When It Comes To Rush Limbaugh, Go Ahead, Flag Me For Being Offside. But I'll skip the piling on. If you read this space even irregularly, you know I'm no fan of Limbaugh, radio's biggest mouth. That puts me at odds with 20 million regulars who listen to Limbaugh on more than 600 radio stations. Like him or not, the guy's a force. And he's had a bad month. Limbaugh pulled over and parked his considerable star in the long-term lot last week when he admitted on air that he was addicted to painkillers and entering drug rehab for 30 days. [continues 613 words]
The Love Drug has plenty to hate about it. But first you have to know something. "I have recently had parents of young adults in their 20s come in. They were wondering about (Ecstasy)," said Wendy McCarty, project director at the Central Nebraska Council on Alcoholism. "One woman's daughter had been telling her that Ecstasy was, 'Really OK, Mom. It just makes you feel good. It doesn't hurt you.'" What you should know is that Ecstasy, known on the street as the Love Drug, Rolls, E, the Hug Drug and XTC and in the lab as methylenedioxymethamphetamine or MDMA, has drawn the attention of McCarty and others partly because it kills brain cells like April melts snow -- and partly because of marketing. [continues 659 words]
