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"The tens of millions of people who find themselves
unhappy in our modern technological paradise, this world under
control, are diagnosed with some
psychiatric disorder
and medicated with mind-altering drugs. Like the
dissidents in socialist utopia, if living this good life renders you depressed,
anxious, or unable to concentrate then, well, you've got an illness my friend."
- Charles
Eisenstein
"Let's be honest:
If you or I were as dependent on psychotropic
drugs as this
America is, we would be in rehab.
The Food and Drug
Administration has finally proposed labels
on antidepressants because they may
promote suicidal tendencies and
we should be
thankful. But isn't this
just a small patch on a nasty wound?
In the
early 1960s, tranquilizers were introduced
into America and
marketed so heavily that, by 1968,
Valium became the most prescribed
drug in America. And the party hasn't stopped since.
Didn't doctors know at the time that
the drug was being
abused and over prescribed, that it was
addictive? Of course. Did they continue to prescribe
it? Of course. Did the manufacturer continue to provide it? Need you ask?
Our society once had an old
common sense
virtue that psychotropic
drugs should be used as a last resort. Why?
Because these drugs, while useful in
extreme circumstances, can have nasty effects like
addiction, rages, altered judgment, divorce and, yes,
suicidal impulses.
Yet
we have become so muddle headed by constant
marketing to take these
drugs for every
emotional malady
that we now
live in a ridiculous world where
we have signs that say "This is a
Drug-Free Zone" on the front of a
school that is
handing out psychotropic
drugs to the
children for
depression,
hyperactivity,anxiety, etc.
Psychiatric
drugs have become a first resort. That is
the real nightmare the Food and
Drug Administration should confront. Doctors no longer look for causes
of depression, such as thyroid
problems, lack of exercise, a
bad diet,
a guilty
conscience, medical
problems, allergies - the likely culprits
could be many.
By using psychotropic drugs to treat the symptoms, they not only expose patients to the effects
of the psychotropic drugs but they let the
real causes go untreated. And by encouraging
drug use to get over ordinary
life experiences, such as a
death in the family or teenage shyness, physicians
numb the
pain that so often contributes to
maturity and emotional growth. The Food and Drug Administration needs to step up
to the plate: psychiatric drugs as a last
resort."
- Dan Stadford, president
and founder of Safe Harbor, a nonprofit organization for non-drug mental
health education
In 2005 over 2.2 million children were being given
psychotropic drugs for having a lack of
concentration or for emotional outbursts were labeled as temperamental extremes
or a lack of social skills are now labeled as
disorders, deficits and dysfunctions.
"Today a diagnosis is quickly presented and a
medication is prescribed. Both parents and
clinicians feel pressure to see improvement as quickly as possible, and
mistakes in treatment are inevitable.
Children cannot advocate for themselves.
Parents must educate themselves about treatment options,
get second opinions,
trust their
instincts and, most of all, stay attuned
to their children."- Evelyn Goodman
Respected
medical journals are publishing
crystal clear evidence that the neuroleptics, which are the
drugs most typically used during a
forced
psychiatric
drugging, can alter the actual
structure of the brain. Some
of these drug induced changes - shrinking
the size of frontal lobes and thus altering the shape of the brain, are so
severe that they are easily seen using MRI and CT brain scans.
Researchers, not just critics of
psychiatry, have linked brain changes
and neuroleptics.
Neuroleptics are
"major tranquilizers" or "anti-psychotics" include trade names such as
Thorazine® (also called Largactil®), Haldol®, Mellaril®,
Navane®, Prolixin®, Stelazine®, Prolixin®. Newer neuroleptics -
called atypicals - include Clozapine®, Risperdal® and
Zyprexa®.
Long term use of
neuroleptics is linked to visible
shrinkage of the frontal lobes - the part of the brain used for higher level
thought, the same part
targeted by the frontal
lobotomy and shock
treatments. (think One Flew Over the
Cukoo's Nest)
Heinz Edgar Lehmann* introduced the use of
chlorpromazine, Thorazine®, to calm down agitated psychiatric patients in
1953 even though the use of chlorpromazine was not legal to use on psychiatric
patients at the time. Heinz Edgar Lehmann performed hundreds of human
experiments from the late 1930s to the early 1970s. Between 1955 and 1973 alone
he conducted 330 - the equivalent of a new experiment every three weeks. Heinz
Edgar Lehmann describing chlorpromazine as a "pharmacological substitute
for lobotomy"." When patients developed “slate-blue pigmentation
of the face and forearms” Heinz Edgar Lehmann and colleagues experimented
on 38 patients, administering doses of chlorpromazine ranging from 200 to a
staggering 3,200 milligrams to see at what dose "slate-blue pigmentation"
occurred.
Three of Lehmann’s subjects died of “fecal
impaction” after being given large amounts of chlorpromazine. Five other
patients developed severe obstruction of the intestines. Other patients began
to develop jaundice and symptoms of Parkinson’s disease during the course
of his experiments.
“Patients receiving the drug become lethargic.
Manic patients often will not object to rest and patients who present
management problems become tractable. Assaultive and interfering behavior
ceases almost entirely. The patients under treatment display a lack of
spontaneous interest in the environment. They tend to remain silent and
immobile when left alone and to reply to questions in a slow monotone. Some
patients dislike the treatment and complain of their drowsiness and weakness.
Some state they feel ‘washed out’ as after an exhausting illness, a
complaint which is indeed in keeping with their appearance.” - Gorman
Hanrahan & Heinz Edgar Lehmann
“In many ways, these drugs can
accomplish in a few doses what took years for the Nazis to do to put people in
a state of helpless obedience.” - Peter Breggin
Heinz Edgar Lehmann
became an international psychiatric icon after his 1953 chlorpromazine
"breakthrough". Claims that chlorpromazine "improved" patients gave psychiatry
legitimacy and opened the door to a multibillion-dollar partnership between
psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry. Heinz Edgar Lehmann became one of
the longest-serving members on the U.S. government’s Advisory
Committee on Psychopharmacology. Heinz Edgar Lehmann was never licensed
to practice medicine in Cananda or America.
“Lehmann was a drug
pusher, shock promoter and torturer - just as psychiatrist Ewen Cameron was. We
now know that Lehmann forcibly drugged hundreds of psychiatric patients with
high-risk, experimental drugs such as chlorpromazine which he knew or ought to
have known would cause serious harm including brain damage.” - Don Weitz,
founder of People Against Coercive Treatment
(PACT)
National Institute of Drug Abuse estimated 4.8 million
prescriptions for Thorazine written out in 1977 - over 271 million pills
worth.
These "anti-psychotic" drugs can kill.
These drugs are now
known to cause the
opposite of what they are supposed to
do - the drugs
harm the brain, and that
harm is visible with brain
scans.
In 1935 DuPont
introduced the chemical phenothiazine as an insecticide.
The term
"phenothiazines" describes the largest of the five main classes of neuroleptic
antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are claimed to have antipsychotic and, often,
antiemetic properties, although they may also cause severe side effects such as
akathisia (inability to remain motionless), tardive dyskinesia (involuntary,
repetitive movements) as well as other extrapyramidal symptoms such as an
inability to move, and the rare but potentially fatal neuroleptic
malignant syndrome as well as substantial weight gain.(The cause of
tardive dyskinesia appears to be related to damage to the part of the nervous
system that uses and processes the neurotransmitter dopamine.)
Phenothiazine antipsychotics are classified into three groups that
differ with respect to the substituent on nitrogen: the aliphatic compounds
(bearing acyclic groups), the "piperidines" (bearing piperidine-derived
groups), and the piperazine (bearing piperazine-derived
substituents).
Aliphatic compounds
Chlorpromazine marketed as Thorazine®, Chlor-PZ®,
Klorazine®, Promachlor®, Promapar®, Sonazine®, Chlorprom®,
Chlor-Promanyl®, Largactil®.
Promazine marketed as
Sparine®
Triflupromazine marketed as Stelazine®, Clinazine®,
Novaflurazine®, Pentazine®, Terfluzine®, Triflurin®,
Vesprin®
Levomepromazine/Methotrimeprazine marketed as Nozinan®,
Levoprome®
Piperidines
Mesoridazine
marketed as Serentil®
Thioridazine marketed as Mellaril®,
Novoridazine®, Thioril®
Piperazines
Fluphenazine marketed as Prolixin®, Permitil®,
Modecate®, Moditen®
Perphenazine marketed as Trilafon®,
Etrafon®, Triavil®, Phenazine®
Flupentixol marketed as
Depixol®, Fluanxol®
Prochlorperazine marketed as Compazine®,
Stemetil®®
Trifluoperazine marketed as Stelazine
Most of
these phenothiazines act as strong central nervous system
sedatives.
the ICU and sedatives"Researchers are alarmed by what they are finding as they track
patients for months or years after an ICU stay. Patients, even young ones, can
be weak for years. Some have difficulty thinking and concentrating or have
post-traumatic stress disorder and terrible memories of nightmares they had
while heavily sedated. Researchers are increasingly convinced that spending
days, weeks or months on life support in the units can elicit unexpected,
long-lasting effects." - Gina Kolata, January 11, 2009
Dr. O. Joseph
Bienvenu, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins, worries about post-traumatic stress
disorder. While many remember nothing of their time in an ICU, others cannot
forget horrifying hallucinations. The experiences are all the more terrifying
because patients cannot talk with mechanical ventilator tubes in their throats.
Their illnesses may produce delirium, but so may the drugs used in sedation,
Dr. Bienvenu said.
"One man told me he saw children's faces that were
blacked out and blood running down the walls," Dr. Bienvenu said. "He thought
he'd been kidnapped and tortured. One woman said she saw her husband and a
nurse talking, and she thought they were plotting to kill her."
Scientists are beginning to worry about the effects of simply being in
an intensive care unit, on a mechanical ventilator that pushes oxygen under
pressure in and out of the lungs, receiving doses of sedatives, narcotics and
anesthetics high enough to make even healthy people stop breathing on their own
(patients who are resting and sedated are also given less oxygen). They have
been particularly surprised by how quickly patients had lost strength. Now, it
looks like what was lost may not completely come back, even years later.
When Dr. John Kress, director of the medical ICU at the University of
Chicago, began focusing on lasting effects of an intensive care unit stay, he
wondered whether the sedatives keeping patients comfortable might actually be
making them worse. So his group tried an experiment, waking patients briefly
every day by turning off their infusion of sedatives. Patients actually did
better and even had a significantly lower rate of post-traumatic stress
disorder, which is manifested by such things as mood disorders, anxiety,
difficulty concentrating, shortness of temper and frightening memories.
George W. Bush's administration announced
plans, directly created by the
pharmaceutical industry, to screen each
and every American for
mental health problems. Forty-two of the states have
passed outpatient commitment laws in the last 15
years, allowing citizens to be court ordered to take
neuroleptics(insecticides) against
their will even while living
peacefully in their own homes.
"Mental illness is sometimes vaguely defined, and
medications can have side effects worse
than the conditions they were meant to treat. Mental health professionals
can be praiseworthy, or they can be motivated by profit, professional
aggrandizement or by
their own social agendas. Finding a
balance between personal rights and
police powers must be done ever so carefully." -
Richard Adams
"I disagree with the view that psychiatric treatment is
nicer than it was 50 years ago. Instead of straitjackets, chemical
straitjackets are now used: debilitating and addictive drugs. And such barbaric
treatments as shock are still
being used. Any forced
treatment is a violation of human rights. People who are depressed or
distraught are aware that they are suffering.
If they experience relief from treatment, they will accept it willingly. Of
course, anyone who has been criminally violent
should be incarcerated to protect themselves and others. But many maniacal
shooters of recent years have been on psychiatric drugs. Before treatment,
they were troubled but not violent." - Louise
Marquis
Zyprexa has been found to cause diabetes.
Eli Lilly agreed to pay $700 million to
settle 8,000 lawsuits in 2005. Eli Lilly
went on to sell $4.2 billion worth of Zyprexa in 2005.
See
Aldous Leonard Huxley
See
Social Control
See
American aristocracy
See
The Corruption of the American
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