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FBI file: Rehnquist addicted to medication

FBI files released this week show the late U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist was addicted to a sleeping drug during his early years on the Supreme Court.

When Rehnquist, then an associate justice, was hospitalized and taken off Placidyl, he suffered such severe withdrawal symptoms that he became delusional and thought the CIA was plotting against him, the Washington Post reported. Doctors then put him back on the drug and weaned him off it successfully by early 1982.

The FBI released the more than 1,500 pages of documents to a number of journalists and scholars under a Freedom of Information Act request. The documenets could not be released before Rehnquist's death in 2005.
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