Has America Ever had a Drug Addict First Lady? Cindy McCain?

In 1989, Cindy McCain became addicted to opioid painkillers such as Percocet and Vicodin,[33] which she initially took to alleviate pain following two spinal surgeries for ruptured discs[34][35] and to ease emotional stress during the Keating Five scandal.[33] There, her role as a bookkeeper who had difficulty finding receipts for trips on Charles Keating's jet[17] caused complications for her husband when he was already being examined for his role regarding oversight of Keating's bank.[10] The addiction progressed to where she was taking upwards of twenty pills a day[10] and she resorted to stealing drugs from her own AVMT.[34] During 1992, Tom Gosinski, the director of government and international affairs for AVMT, discovered her drug theft.[36] Subsequently in 1992, her parents staged an intervention to force her to get help;[17] she told her husband about her problem, attended a drug treatment facility, began outpatient sessions, and ended her three years of active addiction.[33]