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White House pharmacy under Trump was fast and loose with drugs, report finds

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January 26, 2024

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The White House pharmacy under the Trump administration flouted federal regulations by doling out prescription pills, including stimulants and sedatives, to ineligible staffers without keeping adequate records, according to a scathing government report released this month.

“Severe and systemic problems” were found in “all phases of the White House Medical Unit’s pharmacy operations,” the Department of Defense’s Office of the Inspector General found.

“Anything that took place at the White House Clinic was never written down, never recorded,” one witness interviewed for the DOD’s 80-page report said. “The only record that you ever had that a patient came in and got any sort of medication would have been if it was a controlled substance that we were required to document for the pharmacy.”

But even when dealing with controlled substances – drugs with potential for abuse and physical dependence – the White House Medical Unit wrote prescriptions that “often lacked the medical provider and patient information mandated by [Drug Enforcement Agency] policy.”

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