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WASHINGTON — The FBI’s file on former Chief Justice William Rehnquist _ made public more than a year after his death _ indicates the Nixon and Reagan administrations enlisted its help in blunting criticism of him during confirmation hearings.

The file also offers insight into the hallucinations and other symptoms of withdrawal that Rehnquist suffered when he was taken off a prescription painkiller in 1981. A doctor was cited as saying that Rehnquist, an associate justice of the Supreme Court at the time, tried to escape the hospital in his pajamas and imagined that the CIA was plotting against him….

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/04/AR2007010400140.html

How true! Everyone who watches TV knows that prescription drugs are just another consumer product and that your medical doctor is just some guy with lousy handwriting standing between you and satisfaction.

Excellent points all. But it is the overweaning hypocrisy of a society that will lock up Darren and Samantha’s kid for a small bag of marijuana but looks the other way when the parents show up at a youth league soccer game pickled on booze and prescription drugs that speaks loudest.

I certainly don’t see the situation today as any better. In fact, judging by the pharmacopeia offered on TV every night “Ask your doctor!”, I’m not surprised to read of the problem. Add schools handing out psychotropic drugs to kids who have the audacity to act like kids, and the “War on Drugs” seems like nothing so much as a war on those who choose to take the drugs not advertised on TV.

I guess we’ve come full circle, however. Let’s not forget those in their 40s and 50s today were the same ones who pointed out the hypocrisy of yesterday.