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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 2 months

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Under Donald Trump’s leadership, the West Wing operated more like a pill mill than the White House, at least according to a January report by the Department of Defense inspector general, which capped a six-year investigation into the administration’s medical practices.

But sources knowledgeable on the matter paint an even more dramatic image than that, describing the nation’s highest office as “awash in speed,” reported Rolling Stone.

Common pills included modafinil, Adderall, fentanyl, morphine, and ketamine, according to the Pentagon report. But other, unlisted drugs—like Xanax—were equally easy to come by from the White House Medical Unit, according to sources that spoke to the magazine.

At least two senior staffers would regularly mix the depressant with alcohol, a potentially life-threatening combo, to deal with the stress of working with a highly erratic boss.

“You try working for him and not chasing pills with alcohol,” one source told Rolling Stone.

While other presidents were known to take a mix of drug cocktails to fight off back pain (like JFK) or bad moods (like Nixon), no previous administrations matched the level of debauchery of Trump’s, whose in-office pharmacists unquestioningly handed out highly addictive substances to staffers who needed pick-me-ups or energy boosts—no doctor’s exam, referral, or prescription required.

“It was kind of like the Wild West. Things were pretty loose. Whatever someone needs, we were going to fill this,” another source said.

Ultimately, the unmitigated access to controlled substances fostered an environment that would have been considered highly illegal and problematic anywhere else in the nation—if it weren’t inside the very office that helps craft those regulations.

“Is it being done appropriately or legally all the time? No. But are they going to get to that end result that the bosses want? Yeah,” said another, referring to the high demands of the office.

Meanwhile, pharmacists described an atmosphere of fear within the West Wing, claiming they would be “fired” if they spoke out or would receive negative work assignments if they didn’t hand pills over to staffers.

#us politics #news #republicans #donald trump #conservatives #trump administration #gop #2024 #Department of Defense inspector general #department of defense #rolling stone magazine #White House Medical Unit #prescription pills #modafinil #Adderall #fentanyl #morphine #ketamine #Xanax

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nobrashfestivity · 5 months

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Eugène Samuel Grasset La Morphinomane [The Morphine Addict], 1897

#Eugène Samuel Grasset #La Morphinomane #illustration #nobrashfestivity #morphine #tw drug use

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dandyads · 2 months

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St. James' Society, 1908

According to this PBS piece on the history of drugs in America: "In the early 1900s heroin was seen as a potential solution to the increasing problem of morphine addiction, and the philanthropic St. James Society mounted a campaign to mail free samples of heroin to morphine addicts."

#heroin #morphine #drugs #dubious medical claims #1900s #1908 #vintage advertising

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gumbuk9 · 4 months

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#og #narcotics #benadryl #fentanyl #cocaine #methamphetamine #codeine #LSD #heroin #aderall #fluoxetine #ecstasy #morphine #ketamine #airshot

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cosmonautroger · 1 month

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#morphine

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blu3mila · 5 months

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Have a lucky day!

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Morphine (and Nick Cave, of course) were the soundtrack of my Trigun ride; smooth sax following the beat into a fun quirky-deadly cycle. an impossible gunman! he can't lose forever, but he's doomed to try.

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#trigun #vash the stampede #morphine #might as well tag them zdsxfcgvhbj #every time this song would come on id sing along. such a fun song to sing while drawing fhfh #trigun maximum

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theopiumeater · 3 months

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Antique Chinese Mother of Pearl Opium Pipe Set c. 19th Century

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hilema · 2 years

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Морфий (2008), dir. Aleksei Balabanov

#Морфий #morphine #morphiy #aleksei balabanov #morphine 2008 #hilewa

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morphinedoutretombe · 3 months

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Ne jugez jamais un être d'après son air innocent... Parfois la souffrance nous transforme en un monstre incontrôlable... Ce petit démon a creusé un nid douillet dans mon coeur... Ses racines ont poussé jusque dans ma tête... Pas de murmures, ni de voix... Juste des pulsions... J'ai appris à le calmer par mon propre sacrifice... Il déteste les miroirs car je peux le deviner au fond de mes yeux... Il craint autant l'humanité que moi... Voilà comment il m'a approché... Quand la vie m'a refusé, il a pris sa place... Je ne suis ni immortelle, ni invincible bien au contraire... Si fragile... Que le moindre choc pourrait me précipiter dans la tombe... Le problème c'est que je n'ai jamais eu peur de la mort... Elle me fascine... Beaucoup trop dans les moments de désespoir... Dans mon esprit tout est en nuances sombres... Même mes sourires cachent des torrents de larmes... Je suis ainsi... A prendre ou à laisser... Avec le temps, j'ai accepté la réalité... L'abandon est toujours leur choix... Je ne changerai plus... Je ne me trahirai plus...

#morphine #texte #goth #dark prose #borderline personality disorder #unique #poésie #sombre

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pazzesco · 7 months

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The Great Binge: The Drug-Fuelled “Belle Epoque”

The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque; French for "Beautiful Epoch" is a period of history, usually considered to begin around 1871–1880 and to end with the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It was a period characterized by optimism, peace, economic prosperity, colonial expansion, and technological, scientific, and cultural innovations. In this era of France's cultural and artistic climate (particularly within Paris), the arts markedly flourished, and numerous masterpieces of literature, music, theatre, and visual art gained extensive recognition.

The Bar At Maxim's, Vintage Artwork By Pierre-Victor Galland

The Great Binge refers to the same period spanning 1870 to 1914 in North America. It was coined by modern historian Gradus Protus van der Belt to describe a time when drugs like cocaine, heroin, opium, absinthe, laudanum, and many more were freely available not just from your local pharmacy, tobaconists or the neighbourhood bar, but also from the barbershop, the stationers, and even confectioners.

Morphine by Albert Matignon - 1905

Georges Moreau de Tours - Les Morphinees The Morphine Takers - 1886

Between 1827 and 1842, over 27,000 pounds of opium came into the ports of the United States alone, where the drug found an unexpected distribution network of businessmen, presidential parents, and even Ivy League schools, which all had ties to the Opium trade in the late 19th century.

The Illustrated London News print of the clipper steamship Ly-ee-moon, built for the opium trade, c. 1859

“Princeton’s first large benefactor, John Green, funded his contribution through the opium trade […] Yale University’s infamous Skull and Bone society was funded by the most successful family of opium dealers in America,” reveals Harvard’s magazine, The Crimson, adding that as America’s gateway institution for the drug that soon spread to other Ivy Leagues along the East Coast, “Opium once pervaded campus life at Harvard […] throughout the 1800s, its black smoke kept the university’s veins flowing with green and its faculty and students perpetually dazed.”

The term “pipe dream” actually originates from the opium dens of turn of the century America where people smoking an opium pipe would come up with ideas, theories and fantasies whilst hallucinating.

In 1908, President Roosevelt appointed Hamilton Wright as the first Opium Commissioner in the United States to begin targeting opium dealers. The irony here is that Franklin D. Roosevelt’s grandfather, Warren Delano, was an opium peddler, and his drug trade was responsible for the bulk of the family’s fortune. Roosevelt’s mother, Sara Delano, travelled to Hong Kong with her family to join her opium-trading father in the 1860s.

Warren Delano (FDR's grandfather & Opium King)

Sara (FDR's mother) & Philippe Delano in 1864, following their return home from Hong Kong. (Franklin Roosevelt Library)

The crackdown on the Great Binge inevitably began with the signing of the 1912 International Opium Convention to suppress opium smoking and to limit it to medicinal purposes. In the 1920s, in the US, an anti-drug crusade also saw heroin cough drops and cocaine tablets to slowly disappear from stores and bathroom cabinets.

In the 1920s, in the US, an anti-drug crusade also saw heroin cough drops and cocaine tablets to slowly disappear from stores and bathroom cabinets.

During the Great Binge, the most notable drink in circulation was the Vin Mariani, an alcoholic beverage that combined both wine and cocaine.

Angelo Mariani, a French chemist who invented a very popular beverage in 1863.

Mariani tonic Wine — lithography by Jules Cheret

The French "Tonic" Wine received endorsements from Pope Leo XIII as well as many of the Belle Epoque’s most famous names, Sarah Bernhardt, Jules Verne and even Queen Victoria were all fans of the drug-infused cocktail.

Pope Leo XIII even allowed his face to be used in Vin Mariani’s marketing campaign. He was very much a brand ambassador, citing that it strengthened him “when prayer was insufficient”.

Mariani's "Tonic" would spent the following century cleaning up its act & rebranding itself to become the world’s most iconic household brand: Coca Cola