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Classy Habits

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For the nine years between 1972 and the end of 1981 … so great was Rehnquist’s Placidyl habit, dependency, or addictiondepending on how you regard long-term drug usethat by the last quarter of 1981 he began slurring his speech in public, became tongue-tied while pronouncing long words, and sometimes had trouble finishing his thoughts … [this illustrates] the ugly double standards that excuse extreme drug use by the powerful, especially if their connection is a prescribing doctor, and condemns to draconian prison terms the guy who purchases his drugs on the street.

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