I’ve heard a few people claim this, Is there a proven relationship between extreme Oxycontin abuse and deafness?
According to news reports I read, he was also taking/abusing Vicodin (hydrocodone).
Deafness associated with abuse of hydrocodone/acetaminophen.
I’m going on (probably faulty) memory here, but I thought that he forst got on the drugs after his surgery to cure his deafness?
Unclear and not proven would be my take on the matter,.
Read the Wikipedia entry. I don’t vouch for its accuracy.
How do painkillers cure deafness?
No, Rucksinator is saying that he had surgery to try to cure his deafness, and then got addicted to the pain killers he was taking after the surgery.
The way I heard is is that he went on the painkillers after a back surgery, and got hooked on them because he went back to work too soon after the operation.
My understanding of Limbaugh’s addiction more or less aligns with Rico’s, though I don’t have any information about the “went back to work too soon” part. Oxycontin will cause deafness, sometimes. His addiction was established before his ear surgery.
What I heard was that he got addicted to alien painkillers while he was abducted for a few weeks, back in 1975. When he was returned to Earth, he had to do with what he could find.