tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59278044411513735912024-03-13T13:40:27.859-07:00Psychiatry Is A Crock Of Shit!Andre S. Langehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716981278596865536noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927804441151373591.post-45757268758236694782012-03-13T03:07:00.000-07:002012-03-13T03:07:25.263-07:00THC And Neurogenesis! <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Every layman hears the same dictum from their family doctors or from scientists on T.V. saying, "brain cells are the only cells in the body that don't replenish, divide or grow new ones....so you are born with X number of brain cells and you just lose literally so many per day until you are completely demented."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> Really folks this is what they taught ME and my classmates and all the classes before 1990 at Univ of Louisville Med School. Well, they also ("they"-- the government, also forbade scientists to study the effects of cannabis for years) recently in a study found actual NEUROGENESIS occurring in brains of rats given an extract from the cannabis (marijuana) plant. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> This changes all knowledge and thinking in neurology. We can use pot to GROW new brain cells in rats, then on to monkeys, then to us. It will most likely occur. It had already been shown in a few studies that a cannabis extract injected post-cva was neuroprotective and caused less morbidity.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">We are strange birds. Even Grof. We are a varied and unusual lot. We kill ourselves often. We have the highest suicide rate in all the specialties of medicine. I have never met a psychiatrist that did not strike me as very "other." The older crowd in Psychiatry still believes in some of what they say.....they believe in the "diseases" that the profession invented and "treats." </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I do not believe that "psychiatric disorders" are diseases (despite what was drummed into my head for 4 years in residency), be they proposed to be caused by genetics, or environmental toxins or "schizophrenogenic mothers." </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> There is not one shred of evidence to show--for example, with a blood test, or with other technical analyses we use in the rest of the medical field, or a brain scan, that can diagnose or really even corroborate a psychiatric diagnosis. In Med school, they actually teach the prospective psychiatrist, "you are normal! When the patient's beliefs or behavior significantly differs from your's, THEY are sick." I'd like to chime in that no one is "normal," --it is just a statistical invention. Normal is an idea akin to the terms "sane" or "insane," which are legal terms but used regularly in everyday parlance.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Many, if not most or all, people that have what psychiatry pejoratively labels "psychosis" are actually going through a healing process. A healing process for the mind and soul. It might not be pretty, or understandable easily to others, as each of these events is unique to the person it is occurring in. But, I contend that most, if not all "psychoses" and many "cyclic mood disorders" represent Spiritual Emergence. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The classic reference book is <u>Spiritual Emergence</u> by Stan and Christina Grof. It is one of many books now written about the phenomena. One simple way of putting it re: spiritual emergence, is "we are not just our bodies, we are not just our brains, our brains are not our minds, and the mind and spirit are intertwined." Eventually, usually via some painful or traumatic event (s), the person--that is, the spirit within the person, begins to show itself to the mind of the brain owner. The brain owner starts to find out he/she is much more than "they told you," or that s/he ever could have imagined. It is, by definition, mind-blowing when this occurs.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> Traditional psychiatry views this as "illness" which "must be shut down immediately or they will be like that forever!" </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">So, most people get shut down by the system. They put you through the torture mill--maybe a few times--maybe for life. Stigma, isolation and emotional pain make the torture drugs they inject people with, like haloperidol et al, all that more horrible. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">But, it never quits. Shut down or not, the spirit will not be stopped. It must be assimilated by the brain owner once this process starts---all the new information and ways of learning that the Spiritually Emerging individual is experiencing must be accepted and the person learns how to live with an expanded consciousness.</span><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This article I write as a concerned scientist, and I am a psychiatrist, among other things. I don't watch much TV (none) but when I do I see something so immoral and deceptive, that I finally had to write about it. </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> It is the direct marketing of prescription drugs to the public, via commercials that promise vague solutions for vaguely described problems. Basically, in a commercial for citalopram or some such anti-depressant, it show a woman with a pained look on her face, and someone holding her, and saying "ask your doctor if "KureItAll" is right for you!"</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> This started during the fascist Reagan years...got pushed through a Republican dominated House and Senate---so the drug companies knew they'd finally paid enough for a carte blanche. They ran quick 6 week studies to "quickly approve" drugs for treatment for long-term, often for the rest of the patient's life though the drug has never been tested in humans for that long a period. The FDA rubber-stamped these unwaveringly over and over. Also, many existing drugs, especially those whose patents were about to expire, the drug companies ramrodded again quick shoddy studies to "use the drug for other indications." Problem is, most of these drugs do not help the depression at all--it just sedates the client more, and thus turns off the higher functions of the brain. </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Some horrific and scientifically unsound and immoral abuses include approving neurileptics like Quetiapine or Aripiprazole as first line treatments for Bipolar Disorder! Might as well give them reserpine and wrap them in sheets and spray cold water on them while applying leaches! This is barbaric malpractice of the worst sort--government approved! </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> This type of "new indication" for drugs we know are very toxic, brain-disabling compounds with serious and often PERMANENT side effects, meaning brain damage, movement disorders (your body moves and shakes and you can't control it), Parkinson-like syndrome (like giving someone Parkinson's disease) as the "treatment" </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">for a number of vague mythical "diseases" that are often little more than people emerging from the haze of the lie-matrix that has been presented to us and forced down our throats as "reality." In other words, they are waking up to who they really are, and the shrinks misguidedly shut it down, and consign that person to a life of marginalization, stigma and certain poverty.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Does anyone else see something's wrong here! Natural medicines, phytomedications, and healing plants such as medical cannabis and opium poppies are much much safer and often provide the same or superior relief to many of the so-called "psychiatric disorders." </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Down with big Pharma--those of you with stock, divest for sake of human rights! Those who can, boycott psychiatrists who just write scripts and take no interest in you or your issues--that make no attempt at some sort of at least "supportive therapy." Lastly exercise your right as educated clients/patients to know about ALL POSSIBLE treatments for your disorder, even if it is not yet legal (like psilocybin for cluster headaches and end of life issues.) They may be able to get into a study of these natural non-toxic plant-derived compounds.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Andre S. Lange, MD</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sacramento </span></span> </div>Andre S. Langehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716981278596865536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927804441151373591.post-78534140429409443902011-03-14T03:57:00.000-07:002011-03-14T03:57:38.756-07:00A Real Hero Of Mine Passes this from Shady Backflash, info allegedly from Phil Lesh<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><a class="actorName" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=505149490" href="http://www.facebook.com/popeshady" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Shady Backflash</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span data-jsid="text"></span></span><br />
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I received a text in the middle of last night that Bear Stanley has died in a car accident in Australia. Bear, for me, was a true kindred spirit; when we first met, it was as if I had met a long-lost brother from another lifetime. I am heartbroken and devastated at his passing.<br />
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He was a friend, a brother, an inspiration, and our patron at the very beginning of our creative lives. We owe him more than what can be counted or added up- his was a mind that refused to accept limits, and he reinforced in us that striving for the infinite, the refusal to accept the status quo, that has informed so much of our work.<br />
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He never gave up his quest for pushing the limits of whatever he was working on. We had just been discussing his concept of point-source sound reinforcement in relation to a new project of mine, and his vision incorporated the latest developments in technology and perceptual research.<br />
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My heart goes out to his family, for whom he had such love and pride- his wife Sheilah, his children, grand-children, and great-grandchildren- who have lost their patriarch.<br />
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A mind like Bear’s appears very rarely, and it’s been my privilege and honor to have known and lovedtwo such minds- Jerry and Bear. I always laugh when I think about what Jerry once said about Bear: There’s nothing wrong with Bear that several billion fewer brain cells wouldn't fix.<br />
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I am eternally grateful for all of the gifts that Bear brought to the scene and to the music.<br />
Fare you well; I love you more than words can tell.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">See full article at Citizen's Commission On Human Rights International! Please consider </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.cchrint.org/2011/03/09/a-sugared-pill/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter">http://www.cchrint.org/2011/03/09/a-sugared-pill/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter</a>Andre S. Langehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716981278596865536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927804441151373591.post-42349201869161370652010-12-26T18:15:00.000-08:002010-12-26T18:15:12.744-08:00Don't Let The President Cop Out On Public Health Plan!Write Obama make sure public option covers Iboga treatment for cocaine addiction....Andre S. Langehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716981278596865536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927804441151373591.post-71230564806134826192010-12-17T12:55:00.000-08:002010-12-17T12:55:21.526-08:00Philanthropist Pledges $250,000.00 to MAPS study of PTSD treatment for War Veterans<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong><a href="" id="1" name="1" rel="nofollow"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Peter Lewis pledges $250,000 to Veterans Study</span></a></strong></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">On Dec. 1, 2010, philanthropist Peter Lewis pledged to donate $250,000 in 2011 to MAPS’ U.S. study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in war veterans. This generous pledge brings us to $319,000 out of the projected $500,000 needed to fund the entire study. We wish to extend our sincere gratitude to Peter Lewis for recognizing the value of this research and committing to fund it!</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong><a href="" id="2" name="2" rel="nofollow"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">First Two Subjects in U.S. Veterans Study Scheduled for MDMA Session in January</span></a></strong></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The first two veterans in our<a href="http://www.maps.org/research/mdma/mdma_ptsd_u.s._study_veterans_of_war/?utm_source=streamsend&utm_medium=email&utm_content=13121587&utm_campaign=Marijuana%20Protocol%20Submitted%20to%20the%20FDA%3A%20MAPS%20News%20Update%20-%20December%2017%2C%202010" rel="nofollow" style="color: #003267; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"> newest MDMA-assisted psychotherapy study </a>are now scheduled for their experimental sessions in January. Clinical Investigators Michael Mithoefer, M.D., and Annie Mithoefer, B.S.N., are leading this MAPS-sponsored study at their private office in Charleston, SC. In this study we are only enrolling veterans suffering from war-related PTSD who have tried other treatments and failed. In preparing the study, we found that veterans are different from survivors of sexual abuse and assault in that they are more likely to be taking opiate medications for pain. In the current protocol, we are using fixed dosages and cannot increase the dose of MDMA if the opiates blunt the effect. The team was concerned that opiates could cause MDMA to be less effective. When we learned that one of the potential subjects was prescribed opiate pain medication, our clinical team conferred with medical monitor Julie Holland, M.D., to create a policy for enrolling patients with chronic pain. We decided we would enroll subjects who are currently taking opiate medications for pain as long as they agreed to forego or reduce their medication on the day that they receive MDMA. We’ll use what we learn in this pilot study to decide whether, and under what conditions, it makes sense in future studies to continue to enroll subjects on opiate pain medications. </span></div>Andre S. Langehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716981278596865536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927804441151373591.post-581602707940954332010-12-16T02:41:00.000-08:002010-12-16T02:41:57.517-08:00I Support The Citizens Commission On Human Rights Intl!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9.72222px;"><a href="http://www.cchrint.org/store/donate_to_cchr.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3366cc;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.cchrint.org/images/email/header_donate_now.jpg" /></a></span><br />
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<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1292495943_0" style="color: #366388;">Click here to watch the video »</span></a><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;"><a href="http://www.cchrint.org/store/donate_to_cchr.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3366cc;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.cchrint.org/images/email/button_red_donate_now.jpg" /></a></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;">Dear Supporter,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;">A major thrust of CCHR's work this year has been to curb and halt the widespread psychiatric labeling and drugging of children. Please take a moment to watch this <a href="http://www.cchrint.org/videos/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3366cc;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1292495943_1" style="color: #366388;">short video on child drugging</span></a>, created by CCHR to raise awareness of this critical issue, and then please make a <a href="http://www.cchrint.org/store/donate_to_cchr.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3366cc;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1292495943_2" style="color: #366388;">tax-deductible year-end donation to CCHR to help continue the fight for kids.</span></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;">Here are a few successes from parents due to CCHR's work in raising public awareness about psychiatric labeling and drugging:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;"><em>Thank you for the CCHR website and the wealth of information. My 10-year-old son was displaying many ADD symptoms and his teacher recommended drugs. I opposed this immediately but felt like I had nothing to back me up. I have found that now. Now I am having my son tested for allergies and learning more about vitamins and nutrition. Thank God I found you.</em></div><div align="right" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">P. K., father</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;"><em>My 14-year-old son and I have gone through hell for years because every doctor said he had ADD, then no ADD, then Bipolar and prescribed a drug. When he had a violent episode and we attributed this to the medicine the doctors said it wasn't caused by the drug. Then a Chief of Police brought me your literature and I was amazed to find out so much information. THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts. We are now trying a different approach.</em></div><div align="right" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">N. W., mother</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;">It is through your generous funding that CCHR is able to provide parents everywhere with the knowledge to protect their children from psychiatric labels and drugs.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;"><a href="http://www.cchrint.org/store/donate_to_cchr.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3366cc;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1292495943_3" style="color: #366388;">Please continue to support this vital work with a tax-deductible year-end donation to CCHR today.</span></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;">We thank you for your continued support and look forward to further success in reforming the field of mental health in 2011.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;">Sincerely,</div><img border="0" src="http://www.cchrint.org/images/email/fran_sig_142x93.jpg" /><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em;">Fran Andrews<br />
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</tbody></table><b style="font-weight: bold;">Bolivia and Peru have defended the continued, traditional use of coca leaves after they were criticised by a UN drugs agency report.</b>The UN report concentrated on coca cultivation as the basis for cocaine production, they said.<br />
It failed to recognise that coca leaves had been used by indigenous peoples for medicinal and religious purposes for centuries, they added.<br />
Peru and Bolivia are second only to Colombia as world cocaine producers.<br />
Peru said a balance was needed between allowing cultivation for traditional uses while preventing it for cocaine production.<br />
"One of the principles of humanitarian law is the respect of traditional customs, recognised by the national constitution," said Jose Belaunde, Peru's foreign relations minister.<br />
"The United Nations lacks respect for the indigenous people of Peru and Bolivia who have used the coca leaf since forever," said Peruvian Congresswoman Maria Sumire.<br />
"For indigenous people, coca is a sacred leaf that is part of their cultural identity," she said.<br />
<b style="font-weight: bold;">Everyday use</b><br />
The International Narcotics Control Board released an annual report on Wednesday that reminded the two governments that use and possession of coca leaves, the main ingredient in cocaine, were limited to medical and scientific purposes.<br />
The two countries should "abolish or prohibit activities... such as coca leaf chewing and the manufacture of coca tea", the report said.<br />
People in the Andes use coca leaves to alleviate hunger and tiredness, for medicinal purposes and in religious rituals.<br />
UN conventions list coca as a dangerous controlled substance, along with cocaine and opium.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bolivian President Evo Morales has been lobbying for it to be taken off the list when the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs meets in 2009. </span></td></tr>
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vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 10px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Tuesday, December 2, 2008</span></span></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" colspan="2"><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; 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padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Public Prosecution Service - On December 1, 2008, possession of certain fresh mushrooms punishable under the Opium Act.</span><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">These are the mushrooms that naturally substance psilocin, psilocybin, or muscimol iboteenzuur contain.</span> <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Possession of dried mushrooms was already illegal and was initially included in List I (hard drugs) of the Opium Act.</span></span><p><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Both fresh and dried mushrooms under List II of the Opium Act and are thus classified as soft drugs.</span> <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">It is ultimately up to the local triangle (chief, mayor and police chief) to decide on the local interpretation of enforcement. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Enforcement of the ban on magic mushrooms is primarily focused on taking action against the commercial production and trafficking and sale of mushrooms.</span> <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">So decided after consultation with the Ministers of Justice and of Health, Welfare and Sport. </span></span></p><p><strong><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Intended method</span></span></strong><br /><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">On the proper procedure, agreement should be made in the triangle.</span> <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Such arrangements could involve the triangle all the major retailers such as smart shops, souvenir shops and growshops by letter summed all mushrooms and products that contain ingredients from mushrooms to remove.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Thereafter, visits follow the possible presence of criminal mushrooms.</span> <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">In their first encounter, the police written report for the OM and the mayor.</span> <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">The latter can directly send an administrative alert containing a notification that a subsequent violation the facility will be closed.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">If the police half visit again prohibited products will find a new official report prepared for the mayor and the PPS, then the sale must close.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Law or not?</span></span></strong><br /><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">At first glance is not always clear whether a mushroom found hallucinogenic mushrooms belong to the group.</span> <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">The combination of location (for example, grow shop) and the sale of mushrooms that contain a suspected prohibited constitute sufficient grounds for confiscation of such products and there will therefore be made official report.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">An expert report should eventually reveal whether the products actually found that in List II of the Opium Act belongs.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Framework for prosecution</span></span></strong><br /><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">In determining the penalty applies to the guidelines for prosecution Opium, cannabis (BOS / Polaris).</span></span></p><p><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">To engage in commercial production and trafficking and sale of mushrooms is a maximum sentence of four years.</span> <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">In possession of 0.5 grams of dried mushrooms from fresh and from a quantity from 5 grams can be prosecuted. </span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Andre S. Langehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716981278596865536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927804441151373591.post-10708217439220341552010-11-24T14:40:00.000-08:002010-11-24T14:45:26.221-08:00Barack And His Sweinhund Kunt Michele (Leonhart)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">WTF? WTF!</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" >WE will bury YOU DEA!</span></i></div><div><br /></div><div>(my apologies to Nikita K.) </div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" >Andre S. Lange MD, Communist</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8.33333px; line-height: 16px; "><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; ">WASHINGTON -- The Drug Enforcement Administration announced Wednesday that it would use its emergency powers to ban synthetic marijuana for one year, giving pot dealers across the country something to be thankful for when they sit down before their turkeys this week.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; ">The synthetic weed, known as "K2" or "spice" and generally sold in head shops, is popular among police officers, members of the military and others looking to avoid failing a drug test, said one hemp store owner who sells the product. The high from marijuana is created by its main active ingredient THC, but also by the plant's several dozen poorly understood cannabinoids. The DEA had banned any drug containing natural or synthetic THC, but has not addressed the cannabinoids. K2 has been legal because it uses synthetic versions of the cannabinoids rather than THC; because drug tests look for THC, users could smoke spice and not get caught by supervisors. But because it doesn't include THC, it gives users a different, lesser high than real pot. Because it has not been carefully studied, there is no certainty over whether it is as safe as marijuana. It is often labeled as incense and contains warnings against human consumption.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; ">Just as the threatened ban on the caffeinated booze drink Four Loko caused a run on convenience stores, the DEA's announcement about K2's impending ban threatens to send hordes of consumers to water pipe outposts, as users will have 30 days to hoard the fake drug before the ban goes into place. "A Notice of Intent to Temporarily Control was published in the Federal Register today to alert the public to this action," the DEA announced in a statement. "After no fewer than 30 days, DEA will publish in the Federal Register a Final Rule to Temporarily Control these chemicals for at least 12 months with the possibility of a six-month extension. They will be designated as Schedule I substances, the most restrictive category, which is reserved for unsafe, highly abused substances with no medical usage."</p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; ">A Schedule I listing would put it in a more restrictive category than cocaine.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; ">"These products are a predictable outgrowth of criminal marijuana prohibition," said Paul Armentano, a top official with the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. "As prohibition is apt to do, it has driven the production of a commodity into the hands of unregulated, unknown dealers, driven up the potency of the commodity, and in doing so created a scenario where the consumer is faced with a potentially greater health risks than they would be had they simply had the legal choice to use the product they actually desired, in this case cannabis. Given that most manufacturers of these products are overseas and not subject to U.S. laws and regulations, it is unlikely that the DEA's action will in any way halt the dissemination, use or misuse of these products among the public."</p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; ">Acting DEA chief Michele Leonhart, who has been nominated by Obama to become permanent head, said that she hoped the government's action would reduce interest in the drug -- a vain hope that flies in the face of logic and the nation's long and complicated history with drug use and drug policy. "Today's action will call further attention to the risks of ingesting unknown compounds and will hopefully take away any incentive to try these products," said Leonhart.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://www.amazon.com/This-Your-Country-Drugs-History/dp/0470167394/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231014655&sr=1-1" target="_hplink" style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 136, 195); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">History </a>says that the effect will be just the opposite: When the government pushes one drug into the black market, producers and users look for a ready alternative, often one that is more dangerous than the one that was banned. In several states that moved to ban K2, proprietors<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/25/AR2010092500484.html" target="_hplink" style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 136, 195); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">quickly began</a> stocking shelves with substitutes. The website K2incense.org, for instance, advertises "two NEW K2 products, NOT COVERED BY ANY BANS!" be </p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; "><br /></p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; ">The right-wing pigs must be stopped by any means necessary--including Molotov cocktails to any DEA office close to you, letter-writing and petitions, if you're feeling kind.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; "><br /></p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; "><br /></p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; "><br /></p></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Andre S. Langehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716981278596865536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927804441151373591.post-13521198285613892862010-11-24T14:00:00.000-08:002010-11-24T14:01:51.584-08:00Accurate Post From Attorney, well-versed in "mental health!"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span ><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span ><br /><div align="CENTER"><center><h2>SCHIZOPHRENIA<br />A Nonexistent Disease</h2><span >by Lawrence Stevens, J.D.<br /></span></center></div><span ><br />The word "schizophrenia" has a scientific sound that seems to give it inherent credibility and a charisma that seems to dazzle people. In his book <i>Molecules of the Mind - The Brave New Science of Molecular Psychology</i>, University of Maryland journalism professor Jon Franklin calls schizophrenia and depression "the two classic forms of mental illness" (Dell Publishing Co., 1987, p. 119). According to the cover article in the July 6, 1992 <i>Time</i>magazine, schizophrenia is the "most devilish of mental illnesses" (p. 53). This<i> Time </i>magazine article says "fully a quarter of the nation's hospital beds are occupied by schizophrenia patients" (p. 55). Books and articles like these and the facts to which they refer (such as a quarter of hospital beds being occupied by so-called schizophrenics) delude most people into believing there really is a disease called schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is one of the great myths of our time.<br /> In his book<i> Schizophrenia - The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry,</i>psychiatry professor Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., says "There is, in short, no such thing as schizophrenia" (Syracuse University Press, 1988, p. 191). In the Epilogue of their book<i> Schizophrenia - Medical Diagnosis or Moral Verdict</i>?, Theodore R. Sarbin, Ph.D., a psychology professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz who spent three years working in mental hospitals, and James C. Mancuso, Ph.D., a psychology professor at the State University of New York at Albany, say: "We have come to the end of our journey. Among other things, we have tried to establish that the schizophrenia model of unwanted conduct lacks credibility. The analysis directs us ineluctably to the conclusion that schizophrenia is a myth" (Pergamon Press, 1980, p. 221). In his book <i>Against Therapy</i>, published in 1988, Jeffrey Masson, Ph.D., a psychoanalyst, says "There is a heightened awareness of the dangers inherent in labeling somebody with a disease category like schizophrenia, and many people are beginning to realize that there is no such entity" (Atheneum, p. 2). Rather than being a bona-fide disease, so-called schizophrenia is a nonspecific category which includes almost everything a human being can do, think, or feel that is greatly disliked by other people or by the so-called schizophrenics themselves. There are few so-called mental illnesses that have not at one time or another been called schizophrenia. Because schizophrenia is a term that covers just about everything a person can think or do which people greatly dislike, it is hard to define objectively. Typically, definitions of schizophrenia are vague or inconsistent with each other. For example, when I asked a physician who was the Assistant Superintendent of a state mental hospital to define the term schizophrenia for me, he with all seriousness replied "split personality - that's the most popular definition." In contrast, a pamphlet published by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill titled "What Is Schizophrenia?" says "Schizophrenia is not a split personality". In her book<i>Schiz-o-phre-nia: Straight Talk for Family and Friends</i>, published in 1985, Maryellen Walsh says "Schizophrenia is one of the most misunderstood diseases on the planet. Most people think that it means having a split personality. Most people are wrong. Schizophrenia is not a splitting of the personality into multiple parts" (Warner Books, p. 41). The American Psychiatric Association's (APA's) <i>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders</i> (Second Edition), also known as <i>DSM-II</i>, published in 1968, defined schizophrenia as "characteristic disturbances of thinking, mood, or behavior" (p. 33). A difficulty with such a definition is it is so broad just about anything people dislike or consider abnormal, i.e., any so-called mental illness, can fit within it. In the Foreword to<i> DSM-II</i>, Ernest M. Gruenberg, M.D., D.P.H., Chairman of the American Psychiatric Association's Committee on Nomenclature, said: "Consider, for example, the mental disorder labeled in the Manual as 'schizophrenia,' ... Even if it had tried, the Committee could not establish agreement about what this disorder is" (p. ix). The third edition of the APA's <i>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders</i>, published in 1980, commonly called <i>DSM-III</i>, was also quite candid about the vagueness of the term. It said: "The limits of the concept of Schizophrenia are unclear" (p. 181). The revision published in 1987,<i> DSM-III-R,</i> contains a similar statement: "It should be noted that no single feature is invariably present or seen only in Schizophrenia" (p. 188). <i> DSM-III-R</i> also says this about a related diagnosis, Schizoaffective Disorder: "The term Schizoaffective Disorder has been used in many different ways since it was first introduced as a subtype of Schizophrenia, and represents one of the most confusing and controversial concepts in psychiatric nosology" (p. 208).<br /> Particularly noteworthy in today's prevailing intellectual climate in which mental illness is considered to have biological or chemical causes is what<i> DSM-III-R,</i> says about such physical causes of this catch-all concept of schizophrenia<b>:</b> It says a diagnosis of schizophrenia "is made only when it cannot be established that an organic factor initiated and maintained the disturbance" (p. 187). Underscoring this definition of "schizophrenia" as non-biological is the 1987 edition of <i>The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy,</i> which says a (so-called) diagnosis of schizophrenia is made only when the behavior in question is "not due to organic mental disorder" (p. 1532).<br /> Contrast this with a statement by psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., in his book<i> Surviving Schizophrenia: A Family Manual, </i>published in 1988. He says "Schizophrenia is a brain disease, now definitely known to be such" (Harper & Row, p. 5). Of course, if schizophrenia is a brain disease, then it is organic. However, the official definition of schizophrenia maintained and published by the American Psychiatric Association in its<i> Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders </i>for many years specifically excluded organically caused conditions from the definition of schizophrenia. Not until the publication of<i> DSM-IV</i> in 1994 was the exclusion for biologically caused conditions removed from the definition of schizophrenia. In <i>Surviving Schizophrenia, </i>Dr. Torrey acknowledges "the prevailing psychoanalytic and family interaction theories of schizophrenia which were prevalent in American psychiatry" (p. 149) which would seem to account for this.<br /> In the November 10, 1988 issue of<i> Nature</i>, genetic researcher Eric S. Lander of Harvard University and M.I.T. summarized the situation this way: "The late US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart declared in a celebrated obscenity case that, although he could not rigorously define pornography, 'I know it when I see it'. Psychiatrists are in much the same position concerning the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Some 80 years after the term was coined to describe a devastating condition involving a mental split among the functions of thought, emotion and behaviour, there remains no universally accepted definition of schizophrenia" (p. 105).<br /> According to Dr. Torrey in his book<i> Surviving Schizophrenia,</i> so-called schizophrenia includes several widely divergent personality types. Included among them are paranoid schizophrenics, who have "delusions and/or hallucinations" that are either "persecutory" or "grandiose"; hebephrenic schizophrenics, in whom "well-developed delusions are usually absent"; catatonic schizophrenics who tend to be characterized by "posturing, rigidity, stupor, and often mutism" or, in other words, sitting around in a motionless, nonreactive state (in contrast to paranoid schizophrenics who tend to be suspicious and jumpy); and simple schizophrenics, who exhibit a "loss of interest and initiative" like the catatonic schizophrenics (though not as severe) and unlike the paranoid schizophrenics have an "absence of delusions or hallucinations" (p. 77). The 1968 edition of the American Psychiatric Association's <i>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-II,</i> indicates a person who is very happy (experiences "pronounced elation") may be defined as schizophrenic for this reason ("Schizophrenia, schizo-affective type, excited") or very unhappy ("Schizophrenia, schizo-affective type, depressed")(p. 35), and the 1987 edition, <i>DSM-III-R, </i>indicates a person can be "diagnosed" as schizophrenic because he displays neither happiness nor sadness ("no signs of affective expression")(p. 189), which Dr. Torrey in his book calls simple schizophrenia ("blunting of emotions")(p. 77). According to psychiatry professor Jonas Robitscher, J.D., M.D., in his book <i>The Powers of Psychiatry, </i>people who cycle back and forth between happiness and sadness, the so-called manic-depressives or suffers of "bipolar mood disorder", may also be called schizophrenic: "Many cases that are diagnosed as schizophrenia in the United States would be diagnosed as manic-depressive illness in England or Western Europe" (Houghton Mifflin, 1980, p. 165.)<i> So the supposed "symptoms" or defining characteristics of "schizophrenia" are broad indeed, defining people as having some kind of schizophrenia because they have delusions or do not, hallucinate or do not, are jumpy or catatonic, are happy, sad, or neither happy nor sad, or cycling back and forth between happiness and sadness.</i> Since no physical causes of "schizophrenia" have been found, as we'll soon see, this "disease" can be defined only in terms of its "symptoms", which as you can see are what might be called ubiquitous. As attorney Bruce Ennis says in his book<i> Prisoners of Psychiatry:</i> "schizophrenia is such an all-inclusive term and covers such a large range of behavior that there are few people who could not, at one time or another, be considered schizophrenic" (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1972, p. 22). People who are obsessed with certain thoughts or who feel compelled to perform certain behaviors, such as washing their hands repeatedly, are usually considered to be suffering from a separate psychiatric disease called "obsessive-compulsive disorder". However, people with obsessive thoughts or compulsive behaviors have also been called schizophrenic (e.g., by Dr. Torrey in his book <i>Surviving Schizophrenia</i>, pp. 115-116).<br /> In <i>Surviving Schizophrenia</i>, Dr. Torrey quite candidly concedes the impossibility of defining what "schizophrenia" is. He says: "The definitions of most diseases of mankind has been accomplished. ... In almost all diseases there is something which can be seen or measured, and this can be used to define the disease and separate it from nondisease states. Not so with schizophrenia<b>!</b> To date we have no single thing which can be measured and from which we can then say: Yes, that is schizophrenia. Because of this, the definition of the disease is a source of great confusion and debate" (p. 73). What puzzles me is how to reconcile this statement of Dr. Torrey's with another he makes in the same book, which I quoted above and which appears more fully as follows: "Schizophrenia is a brain disease, now definitely known to be such. It is a real scientific and biological entity, as clearly as diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and cancer are scientific and biological entities" (p. 5). How can it be known schizophrenia is a brain disease when we do not know what schizophrenia is?<br /> The truth is that the label <i>schizophrenia</i>, like the labels pornography or mental illness, indicates disapproval of that to which the label is applied and nothing more. Like "mental illness" or pornography, "schizophrenia" does not exist in the sense that cancer and heart disease exist but exists only in the sense that good and bad exist. As with all other so-called mental illnesses, a diagnosis of "schizophrenia" is a reflection of the speaker's or "diagnostician's" values or ideas about how a person "should" be, often coupled with the false (or at least unproven) assumption that the disapproved thinking, emotions, or behavior results from a biological abnormality. Considering the many ways it has been used, it's clear "schizophrenia" has no particular meaning other than "I dislike it." Because of this, I lose some of my respect for mental health professionals when I hear them use the word <i>schizophrenia</i> in a way that indicates they think it is a real disease. I do this for the same reason I would lose respect for someone's perceptiveness or intellectual integrity after hearing him or her admire the emperor's new clothes. While the layman definition of schizophrenia,<i> internally inconsistent</i>, may make some sense, using the term "schizophrenia" in a way that indicates the speaker thinks it is a<i> real disease</i> is tantamount to admitting he doesn't know what he is talking about.<br /> Many mental health "professionals" and other "scientific" researchers<i>do</i> however persist in believing "schizophrenia" is a real disease. They are like the crowds of people observing the emperor's new clothes, unable or unwilling to see the truth because so many others before them have said it is real. A glance through the articles listed under "Schizophrenia" in<i> Index Medicus</i>, an index of medical periodicals, reveals how widespread the schizophrenia myth has become. And because these "scientists" believe "schizophrenia" is a real disease, they try to find physical causes for it. As psychiatrist William Glasser, M.D., says in his book<i> Positive Addiction</i>, published in 1976: "Schizophrenia sounds so much like a disease that prominent scientists delude themselves into searching for its cure" (Harper & Row, p. 18). This is a silly endeavor, because these supposedly prominent scientists can't define "schizophrenia" and accordingly don't know what they are looking for.<br /> According to three Stanford University psychiatry professors, "two hypotheses have dominated the search for a biological substrate of schizophrenia." They say these two theories are the transmethylation hypothesis of schizophrenia and the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia. (Jack D. Barchas, M.D., et al., "Biogenic Amine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia", appearing in <i>Psychopharmacology: From Theory to Practice,</i>Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 100.) The transmethylation hypothesis was based on the idea that "schizophrenia" might be caused by "aberrant formation of methylated amines" similar to the hallucinogenic pleasure drug mescaline in the metabolism of so-called schizophrenics. After reviewing various attempts to verify this theory, they conclude: "More than two decades after the introduction of the transmethylation hypothesis, no conclusions can be drawn about its relevance to or involvement in schizophrenia" (p. 107).<br /> Columbia University psychiatry professor Jerrold S. Maxmen, M.D., succinctly describes the second major biological theory of so-called schizophrenia, the dopamine hypothesis, in his book<i> The New Psychiatry</i>, published in 1985: "...many psychiatrists believe that schizophrenia involves excessive activity in the dopamine-receptor system...the schizophrenic's symptoms result partially from receptors being overwhelmed by dopamine" (Mentor, pp. 142 & 154). But in the article by three Stanford University psychiatry professors I referred to above they say "direct confirmation that dopamine is involved in schizophrenia continues to elude investigators" (p. 112). In 1987 in his book<i> Molecules of the Mind</i> Professor Jon Franklin says "The dopamine hypothesis, in short, was wrong" (p. 114).<br /> In that same book, Professor Franklin aptly describes efforts to find other biological causes of so-called schizophrenia: "As always, schizophrenia was the index disease. During the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds of scientists occupied themselves at one time and another with testing samples of schizophrenics' bodily reactions and fluids. They tested skin conductivity, cultured skin cells, analyzed blood, saliva, and sweat, and stared reflectively into test tubes of schizophrenic urine. The result of all this was a continuing series of announcements that this or that difference had been found. One early researcher, for instance, claimed to have isolated a substance from the urine of schizophrenics that made spiders weave cockeyed webs. Another group thought that the blood of schizophrenics contained a faulty metabolite of adrenaline that caused hallucinations. Still another proposed that the disease was caused by a vitamin deficiency. Such developments made great newspaper stories, which generally hinted, or predicted outright, that the enigma of schizophrenia had finally been solved. Unfortunately, in light of close scrutiny none of the discoveries held water" (p. 172).<br /> Other efforts to prove a biological basis for so-called schizophrenia have involved brain-scans of pairs of identical twins when only one is a supposed schizophrenic. They do indeed show the so-called schizophrenic has brain damage his identical twin lacks. The flaw in these studies is the so-called schizophrenic has inevitably been given brain-damaging drugs called neuroleptics as a so-called treatment for his so-called schizophrenia. It is these brain-damaging drugs, not so-called schizophrenia, that have caused the brain damage. <i>Anyone</i> "treated" with these drugs will have such brain damage. Damaging the brains of people eccentric, obnoxious, imaginative, or mentally disabled enough to be called schizophrenic with drugs (erroneously) believed to have antischizophrenic properties is one of the saddest and most indefensible consequences of today's widespread belief in the myth of schizophrenia.<br /> In <i>The New Harvard Guide to Psychiatry</i>, published in 1988, Seymour S. Kety, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience in Psychiatry, and Steven Matthysse, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychobiology, both of Harvard Medical School, say "an impartial reading of the recent literature does not provide the hoped-for clarification of the catecholamine hypotheses, nor does compelling evidence emerge for other biological differences that may characterize the brains of patients with mental disease" (Harvard University Press, p. 148).<br /> Belief in biological causes of so-called mental illness, including schizophrenia, comes not from science but from wishful thinking or from desire to avoid coming to terms with the experiential/environmental causes of people's misbehavior or distress. The repeated failure of efforts to find biological causes of so-called schizophrenia suggests "schizophrenia" belongs only in the category of socially/culturally unacceptable thinking or behavior rather than in the category of biology or "disease" where many people place it.<p><br />THE AUTHOR, Lawrence Stevens, is a lawyer whose practice has included representing psychiatric "patients". His pamphlets are not copyrighted. Feel free to make copies. </p><br /><br /><b><u>1998 UPDATE</u>:</b><br />"The etiology of schizophrenia is unknown. ... Schizophrenia is widely believed to have a neurobiologic basis. The most notable theory is the dopamine hypothesis, which posits that schizophrenia is due to hyperactivity in brain dopaminergic pathways. ... More recent studies have focused on structural and functional abnormalities through brain imaging of schizophrenics and control populations. No one finding or theory to date is adequate in explaining the etiology and pathogenesis of this complex disease." Michael J. Murphy, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Ronald L. Cowan, M.D., Ph.D., Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; and Lloyd I. Sederer, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, in their textbook<i>Blueprints in Psychiatry</i> (Blackwell Science, Inc., Malden, Massachusetts, 1998), p. 1.<p><b><u>1999 UPDATE</u></b><br />"The cause of schizophrenia has not yet been determined..." <a href="http://www.sg.gov/library/mentalhealth/chapter4/sec4_1.html#etiology" target="_blank">Report on Mental Health</a> of U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D. These are the opening words of the section on the etiology (cause) of schizophrenia.<br /> Thereafter, the Surgeon General restates several unproved <i>theories</i> of so-called schizophrenia. He cites the higher probability of identical than fraternal twins being labeled schizophrenic as evidence of a genetic component in the supposed disease, but he overlooks studies showing the concordance between identical twins being much lower than those on which he relies. For example, in his book <i>Is Alcoholism Hereditary?</i>, Donald W. Goodwin, M.D., cites studies showing concordance rates of identical twins for so-called schizophrenia are as low as six percent (6%) (Ballantine Books, New York, 1988, p. 88). Dr. Goodwin also notes: "Believers in a genetic basis for schizophrenia may unknowingly overdiagnose schizophrenia in identical twins brothers of schizophrenics" (ibid., p. 89). The Surgeon General cites brain abnormalities in people called schizophrenic, overlooking the fact that they are often caused by the drugs with which so-called schizophrenics are treated. He even relies on the discredited dopamine hypothesis. He goes on to advocate the use of neuroleptic drugs for so-called schizophrenia, even though neuroleptics cause permanent brain damage evidenced by (in the Surgeon General's words) "acute dystonia, parkinsonism, and tardive dyskinesia and akathisia," which he acknowledges occur in an estimated 40% of persons taking the drugs. He raises what is probably false hope of newer so-called anti-psychotic or anti-schizophrenic drugs being less damaging than the older ones.</p><p><br /><b><u>2000 UPDATE</u></b><br />"There is no accepted etiology of schizophrenia although there have been many theories. ... The unfortunate truth is that we don't know what causes schizophrenia or even what the illness is." Edward Drummond, M.D., Associate Medical Director at Seacoast Mental Health Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in his book <i>The Complete Guide to Psychiatric Drugs</i> (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 2000), pages 11-12. Dr. Drummond graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine and was trained in psychiatry at Harvard University.</p><p><br /><b><u>2001 UPDATE</u></b><br />In his book <i>Schizophrenia Revealed - From Neurons to Social Interaction</i>(W.W.Norton, New York, 2001), Michael Foster Green, Ph.D., a professor in the UCLA Department of Psychiatary and Behavioral Sciences, and chief of the treatment unit of the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, does his best to promote the idea that so-called schizophrenia is biological. He nevertheless makes the following admissions<b>:</b> "...we do not yet have an adequate understanding of schizophrenia... a specific brain abnormaility in schizophrenia has remained elusive. ...schizophrenia cannot be diagnosed by a brain scan" (pages 4, 6, and 95).</p><p><img src="http://www.antipsychiatry.org/pamphlet.gif" align="LEFT" border="1" width="60" height="135" /><a href="http://www.antipsychiatry.org/schizop9.pht">DOWNLOAD AS PAMPHLET</a> - Click on this link to download a pamphlet version of "SCHIZOPHRENIA - a Nonexistent Disease." For printing as a pamphlet, this file must be used with 8½ by 14 inch paper, printer capable of Hewlett-Packard Laserjet (PCL 5) emulation, and Corel WordPerfect for Microsoft Windows 95/98. A printer capable of duplexing (i.e., double-sided printing) is recommended. See <a href="http://www.antipsychiatry.org/printing.htm">printing instructions</a>. Most Kinko's Copy shops in the USA and Canada have the needed hardware and software, often including a duplexing printer, to download and print pamphlets from this website.</p><p><a href="http://www.antipsychiatry.org/schizoph.pdf">DOWNLOAD AS PAMPHLET</a> - Adobe PDF beta (test) version. There are some problems with this Adobe version<b>:</b> If you know how to fix them, please contact the webmaster at <a href="mailto:antipsychiatrycoalition@usa.net">antipsychiatrycoalition@usa.net</a>.</p></span></span></span>Andre S. Langehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716981278596865536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927804441151373591.post-71496110833805937112010-11-17T18:19:00.000-08:002010-11-17T18:22:09.455-08:00Great Video! Truth! Word!<a href="http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=133522523369156&id=1634334112&notif_t=share_comment">http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=133522523369156&id=1634334112&notif_t=share_comment</a><div><br /></div>Andre S. Langehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716981278596865536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927804441151373591.post-28088590708646517742010-11-02T09:18:00.000-07:002010-11-02T09:21:36.626-07:00Paul McCartney's Words<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-size: 15pt">I was just sitting down, trying to write a letter to John, because the song is about John. I tried to write down my feelings, the way I felt after his death. They were sort of sad yet funny. Like it´s the way I remember John. His death is terrible, but he was a like fun ! If he were to hear me talk today about how I knew him, he would probably say "Oh Paul, you never really knew me or understood me." That's what John was like. And then I'd say "Wait, a second. I knew you well! I can still remember the old days. What about this and that, and i still remember this ... ? The text is sort of a little conversation in my mind. I don't know if he would have liked it, but :</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-size: 15pt">If you were here today, you would laugh and say we were always different worlds apart. John, I can barely hold back my tears. I remember how we first saw each other. How we played together. I understood you. And if not, we could atleast sing together. You always had this smile. And now I have you in my song.----Sir Paul McCartney</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-size: 15pt"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20.1389px; ">My comment: Heavy.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br /></p>Andre S. Langehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716981278596865536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927804441151373591.post-35866705945691695492010-10-18T01:44:00.000-07:002010-10-18T03:15:05.960-07:00Yes It Is!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rpLSjpNgHu8/TLwWj7vYzZI/AAAAAAAAAN0/KTT8Y2UY-5w/s1600/250px-Narrenturm_Vienna_June_2006_575.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 360px; height: 270px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rpLSjpNgHu8/TLwWj7vYzZI/AAAAAAAAAN0/KTT8Y2UY-5w/s400/250px-Narrenturm_Vienna_June_2006_575.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529319249091808658" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> Psychiatry. It means "mind doctor." Coined in the 1800's. It had different names before. It is a means of subjugating people. Before the 1900's basically, one was identified as mad, strange, or different, or "difficult," -----meaning not just going along with whatever the rich pushed on you. Then, unless you had lots of money to be safe from this, they just locked you up in castles and such, like the one pictured, in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 31px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Built in 1784, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Vienna</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">'s </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrenturm_(hospital)" title="Narrenturm (hospital)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Narrenturm</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language" title="German language" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">German</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> for "</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">lunatics' tower</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">," one of the oldest buildings which are specifically designed as a "madhouse." You were often shackled with chains. This was 'treatment." It was to get you out of the sight of rich or "respectable" people and few were concerned with you. When leprosy died out, "crazy people" became the new lepers, untouchables. Most likely you would spend the rest of your wretched life there. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 31px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 31px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Of course, this led to abuses.........many rich men had their wives locked up just for not being their slave properly. Often poets and thinkers, philosophers etc who were spreading ideas not approved by the "consensus society (the rich/rulers)" were declared insane, locked away, and their life works, books, everything burned. This happened even as late as the 1950's--witness the persecution and imprisonment of Dr. Wilhelm Reich. In the 1940's such innovative "treatments" like dousing the prisoners ("patients") with fire hoses or wrapping them in cold wet blankets were common. Then along came the idea of giving non-diabetics a large shot of insulin to cause them to have an epileptic convulsion--another miracle treatment for the psychiatrists! Around the same time forced sterilization (castration) and ice-pick lobotomies became popular for the "insane." Nazi Germany in the 30's and 40's used many of these ideas to get rid of any "useless eaters" as they were called. In fact, most of Hitler's "Final Solution" was designed by psychiatrists. Only a very few were named or prosecuted at Nuremburg.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 31px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 31px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Finally in the late 1950's a chemical castration/lobotomy drug, chlorpromazine, was synthesized. So, it made the tormentors/custodians SEEM a little more HUMANE. Soon many more of these phenothiazines were produced and almost all "psych patients" were put on these. Needless to say, psychiatry has a huge history of doing things against the will of the hostage. It has nearly become the rule, rather than the exception. The drugs as you may know, have terrible acute side effects, and cause permanent brain damage. They still do.<br /><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 31px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Andre S. Langehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716981278596865536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927804441151373591.post-40546963678367856302010-10-15T08:02:00.000-07:002010-10-15T08:03:36.431-07:00Under Construction<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> Content coming soon to this site. </div>Andre S. Langehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716981278596865536noreply@blogger.com2