Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 As you'll read here, drug companies actually invented many of the street drugs now considered to be the most devastating, including heroin and meth ("ice").
Here are seven facts you probably never knew about the connection between street drugs and pharmaceutical companies:
1. heroin was launched as a medicine by Felix Hoffman, an employee of Bayer, only a few days after he invented aspirin. Bayer immediately applied for a trademark on the term "heroin," then began marketing the drug as a cure for morphine addiction. It was also marketed as cough syrup for children.
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Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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 That is, it affects the brain in essentially the same way as opiate drugs—morphine and heroin, for example—albeit not as strongly. This effect helps explain why people crave sugar, especially during times of stress.
How do we know that sugar has this effect? In controlled studies, researchers use a medication called naloxone as a research tool. Naloxone is normally used in emergency rooms to block the effects of heroin or other opiates. If a person has overdosed on heroin, doctors inject naloxone, which blocks the heroin (and any other narcotic) from attaching to receptors in the brain. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Throughout the years, I experimented with cocaine, speed, heroin, crack, alcohol, marijuana or whatever else I could get my hands on. I was always looking for the right combination to get the perfect high.
As the years passed, I became a very angry individual and blamed the world and everyone in it for the way that my life was and for the way that I felt. I got loaded to change that feeling. The last six years of my drug career was spent shooting heroin, smoking crack and doing pretty much whatever I needed to do to get money so I could get high. I did this until the age of 42. |
Mike Adams
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 Did you know that heroin was invented by the same person who invented aspirin for Bayer? The history of Big Pharma's connection to illicit drugs is shrouded in secrecy, but a little digging uncovers some fascinating facts that drug companies would prefer you never knew:
** heroin was launched as a medicine by Felix Hoffman, an employee of Bayer, only a few days after he invented aspirin. Bayer immediately applied for a trademark on the term "heroin," then began marketing the drug as a cure for morphine addiction. It was also marketed as cough syrup for children! |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Receptors in our brains account for our addiction to nicotine, heroin, and cocaine, and similar cravings have been identified for fat and sugars, as well.
The way to break the fat habit is to abstain entirely from eating it—just as those who use heroin, cocaine, and nicotine must give them up once and for all. We have all seen what happens with many people who go on reduced-fat diets in order to lose weight. A diet that permits even a modest amount of animal, dairy, and oil fat still feeds the habit. The craving remains. |
Melody Petersen
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 Between those years, abuse of prescription drugs grew at a rate that was twice that involving marijuana, five times that involving cocaine, and sixty times the abuse involving heroin.
The researchers found in their surveys that more Americans admitted they had abused prescription drugs than the combined numbers of those admitting to using cocaine, hallucinogens, inhalants, or heroin. Most alarming was the 212 percent rise of prescription drug abuse found among teenagers during those years. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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| Naloxone is normally used in emergency rooms to block the effects of heroin or other opiates. If a person has overdosed on heroin, doctors inject naloxone, which blocks the heroin (and any other narcotic) from attaching to receptors in the brain. A comatose drug addict, previously on the verge of death, rapidly awakens with a dose of naloxone.
Researchers have given naloxone to volunteers and offered them various sugary foods. They then measured how much the volunteers ate and compared the results to those of the same test done without naloxone. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Heroin addicts often die from pneumonia, tuberculosis, and other opportunistic infections, as well as from wasting syndromes. In all these diseases, the protein p24, generally accepted to be proof of the existence of HIV, is amply present. Although p24 is not unique to HIV but shared with most infectious diseases, they have nevertheless been classified as AIDS diseases.
What is very sad is that babies are defenseless against drug poisoning. Recent research has shown that pregnant women who smoke cigarettes pass cancer-forming chemicals to their babies. |
Anne Harrington
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 He had learned from his subjects, he told the readers of the NEJM, that, prior to beginning their practice of TM, many had indulged in recreational drug use: marijuana, LSD, and in several cases, heroin. Now, however, all of them "reported that they no longer took those drugs because drug-induced feelings had become exceedingly distasteful as compared to those experiences during the practice of transcendental meditation."27
Here, then, was a first cautious suggestion that TM might have serious medical benefits.
Bolder claims were still to come. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Indeed, this mechanism of overstimulation may be shated among manganese, cycad toxin, and the heroin analogue MPTP.
Manganese is not the only metal that can be essential for life and yet at the same time can paradoxically act as a poison when present in too high a concentration. Copper, for example, also serves as a cofactor for important enzymes, but high levels are toxic to both the brain and the liver. Iron, too, can poison the liver as well as the heart when too much is present. |
| It was unlike heroin and was accompanied by jerking of the arms and legs and muscle stiffness. In the months that followed, even more ominous symptoms evolved, including difficulty speaking ot even getting out of a chair, drooling, and loss of facial expressions. Those affected were younger and experienced a far more rapid progression of disease than is usually the case with idiopathic Parkinson's disease. Yet without question, all were victims of a syndrome that in any other context would be diagnosed as that condition. |
| Around the same time as the first BMAA primate studies, anothet group was experimenting with what turned out to be a chemical unfortunately similar to the cycad toxin: a narcotic derivative and heroin substitute called MPTP. During May and June 1982, intravenous drug abusers in Northern California became abruptly ill after using a street drug sold as China White.91 The exact number of persons affected has nevet been established with certainty but is estimated to be near four hundred. |
Andreas Moritz
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| It is difficult to imagine what must be taking place in the developing brain of an embryo when it is exposed to heroin injected directly into his mother's blood, which is also his blood.
Many babies born to cocaine-using mothers are born with severe mental retardation and are vulnerable to tuberculosis and lung diseases. The major experimental drugs are so poisonous that regular use can result in dementia, serious bacterial infections, and total destruction of the immune system. |
| Narcotic Drugs
Roughly ten years before the discovery of AIDS, the industrial world experienced a dramatic increase in the use of non-prescribed drugs ranging from hashish, marijuana and psychedelics to LSD, MDA, PCP, heroin, cocaine, amyl and butyl nitrites, amphetamines, barbiturates, ethyl chloride, opium, mushrooms and other "tailor-made" drugs. By 1974, five million Americans had used the drug cocaine, and only eleven years later, the figure had jumped to over 22 million. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 In fact, many (but not all) alkaloids are frequently found in drugs: coffee, opium, morphine, heroin, belladonna. That said, mature fruits such as eggplants, tomatoes, and peppers contain only faint traces: you won't get stoned from eating peppers! And cooking lowers alkaloid content by almost half. Nonetheless, one substance in nightshades— solanine—may have an impact on those with arthritis, and many arthritics are told to follow a "no-nightshade" diet. |
Andreas Moritz
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| In the first 20 years or so of the epidemic, 95 percent of the AIDS cases were among the major health risk groups—highly active homosexuals, heroin addicts, or, in a few cases, hemophiliacs, and since then more and more heterosexual men and women are found to test HIV positive.
According to official estimates, two thirds of infected persons supposedly are in Africa, where the epidemic exploded during the 1990s, and one fifth are in Asia, where the epidemic has been growing rapidly in recent years. As of the end of 2003, an estimated 34.6 million to 42. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 When diverted from their legitimate use," continued the Director, "[these drugs] are highly addictive narcotics that the body perceives exactly as if the person were taking heroin."
I showed the quote to Fran first thing next morning. "They are hiding more than they are revealing."
"I can't talk before my first cup of coffee," she replied in a weak voice.
I was silent.
"What do they mean by 'legitimate,' Fran asked, ten minutes later, her large mug half empty.
"I don't know, but our government actually maintains that marijuana is the most commonly used illegitimate drug. |
Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson
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Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 People carry within their bodies a chemical cocktail of industrial chemicals, pesticides, food additives, heavy metals, and the residues of conventional pharmaceutical drugs, as well as legal drugs like alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine and illegal drugs such as marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine, and heroin.
Today people are exposed to chemicals in far greater concentrations than previous generations were. For example, over 158 million Americans live in areas that exceed smog standards.1 It's estimated that 20% of the U.S. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 When humans or rats addicted to morphine or heroin receive naloxone, they instantly go into withdrawal.
Curiously, within a half hour of being administered naloxone, the rats' "teeth started chattering," Dr. Hoebel recalls. "They waved their heads back and forth. Their forepaws quivered. They acted anxious in a maze test.
"These are all signs of sugar withdrawal," he explains. "They weren't as pronounced as what we see with morphine, but it was withdrawal.
"This suggests that sugar triggered production of the brain's natural opioids or morphinelike compounds. |
| The rats were getting addicted to their own opioids like they would to morphine or heroin. Drugs give a bigger effect, but it's essentially the same process."
What Princeton's Sugar-Dependent Rats Teach Us about Overeating and Bulimia
So what can we learn from these sugar-guzzling rats?
"Our results imply that some people can get overly dependent on sweet foods, especially if they periodically stop eating and then binge," Dr. Hoebel explains. "It's probably like alcohol. Most people in the world who drink alcohol aren't addicted. |
Andreas Moritz
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| The most susceptible groups are very active homosexuals, needle sharing heroin addicts, and hemophiliacs who receive transfusions. They represent the main and easiest routes through which disease-causing microbes can be passed on to others who share one common risk factor: immune deficiency. In other words, the groups in society where HIV is commonly present amongst their members are also the groups with the biggest health risks and, therefore, more likely to produce AIDS symptoms. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Vescovi PP, Donati C, Gerra G et al: heroin detoxification by lysine acetylsalicylate. Curr Ther Res; 35(5):826-831. 1984
Magnesium description
Magnesium is an essential mineral. Average daily intakes of dietary magnesium have declined in recent years due to processing of food. The average daily intake has been estimated to be approximately 300 to 360 mg. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you're addicted to meth, or heroin, or nicotine, please seek professional help from a local detox center specializing in addictive substance recovery. What I'm talking about here is a nutritional detox designed to get all the toxic synthetic chemicals out of your liver, blood, kidneys and colon. It's a detox that literally everyone needs to go through. We all have way too many chemicals in our bodies right now, and it takes regular cleansing through programs like this to keep our organs and tissues free of contaminants and functioning at their very best. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 And while the lives of those addicted to hard drugs such as crack or heroin or crystal meth look drastically different than the lives of those who use or abuse drugs without being hooked, the same principles apply to their brains. Which is to say that the lessons of Odyssey House apply to anyone who struggles with self-control, including those who think of themselves as having addictive personalities. Scientists are now characterizing behavior such as gambling, compulsive shopping, and even overeating in the same biological terms they use to explain substance abuse. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Just because something makes you feel good doesn't mean it's good for you (think cocaine, heroin, or pints of ice cream).
Nevertheless, we do believe that DHEA can be effective for boosting energy, stamina, and reduced sex drive. So if you are wiped out or have low libido, and you've been checked out by docs for everything else, maybe— just maybe—low doses of DHEA might help. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 The need for heroin and any other painkiller is that very same need early on for mother. It was and is a matter of life and death. Taking drugs is, in short, trying to make up for a lack.
Is addiction a bad habit? I contend that mostly it is survival. It should not be cast as a moral judgment. Is being off drugs something to brag about? The Alcoholics Anonymous people think so, and obviously, it is important, but there has to be knowledge of what to do after withdrawing. Otherwise, the system feeds on itself, destroying organs, which will eventually foreshorten our lives. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| Methadone (20) is a synthetic narcotic used to replace heroin. Reportedly, addicts who use methadone don't get the same high as on heroin but avoid the withdrawal. Nevertheless, this is a highly addictive substance with a wide range of side effects.
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Cocaine
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Diazepam* (Valium)
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Hashish
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Clonazepam* (Klonopin)
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Chlordiazepoxide* (Librium)
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Lorazepam* (Ativan)
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Oxycodone
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Codeine
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Temazepam* (Restoril)
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