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Rush Limbaugh returned to his radio show this week, after five weeks of treatment for addiction to painkillers. The conservative commentator said that he had been “powerless” to shake the addiction alone. It began in the mid-1990s, when he was prescribed pain medicine after back surgery. Limbaugh said there was still much he could not discuss; police in Florida are reportedly investigating whether he obtained OxyContin and other drugs illegally, without a prescription. Later in the broadcast he returned to familiar territory and bashed some of his favorite Democratic targets, including Sens. Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton. Some people think therapists “turn you into a linguine-spined liberal,” he said. “That’s not true.”
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