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Rush Limbaugh could see a deal with prosecutors in a long-running prescription fraud case collapse after authorities found a bottle of Viagra in his bag at Palm Beach International Airport. The prescription was not in his name.

Limbaugh was detained for more than three hours Monday at the airport after returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic. Customs officials found the Viagra in his luggage but his name was not on the prescription, said Paul Miller, a spokesman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

Miller said the alleged violation could be a second-degree misdemeanor. The sheriff's office was investigating and will soon turn the case over to the state attorney's office, which had no immediate comment Tuesday.

Under the deal reached last month with prosecutors, Limbaugh was not to be arrested for any infraction for 18 months in exchange for authorities deferring a charge of "doctor shopping." Prosecutors had alleged the conservative talk-show host illegally deceived multiple physicians to receive overlapping painkiller prescriptions.

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-1753947.html





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JULY 5--The bottle of Viagra that U.S. Customs agents seized from Rush Limbaugh last month had been prescribed in the name of a Florida psychologist who has been treating the star in connection with his addiction to pain medication, investigators revealed today.

In announcing that they would not charge Limbaugh in connection with his June 26 possession of the impotence drug, Palm Beach prosecutors reported that the Viagra had been issued by Limbaugh's cardiologist in the name of Steven Strumwasser, a Miami doctor who apparently began treating Limbaugh after the conservative radio host acknowledged his drug problem in late-2003.

While a prosecution memorandum released today (a copy off which you'll find here) identifies Strumwasser as a psychiatrist, Florida's Department of Health lists him as a licensed psychologist. As part of Limbaugh's recent plea deal in a "doctor shopping" probe, he was ordered to continue in a drug rehabilitation program with Strumwasser.

Since the Viagra prescription was written and filled in Dade County, Palm Beach prosecutors have referred their file to Dade County investigators since "any review of mislabeling of the prescription" must occur there.

Following the prosecution's announcement of its decision not to charge Limbaugh, the sheriff's office today released its original report on the incident at Palm Beach International Airport. After returning from the Dominican Republic on a private plane, Limbaugh was stopped by Customs agents after he was spotted "bypassing the inspection area." An agent then approached Limbaugh, the report notes, and informed him that, "he had not been inspected and was not cleared to depart U.S. Customs."

A subsequent search of his luggage turned up the Viagra, which Limbaugh said was given to him by Strumwasser in a bid to protect his "privacy."

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/c...agra-probe