Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What's the difference between legal and illegal drugs?
So what's the real difference between legal drugs and illegal drugs? Some people think that only illegal drugs are habit-forming. Yet legal drugs can be just as addictive as illegal drugs. Just ask anyone who has tried to quit smoking, go off caffeine, or kick to Oxycontin habit.
So is there some other difference between illegal drugs and legal drugs? People argue that legal drugs are safe. They're FDA-approved! |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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 At least the pushers of illegal drugs make no pretense about acting for the good of children. At least the pushers of illegal drugs don't claim to treat "diseases." At least the pushers of illegal drugs, don't target infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. [11
The real disease behind the diagnosis and drugging of children is not being treated at all. In fact, it has been running wild and gaining in power and audacity, encouraged by its own success. And what disease is this? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Yet legal drugs can be just as addictive as illegal drugs. Just ask anyone who has tried to quit smoking, go off caffeine, or kick to Oxycontin habit.
So is there some other difference between illegal drugs and legal drugs? People argue that legal drugs are safe. They're FDA-approved! And yet they fail to recognize that prescription drugs kill more Americans each year than all the crack, meth, and heroin deaths combined.
Okay, then, what about the argument that illegal drugs have no medicinal purpose, and legal drugs do have a medicinal purpose. What about that? Wrong again. |
| Some people think that only illegal drugs are habit-forming. Yet legal drugs can be just as addictive as illegal drugs. Just ask anyone who has tried to quit smoking, go off caffeine, or kick to Oxycontin habit.
So is there some other difference between illegal drugs and legal drugs? People argue that legal drugs are safe. They're FDA-approved! And yet they fail to recognize that prescription drugs kill more Americans each year than all the crack, meth, and heroin deaths combined. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 An intoxicated nation
We have become a nation of drug addicts -- and I don't mean illegal drugs. From the high-fructose corn syrup and caffeine in the food supply to all the prescription drugs people now believe they need because they saw them on TV, synthetic substances now dominate American medicine (and American tragedy). |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Regardless of whether they are from environmental pollution, prescription or illegal drugs, synthetics, and various chemicals nature never intended us to ingest, all toxins harm the body to some degree. They create a heavy burden, triggering a general dysfunction of major systems and body chemistry. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So is there some other difference between illegal drugs and legal drugs? People argue that legal drugs are safe. They're FDA-approved! And yet they fail to recognize that prescription drugs kill more Americans each year than all the crack, meth, and heroin deaths combined.
Okay, then, what about the argument that illegal drugs have no medicinal purpose, and legal drugs do have a medicinal purpose. What about that? Wrong again. Medical marijuana is a medically proven treatment for a variety of conditions, yet marijuana still remains illegal. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| How is this different from the principle that guides the despised peddlers of illegal drugs?
Glossy advertisements that show celebrities, athletes, movie stars, and even your next door neighbor 'cured' by a new miracle drug are an anomaly of pharmaceutical business law. The greedy bastards cannot make money if they cure a disease, especially one of a chronic nature. The 'star' of the advertisement is akin to a lottery winner. His/her good fortune can be attributed to a caring and compassionate pharmaceutical corporation. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Just like illegal drugs, their drugs kill people. The main difference is that these "legal" drugs enrich politically influential corporations, whereas illegal drugs enrich drug lords. Our national "War on Drugs" is quite selective in its targets, don't you think? Industrial hemp is outlawed, but doping up millions of children on powerful narcotics is perfectly legal: it's called Ritalin.
So remember, we're the only species stupid enough to actually poison ourselves. And if we don't do it in just one or two ways, we do it in half a dozen different ways! |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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| At least the pushers of illegal drugs don't claim to treat "diseases." At least the pushers of illegal drugs, don't target infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. [11
The real disease behind the diagnosis and drugging of children is not being treated at all. In fact, it has been running wild and gaining in power and audacity, encouraged by its own success. And what disease is this? Not a physical disease at all, but more deadly than any of them, a disease that predates the creation of ADHD by many thousands of years, a disease of the human soul and one that no medication stands a chance against. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Americans over the age of 12 use illegal drugs and 19,000 die from this habit each year. Beyond this, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 44.5 million U.S. adults were current smokers in 2004, more than 1 out of 5 Americans.2 In any given year, almost half of these smokers attempt to give up the habit, in most cases unsuccessfully.
According to the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, Canada incurs $40 billion in annual costs as a consequence of drug addiction. |
Jack Challem
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I drink more than normal amounts of alcohol or use illegal drugs at least once a day. Y/N
Explanation: We all have our moments because life can be trying. If you circled yes for at least two of these questions, though, it's a sign that you're often in a bad mood or you have frequent mood swings. As you read this book, pay special attention to the supplements and the eating habits that can improve your moods. They will make you more fun to live with—and will make it easier for you to live with yourself.
What Are Your Eating Habits Like? |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 Using alcohol or illegal drugs along with prescriptions is dangerous. This practice can not only deplete your body of nutrients, but also an accidental overdose or a bad combination of medicines with recreational drugs and/or alcohol can be deadly!
• The use of multiple medications. Polypharmacy is a fact of life for some people, but they need to be aware that nutrient depletion can be amplified by this.
• Poor diet. This is pretty obvious. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Today, we have more to fear from the regulated drug lords than from the peddlers of illegal drugs.
Modus Operandi
Let's take a look at the modus operandi of these corporate citizens, understanding that in all likelihood, if criminality is ever charged, they can escape punishment with a hefty influx of money.
Greedy pharmaceuticals now pursue acne relief rather than a cure for ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) or a better antibiotic. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 First question: Are those taking illegal drugs more likely to get depressed?
Second question: What is the effect of illegal drugs on brain function?
First question: Could the lack of appetite associated with depression lead to reduced brain activity? Second question: Could the decrease in physical activity associated with depression have an impact on brain activity?
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Is It Possible to Measure Serotonin and Dopamine Levels or Not?
What you are about to learn is not understood by as many as 1 in 100 physicians in private practice or 1 in 100 practicing psychiatrists. |
Hyla Cass
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| Using alcohol or illegal drugs along with prescriptions is dangerous. This practice can not only deplete your body of nutrients, but also an accidental overdose or a bad combination of medicines with recreational drugs and/or alcohol can be deadly!
?The use of multiple medications. Polypharmacy is a fact of life for some people, but they need to be aware that nutrient depletion can be amplified by this.
?Poor diet. This is pretty obvious. |
Melody Petersen
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 They also found that among the deceased drivers testing positive for drugs, more had been taking prescription drugs than illegal drugs like marijuana or cocaine.
A national study of crashes involving semitrailers and other large trucks also found evidence that prescriptions may be causing far more accidents than the public knows. In a report to Congress, researchers said they had found that prescription drugs were a possible factor in an estimated 26 percent of the truck crashes that caused death or injury between 2001 and 2003. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Excitotoxicity and Illegal Drugs
Recent studies indicate that many of the damaging effects produced by illegal drugs is caused by excitotoxicity within specific brain circuits. Most teenagers and adults using these drugs think that the only harmful effect is the risk of being punished by the law. Unfortunately, it's more serious than that.
For example, cocaine and methamphetamine stimulate the release of excess glutamate in the same part of the brain responsible for Parkinson's and Huntington's disease. Both drugs are also capable of producing serious long-term injury to the brain. |
Melody Petersen
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| A doctor in the state medical examiner's office in Iowa told me in 2005 that investigators often test the blood of drivers killed in automobile crashes for illegal drugs like heroin or cocaine but rarely look for prescription drugs. Nationally only the blood of pilots killed in air crashes is regularly tested for prescription medications.
It is clear, however, that medications have long been causing thousands of motor vehicle accidents every year and killing innocent people in their wake.
Concerned that medications were sedating older drivers, Dr. Wayne A. |
Ron Garner
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 When emotional stress becomes too great, we turn to escapes such as food, sugar, soft drinks, alcohol, nicotine, sex, destructive anger, manipulating and controlling others, gambling, or legal and illegal drugs. When the stress is not alleviated by sedation, which is always temporary, and when it is not addressed by a resolution of the underlying emotional conflict, disease symptoms begin to appear. The addiction problem and the emotional pain continue. |
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. |
Eric R. Braverman
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 Intuitive feelers may look for ways to alter their reality to make it more idealist or dreamlike by experimenting with illegal drugs such as LSD or PCP. These drugs tap into your dream state while you are still awake. Frequently an acetylcholine biotemperament but other personality and biological factors alter the result.
Organization and tradition dominate sensing judging temperaments. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 The story is now so well known that there is little need to repeat that sugar, after the illegal drugs, and tobacco and alcohol, is the most damaging addictive substance consumed by rich, white mankind.
In the ancient world slavery accounted for perhaps rwo-rhirds of the population of Athens under Pericles, and perhaps half the population of what is now Italy under Julius Caesar. Ancient Egypt probably had a higher percentage. In Ancient Greece and Rome
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07 the slave population was increased by servile births, by prisoners of war, and by debtors. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The main difference is that these "legal" drugs enrich politically influential corporations, whereas illegal drugs enrich drug lords. Our national "War on Drugs" is quite selective in its targets, don't you think? Industrial hemp is outlawed, but doping up millions of children on powerful narcotics is perfectly legal: it's called Ritalin.
So remember, we're the only species stupid enough to actually poison ourselves. And if we don't do it in just one or two ways, we do it in half a dozen different ways! Then we regulate that poisoning, we make it federal law! |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 An individual can be addicted to substances other than illegal drugs. Many are addicted to nicotine, caffeine, colas, alcohol, sugar, and even certain foods. Although these addictions may not pose as great a health risk, withdrawal still may be painful and difficult. Those who use these substances may also be more susceptible to illness and disease because these addictive substances deplete the body of needed nutrients. (See Substances That Rob the Body of Nutrients on page 380. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 Their own unpublished data clearly confirmed the use of antibiotics to treat the mastitis, besides the use of illegal drugs. Their own data, which have been suppressed, clearly shows that the animals treated with rBGH developed chronic inflammation in the heart, lungs, kidney, and spleen.
In addition, Monsanto has denied or tried to trivialize the fact there are increased levels of IGF-1 in rBGH milk even although some of their own studies clearly confirm this. And in my 1996 publication, I document in detail the evidence proving that there are major increases of IGF-1 in rBGH milk. |
Henry Hobhouse
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| On the other hand, there is even more violence in the distribution of illegal drugs, even if alcohol kills more people on the roads and tobacco over the longer term.
There are no drug-free zones in most advanced countries and no liberal authority finds it possible to exclude scheduled drugs from jails, with the usual consequence that there have been times when criminals have seemed to be in control of jails instead of being inmates who have lost their liberty. |
Eric R. Braverman
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| TREATING MEMORY DISORDERS WITH DIET AND NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS
No one needs to hear another reason to quit smoking, reduce alcohol consumption, and stay away from illegal drugs. However, put simply, if you want to preserve your mental faculties, you will do all three. Studies show that all of these habits contribute to cognitive decline. Even if advances in cloning, organ replacement, gene therapies, and nanotech-nology extend the life of your body, you won't be able to enjoy the party if your brain is not functioning properly. |
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