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White House Medical Unit Narcotic Procurement and Regulatory Double Standards
A scathing government report has revealed that the White House Medical Unit under the Trump administration engaged in the improper procurement and distribution of powerful controlled substances, including fentanyl and morphine.
D.E.A.??
Critics and medical advocates highlight a stark double standard, questioning why the DEA has not pursued these systemic violations with the same severity used against private physicians and pharmacists. The investigation uncovered that the unit operated with virtually no oversight, frequently dispensing drugs to ineligible staff and maintaining inaccurate records.
These findings have sparked broader discussions regarding government corruption, the legality of high-volume narcotic orders in non-surgical settings, and the potential for drug trafficking within federal institutions. Additionally, the sources touch on concerns about the privatization of the organ transplant system and allegations of broader systemic misconduct.
THE AMAZING DOUBLE STANDARDS !!! IS THIS NOT DRUG TRAFFICKING?
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Jan 29, 2024 at 7:58 AM EST
THE ARTICLE READS:
White House Medical Unit’s Mass Order of Fentanyl Raises Questions?
“Orders of significant quantities of drugs such as fentanyl by the White House Medical Unit under the Trump administration have led to questions as to why it procured the controlled substances and what they were intended for.
In the first nine months of 2019, the medical unit—which is responsible for tending to the medical needs of the White House staff—made four separate orders of fentanyl, two orders of morphine and a further two of ketamine. In total, it received 34 packs of fentanyl over the period, records show.
The disclosure came in a scathing report by the Inspector General of the Department of Defense, released earlier this month, which gave the findings of an investigation which began in 2018 that came after complaints were raised about an unnamed senior military medical officer engaging in “improper medical practices.
The probe concluded that the White House Medical Unit’s pharmacy operations had “severe and systemic problems” without oversight, and dispensed prescription medications to ineligible White House staff.”
HOWEVER, ACCORDING TO THE DEA’s Improper Dispensing
??NOW, WHERE WAS THE DEA??
A “prescription for a controlled substance may only be filled by a pharmacist, acting in the usual course of his professional practice.” 21 C.F.R. § 1306.06. A pharmacist is only permitted to fill a prescription that was “issued for a legitimate medical purpose by an individual practitioner acting in the usual course of his professional practice.” 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04(a).
VIOLATIONS PUNISHABLE BY 20 YEARS
Although “[t]he responsibility for the proper prescribing and dispensing of controlled substances is upon the prescribing practitioner… a corresponding responsibility rests with the pharmacist who fills the prescription.”
Id. Section 1306.04(a) “prohibit[s] a pharmacist from filling a prescription for a controlled substance when she either knows or has reason to know that the prescription was not written for a legitimate medical purpose.”
Wheatland Pharmacy,78Fed.Reg.69,441,69,445(2013) (internal quotations and alterations omitted). Section 1306.04 (a)”expressly requires pharmacists to identify and resolve suspicions that a prescription is illegitimate.” Trinity Pharmacy II, 83 Fed. Reg. 7,304, 7,331 (2018).
ALEKS PHILLIPS FURTHER WROTE:
“The Inspector General made a series of recommendations to improve administrative scrutiny of the unit, which the Pentagon agreed with.”The Inspector General made a series of recommendations to improve administrative scrutiny of the unit, which the Pentagon agreed with.
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Around a hundred times more potent than morphine, fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is used in a medical setting for pain relief and as an anesthetic. Morphine and ketamine are also used as sedatives, but all three are controlled due to their illicit use.
Fentanyl has increasingly become the leading driver of America’s opioid epidemic, with illicit supply thought to be smuggled over the border, prompting calls from Democrats and former President Donald Trump for tighter controls.”
CONFLATED MIS-INFORMATION AND STUPIDITY BY BOTH DEA AND MEDIA
ALEKS PHILLIPS WROTE
“According to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), fentanyl is responsible for more than 70 percent of drug overdose deaths among U.S. adults aged 18 to 45.
As the White House Medical Unit offers day-to-day care for the president, vice president, their families, and staffers, the procurement of sedatives, including fentanyl, has raised eyebrows.
“This was just a clinic, and didn’t do any major procedures which required even moderate sedation,” Brian Krassenstein, an internet personality and commentator, wrote in an X, formerly Twitter, post on Saturday that has since been viewed 3.2 million times. “The real White House drug story wasn’t the cocaine found under [President Joe] Biden but the Fentanyl, Morphine, or Ketamine prescribed under Trump.”
“No wonder America’s fentanyl problem exploded while Trump was in office!” Grant Stern, the executive editor of Occupy Democrats, said in a post on Sunday, since viewed over 280,000 times. “His ‘doctor’ was ordering PLENTY of it for the White House.”
“For a clinic that doesn’t typically do procedures [with] moderate sedation, they sure are ordering prodigious quantities of morphine, fentanyl, versed, & ketamine,” Nick Mark, a medical doctor based in Seattle, Washington, wrote.
Newsweek approached the Trump campaign via email for comment on Monday.
The Inspector General report found that in the White House Medical Unit, drugs, including opioids and sleep medications, “were not properly accounted for” and that prescribers “wrote prescriptions for controlled substances that often lacked the medical provider and patient information mandated by DEA policy.”
“It also questioned why the unit routinely ordered branded drugs instead of their generic equivalents that were around half the price.
The report did not name any individuals working at the White House Medical Unit at the time and did not apportion blame for the issues it uncovered.
Newsweek reached out to Rep. Ronny Jackson, the president’s physician between 2013 and 2018, and Sean Conley, his successor who served until Biden was inaugurated in 2021, via email for comment on Monday.”
???NOW WHERE IS THE DEA???
HOWEVER, ACCORDING TO THE DEA’s Improper Dispensing Further includes
A violation of these federal regulations is a violation of federal law. See 21 U.S.C. § 842(a)(1) (making it unlawful to dispense controlled substances in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 829, whose scope is defined in part by 21 C.F.R. §§ 1306.04, 1306.06).
VIOLATIONS PUNISHABLE BY 20 YEARS
Moreover, any attempt to violate these federal regulations is a violation of federal law. See 21 U.S.C. § 846. Additionally, the DEA may find that a registrant’s DEA certificate of registration is inconsistent with the public interest if the registrant acted carelessly or negligently in handling controlled substances, even if the registrant did not intend to violate the Controlled Substances Act. See, e.g..
The Medicine Shoppe, 79 Fed. Reg. 59,504, 59,506 (2014) (quoting Paul J. Caragine, Jr., 63 Fed. Reg. 51,592, 51,601 (1998) (“Careless or negligent handling of controlled substances creates the opportunity for diversion and [can] justify revocation or denial.”)).
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Hello, Since the DEA has illegally used the so-called “opioid epidemic” to target mostly Black and brown doctors, dentist and pharmacists, where was the DEA when the Trump administration medical team at the White House was ordering unusual amounts of fentanyl, mprphine and ketamine? Please read and share.
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From Patrick McGlone (organs transplant recipient) on MoveOn.org
“Hello friends,
I hope that the new year is treating you well. I wanted to provide you with an update on the latest news in our movement to protect organ donors and patients from the encroaching for-profit takeover of the U.S. organ donation and transplant system. Let me know if you have any questions and thank you again for signing our petition.
New Article: Selling out the organ transplant system won’t fix it
The Hill recently published an opinion article written by two organ donation advocates who stand with our movement: Glenda Daggert and Ira Copperman. Glenda had a kidney and pancreas transplant back in 1999 after living for decades with type one diabetes. Her husband, Ira, became her caregiver and the two of them have been fierce activists ever since, volunteering with tons of organ donation and patient support nonprofits over the years.
In the article, Glenda and Ira share their experiences with the transplant system and explain the dangers of allowing for-profit companies to run it. It’s a powerful story that lays everything out very succinctly and I encourage everyone to please read it and share it with their friends and family. It’s also very inspiring that this was published in The Hill out of all other possible news sites, because it’s based in Washington D.C. and is followed by members of the federal government.
Click here to read the article.
Organ Transplant System Contracts
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) – the federal agency in charge of contracting organizations to run the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) – recently released 2 contract solicitations for managing the system, out of the expected 5 that the agency previously said it would issue. The agency also scheduled several meetings and feedback opportunities this month where our movement’s input should be heard (scroll down to “next steps”).
Both of the contract solicitations were released in draft form, which means the final details can and probably will change. HRSA also wrote that it won’t accept proposals based on those drafts because, as the agency writes: “the primary purpose of releasing this draft is to signal HRSA’s intent to provide additional time for Offerors to familiarize themselves with the requirements of the upcoming final solicitation.”
Regardless, both draft solicitations are available to view on sam.gov (a federal contracting website), with deadlines set for June 18th and June 25th respectively, and now the door is open for corporations like Google and Microsoft to go from being merely interested in running our nation’s only transplant system, to actually preparing their formal offers to the government.
Being government contracting documents, the solicitations are very bulky and tough to summarize in just one email. I’ve done my best to point out the most important details and encourage all of you to please read through the full solicitations (hyperlinked below) when you have time.
The 2 contracts solicitations are:
· OPTN Board of Directors Support: As the name suggests, this contract would be to provide services, qualified personnel, materials, equipment and facilities to allow the OPTN Board of Directors* to fulfill its responsibilities. This will include planning a special election to appoint a new Board within 6 months of assignment.
o Submissions are due on June 18th, at 12 PM Eastern Time.
o The contract would be for 12 months with the option to extend for 4 extra 12-month periods. It’s also allowed for the contract to include an extension clause after that, which can’t exceed 5.5 years.
o The contract award amount will range from a minimum $2,500 to a maximum $50,000,000.
o Whatever group wins this contract won’t be eligible to bid on others.
o The solicitation also states that contractors must be a non-profit, 501(c)(3) registered organization. As I wrote in my last email, this is a huge win for our movement. But we need to stay vigilant: It’s also written that joint ventures and LLCs are permitted to bid on this and it doesn’t look like all members of those arrangements would need to be non-profits. Unless HRSA provides clarity, this could leave a way for for-profits to bid on this.
For example, last year major tech corporation Oracle announced a partnership with Valeos, a nonprofit focused on improving organ transplant outcomes. I feel it’s very likely they will try to win this board support contract using Valeos or another nonprofit as a front organization.
*The OPTN Board of Directors is a governing body in charge of setting and updating organ donation and transplant policies and guidelines, and providing leadership to the donation and transplant community overall. The board members are elected to their roles by their peers and are often doctors, transplant hospital staff, organ procurement organization administrators, patient representatives, and so on. Each of them is also a volunteer to the OPTN, which means their positions on the board are unpaid.
· OPTN Operations Transition: This contract has a much bigger umbrella of responsibilities and seems to be eligible for more than one contractor. Work would include re-engineering and redesigning OPTN services; data collection, management and analysis; managing materials and processes for transplant system member compliance; management of the organ transplant waitlist (including allocation of organs); IT management and security; and communications on behalf of the OPTN such as planning transplant system meetings and creating education materials for patients/professionals/the public.
o Submissions are due on June 25th, at 12 PM Eastern Time.
o The contract would be for 12 months with the option to extend for 4 extra 12-month periods. It’s also allowed for the contract to include an extension clause after that, which can’t exceed 6 months, but that can be awarded to the same contractor more than once.
o The contract award amount will range from a minimum $2,500 to a maximum $450,000,000 (split up by contractor/responsibility).
Next Steps
HRSA has scheduled several virtual meetings this month to give interested bidders more details about the contract solicitations. The registration links are below. I highly encourage you to join me in trying to voice our concerns about allowing for-profit companies to control our nation’s only organ transplant system. Full disclosure: I don’t expect us to be allowed into the meetings, but we have to try. In the absence of any fair, public discussions about whether it’s right to let corporations decide who can get an organ transplant, we have no choice but to force the issue and hold this conversation wherever we can.
Meeting Registrations
· February 20, 1:00 – 3:00 PM Eastern Time: OPTN Board of Directors Support contract.
o Click here to register.
· February 21, 1:00 – 3:00 PM Eastern Time: OPTN Operations Transition contract.
o Click here to register.
What do we say?
If attendees are given the chance to ask questions, we should say:
1. “Because these solicitations will allow for-profit companies to bid on OPTN contracts for the first time ever, how will HRSA protect donors and patients and make sure that we don’t end up seeing a for-profit takeover of organ donation and transplantation in the U.S.?”
2. “Will HRSA publicly disclose which organizations bid on these contracts and specify which are nonprofits or for-profits?”
HRSA Questionnaires
HRSA has also created webforms where people can ask questions or provide concerns about the contracts. Similar to above, I encourage all of you to fill out the form and ask how HRSA will protect donors and patients, and prevent for-profit companies from completely taking over this lifesaving field.
· Form for questions/concerns about the Board Support contract (click here)
· Form for questions/concerns about the Operations contract (click here)
· Submissions to either form must be made by 12:00 AM on February 28th.
Keep Raising Awareness
We also need to continue sharing our petition with our communities to raise awareness and call for our government to take action. Please follow these steps:
1. Share our petition with your family, friends, coworkers and neighbors.
2. Post on social media about this issue using the hashtag #LifeBeforeProfit
3. Call or email your representatives and demand they act to prevent a for-profit organ transplant system. You can find your congresspeople by clicking here.
Thank you for standing up for organ donors and transplant patients nationwide. Let’s keep up the fight.
With hope and gratitude,
Patrick McGlone
Kidney and Pancreas Recipient “
Article from “The Hill” about the selling our National Organ Transpant System to for-profit corporations. https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/4458564-selling-out-the-organ-transplant-system-wont-fix-it/
According to the Mike Gill testimony all over Rumble, the DEA is PROTECTING a fentanyl for arms trafficking operation between New Hampshire and Texas with weekly shipments. The DEA, politicians, judges, police, CIA, all profit from that laundered money. (Mike Gill owned the largest mortgage broker in the country, was infiltrated, and had a settlement of $50 Million proposed to him to stay silent, involving Sununu, Liberty Mutual, the DOJ, IRS, all government regulators having to do with finance, and a whole host of characters. When he refused, they tried to kill him multiple times. Now he is on the run in hiding, trying to get before the Senate to testify. He says Gen Flynn, Sydney Powell have his evidence but are not acting on it.
According to the Mike Gill testimony all over Rumble, the DEA is PROTECTING a fentanyl for arms trafficking operation between New Hampshire and Texas with weekly shipments. The DEA, politicians, judges, police, CIA, all profit from that laundered money. (Mike Gill owned the largest mortgage broker in the country, was infiltrated, and had a settlement of $50 Million proposed to him to stay silent, involving Sununu, Liberty Mutual, the DOJ, IRS, all government regulators having to do with finance, and a whole host of characters. When he refused, they tried to kill him multiple times. Now he is on the run in hiding, trying to get before the Senate to testify. He says Gen Flynn, Sydney Powell have his evidence but are not acting on it.