Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior

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Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior

 

President George W. Bush is taking powerful

anti-depressant drugs to

control his erratic behavior, depression and

paranoia, Capitol Hill

Blue has learned. The prescription drugs,

administered by Col. Richard

J. Tubb, the White House physician, can impair

the President's mental

faculties and decrease both his physical

capabilities and his ability

to respond to a crisis, administration aides

admit privately.

 

" It's a double-edged sword, " says one aide.

" We can't have him flying

off the handle at the slightest provocation but

we also need a

President who is alert mentally. "

 

Tubb prescribed the anti-depressants after a

clearly-upset Bush

stormed off stage on July 8, refusing to answer

reporters' questions

about his relationship with indicted Enron

executive Kenneth J. Lay.

" Keep those motherfuckers away from me, " he

screamed at an aide

backstage. " If you can't, I'll find someone who

can. "

 

Bush's mental stability has become the topic of

Washington whispers in

recent months. Capitol Hill Blue first reported on

June 4 about

increasing concern among White House aides

over the President's wide

mood swings and obscene outbursts.

 

Although GOP loyalists dismissed the reports

as anti-Bush propaganda,

the

reports were later confirmed by prominent

George Washington University

psychiatrist Dr. Justin Frank in his book Bush

on the Couch: Inside

the Mind of the President. Dr. Frank diagnosed

the President as a

" paranoid meglomaniac " and " untreated

alcoholic " whose " lifelong

streak of sadism, ranging from childhood

pranks using firecrackers to

explode frogs to insulting journalists, gloating

over state executions

and pumping his hand gleefully before the

bombing of Baghdad " showcase

Bush's instabilities.

 

" I was really very unsettled by him and I started

watching everything

he

did and reading what he wrote and watching

him on videotape. I felt he

was disturbed, " Dr. Frank said. " He fits the

profile of a former

drinker whose alcoholism has been arrested

but not treated. "

 

Dr. Frank's conclusions have been praised by

other prominent

psychiatrists, including Dr. James Grotstein,

Professor at UCLA

Medical Center, and Dr. Irvin Yalom, MD,

Professor Emeritus at

Stanford University Medical School. The

doctors also worry about the

wisdom of giving powerful anti-depressant

drugs to a person with a

history of chemical dependency. Bush is an

admitted alcoholic,

although he never sought treatment in a formal

program, and stories

about his cocaine use as a younger man

haunted his campaigns for Texas

governor and his first campaign for President.

 

" President Bush is an untreated alcoholic with

paranoid and

megalomaniac

tendencies, " Dr. Frank adds.

 

The White House did not return phone calls

seeking comment on this

article. Although the exact drugs Bush takes to

control his depression

and behavior are not known, White House

sources say they are " powerful

medications " designed to bring his erratic

actions under control

 

.. While Col. Tubb regularly releases a synopsis

of the President's

annual physical, details of the President's

health and any drugs or

treatment he may receive are not public record

and are guarded

zealously by the secretive cadre of aides that

surround the President.

Veteran White House watchers say the ability to

control information

about Bush's health, either physical or mental,

is similar to Ronald

Reagan's second term when aides managed to

conceal the President's

increasing memory lapses that signaled the

onslaught of Alzheimer's

Disease. It also brings back memories of

Richard Nixon's final days

when the soon-to-resign President wondered

the halls and talked to

portraits of former Presidents. The stories didn't

emerge until after

Nixon left office. One long-time GOP political

consultant who - for

obvious reasons - asked not to be identified

said he is advising his

Republican Congressional candidates to keep

their distance from Bush.

" We have to face the very real possibility that

the President of the

United States is loony tunes, " he says sadly.

" That's not good for my

candidates, it's not good for the party and it's

certainly not good

for the country. "

 

Dr Frank and his book & his diagnosis all exist

in presumably reliable sources.HOW MUCH

o the rest of this can we confirm or refute?

 

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