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You get an Ambien, and you get an Ambien. EVERYBODY GETS AN AMBIEN!!!

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[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 48 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'll just be over here, still unable to get a consistent pharmacy for my ADHD medication, paralyzed in indecision.

[–] pantherfarber@lemmings.world 6 points 9 months ago

Get 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.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 9 months ago

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

[–] Crismus@lemmy.world -3 points 9 months ago

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.