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Jordan Belfort could put Rob Ford to shame.At the height of his drug-addled debauchery in the mid-nineties, the founder of the crooked Long Island brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont might as well have been a walking pharmacy. He was taking 90 milligrams of morphine, 40 milligrams of oxycodone, eight milligrams of Xanax, 20 milligrams of Klonopin, 30 milligrams of Ambien, 20 milligrams of Prozac,10 milligrams of Paxil, eight milligrams of Zofran, 200 milligrams of Fiorinal, 80 milligrams of Valium, 20 milligrams of salagen, a dozen Soma, 20 Quaaludes, a gram or two of coke, two heaping tablespoons of Senokot to ward off constipation and a pint of Macallan single-malt scotch, to wash it all down.
This was all while making $40 million a year and that doesn't even count the strippers, the prostitutes, the mansions, the beach houses, the parties, the dwarf-tossing, the servants, the bodyguards, the yacht and the helicopter.
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