General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: The Rude Pundit: Rush Limbaugh Is Dying For His Own Sins [View all]DENVERPOPS
(8,810 posts)What you said was very informative and also there is this:
There was Oxycodone/Acetaminophen. The oxycontin was developed to be Sustained Release, when druggies started crushing them and snorting them, the manufacturer added some ingredient to make them resist crushing. Then when the medical community realized that Acetaminophen was not particularly great for the liver, they cut back the amount of Acetaminophen from 500 to 325 in the Oxycodone/Acetaminopen pills. After the original O/A and Contins they developed the fast acting Oxycodone only pills.
The original Oxycodone/acetaminophen pills were the ones Rush was taking, at least at first.
Acetaminophen can be really toxic to the liver in larger quantities. Teenagers used to do "Suicide Overtures" with Asprin. (some act to attract attention, but not seriously try to off themselves)
When they switched to Tylenol, things got far worse. If the medics couldn't get the suicidal patient to vomit them up, or do a gastric lavage at the ER, and get them out of the teenage patient's stomach before they dissolved, chances were that the teen would need a liver transplant in 6-12 months.
Rush's suddenly having gone deaf (that, BTW, he insinuated was the left wing's work), was actually a major side-effect of overuse of Oxycodone......Besides, if the left wing wanted to silence him, they would have cut out his tongue.....
Thankfully he got a cochlear implant which many can not afford.......