A Division of Protection report discovered that the White Home pharmacy was handing out managed substances illegally to workers when Trump was president.
Rolling Stone reported:
By means of in-person inspections and interviews with over 120 officers, the report concluded “that the White House Medical Unit provided a wide range of health care and pharmaceutical services to ineligible White House staff in violation of Federal law and regulation and DoD policy. Additionally, the White House Medical Unit dispensed prescription medications, including controlled substances, to ineligible White House staff.”
One witness instructed the DoD OIG that pharmacy workers usually ready go-bags of prescription medicine to White Home workers prematurely of abroad journeys. “One of our requirements was to go ahead and make packets up for the controlled medications. And those would typically be Ambien or Provigil and typically both,” the witness stated. “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.”
The report additionally discovered that medicine can be neglected in bins for folks to cease by and choose up.
The medication within the bins was over-the-counter medication, however there is no such thing as a pharmacy within the nation that arms out medicine and not using a prescription and permits folks to come back and take over-the-counter medicines with no questions requested.
The intentional breaking of the regulation and the dearth of recordkeeping are hallmarks of something run by Donald Trump. Trump’s idea of energy is {that a} president is above the regulation, and this perspective is held by the individuals who work for Trump, too.
Donald Trump was protecting his workers drugged up and working an unlawful capsule mill out of the White Home. The majority of the violations on the White Home pharmacy occurred from 2017-2019, which have been the primary three years of the Trump presidency.
Members of the Trump administration being on medication would clarify quite a bit. Additionally it is motive to be sure that they’re by no means within the White Home once more.
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