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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's Mar-a-Lardo friends pushing med to Veterans Administration
....and of course he is in the middle of this. Kickback? Commission?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/17/spravato-ketamine-like-drug-that-experts-doubt-and-trump-is-pushing-on-veterans
Personal interest from Donald Trump appears to have put a controversial antidepressant on a fast track at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that shoved aside usual protocols, even though experts inside and outside the government have serious concerns the drug is effective and say it may be dangerous.
Sources inside the Department of Veterans Affairs say staffers were essentially told by a senior official to drop everything in March and accelerate the drugs availability because the president had expressed enthusiasm for the drug, Spravato, as a possible treatment for depressed veterans.
Questions have also been raised about a trio of Trump friends who have been working on veterans issues and interacting with Johnson & Johnson regarding programs for troubled vets.
In the midst of a rapidly convened series of VA meetings early that month, another official said the president wanted the VA to buy truckloads of the drug, according to sources. Trump also touted the drugs benefits to the veterans affairs secretary, Robert Wilkie, in a White House meeting just last week, offering to help negotiate the VAs purchase of the drug, according to Bloomberg.
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Trump's Mar-a-Lardo friends pushing med to Veterans Administration (Original Post)
Grasswire2
Jun 2019
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Grasswire2
(13,849 posts)1. well, that's likely why his friends are running the VA from mar-a-lardo
Profit.
backtoblue
(13,127 posts)2. Here's the link to a post about the drug
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