Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Yet here in the United States -- the capitol of gun violence by kids on depression drugs -- the FDA and drug companies pretend that mind-altering drugs have no link whatsoever to behavior.
Enormous evidence linking mind-altering drugs with violent acts
In 2005, I reported on this site that Eli Lilly had full knowledge of a 1200% increase in suicide risk for takers of their Prozac drug, a popular anti-depressant SSRI medication. (See http://www.newstarget.com/003086. |
| Yet more children will be put on mind-altering drugs that stunt their growth, alter their brain chemistry, and turn them into mind-numbed massacre drones who acquire dangerous weapons and open fire in public places.
The psychiatric industry, though, thinks that yet MORE children need "treatment" with drugs for ADHD and depression. In fact, an industry press release recently claimed that only one-third of those children "suffering" from ADHD are receiving appropriate "treatment" for the condition. Of course, those are just code words for "drugging the children with high-profit pharmaceuticals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: Believe it or not, until recently, it has been perfectly legal for schools to force schoolchildren to be put on psychoactive mind-altering drugs as a condition of attending that school. That is, the school administrator or counselor could insist that a certain child be dosed with mind-altering drugs. It sounds bizarre, but it was absolutely true until just recently.
Finally, Congress has passed legislation that bans schools from forcing parents to drug their children for behavioral problems. This law was even signed by President Bush, believe it or not. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Some scholars believe that in the Greek epic The Odyssey, galantamine, in the form of an extract from the snowdrop flower, was presented by Hermes to the hero, Odysseus, who used it as an antidote to protect himself from the goddess Circe's mind-altering drugs. Circe had used her potion to induce amnesia and a delusional state in Odysseus's crew. With the help of galantamine, Odysseus was able to retrieve the lost memories of his crew and protect his own memory, enabling them to continue their journey to their beloved homeland of Ithaca.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Don't you find it curious that when 100,000+ Americans are killed in their homes and beds each year, dying from heart attacks and strokes caused by pharmaceuticals, there's virtually no news coverage, but when mind-altering drugs cause a student to pick up guns and blow away 32 classmates, it's suddenly front-page news everywhere? The reason is because there's violence involved, and violence gets ratings for news organizations.
Another interesting point in all this is that a Korean diplomat contacted the Bush Administration to offer his condolences. Does this seem a bit strange to anyone else? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It was legalized in 1998 by the FDA and contributed directly to the Vioxx fiasco as well as the mass medication of American children with mind-altering drugs. Drug advertising should be banned outright. A two-year ban is better than nothing, but an outright ban is the only reasonable resolution of this issue.
Just because this new Senate bill would "allow" the FDA to fine drug companies for failing to conduct follow-up safety studies doesn't mean the FDA will actually do so. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The practice of dosing children with powerful, mind-altering drugs is, in fact, a form of chemical abuse, yet it is tolerated today because it is framed in the language of medicine. Parents and teachers all too easily agree to the mass drugging of schoolchildren because it makes symptoms of ADHD seemingly go away. This drugging practice is, ultimately, pursued for the convenience of the children's caretakers and the profits of powerful drug companies, not out of any real concern for the health of the children.
Click here to see our related CounterThink cartoon, "Adderall vs. Methamphetamines. |
| Children do not need mind-altering drugs to demonstrate normal, balanced behavior. They simply need honest nutrition, responsible parenting and to be kept away from refined sugars, petrochemical food additives and processed foods.
Ritalin / Adderall addicts snort the meds like cocaine
Here's a Q&A from GoAskAlice (http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/3703.html) that explains, in more detail, the ways in which Ritalin and Adderall are, in fact, dangerous street drugs:
Dear Alice,
Recently I have started snorting Ritalin and Adderall (not at the same time though). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Sending a teenager out into the public doped up on mind-altering drugs that we KNOW are linked to violence -- and jacked up on junk foods (he worked at McDonald's) -- is a certain recipe for disaster. Big Pharma executives, drug reps and the irresponsible psychiatrists who dish these pills out to teenagers might as well have just walked right into the mall and set off a bomb themselves. These are the people ultimately responsible for the tragedy in Omaha. Hawkins may have pulled the trigger, but modern psychiatry drugged him with violence-inducing chemicals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Instead of spending a few dollars a month on nutritional supplements that would prevent these chronic diseases and aggressive behaviors, we end up spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year on building new prisons and treating these people with expensive prescriptions and mind-altering drugs. When it comes to children, for example, instead of giving them the food they need to be healthy, which would prevent these diseases and disorders, we dose them on Ritalin, antidepressants and other mind-altering drugs. This is expensive. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The results speak for themselves: This recipe of processed food and mind-altering drugs created a monster, and yesterday in Omaha, that monster exploded in a rage of violence.
If we don't learn from all this and stop drugging our nation's children, then those innocents in Omaha will have died in vain. And I ask the question: How many more innocent Americans must pay the price for medication-induced violence? |
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And what is the standard American psychiatric "treatment" for these conditions? mind-altering drugs, of course.
ADHD, for example, is treated with a drug that used to be an illegal street drug called "speed." It's an amphetamine, and recent research published in the August, 2007 issue of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry reveals that Ritalin and other ADHD drugs actually stunt the growth of children, causing their brains and bodies to be physically altered. (See http://www.newstarget.com/021944. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: A new documentary on the dangers of mind-altering drugs will be arriving this year, and the film's creator Kevin Miller was kind enough to send us an advance copy of the film for review. Not many films have the potential to radically reshape the understanding of an entire nation and create positive change for the health of future generations, but this is one that clearly qualifies. |
| Society owes Kevin Miller a great honor for creating this documentary -- an honor he is unlikely to ever receive, given the mass drugging of the population with the very same mind-altering drugs being exposed in this documentary.
Watch for updates and exclusive video clips of Generation Rx throughout 2008, right here on NewsTarget.com
Note to other filmmakers: I am available to both participate in and review other documentary films that contain important messages about health. There is no fee to have your film reviewed here. |
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 Mass drugging of schoolchildren remains dark secret of public education, psychiatry
Believe it or not, until recently, it has been perfectly legal for schools to force school children to be put on psychoactive mind-altering drugs as a condition of attending that school. The school administrator or counselor could simply insist that a certain child be dosed with mind-altering drugs. It sounds bizarre, but it was absolutely true until just recently.
Finally, Congress has passed legislation that bans schools from forcing parents to drug their children for behavioral problems. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Once ingested, antibiotics, as well as painkillers, tranquillizers, and mind-altering drugs, occupy receptor sites on the surface of our cells which trigger the expected responses such as relief of pain, calmness, and lessening of depression. While occupied by these external chemical agents, the cells' receptor sites can no longer receive and respond to the body's own drugs. The body then reduces production of its own drugs like endorphins, interleukins, serotonin, dopamine, etc. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Enormous evidence linking mind-altering drugs with violent acts
In 2005, I reported on this site that Eli Lilly had full knowledge of a 1200% increase in suicide risk for takers of their Prozac drug, a popular anti-depressant SSRI medication. (See http://www.newstarget.com/003086.html )
In 2006, we reported the results of a study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry showing that teens taking antidepressant drugs are more likely to commit suicide (and to be "successful" at completing the act). See http://www.newstarget.com/020643. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The latest chemical, known as Risperdal, belongs to a class of mind-altering drugs that may also cause rapid weight gain. With its use now being approved in children as young as 10 years old (and with off-label use on infants as young as six months old), the increase in numbers of chemically-treated, obese angry young males is soon to follow. (Please wear Kevlar body armor in the public schools if you visit Allopathia any time soon…)
Obesity is caused by a virus! |
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| This so-called disease is massively over-diagnosed, primarily for the convenience of teachers, parents and school administrators—because once a child is put on mind-altering drugs following the diagnosis of this fictitious disease, the child is drugged out on powerful amphetamines and is easier to manage in the classroom.
In addition, some schools actually receive bonus funds for each student they diagnose as having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Thus, schools have a financial incentive to get as many students as possible labeled with this disease. |
| As a result, children are being used as guinea pigs for unproven, mind-altering drugs that are now being increasingly recognized as causing violent behavior, suicidal thoughts, and other bizarre side effects.
Here's what Dr. John March, a professor of child psychiatry at Duke University, says: "We are using these medications and don't know how they work, if they work, or at what cost... It amounts to a huge experiment with the lives of American kids. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
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 And millions more—many of them youngsters—are dependent on mind-altering drugs which, it now turns out, may actually be endangering their lives.
The circumstances are serious. I am not overstating the situation. That's why my colleagues and I have written this book.
The Divided Mind is about the principles and practice of psychosomatic medicine. It is not about alternative medicine, or some trendy New Age regimen. It is about straightforward, clinically tested medicine, as practiced by licensed physicians for over thirty years, working with thousands of patients. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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 In the long run, anyone familiar with the growing number of suicide attempts, suicides and violence associated with psychotropic drug use could see that this small victory for American families was of little consequence without a discussion—indeed an investigation—about the legitimacy of the psychiatric diagnosis, the single factor that leads to the prescribing of the mind-altering drugs. |
| In fact, what has recently been revealed in these studies and a host of others is quite the opposite and, worse still, finally, after years of sitting on the fence, the FDA has concluded that the psychiatric mind-altering drugs used in the "treatment" of a growing number of alleged psychiatric mental disorders may cause violent and suicidal behavior.
Joseph Glenmullen, M.D. |
| Not surprisingly, the lawsuits focus on the harm caused by the mind-altering drugs, while the psychiatric community escapes scrutiny.
1 Tracy Connor, The New York Daily News, "Tom a pill on TV," June 24, 2005
2 Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D., "Letter to APA President Steven Sharfstein," August 2005
3 John M. Friedberg, M.D., "Pharmaceutical Fundamentalism: A Neurologist Speaks Out On Chemical Imbalances," San Francisco, Indymedia, July 2005.
4 Richard Leiby, "A Couch Tom Cruise Won't Jump On: Actor Lambastes Psychiatry on 'Today,'" The Washington Post, June 25, 2005
5 Katie Couric, Dr. |
| And to top it all off, the Food and Drug Administration has determined that the psychiatric mind-altering drugs are potentially life-threatening to an unknown percentage of the population.
The People, if given the truth, can take it. |
Mike Adams
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| What possible medical justification could these doctors, hospital staff, and drug pushers have for prescribing mind-altering drugs to four-year-olds? Even the "disease" being treated here is entirely fictional. So-called "bi-polar disorder" was wholly invented by psychiatrists with strong financial ties to drug companies. The purpose of this disease is not to help children, but to sell drugs.
When will the chemical child abuse be stopped? |
| The school administrator or counselor could simply insist that a certain child be dosed with mind-altering drugs. It sounds bizarre, but it was absolutely true until just recently.
Finally, Congress has passed legislation that bans schools from forcing parents to drug their children for behavioral problems.
Now, you may think that this wasn't a problem, and you may have never even heard about it. But in fact, it was a huge problem. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| That is, the school administrator or counselor could insist that a certain child be dosed with mind-altering drugs. It sounds bizarre, but it was absolutely true until just recently.
Finally, Congress has passed legislation that bans schools from forcing parents to drug their children for behavioral problems. This law was even signed by President Bush, believe it or not.
Now you may think that, gee, this wasn't a problem, I never heard about this. But in fact it was a huge problem. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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| The risk-benefit argument surrounding the use of prescription mind-altering drugs to "treat" mental disorders has been around as long as the drugs themselves. Just three short years after the 1988 U.S. introduction of Prozac (the first SSRI), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the federal agency tasked with oversight of the new class of antidepressant drugs, was compelled to hold public hearings to address a growing number of claims that SSRI antidepressants may harm rather than help. |
| Certainly there are millions who believe prescription mind-altering drugs have made their lives more manageable and will acknowledge they feel "better" since being on psychotropic drugs. But recent revelations about Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)— commonly known as antidepressants—raise serious questions about not only the effectiveness of the newest and most widely used class of psychotropic drugs, but also whether the drugs are even safe. |
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