Almost all psych drugs cause iatrogenic harm. There is no recourse to sue for medical malpractice because it is "standard of care." Most P-docs prescribe these medications for long term while studies (not good results) were only approved for short term. Lastly, they have no idea how to taper safely; a science that is starting to get some traction. Pharma does not make small doses so you have to either do your own compounding or find a compounding pharmacy. I am still helping a family member recover from iatrogenic harm caused by a psychiatrist. I appreciate you sharing your story and getting the word/warning out to others.
I am glad you reached out to a community pharmacist who could help you.
I have, while employed for 38 years, helped many. Sometimes the answer is breaking a pill in half, then quarters, usually it is a little bit more involved than that. And it takes a dedicated patient to do it, or a dedicated partner to administer it (rarer). Doctors are generally not interested in the results.
I think Lexapro gave me brain damage. It has taken 10+ years to be able to return to any semblance of what I had before, acuity-wise. IMHO. I was not on it for long, maybe a year? When I quit, I heard swooshing noises whenever I moved my head for awhile. I also recall someone published a study fairly recently which proved SSRIs have nothing to do with treating depression. Say what? They sure do explain a lot of suicides and murders by teens though. Big Pharma has basically destroyed the physical and mental health of a huge swath of the western world.
About 15 years ago, I developed panic attacks while driving. It got to the point where I couldn't even put the keys in the ignition. My world was getting smaller, and in desperation, I went to see a doctor. I was prescribed Xanax, and exactly like you describe, they were a miracle for a few months. I was driving again! But they slowly turned me into an unfeeling zombie. I even excitedly considered suicide. I came to my senses enough to quit. Not knowing anything about tapering, I quit cold turkey. For the next 3 years I was basically bedridden and my life was an unrelenting hell. I won't go into symptoms but I'm sure many of them are familiar to you. Things so horrible you would trade your old, familiar hell for this fresh hell in a heartbeat. Doctors gaslit me and said it was all in my head and tried to prescribe more drugs. I nearly lost everything. That's when I started researching every thing I could about health and alternative therapies and climbed out of that hell. I tell everyone I can, never ever touch benzos.
They have many profound side effects that are mostly unknown to doctors. Xanax is so short-acting that it's a particular problem as you are constantly on the hunt for more. Thanks for sharing.
Haha, yeah, that's why it was, according to the doctor, "perfect for panic attacks". Maybe as an addendum to this post you should list the side effects of both use and withdrawal. Appreciate your work. Take care.
My mother attempted suicide after quitting Valium cold turkey. She suffered severe depression after she was rehabilitated, and eventually died from pneumonia most likely contracted from not getting out of bed. She had no enthusiasm for anything. She was a shell of herself. Yes, I blame the medical profession, her doctor, and especially the drug companies.
Also, my formerly loving children have not spoken to me for the last 15 years. I have grandchildren that don't know me, and I don't know them. None of them has the courage to tell me what great sin I have committed, and I thought it was because they went to "shrinks" who told them to eliminate any thing in their lives that caused them discomfort. It is more than that...after reading this article, I am certain that 3 out of 4 of them are on SSRI drugs.
My son’s story. Thankful every day for his almost fatal decision to sit in our garage with the car running…we found him before he died and he spent a month in a hospital that remarkably had an oxygen chamber that helped with his brain damage. He is 33 now and playing drums for our church worship team. He credits his good mental health these days to weight lifting and exercise. 🙏🏼
Dr. Yolo, another take on Valium. My dear great aunt passed at 100.5 of age. It was her custom every night for 30 plus years to take precisely 1/2 of a valium each night. She never had high blood pressure, and there is some thought in our family that her longevity was enhanced by slowing the beats per minute of her heart, and thus extending her life span. Was she addicted? She did not suffer from anxiety in the least, so I do not know if that was the origin for the prescription. I believe she was prescribed it in her late 70s. But it was never more, never less, and always at bed time. My take away is that she might have been addicted as a habit, but that for her at least, it was not the mood altering drug that day time users use it for. My second point: it is Much Much Much better to have a drug that washes out slowly so that you *can* taper off, than a drug that you are forced to go cold turkey on. The cold turkey experience is a bit like what those who stop smoking experience. The smoker craves the next hit of nicotine, the next fix of oral satisfaction etc. And has terrible trouble walking away from it. Many times they fail and go back on the drug. Ditto the true alcoholic. In fact with the alcohol, those who got out of alcoholism, when shown pictures of a tall iced glass of the poison, have brain pattern changes in the centers of the brain where satisfaction/rewards are processed. The body and brain 'remember'. There are many facets to addiction, the biological physical response is only one of those. The psychological responses are *wow* as well. In any case I have constantly refused to use anti anxiety meds, even though my BP is high and the anti anxiety meds completely normalize my BP. And when told I need perhaps an SSRI, I ran as fast as I could to get away from that doctor. I knew only too well the horrible profile of issues the SSRI patient faced getting off the drugs. I say NILIF ... nothing in life is 'free' and the idea a 'pill' or injection will 'fix it all' is one of the biggest lies of all!
Yes I think what it’s being prescribed for is important. I’m prescribed benzos as a cns suppressant. I don’t have anxiety. My experience has been great. I have not had to increase the dose at all and I don’t get any kind of side effect or narcotic effect from them. I did at the start but it only lasted a week. The benzos stop my oxygen saturation from suddenly dropping and slows my heart rate down as it’s high (90-105) due to an adverse event which requires surgery to remove bone cement from my spine which I’ve been refused. So maybe those prescribed it for anxiety need to keep increasing their dose but those using it as a cns suppressant or for something else don’t.
Cannabis is similar if you use if for medical purposes. Eventually you stop getting high but the medical benefits don’t go away and you don’t have to increase the dose to keep receiving the benefits. This is noted in the documentation of sativex in New Zealand and matches my experiences.
A friend of mine was on morphine for 15 years due to back pain because he couldn’t do his physical job without it. Then he retired so was no longer getting a sore back. He stopped the morphine over a few days with no side effects whatsoever and never looked back.
I’ve been on codeine for a few decades due to metal fragments in my back but I don’t get any narcotic effect from them. I would if I increased the dose but I don’t need to increase the dose as they work fine with no narcotic effect.
My uncle was diagnosed with schizophrenia but it was actually metal hypersensitivity to his amalgams combined with the family gene mutation that was the cause. Psychiatry isn’t real. It’s pseudo science with no evidence to back it up. It comes purely from the imaginations of man
If I were a physician, I’d have a prescription pad that read ‘Cut all of the assholes in your life loose’, ‘eat high quality food’, get good quality sleep’, ‘exercise more’, ‘laugh a LOT more’, ‘stop watching tv with pharma ads’ and things along those lines. For sure I’d have my license suspended as there is no profit in that. I did those things in my own life and it worked so much better than any pill ever could.
So many friends of mine from the medical profession have died from addiction so I am happy you are not amongst that number. My neurosurgeon and anesthesiologist friends are gone. They were good people who were not taught how to manage stress in a healthy manner. Some of the stories they told me about traumatic events in their jobs were incredible and made me very glad I chose engineering. I am relieved you made it out of that cycle, especially since you have an important message to share. I buy your books and dole them out like candy so thank you…more than you will ever know.
The sleeping pill Ambien can cause insomnia. Aspirin, Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen (or Tylenol) can all Cause pain, fever and inflammation. All the SSRI & Tricyclic Antidepressant medicines used to treat depression, can also cause or worsen depression. Ritalin (or methylphenidate) is a stimulant that is used to treat the symptoms of the _hyperactivity_ disorder called ADHD. Both Budesonide and Albuterol for treating asthma, can cause spasms of the bronchia and difficult or labored breathing.
The bizarre aspect of drugs causing symptoms they are used to treat is actually the essential aspect of classical homeopathy - “like cures like”; the constellation of symptoms that a single medicine will cause on all levels – mental, emotional and physical (MEP) - in relatively healthy individuals, it will also cure in a sick person.
But how does this paradoxical effect occur? It seems counter to our common sense.
And yet, investigating conventional medicines one sees that almost all that are prescribed based on symptoms (as opposed to lab results) have "side effects", really just _effects_, that match the symptoms they are indicated for!
Prescribed conventionally on only a few of the patient's symptoms, they palliate or suppress them temporarily, and must be repeated regularly. If these same conventional medicines were prescribed so that their effects on all levels mental, emotional and physical matched the patients symptoms, they would be homeopathic and curative.
How does this happen?
All medicines have a primary action followed by a secondary reaction when they wear off.
We are all familiar with the primary action and secondary reaction of coffee. Drinking that first cup, typically we are mentally more alert, emotionally hyperexcitable and physically stimulated. When it wears off we crash: mentally slow, emotionally down and physically lethargic.
Giving homeopathic coffee to a patient with insomnia who is awake late with a racing mind, hyperexcitable and physically stimulated, there will be a slight increase. But the secondary reaction by their body/mind which has an innate tendency to heal, will push in the "opposite" direction toward health.
This same push-and-pull, primary action followed by secondary reaction, of all medicines that are prescribed homeopathically will cure in this manner.
It is not necessary that the medicines be diluted, or potentized, for this healing effect to occur.
Dr Hahnemann in the early days of homeopathy used small doses of undiluted medicines. He only started diluting or potentizing them when he discovered it was more effective.
Without dissecting the mechanisms, you have hit upon the central theme we face. AZT, not AIDS, caused all the fatalities. Tylenol depletes glutathione and should be disposed of in a biohazard box. And all the lies about TG, carbon, "climate change" etc.
Conventional medicine is so obsessed with determining biomechanistic mechanisms for drug effects. e.g. lock and key for receptors, enzyme effects, etc. But in actuality they cant begin to explain all the effects of their drugs, particularly the mental-emotional effects.
They need to change ultimately their idea of what constitutes a disease. Instead of compartmentalizing a patient into multiple diseases and treating each one separately which leads to over-drugging and palliation and suppression of symptoms, they should look at the whole patient's condition as the disease as every other system of medicine does.
It would change their whole relationship with their medicines. They would look at the whole effect of the drugs - mental, emotional and physical. They would see that prescribing their drugs based on how they match this whole patient would lead to cure. They would be practicing homeopathically!
I have heard that many of these achool shootings are prompted by kids on psych meds and if you are a real conspiracy theorist, they are known by and manipulated to act by govt forces wanting to make a point about gun control, etc. The kid "wakes up," so to speak not knowing "WHY," they did what they did and we never truly learn what happens to them if they survive, i.e. are they really in prison or out on some witness protection. program...
That suspicion was somewhat confirmed firsthand when this RN was caring for a dear, sweet lady one night, hospitalized for an injury. It is routine to place routine orders for alcohol withdrawal if in their history they admit to drinking regularly. She had orders for Ativan 3 MG if she started to show signs of DT's. She couldn't sleep so someone gave her the Ativan. Normally, 0.5 MG would be given for this. About an hour later, she became angry, combative, and screamed all night. She called her family, 911, the police...accused us of all kinds of mistreatment...her behavior was a complete 180 from hours earlier. The next night I took care of her again. She apologized profusely and said she knew exactly what she was doing, BUT COULDN'T STOP HERSELF!!!. It was unbelievable and showed the exaggerated side effects of these medications. Obviously this doesn't confirm malicious intent by govt but I have noticed that what psych meds these shooters are on is omitted from news stories. Since this observation, I have learned about www.ablechild.org, an organization started by Sheila Mathews who warns of the connection between school psychologists and Big Pharma.
"gabapentin, [a failed drug that was only approved originally for post-herpetic neuralgia]"
Yes. Thank you. I have culled all my physiatry (MDs with physical medicine specialty) referrals who knee jerk with gabapentin. They just warehouse patients on the stuff, leaving them lethargic and often with significant weight gain.
That's putting it mildly. Great article. I am reading your hormone book and Judas of Dentistry. Thank you for your research and having the courage to share your own story as a human and as a doctor.
I knew 2 people who were on prescription opiates when the decision was made to cut everyone off. Both of them, with different doctors, were given a quart sized bottle of gabapentin . After both of them complained about how awful it is, the doctors replied "Well I don't know what more I can do, look at how huge that bottle of gabapentin is!"
For years RX opiates were the standard, then, when people began dropping like flies from overdoses, they weren't. When a leg is shattered from a roadside i.e.d., morphine is THE way to control the pain immediately and begin treatment. Hydrocodone ad infinitum for failed back surgery? Not a good way to extrapolate the use of morphine. Pain system dysfunction has created a whole new specialty that unfortunately worsened...pain system dysfunction. The dysfunction involves a significantly lowered pain threshold, i.e., 0.15 Kg of pressure on the Cluneal nerve distribution of healthy people is painless, the same pressure on dysfunctional patients is reported as excruciating. How to fix it? Instead of relying on Opioid receptors, mechanical therapists, e.g. chiropractors, without realizing it until recently, did their work by modulating the data from the periphery presented through the Basal ganglia to the PreFrontal Cortex. Similar modulatory work is done by various body workers, and some techniques used in physical therapy, as possibly acupuncture as well, although I know acupuncture can be effective, I am clueless as to exact mechanism.
Almost all psych drugs cause iatrogenic harm. There is no recourse to sue for medical malpractice because it is "standard of care." Most P-docs prescribe these medications for long term while studies (not good results) were only approved for short term. Lastly, they have no idea how to taper safely; a science that is starting to get some traction. Pharma does not make small doses so you have to either do your own compounding or find a compounding pharmacy. I am still helping a family member recover from iatrogenic harm caused by a psychiatrist. I appreciate you sharing your story and getting the word/warning out to others.
exactly
100%
Insanity we have allowed ourselves to delve into being programmed into believing the lies for easy fixes
I am glad you reached out to a community pharmacist who could help you.
I have, while employed for 38 years, helped many. Sometimes the answer is breaking a pill in half, then quarters, usually it is a little bit more involved than that. And it takes a dedicated patient to do it, or a dedicated partner to administer it (rarer). Doctors are generally not interested in the results.
I think Lexapro gave me brain damage. It has taken 10+ years to be able to return to any semblance of what I had before, acuity-wise. IMHO. I was not on it for long, maybe a year? When I quit, I heard swooshing noises whenever I moved my head for awhile. I also recall someone published a study fairly recently which proved SSRIs have nothing to do with treating depression. Say what? They sure do explain a lot of suicides and murders by teens though. Big Pharma has basically destroyed the physical and mental health of a huge swath of the western world.
exactly
About 15 years ago, I developed panic attacks while driving. It got to the point where I couldn't even put the keys in the ignition. My world was getting smaller, and in desperation, I went to see a doctor. I was prescribed Xanax, and exactly like you describe, they were a miracle for a few months. I was driving again! But they slowly turned me into an unfeeling zombie. I even excitedly considered suicide. I came to my senses enough to quit. Not knowing anything about tapering, I quit cold turkey. For the next 3 years I was basically bedridden and my life was an unrelenting hell. I won't go into symptoms but I'm sure many of them are familiar to you. Things so horrible you would trade your old, familiar hell for this fresh hell in a heartbeat. Doctors gaslit me and said it was all in my head and tried to prescribe more drugs. I nearly lost everything. That's when I started researching every thing I could about health and alternative therapies and climbed out of that hell. I tell everyone I can, never ever touch benzos.
They have many profound side effects that are mostly unknown to doctors. Xanax is so short-acting that it's a particular problem as you are constantly on the hunt for more. Thanks for sharing.
Haha, yeah, that's why it was, according to the doctor, "perfect for panic attacks". Maybe as an addendum to this post you should list the side effects of both use and withdrawal. Appreciate your work. Take care.
My mother attempted suicide after quitting Valium cold turkey. She suffered severe depression after she was rehabilitated, and eventually died from pneumonia most likely contracted from not getting out of bed. She had no enthusiasm for anything. She was a shell of herself. Yes, I blame the medical profession, her doctor, and especially the drug companies.
Also, my formerly loving children have not spoken to me for the last 15 years. I have grandchildren that don't know me, and I don't know them. None of them has the courage to tell me what great sin I have committed, and I thought it was because they went to "shrinks" who told them to eliminate any thing in their lives that caused them discomfort. It is more than that...after reading this article, I am certain that 3 out of 4 of them are on SSRI drugs.
blunts and distorts their human responses
I agree with the estrangement that can happen after people are treated with “mental health” medications. Sad and painful
Shocking statistic I saw some years ago - 1 in 10 ppl in the US are on some form of Anti Depressant/anxiety medicine.. 1 in 10!!
might be 20 percent on psych drugs of some kind
I’ve been on many. I think half the women need thyroid medication not an antidepressant.
If it was me, I'd start with iodine. Research this by searching for Dr. Brownstein's YouTube videos and this post: https://robertyoho.substack.com/p/252-when-heroes-are-needed-courageous?utm_source=publication-search
Thank you! I’m doing the Ritchie Shoemaker protocol for biotoxin mold illness, I take iodine twice a day ( standard process brand).
low dose valium long term at bed is pretty benign but not something you want to start
My mom was prescribed 10 mg 2x day + phenobarbitol.
“Albert was treating symptoms rather than the ROOT causes….” No pun intended!
Seriously, this is a great article.
Yes, a great article.
My son’s story. Thankful every day for his almost fatal decision to sit in our garage with the car running…we found him before he died and he spent a month in a hospital that remarkably had an oxygen chamber that helped with his brain damage. He is 33 now and playing drums for our church worship team. He credits his good mental health these days to weight lifting and exercise. 🙏🏼
Dr. Yolo, another take on Valium. My dear great aunt passed at 100.5 of age. It was her custom every night for 30 plus years to take precisely 1/2 of a valium each night. She never had high blood pressure, and there is some thought in our family that her longevity was enhanced by slowing the beats per minute of her heart, and thus extending her life span. Was she addicted? She did not suffer from anxiety in the least, so I do not know if that was the origin for the prescription. I believe she was prescribed it in her late 70s. But it was never more, never less, and always at bed time. My take away is that she might have been addicted as a habit, but that for her at least, it was not the mood altering drug that day time users use it for. My second point: it is Much Much Much better to have a drug that washes out slowly so that you *can* taper off, than a drug that you are forced to go cold turkey on. The cold turkey experience is a bit like what those who stop smoking experience. The smoker craves the next hit of nicotine, the next fix of oral satisfaction etc. And has terrible trouble walking away from it. Many times they fail and go back on the drug. Ditto the true alcoholic. In fact with the alcohol, those who got out of alcoholism, when shown pictures of a tall iced glass of the poison, have brain pattern changes in the centers of the brain where satisfaction/rewards are processed. The body and brain 'remember'. There are many facets to addiction, the biological physical response is only one of those. The psychological responses are *wow* as well. In any case I have constantly refused to use anti anxiety meds, even though my BP is high and the anti anxiety meds completely normalize my BP. And when told I need perhaps an SSRI, I ran as fast as I could to get away from that doctor. I knew only too well the horrible profile of issues the SSRI patient faced getting off the drugs. I say NILIF ... nothing in life is 'free' and the idea a 'pill' or injection will 'fix it all' is one of the biggest lies of all!
benzos are the least malignant of the psych meds
I recently wrote an article on addiction. You may find my experiences interesting. https://healthcarenotmedicine.substack.com/p/are-addictive-drugs-the-only-ones
thanks Mark
Yes I think what it’s being prescribed for is important. I’m prescribed benzos as a cns suppressant. I don’t have anxiety. My experience has been great. I have not had to increase the dose at all and I don’t get any kind of side effect or narcotic effect from them. I did at the start but it only lasted a week. The benzos stop my oxygen saturation from suddenly dropping and slows my heart rate down as it’s high (90-105) due to an adverse event which requires surgery to remove bone cement from my spine which I’ve been refused. So maybe those prescribed it for anxiety need to keep increasing their dose but those using it as a cns suppressant or for something else don’t.
Cannabis is similar if you use if for medical purposes. Eventually you stop getting high but the medical benefits don’t go away and you don’t have to increase the dose to keep receiving the benefits. This is noted in the documentation of sativex in New Zealand and matches my experiences.
A friend of mine was on morphine for 15 years due to back pain because he couldn’t do his physical job without it. Then he retired so was no longer getting a sore back. He stopped the morphine over a few days with no side effects whatsoever and never looked back.
I’ve been on codeine for a few decades due to metal fragments in my back but I don’t get any narcotic effect from them. I would if I increased the dose but I don’t need to increase the dose as they work fine with no narcotic effect.
Love it if my doc would give for hbp as relaxant I don't get high on it and only use at night
My uncle was diagnosed with schizophrenia but it was actually metal hypersensitivity to his amalgams combined with the family gene mutation that was the cause. Psychiatry isn’t real. It’s pseudo science with no evidence to back it up. It comes purely from the imaginations of man
If I were a physician, I’d have a prescription pad that read ‘Cut all of the assholes in your life loose’, ‘eat high quality food’, get good quality sleep’, ‘exercise more’, ‘laugh a LOT more’, ‘stop watching tv with pharma ads’ and things along those lines. For sure I’d have my license suspended as there is no profit in that. I did those things in my own life and it worked so much better than any pill ever could.
So many friends of mine from the medical profession have died from addiction so I am happy you are not amongst that number. My neurosurgeon and anesthesiologist friends are gone. They were good people who were not taught how to manage stress in a healthy manner. Some of the stories they told me about traumatic events in their jobs were incredible and made me very glad I chose engineering. I am relieved you made it out of that cycle, especially since you have an important message to share. I buy your books and dole them out like candy so thank you…more than you will ever know.
The sleeping pill Ambien can cause insomnia. Aspirin, Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen (or Tylenol) can all Cause pain, fever and inflammation. All the SSRI & Tricyclic Antidepressant medicines used to treat depression, can also cause or worsen depression. Ritalin (or methylphenidate) is a stimulant that is used to treat the symptoms of the _hyperactivity_ disorder called ADHD. Both Budesonide and Albuterol for treating asthma, can cause spasms of the bronchia and difficult or labored breathing.
The bizarre aspect of drugs causing symptoms they are used to treat is actually the essential aspect of classical homeopathy - “like cures like”; the constellation of symptoms that a single medicine will cause on all levels – mental, emotional and physical (MEP) - in relatively healthy individuals, it will also cure in a sick person.
But how does this paradoxical effect occur? It seems counter to our common sense.
And yet, investigating conventional medicines one sees that almost all that are prescribed based on symptoms (as opposed to lab results) have "side effects", really just _effects_, that match the symptoms they are indicated for!
Prescribed conventionally on only a few of the patient's symptoms, they palliate or suppress them temporarily, and must be repeated regularly. If these same conventional medicines were prescribed so that their effects on all levels mental, emotional and physical matched the patients symptoms, they would be homeopathic and curative.
How does this happen?
All medicines have a primary action followed by a secondary reaction when they wear off.
We are all familiar with the primary action and secondary reaction of coffee. Drinking that first cup, typically we are mentally more alert, emotionally hyperexcitable and physically stimulated. When it wears off we crash: mentally slow, emotionally down and physically lethargic.
Giving homeopathic coffee to a patient with insomnia who is awake late with a racing mind, hyperexcitable and physically stimulated, there will be a slight increase. But the secondary reaction by their body/mind which has an innate tendency to heal, will push in the "opposite" direction toward health.
This same push-and-pull, primary action followed by secondary reaction, of all medicines that are prescribed homeopathically will cure in this manner.
It is not necessary that the medicines be diluted, or potentized, for this healing effect to occur.
Dr Hahnemann in the early days of homeopathy used small doses of undiluted medicines. He only started diluting or potentizing them when he discovered it was more effective.
Without dissecting the mechanisms, you have hit upon the central theme we face. AZT, not AIDS, caused all the fatalities. Tylenol depletes glutathione and should be disposed of in a biohazard box. And all the lies about TG, carbon, "climate change" etc.
Conventional medicine is so obsessed with determining biomechanistic mechanisms for drug effects. e.g. lock and key for receptors, enzyme effects, etc. But in actuality they cant begin to explain all the effects of their drugs, particularly the mental-emotional effects.
They need to change ultimately their idea of what constitutes a disease. Instead of compartmentalizing a patient into multiple diseases and treating each one separately which leads to over-drugging and palliation and suppression of symptoms, they should look at the whole patient's condition as the disease as every other system of medicine does.
It would change their whole relationship with their medicines. They would look at the whole effect of the drugs - mental, emotional and physical. They would see that prescribing their drugs based on how they match this whole patient would lead to cure. They would be practicing homeopathically!
the terrain hypothesis
I have heard that many of these achool shootings are prompted by kids on psych meds and if you are a real conspiracy theorist, they are known by and manipulated to act by govt forces wanting to make a point about gun control, etc. The kid "wakes up," so to speak not knowing "WHY," they did what they did and we never truly learn what happens to them if they survive, i.e. are they really in prison or out on some witness protection. program...
That suspicion was somewhat confirmed firsthand when this RN was caring for a dear, sweet lady one night, hospitalized for an injury. It is routine to place routine orders for alcohol withdrawal if in their history they admit to drinking regularly. She had orders for Ativan 3 MG if she started to show signs of DT's. She couldn't sleep so someone gave her the Ativan. Normally, 0.5 MG would be given for this. About an hour later, she became angry, combative, and screamed all night. She called her family, 911, the police...accused us of all kinds of mistreatment...her behavior was a complete 180 from hours earlier. The next night I took care of her again. She apologized profusely and said she knew exactly what she was doing, BUT COULDN'T STOP HERSELF!!!. It was unbelievable and showed the exaggerated side effects of these medications. Obviously this doesn't confirm malicious intent by govt but I have noticed that what psych meds these shooters are on is omitted from news stories. Since this observation, I have learned about www.ablechild.org, an organization started by Sheila Mathews who warns of the connection between school psychologists and Big Pharma.
Thank you for the link
My story too. So glad I got off all of it!
"gabapentin, [a failed drug that was only approved originally for post-herpetic neuralgia]"
Yes. Thank you. I have culled all my physiatry (MDs with physical medicine specialty) referrals who knee jerk with gabapentin. They just warehouse patients on the stuff, leaving them lethargic and often with significant weight gain.
it's dogs**t
That's putting it mildly. Great article. I am reading your hormone book and Judas of Dentistry. Thank you for your research and having the courage to share your own story as a human and as a doctor.
I knew 2 people who were on prescription opiates when the decision was made to cut everyone off. Both of them, with different doctors, were given a quart sized bottle of gabapentin . After both of them complained about how awful it is, the doctors replied "Well I don't know what more I can do, look at how huge that bottle of gabapentin is!"
For years RX opiates were the standard, then, when people began dropping like flies from overdoses, they weren't. When a leg is shattered from a roadside i.e.d., morphine is THE way to control the pain immediately and begin treatment. Hydrocodone ad infinitum for failed back surgery? Not a good way to extrapolate the use of morphine. Pain system dysfunction has created a whole new specialty that unfortunately worsened...pain system dysfunction. The dysfunction involves a significantly lowered pain threshold, i.e., 0.15 Kg of pressure on the Cluneal nerve distribution of healthy people is painless, the same pressure on dysfunctional patients is reported as excruciating. How to fix it? Instead of relying on Opioid receptors, mechanical therapists, e.g. chiropractors, without realizing it until recently, did their work by modulating the data from the periphery presented through the Basal ganglia to the PreFrontal Cortex. Similar modulatory work is done by various body workers, and some techniques used in physical therapy, as possibly acupuncture as well, although I know acupuncture can be effective, I am clueless as to exact mechanism.