The White House has a pharmacy — and it’s been a mess, a new investigation found
There’s a pharmacy in the White House — or, at least, there’s a sign that says “Pharmacy,” though the people in charge insist it isn’t one. Whatever they call it, the office has had enough internal complaints to warrant a government watchdog investigation.
And its findings were hardly encouraging:
– One former pharmacy staff member told investigators that a doctor once asked if the staffer could “hook up” someone with a controlled substance “as a parting gift for leaving the White House.”
– The office dispensed controlled medications like Ambien and Provigil without verifying the patient’s identity.
– It let people grab over-the-counter medicines from open bins.
– And a larger affiliate of the office inappropriately covered care for a whole host of personnel who weren’t eligible, to the tune of more than $750,000 in wasted taxpayer funds in just three years. (Though that number is fuzzy, because so many records were poorly kept and even handwritten.)
