U.S. Rep Michael McCaul, (R) the chair of the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee, was briefly detained at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C. on Nov. 4, in an incident he called “the result of a poor decision” to mix Ambien and alcohol.
McCaul, who was on his way home to TX, was charged with being drunk in public on Nov. 4 and released shortly after, according to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/13/mccaul-detained-intoxication-washington-airport-texas/
@nursefrombirth Sure he mixed Ambien with alcohol, every politician who's made an ass of themselves while drunk has claimed the same thing.
@Charles_Hawtrey @nursefrombirth
What is it with GOPers and Ambien? Mushy is on it (with Special K), and Colin Powell infamously claimed “everyone in D.C. is on it” around the time of “Iraq 2: The War Crimeing.”
WaPo, 11/9/03 —
I've been taking it for 20-25 years but don't drink and even if I did, I take it at bedtime to sleep not party.
NEVER a good idea to mix alcohol and hypnotics. I took Ambien for a short period after my sister died in 2009. Had to stop because packages were showing up at my door that I didn't remember ordering (I called it sleep shopping) and food would be cooked late at night that I didn't remember cooking. I couldn't imagine taking it with alcohol.
@nursefrombirth @Charles_Hawtrey @InUnfunky
What bugs me is the thought that the politicians that rule our lives are all alcoholics & drug abusers, and they expect us to believe this is NORMAL!?!!! It's not! I don't drink. No recreational drugs, either. It's not a brow-beating idiological thing. I'm poor, & don't like to dull my senses. I prefer remaining sober & watch others get drunk & make asses of themselves.