Trump WH Pharmacy Scandal
Trump WH Pharmacy Scandal
It wasted $750K during the Trump years and freely handed out Ambien and Provigil.
You get an Ambien, and you get an Ambien. EVERYBODY GETS AN AMBIEN!!!
The staffer told OIG investigators that ahead of overseas trips, the staff would prepare packets of controlled medications to be handed out to White House staff. "And those would typically be Ambien or Provigil and typically both, right. So we would normally make these packets of Ambien and Provigil, and a lot of times they’d be in like five tablets in a zip‑lock bag. And so traditionally, too, we would hand these out. . . . But a lot of times the senior staff would come by or their staff representatives . . . would come by the residence clinic to pick it up. And it was very much a, 'hey, I’m here to pick this up for Ms. X.' And the expectation was we just go ahead and pass it out."
Holy shit. That's sleep aids and wakefulness aids. Fighter pilots might still get Go-No Go pills but these are just staffers.
White House Medical Office may have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on health care for ineligible staff members. White House Medical Unit senior officials estimated that its Executive Medicine clinic has 60 enrolled patients, but it provided care for 6,000 employees, potentially billing the DoD. Between 2017 and 2019, officials also offered senior government officials a patient category code for care at Walter Reed, such that the facility was unable to properly bill them. In the three years, Walter Reed waived over $496,000 in outpatient fees because of these patient categories.
Fuck you Trump. GIVE US HEALTHCARE YOU HYPOCRIT.
46I'll just be over here, still unable to get a consistent pharmacy for my ADHD medication, paralyzed in indecision.
21Get your doctor to give you an unusual dosage. I am on 25mg of what I take and have no problems getting it. The pharmacist even said once that I am lucky. They always have my dosage in stock.
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For those not speaking in brand names, it's about zolpidem (sedative, used for insomnia) and modafinil (stimulant, used for narcolepsy and as a go-pill) both are controlled substances
12Modafinil is just like a strong cup of coffee without any jitters. The only reason it's controlled is because people would abuse it to stay up longer. I was taking two a day when I was on lithium because lithium made me tired as hell, I was still so sleeping 9+ hours at night.
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So, the elites get all the fancy meth thy want for free, but I can't get my necessary pain medication for the last 3 years. I'm stuck in a Lay z Boy and an office chair in constant pain while the eople mak8ng the rules denying my care can get anything they want...
This is the worst timeline ever. Read the article, it was Obama and Trumo that both had this happen under.
-4Read the article, it was Obama and Trumo that both had this happen under.
That's not what the article says. The article says that they interviewed people who worked there between 2009 and 2018. And if you read the linked Stat News article, that one specifically says
It covers only activity in the office through early 2020 under the Trump administration, but investigators interviewed staffers who also worked there under former President Obama.
There's no mention of wrongdoing under Obama (so far).
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