Gov. Bush's Daughter Released From Drug Rehab

[PaDUer]

http://www.local6.com/news/2391717/detail.html
Gov. Bush's Daughter Released From Drug Rehab
Bush Allowed To Go Home To Parents

POSTED: 3:54 p.m. EDT August 8, 2003
UPDATED: 5:24 p.m. EDT August 8, 2003

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Gov. Jeb Bush's daughter completed a drug rehabilitation program Friday and a judge allowed her to go home with her parents.

Noelle Bush hugged Circuit Judge Reginald Whitehead as the governor and his wife, Columba, smiled. The president's niece was ordered into treatment after she was arrested in January 2002, accused of trying to pass a fraudulent prescription at a Tallahassee pharmacy to obtain the anti-anxiety drug Xanax.

"It's been quite a challenge, and I'm grateful," Noelle Bush said during the drug court hearing at the Orange County Courthouse.

The governor refused comment, but his press office released a statement expressing his family's joy.

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[carrowsboy]

1. hugging the judge???

Isn't that a bit unprofessional?

[JitterbugPerfume]

2. I wish her the best

my daughter had a very serious drug problem , as some of the old timers here know

Jeb Bush or no, I don't wish that heart ache on any parent , or child

and I hate him

[Ilsa]

3. My brother who finished rehab

is grateful to everyone involved in seeing him through it. He feels they had a part in saving his life. He now provides emotional support to others in the program.

I'm glad for Noelle. But this family should come to terms with the fact that there is a substance abuse problem that runs in this family.

[PeakOil2008]

4. With all of the Bush Klan's dirty dealings...

Is it any wonder that they tend to suffer from substance abuse? Sounds to me like there's some repressed guilt that permeates that family. Substance abuse is likely an attempt to escape that guilt.

[Cheswick2.0]

5. she'll be back

Pretty easy prediction to make and I hope for her sake she is not, but I think she will be back on drugs with in weeks.

[sandnsea]

6. That's just an awful thing to say

Just awful.

[chookie]

8. Not awful, just realistic

I know Chessie, and can vouch that she is a fine woman, and I have never known her to make a malevolent remark. Rather, she is outstanding in her generousity and sensitivity towards humans and their ofttime foibles and shortcomings.

I join her in wishing Noelle Bush the best of luck, because, realistically, she is going to need it. Rehabilitation is hard work for anybody, even in the best of circumstances, so if she experiences a relapse, it would not be extraordinary.

No doubt Noelle got "preferential treatment" in the legal system (caught in two prior attempts to score oxycontin but Family managed to keep it quiet), but what she got in preferential treatment, the poor girl is on the losing end being a member of this psycho family. She was caught forging prescription in the days prior to her arrest, yet her parents and family took no action to get her treatment that she obviously needed. I can only imagine she was just yelled at for acting out during Daddy's Moral Crusade for the Governorship and warned to be more careful about fucking up in the future.

Poor Noelle has got some problems -- probably the natural result of what her wacko family have subjected her to. But my gut feeling is that she is viewed as a "fuckup" and an embarassment who needs to be stifled -- not as a beloved daughter who is deeply troubled and needs support and help.

She is very likely to continue to be the Family Mess-upTM, emotionally frozen out by her breath-takingly hypocritical family.

Unless she gets the hell away from them, she's going to end up like David Kennedy.

I'm not saying that to be mean -- my heart goes out to this poor girl, because I see the cards being stacked against her. Unlike the more generous Jitterbug (above), I do not have sympathy for her family, who I perceive as totally obsessed with illusion and the possession of power, for whom Noelle is just the requisite part of the ideal 2.5 children politicians parade before the public to convince them they are "normal." If they loved her, I would feel sorry for them, but I don't believe they do -- and sadly, neither does Noelle, and hence her painful addictions....

[karlschneider]

9. No, not an awful thing to say. What -would- be awful would be to express

hope that she would fall off the wagon. I don't think anyone around here would wish that on her. But her history and environment suggest a pessimistic prediction. I hope it doesn't turn out that way, but it sure won't come as any surprise to me if she gets busted yet again. If my dad was Jeb, I'd probably fire a bullet into my mouth.
:-(

[carrowsboy]

7. was she ever off?

Wasn't she busted in rehab with crack in her shoe? Then Jeb got it thrown out of court & hushed up.

Sounds like she never get off of them.

[maggrwaggr]

10. If I was his daughter, I'd be doing drugs, too

who could face that reality?

(it's a joke)