Army Center for Substance Abuse Programs: Bankrupt at the Top, Ignoring Soldier Needs

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Army Center for Substance Abuse Programs: Bankrupt at the Top, Ignoring Soldier Needs
by John Stanton
August 24, 2013 - 9:18am

In March of 2012 an article was published outlining some of the allegations of fraud, waste and abuse within the US Army’s Center for Substance Abuse Programs (ACSAP). Since the publication of that piece, sources say, only minor changes were made: one employee resigned, another was reprimanded.

Indeed, sources now report that the ACSAP program has become a lucrative for-profit business operating within the US Federal government (ostensibly a non-profit operation). ACSAP management there, Leslie McFarling and Rhonda Earl, appear to be heading a Tammany Hall operation whose focus is securing positions for close comrades and relatives, not the health of the US military personnel and, of course, their families/communities who ultimately must care for the active or returning soldier.

If the allegations are correct, then the fault for this ultimately rests with uniformed US Army commanders. They are responsible for overseeing private contractors and/or revolving door personnel whose loyalty is to profit, not military personnel or the US Constitution.

Sources claim that ACSAP leadership (McFarling and Earl) are “unethical and corrupt.” They say that personnel brought into the program are unqualified. Moreover, they claim that the products and services that are offered to US military personnel are of low quality and, hence, do not “meet the needs of the military personnel.”