According to the Toxicology Data Network at the National Institutes of Health, diethylpropion has a high risk of dependency and chronic abuse – such as taking it for years – can cause delusions, paranoia, and hyperactivity. Studies in medical journals also report it can result in sleeplessness and impulse control problems, characteristics Trump demonstrated throughout the campaign and in the weeks since his inauguration.

IDK if he tweaks.

I read it but I didn't see that specific name of the drug he is talking about.

The effects wore off 25 years ago so what is his excuse now?

Didn’t Manafort drop a bunch of dough there?

3 - "The medical records and interviews with former officials with the Trump Organization reveal that Greenberg gave Trump a prescription for amphetamine derivatives in 1982 to treat his metabolic problem; the records show that Trump continued taking the drugs for a number of years and the former officials said that Trump stopped using them in 1990 at the latest.

4 - The derivatives were diethylpropion, known under its brand name as tenuate dospan."

That speed was very effective for weight loss.

High blood pressure, belly fat and high cholesterol.

slurred speech
trouble with breathing
twitching, twisting, or uncontrolled repetitive movements of the tongue, lips, face, arms, or legs
confusion
trouble sleeping - unable to sleep
hair loss

I'd bet he's still at it.

Trump had always been aggressive – sometime brutal – in business as well as loose with the truth, but in the late 1980s, things had become much worse. While former employees said he had often been thoughtful and caring to his staff, he suddenly exhibited abusive behavior that at times seemed irrational. His self-aggrandizement grew to delusions of grandeur, his thin skin thinned more, his decisions grew more reckless. While he had always been a liar when it was convenient, he sputtered greater numbers of falsehoods at an alarming rate and seemed to believe them.

guidance. Dad had always helped Trump and kept him from crashing. For some years as dad's Alzheimer's progressed, he was increasingly on his own and developing serious financial problems.

Without the planetary explosion in the sheer amount of wealth, a world where it became normal for someone to pay a quarter to half million dollars just to provide a big trophy speaker for an event, Trump would certainly have destroyed himself. Even then he managed to hang on by monetizing his name and supplying an enormous new market for laundering the new wealth for organized crime, including Russian oligarchs.

At one point, during his investigative series on Trump, Eichenwald tweeted that he believed Trump was in a mental hospital in the 1990s. I saw that when it was posted, and it was a straightforward statement standing on its own. Whatever is going on with this, I don't believe Eichenwald's later claims that it was just part of an inside joke. That implausible retraction and a couple other things have also caused me to go cautious on Eichenwald. Great journalistic talent is not always accompanied by scrupulous ethics and judgement.

The worst impact of this recklessness may have been on his business; before the late 1980s, Trump usually focused on one major project at a time to ensure everything met his exacting standards. By the end of the decade, his reckless shopping spree was legion: he borrowed billions to open one Atlantic City casino after another, launching another one before any had turned a profit and ultimately creating a business model where he was competing with himself. As the scaffolding under his gaming business started collapsing, he borrowed even more money to buy his own airline. All of those late-1980s businesses flopped, sending Trump companies into multiple bankruptcies.

Impulsive, short attention span, always looking for more stimulation, grandiose, with feelings of omnipotence and godlike power.

that Trump had a Dr. Feelgood who would prescribe him amphetamines.

The parallels were too scary to contemplate.

So yeah, Hitler and Trump have their differences.

He was almost as sick as The Donald.

feared being poisoned and the list is endless...

I’ve been thinking trumps rise to power has a lot of similarities to Hitler and Germany for a long time now. Biggest contrast were that Hitler was very smart (unlike...you get the picture) and that Germany was much more homagenous. But both men ruthless.

I can tell you’ve read about Hitler and Dr Morrell; his personal pusher. Not sure about Donnie’s early years but he likes to brag about never drinking and Hitler was a vegetarian. Hitler hooked up with Dr Morrell to treat his digestive issues including horrible flatulence. At any rate Hitler was really a political genius and combine that with ruthlessness he set the world on fire. And the timing of his rise coincided with new technology; radio and movies with sound. The propaganda fell on fertile soil. Trump has the internet. Maybe if we can survive humanity will learn how to curb proooganda.

I think if he’d had stayed in that mode we’d all be speaking German now but I really think Hitlers drug use set him up to fail. Like a lot of drug users it really helped him at first. I can’t really pinpoint when he started going off the deep end. (I’d guess during the battle for Moscow and kept going). In the earlier days of the war he stayed out of his general’s way (mostly). But I think when the Russian campaign started dragging on: that’s when his usage skyrocketed along with the grandiosity that came from being a speed freak. He was so convinced of what a genius he was (very stable genius) that he took direct control of the military and as he got deeper and deeper into the drugs he really lived in his own fantasy world which meant 10s of millions would die.

Sort of the end chapter with Hitler was he finally had to begin to see how bad things really were and of course he wasn’t going to take amy responsibility so decided Germany was unworthy of his greatness. He actively tried to destroy what was left Germany. I could certainly see Trump acting like that. But let’s temember one of my first points; Trump is really stupid thank God.

that Der Führer was horribly flatulent as well as being otherwise horrible. I am now imagining the bunker scene in "Downfall" with frequent farting, and I wonder if Trump is also a passer of gas (considering what he eats, that's pretty likely). He's the sort of guy who'd let a silent one loose in an elevator and deflect blame by glaring at the person next to him.

He is studying Hitler's rise to power in his history class right now, and he can see the parallels. I've never heard him say anything about politics before.

Does he have a new prescription?

Just checking.

It could be he just switched brands.

Trump was positively unhinged. Or several interviews where he's been unable to string a single cogent thought together. The unedited version of the Wall St Journal interview, for instance. He was bonkers!

IMHO, the Trumpster's behavior and affect have always sounded, looked and read like a man flying high on . . . something. Chronic, long-term use of these drugs do real cognitive damage.

We're looking at a truly damaged carcass.

Btw, yes the comments about Newsweek are equally appalling. But I think many of us suspected that a number of journos and editors were in on the fix.

Sleeplessness, nervousness, anxiety, etc., not a bit of fun.

He drinks 12 Diet Cokes a DAY! That is a serious amount of caffeine to ingest, especially for someone as unhealthy as he is. Between the speed and the massive Diet Coke consumption, he must have done some serious damage to his heart.

to his heart???? what heart smirkey???

If not that one specifically, he may be taking another by a different prescriber (or obtaining it illegally - just sayin').

It just explains a lot, the pieces just fall into place

Get up there and say he wasn't on these drugs.

The same doctor who worked with Obama for the past few years.

if you lie to your doctor in your exam, they'll report what you said, not that you lied about it unless it's verifiably false.

oh, what tests would those be?

does your doctor run drug tests on you?

But a real, believable, credentialed, military doctor (who was also Obama’s doctor) examined the President and went on TV to say he was in excellent health.

Your evidence is an anonymously sourced story that even the media outlet that produced the story would not run it.

You and anyone else who pitches this ‘scandal’ have a super high bar to overcome. And even if you did overcome that bar, nobody would give a shit. W Bush snorted coke. Bill Clinton smoked weed. Nobody gave a shit then either.

and if you're saying he took a drug screen or that a cholesterol test or complete blood count will show his drug use, YOU'RE the one making stuff up, not to mention, ignorant stuff at that!

it is also quite standard for physicians to ask about your eating habits, drug use, etc. and to report those responses in your record. but in your world, the doctor is either clairvoyant, gave Trump a lie detector test or gave him a drug screen that would detect that drug.

and you accuse me of making shit up.

He did admit that, but he claimed that he "didn't inhale."

....and he is pushing obesity...... Perhaps explains why he is able to get by on 4 hours sleep a night.

Adverse Effects

Common

•Cardiovascular: Increased blood pressure (Mild), Palpitations - rapid (Mild)
•Dermatologic: Rash, Urticaria
•Gastrointestinal: Constipation, Nausea, Stomach cramps, Vomiting, Xerostomia
•Neurologic: Central nervous system stimulation, Dizziness, Headache, Insomnia, Pain
•Ophthalmic: Blurred vision, Mydriasis
•Psychiatric: Restlessness

Serious

•Cardiovascular: Cardiac dysrhythmia, Cardiomyopathy
•Hematologic: Agranulocytosis, Leukopenia
•Neurologic: Cerebral ischemia, Cerebrovascular accident
•Psychiatric: Psychotic disorder (rare)
•Respiratory: Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension
•Other: Drug dependence (rare)


Monitoring

•reduced appetite
•weight loss
•blood pressure
•baseline cardiac evaluation; ECG during and after treatment if cardiac toxicity is suspected [2]
•onset or aggravation of exertional dyspnea, unexplained symptoms of angina, syncope or lower extremity edema
•psychological disturbances


Contraindications

•advanced arteriosclerosis
•agitated states
•during or within 14 days of MAO inhibitors
•glaucoma
•history of drug abuse
•hypersensitivity or idiosyncrasy to sympathomimetic amines
•hyperthyroidism
•severe hypertension

why he's still alive.

Human bodies can take a lot of punishment

...remember the debates and all of the sweating, post nasal drip, and slurred speech. He was definitely on something.

the dude is drugged up.

Or maybe it was stopping that extra bucket of chicken......

We know why!

I didn't get all the sniffing during the debates. I argued with a friend of mine who thought drumpf did it to throw HRC off (didn't work of course). I didn't think that had anything to do with it. And, of course, there wasn't much media coverage of it. Al Gore sighed and we had to alert the church elders. drumpf audibly sniffs constantly through 3 debates and nobody says much about it.

I also with one of the reporters had asked the White House doctor if Trump had been tested for Cocaine during his physical

he claimed that the "sniffling" sound was due to a "bad microphone"

However, he also had sniffles during the second debate as well.
(Was that also due to a "bad mic"?)

He's a pathological liar, and this shows that he lies about everything!

tried Weed.

I think Obama wrote about it in his book, if memory serves.

Is the user's personality previous to using. Most folks don't like being all jacked up for weeks on end........

will escape this one also. 66 million + people plus GOP don't care if the IIC goes out on 5th Ave in new York and murders someone, probably-perferably by them, AN AA. Much Ado About Nothing. It won't change a thing except my perception that we have a very dangerous sociopath as potus being enabled by a very racist administration and the GOP.

KellyAnn Speedway! She has the right appearance. I'd venture a guess that she knows where the drug stores are.

Especially when under the stress of having Hillary Clinton beat your sorry ass all over the debate stage?

Jim has protected his reporters and shepherded other hard-hitting stories into the public eye.

He's still taking Finasteride, a hair loss medication.
One of the many side effects of this drug is "runny nose"

"Trump Health Exam: President Still Taking Hair Loss Drug.."
{Newsweek, Jan. 17, 2018}
Sorry, due to computer pbs I'm unable to post a link