Jackson overprescribed "wakefulness medication." Why is the media going along with this
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euphemism?
Wakefulness medication and sleep medication translates to UPPERS and DOWNERS. Or amphetamines and Ambien, or similar drugs.
Which would explain a lot.
And the NY Times says he kept a private stock of controlled medications. I wonder what was in the private stock.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/us/politics/ronny-jackson-veterans-affairs-nomination.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=66882998&pgtype=Homepage
It says that the committee was told that physicians working with Dr. Jackson “felt uncomfortable and refused to be a part of the loose dispensing of drugs to current and former” White House staff. It also states that Dr. Jackson “also had private stocks of controlled substances.”
The document says that the committee received testimony that the White House medical unit “had questionable record keeping for pharmaceuticals” and that the committee was told that Dr. Jackson would often only account for pills after distributing them.
One former medical staff member described Dr. Jackson as a “kiss up, kick down boss,” who mistreated subordinates and created a hostile work environment.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/25/politics/ronny-jackson-white-house-vetting/index.html
Lawmakers said they have received information that alleges Jackson over-prescribed sleeping medication and wakefulness medication during his tenure, as well as claims that an alleged power struggle with another White House physician decimated morale under his leadership in the White House Medical Unit.
ON EDIT: The claim is being made that he is "only" passing out the stimulant-like drug, Provigil. But Provigil works on the same dopamine transporters as other stimulants. It might not be the innocuous substance its promoters want us to think.
https://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20090317/is-provigil-addictive#1
Addictive drugs such as cocaine and methamphetamine trigger the same mechanism, although they do it much faster and more powerfully than Provigil does.
"The changes we are observing in dopamine concentrations with modafinil are equivalent to those we have reported for [Ritalin] in the human brain," Volkow says. "So not only does [Provigil] increase dopamine in the human brain, but does it by similar mechanisms to Ritalin and cocaine, by directly blocking the dopamine transporter. It is not working by some distinct, different mechanism."
Volkow notes that Provigil has no effect on mice lacking dopamine transporters. This indicates that while the drug may have other effects in the brain, its dopamine-enhancing effect is crucial.
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I watched Tester on tv last night. He said there are witnesses who have reported that Jackson walked the aisle of a plane handing out sleep medication. Those people were not his patients. That's not prescribing or overprescribing.
Isn't it illegal for a physician to give medication, CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES, no less, to anyone who is technically not a patient?
It is an expensive medication.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil
It works well at first but seems to lose effectiveness quickly.
In order to get an RX for it for a sleep disorder, you have to have a sleep study to confirm that you do have a sleep disorder. If you do, it can be a life-saver for an afflicted person.
It has a cousin named Modafinil. It is cheaper but not nearly as effective.
Neither of these medications are speed. Modafinil was invented by the French to be used by their soldiers to provide wakefulness.
and she says it has no withdrawal effects.
So I asked her....when people who have used Ambient for more than a month stop taking it, can they fall asleep ok?
and she said.." You might have a "bit" of insomnia but it goes away in a few day, maybe up to a week.."
SO glad it is not addictive.
That was the thinking, at least — but the thinking now turns out to be wrong, according to a new study published on March 17 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The authors say modafinil is not only the latest in a long line of chemical stimulants designed to keep users awake, alert and happy; it's also the latest to go straight to the brain's addiction centers in the process.
"This drug is not safe to use the way people are using it," says Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and co-author of the new study. "Not safe at all." (See the most common hospital mishaps.)
SNIP
"Dopamine transporters perform cleanup work," says Volkow. "They remove dopamine after it's released and recycle it." The more dopamine that gets left in the spaces between cells, the longer its rewarding effect on the brain — and the likelier it is to lay down the roots of addiction. As Volkow and Fowler suspected, the PET scans of the men who had taken modafinil showed that dopamine transporters were indeed being blocked by the drug and overall levels were rising.
"Cocaine, amphetamines and methamphetamine all block dopamine transporters and leave dopamine in the extracellular areas," says Volkow. "Modafinil does the same." (Read "Can One Drug Cure Addiction to Another?"
Worse, the drug does not do its work indiscriminately. Modafinil binds to the same site on dopamine transporters as cocaine does, and one of the areas where dopamine levels then begin to climb is the nucleus accumbens — a spot researchers have come to recognize as a sort of addiction central for recreational meds. "The nucleus accumbens," Volkow and Fowler wrote, is a "brain region critical for the rewarding effects of drugs of abuse."
Hence, you believe the best way to provide clarity is asking "what the hell is wrong with you?" Seems pretty damned counter-productive and irrational to believe as such.
Time for you to dig in even deeper. There's simply not enough moral high ground for everyone, and you need to defend yours.
