Charity, Cindy McCain and Drugs...

Ok it's once again politics time, so here's the latest and this is good one. DEA investigation and all, with falsifying 4 part prescriptions, but he had no idea. Drugs were used from the charity organization, what a nice charity and nobody ever saw the safe where the drugs were stored? Ok tis the season for medically related political posts. BD

In describing her struggle with drugs, McCain has said that she became addicted to Vicodin and Percocet in early 1989 after rupturing two disks and having back surgery. She has said she hid her addiction from her husband, Sen. John McCain, and stopped taking the painkillers in 1992 after her parents confronted her. She has not discussed what kind of treatment she received for her addiction, but she has made clear that she believes she has put her problems behind her.

McCain's addiction also embroiled her with one of her charity's former employees, Tom Gosinski, who reported her drug use to the DEA and provided prosecutors with a contemporaneous journal that detailed the effects of her drug problems. He was later accused by a lawyer for McCain of trying to extort money from the McCain family. Cindy and John McCain declined repeated requests to be interviewed for this article. The McCain campaign also declined to comment. McCain started taking narcotics for herself, the report shows. To get them, she asked the charity's medical director, John Max Johnson, to make out prescriptions for the charity in the names of three AVMT employees.

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