Donald Trump�s Alleged Drug Use: 5 Fast Facts You Need To Know
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By Jonathan Vankin

Updated Nov 20, 2022 at 8:33pm

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Donald Trump during the second presidential debate on October 9. (Getty)

On Saturday, Donald Trump suggested that Hillary Clinton take a drug test
before the third presidential debate, which is scheduled to take place on
Wednesday, October 19. But Trump�s erratic behavior and rambling speeches
have sparked rumors an allegations of the Republican candidate�s own
alleged drug use at least since July of this year.

Is there any truth to the rumor that Donald Trump uses drugs? Here�s what
you need to know.
1. Trump Claims That He Lives a Drug-Free Lifestyle

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2. His Brother Was an Alcoholic

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Trump family photo, with Freddy on left, Donald on right. (Trump Campaign
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Trump�s older brother, Fred Trump � called �Freddy� � was an alcoholic who
died in 1981 at the age of 43, of symptoms reportedly cause by his
excessive alcohol intake. The experience taught Donald Trump the dangers of
subtle abuse, he has said.

�I�ve watched people and I study people and I had, in particular a great
tutor on this, but I look and I see what it does to people when they lose
control, and a lot of times they lose control,� Trump said, citing the
heartbreaking story of his brother�s death as his motivation to abstain
from alcohol.

3. Allegations of Trump�s Drug Use First Surfaced 24 Years Ago

Despite Trump�s claim that he lives a clean, drug-free lifestyle, rumors
that he abused certain types of drugs have circulated for more than two
decades. In a February, 1992, Spy Magazine story, investigative reporter
John Connolly unearthed a medical record that appeared to show that Trump
had visited a New York doctor named Joseph Greenberg who, Connolly
reported, was a physician to the stars known for prescribing diet drugs to
celebrities � including Trump, Spy Magazine reported.

According to the story, which was revisited by the site Gawker this summer,
Greenberg diagnosed Trump with �metabolic imbalance,� which despite not
being an recognized medical condition, gave Greenberg a pretext to
prescribe Trump a drug called Tenuate Dospan, or diethylpropion, which
according to the site Drugs.com, �may impair your thinking or reactions�
(and) may also cause restless feelings that can hide the symptoms of
extreme tiredness.�

In other words, the drug acts like an amphetamine.

The medical site WebMD says that patients should not use diethylpropionm
for more than �a few weeks at a time.� But according to the findings in
Connolly�s 1992 story, Trump may have used the drug for a period of at
least three years, from 1982 to 1985, the period during which he was
Greenberg�s patient.

In July, Gawker reported what it called �a rumor� that Trump�s abuse of
amphetamine-like diet pills did not end in the 1980s,, when he stopped
seeing Dr. Greenberg.

According to Gawker reporter Ashley Feinberg, publishing the piece on July
1, �according to our source, the Donald Trump of today is on a diet drug
called phentermine � and has been since at least April of 2014.�

Phentermine is also known more informally as �Fen-Phen,� which combined the
drug with another, fenfluramine, and was marketed as a �miracle� weight
loss drug. But Fen-Phen was pulled from the market by the Food and Drug
Administration in 1997, after it was found to have potentially deadly side-
effects, damaging a user�s heart muscle.
5. Trump�s Bizarre Sniffing Habit at the Debates Sparked New Allegations

At both the first and second presidential debates, Trump exhibited an odd
and frequently repeated sniffing behavior. After the first debate, former
Vermont governor and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean
suggested an explanation for Trump�s repeated nasal sniffling.

�Notice Trump sniffing all the time,� Dean wrote on his Twitter feed. �Coke
user?�

Dean had no evidence that Trump actually used cocaine, and others listed
any number of possible, non-drug-related causes for the sniffing behavior,
ranging from an allergy attack to a nervous tic on Trump�s part.

After the second debate, however, when Trump�s deep sniffs continued � as
shown in the video above � Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher, who has spoken
and written widely of her long battle with substance abuse, again declared
that Trump�s sniffing was the result of cocaine use.

�I�m an expert and ABSOLUTELY,� Fisher wrote on her Twitter feed, in
response to a question about whether Trump�s sniffles resulted from cocaine
use.