Yesterday Sherry Johnston was in court to plead a relative minor case involving the pain killer, OxyContin. Alaskan blogger GRYPHEN asks, Does this make sense to anybody?
At first, it looked excessively cruel. There are still a million questions but the final terms of sentencing will be November 20, 2009. For now Palmer Superior Court Judge Eric Smith sentenced her to five years, with two suspended and three to serve. They are hoping she will be able to be monitored at home.
PALINGATES has more information. Prisongate


There is so much under the surface with what is happening to Sherry Johnston, I hardly know what to say. We have to wait and see. This is just to compare some similar stories. Of course, the connection to McCain is mind boggling.

So Rush Just Wanted A “Rush”

Two High Profile Oxycontin Cases

Mainstream Media Fails to Challenge Limbaugh Spin On Illegal Drug Buys And Use
The unfortunate poor, uneducated, ghetto drug addicts get 25 years in “real jail”. People in real, chronic, severe pain that are tormented for life are in their own “society imposed jail” with no way to escape. And Rush Limbaugh gets to become a celebrity for getting caught, and turning his high powered Public Relations lawyers loose with the proper spin on Rush’s pitiful dilemma.

Since the December 18, 2008 arrest of Sherry Johnston at her home in Wasilla there have been more questions than answers. The sentencing phase is coming to an end and we are still in the dark. For a first time offender they pretty much threw the book at Mrs. Johnston. Why? Will this travesty be another well kept secret for McCain/Palin 2008? There are too many suspicious circumstances to think this was not a sting. (The Rush Limbaugh case before gives us a glimpse at how his high profile addiction was handled.)

Cops Sat on Sherry Johnston's Search Warrant Due to Palin
An affidavit, dated Dec. 22, details how troopers used two informants to collect evidence that Johnston sold OxyContin on Oct. 11, Oct. 22 and Nov. 26…the last date being well past the Nov. 4 election date… Coincidence? Arrest Dec. 22
Gryphen: Now my final bit of information is about Sherry Johnston.
As some of you may know Sherry's court date was moved from yesterday to August 19. The reason for this is that until just now the prosecutors REFUSED to make any kind of a deal, because of pressure they were receiving from the Governor. For some reason Palin was pushing for Sherry to receive the maximum sentence. It must be that charitable Christian heart of hers we keep hearing so much about.

I cannot talk about what kind of deal Sherry may get, but the prosecution has become much more reasonable now that Sean Parnell is our Governor.
Levi Johnston's Mother Tries to Explain Drug Arrest - ParentDish
2008 Anchorage Daily News:
Levi Johnston's mother hit with drug charges
JAN. 6 HEARING: Authorities remain tight-lipped about details.
Johnston's arrest was oxycontin-related

Revisiting Rush Limbaugh and oxycontin:

According to other sources Rush allegedly coerced and threatened his housekeeper to illegally obtain more than 4500 Oxycontin in 47 days. The implication from her is that he was in no apparent pain and was just a pill popper who liked the feeling (the rush) and didn’t mind risking being addicted.

Allegedly, he had his housekeeper hide the pills under his mattress so his wife wouldn’t find them. Twice he went to a rehab place in New York to detoxify himself. Never was their any mention of physical pain due to his previous surgery by his housekeeper or in his previous statements of the past five years. His physical body language on TV (his jittery, quick, and jerky physical motion) showed a man in no apparent pain. And if he was in such pain, one would have to wonder how he could excel in such a high stress, physically and mentally demanding job, and be at the top of his form.