During his press conference just now, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) announced that he was leaving that afternoon to check in to the Mayo Clinic, where he admitted he’d been over the Christmas break for addiction to prescription medicine.
The reason, he said, is that “the incident on wednesday concerned me deeply…. I simply do not remember getting out of bed, being pulled over by the police, or being cited with three infractions.” He said he was “deeply concerned about his reaction to the medication and lack of knowledge about the incident that evening.”
Update: Here‘s the text of Kennedy’s statement.
