White House Pharmacy Dispensed Drugs Without Verifying Patient Identities: Inspector General

The pharmacy at the White House repeatedly gave controlled drugs to ineligible staffers, according to an inspector general. “All phases of the White House Medical Unit’s pharmacy operations had severe and systemic problems due to the unit’s reliance on ineffective internal controls to ensure compliance with pharmacy safety standards,” the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Inspector General said in a report this month detailing its investigation into allegations the White House clinic was engaging in “improper medical practices.” The probe involved interviewing more than 120 officials and reviewing over 200 documents. Witnesses testified to rampant issues. “Anything that took place at the White House Clinic was never written down, never recorded,” one witness told investigators. “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.”...