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"This means for the next three years the parent would have to watch who the child hangs out with and that he doesn't go for alcohol and illegal drugs. Doing a program to get rid of the drug residues in the fatty tissues reduces this time to only six months to a year. The really sad thing about taking these drugs even for one week is that damage has been done. Research has shown that because of these drugs they will have a reduced mental ability and they are going to begin losing memory." "Is there some way offinding out if your child is going for those illegal drugs? " Dr. Benoit O." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Regardless of whether they are from environmental pollution, prescription or illegal drugs, synthetics, and various chemicals nature never intended us to ingest, all toxins harm the body to some degree. They create a heavy burden, triggering a general dysfunction of major systems and body chemistry." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"First question: Are those taking illegal drugs more likely to get depressed? Second question: What is the effect of illegal drugs on brain function? First question: Could the lack of appetite associated with depression lead to reduced brain activity? Second question: Could the decrease in physical activity associated with depression have an impact on brain activity? BOX #2-1 Is It Possible to Measure Serotonin and Dopamine Levels or Not? What you are about to learn is not understood by as many as 1 in 100 physicians in private practice or 1 in 100 practicing psychiatrists." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"Excitotoxicity and Illegal Drugs Recent studies indicate that many of the damaging effects produced by illegal drugs is caused by excitotoxicity within specific brain circuits. Most teenagers and adults using these drugs think that the only harmful effect is the risk of being punished by the law. Unfortunately, it's more serious than that. For example, cocaine and methamphetamine stimulate the release of excess glutamate in the same part of the brain responsible for Parkinson's and Huntington's disease. Both drugs are also capable of producing serious long-term injury to the brain." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"When emotional stress becomes too great, we turn to escapes such as food, sugar, soft drinks, alcohol, nicotine, sex, destructive anger, manipulating and controlling others, gambling, or legal and illegal drugs. When the stress is not alleviated by sedation, which is always temporary, and when it is not addressed by a resolution of the underlying emotional conflict, disease symptoms begin to appear. The addiction problem and the emotional pain continue." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"A doctor in the state medical examiner's office in Iowa told me in 2005 that investigators often test the blood of drivers killed in automobile crashes for illegal drugs like heroin or cocaine but rarely look for prescription drugs. Nationally only the blood of pilots killed in air crashes is regularly tested for prescription medications. It is clear, however, that medications have long been causing thousands of motor vehicle accidents every year and killing innocent people in their wake. Concerned that medications were sedating older drivers, Dr. Wayne A." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "They also found that among the deceased drivers testing positive for drugs, more had been taking prescription drugs than illegal drugs like marijuana or cocaine. A national study of crashes involving semitrailers and other large trucks also found evidence that prescriptions may be causing far more accidents than the public knows. In a report to Congress, researchers said they had found that prescription drugs were a possible factor in an estimated 26 percent of the truck crashes that caused death or injury between 2001 and 2003." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"She never experimented with illegal drugs. Her family viewed her as "an easygoing kid." Emily's doctor didn't think her problem was serious enough to refer her to a psychiatrist or psychologist, so he wrote her a prescription for Prozac. Put on the market in January 1989, Prozac or fluoxetine was the first of the new group of antidepressants known as the SSRIs—selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors—because they block the removal of the neurotransmitter serotonin from the synapse, the submicroscopic location where these chemical messengers cause nerves to fire in the brain." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "I described the failure of the emergency room to report that in fact Jennie's tests confirmed her story that she hadn't taken any illegal drugs, resulting in a sense of mutual betrayal between Jennie and her parents. Although I do not like giving an opinion that "mental illness"—rather than drug intoxication—has caused destructive actions, I made an exception for Jennie." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "The insane quality of the robberies wasn't driven by cocaine because he wasn't high at the time—he never took any illegal drugs before or during the time he perpetrated the robberies. Plus, cocaine addicts are usually far more cunning and hostile. As in almost every case I've evaluated, Adam's memory was jumbled up and spotty for the robberies, and it was very difficult to reconstruct each of them. I spent hours reconstructing events from the police records and interviews with family and friends." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "But they knew Mike would never use illegal drugs and they had no idea that a psychiatric medication like Concerta could have made him sound drugged. The family would not make the connection between Concerta and their son's death until almost two years later when they read news accounts about the 2004 FDA hearings on medication-induced suicide in children. Mike's dreadful monologue is devoted to ruminations about life and death that focus on his unrequited love from a classmate whom he had dated briefly several months earlier." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Charles Armbruster, MD "1 have come to the conclusion that prescription drugs are causing a lot more harm in this country than the illegal drugs." —Ron Paul, MD, Texas Congressman and Presidential candidate CountefThihk www .WonsstFoos* Gauwe. cM& Appendix C Radical Branches of the Raw Food Movement Extreme measures are very appropriate for extreme disease." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"At first the kid will be taking a normally prescribed drug and then if you stop giving it to him, the percentage would be very high that eventually they would turn to illegal drugs. They are still looking for that buzz effect it creates. I' ve asked some friends who are cops what effects drugs, especially antidepressants, have on kids. They already know what it is. They cannot predict the kid's behavior and have to be extra careful. One day the kid can seem lethargic and the next second he can go berserk - totally crazy, he said." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Data from coroners' reports compiled by Britain's Home Office showed benzodiazepines as a more frequently contributing factor to causes of unnatural death each year than cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, and all other illegal drugs.114 As the pamphlet Elderly Abuse, Cruel Mental Health Programs, a public service report from Citizens Commission on Human Rights states, "What is the sense of prescribing a senior citizen a tranquilizer that is more lethal and harder to withdraw from than heroin, one that leads to a 45% increase in the risk of having a car accident within seven days of taking it?" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Choiniere: "The five major illegal drugs are opiates? marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines?, and 179 Opiates: any of several sedative narcotics containing opium or one or more of its natural or synthetic derivatives. 180 Amphetamines: a colorless, volatile liquid used as a central nervous system stimulant in the treatment of certain conditions. Methamphetaminesm. The test is quite simple. You take a urine sample from the child and dip this little card in it for one - two minutes. Then you read the results from the card." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Using alcohol or illegal drugs along with prescriptions is dangerous. This practice can not only deplete your body of nutrients, but also an accidental overdose or a bad combination of medicines with recreational drugs and/or alcohol can be deadly! ?The use of multiple medications. Polypharmacy is a fact of life for some people, but they need to be aware that nutrient depletion can be amplified by this. ?Poor diet. This is pretty obvious." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Americans over the age of 12 use illegal drugs and 19,000 die from this habit each year. Beyond this, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 44.5 million U.S. adults were current smokers in 2004, more than 1 out of 5 Americans.2 In any given year, almost half of these smokers attempt to give up the habit, in most cases unsuccessfully. According to the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, Canada incurs $40 billion in annual costs as a consequence of drug addiction." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD, Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 (Get the book.)

"Not illegal drugs, but legal substances that are little different in their dangers: "The dramatic increase in the sales of pharmaceuticals not only suggest that Americans are well on their way to becoming depressed, anxiety-ridden and incapable of the focus necessary to understand the world in which we live, but also that we are on our way to becoming a drug-dependent nation...A crisis looms." Let us do everything in our power to see to it that our children do not end up drug-dependent in the course of trying to negotiate the normal challenges that come with being alive." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) "At least the pushers of illegal drugs, don't target infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. [11 The real disease behind the diagnosis and drugging of children is not being treated at all. In fact, it has been running wild and gaining in power and audacity, encouraged by its own success. And what disease is this? Not a physical disease at all, but more deadly than any of them, a disease that predates the creation of ADHD by many thousands of years, a disease of the human soul and one that no medication stands a chance against. Greed." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) "It is interesting to note that in schools children being educated about illegal drugs (as opposed to the legal ones their schools promote with an efficiency an drug dealer would envy) are told that marijuana is a "gateway drug," meaning that if they take it they are likely to move on to something stronger and more dangerous. But it is with psychiatric drugs and diagnoses that we see the gateway effect employed to much greater affect." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"Another source of free-radical generation is the use of illegal drugs. Amphetamines, such as methamphetamine (meth) and dexadrine, can generate high concentrations of these destructive particles within the brain, leading to an increased risk of degenerative brain disorders, such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's dementia, later in life. One designer drug, called MPTP, can cause severe, almost instant, onset of Parkinson's disease, after even a single dose. One of its modes of action is to produce free radicals within the part of the brain responsible for this disease." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"Second question: What is the effect of illegal drugs on brain function? First question: Could the lack of appetite associated with depression lead to reduced brain activity? Second question: Could the decrease in physical activity associated with depression have an impact on brain activity? BOX #2-1 Is It Possible to Measure Serotonin and Dopamine Levels or Not? What you are about to learn is not understood by as many as 1 in 100 physicians in private practice or 1 in 100 practicing psychiatrists." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"Y/N lu inn rwvmwu julu i iui^i I drink more than normal amounts of alcohol or use illegal drugs at least once a day. Y/N Explanation: We all have our moments because life can be trying. If you circled yes for at least two of these questions, though, it's a sign that you're often in a bad mood or you have frequent mood swings. As you read this book, pay special attention to the supplements and the eating habits that can improve your moods. They will make you more fun to live with—and will make it easier for you to live with yourself. What Are Your Eating Habits Like?" - Jack Challem, The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again (Get the book.)

"Nearly half of those treatments were with illegal drugs. Test cattle or otherwise, it's absolutely illegal to treat lactating cows with non-approved drugs and antibiotics. What with the elaborate records kept at Monsanto's research farm, perhaps a thorough review of other company records could indeed determine if illegally-treated cows' milk were withheld or sold. If withheld, for how long? Punctured Carcasses One factor reducing the relative economics of farmers using bovine growth hormone is if the cull value of treated cows is reduced." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.) "Over eight to nine months of the 1985-86 test, Monsanto employees administered illegal drugs to lactating dairy cows over 150 separate times. Milk from Monsanto's research farm is marketed to Mid-America Dairymen and generally disposed to fluid processors in the St Louis area. ¦ Photographs of the injection sites from necropsied cattle shows bGH injections cause significant damage to the carcass, at progressively higher doses." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.) "Records do not indicate whether milk from Monsanto research cows treated with illegal drugs was withheld from the market. Some antibiotics may be used for treating lactating dairy cows, if strict FDA rules on withholding milk and meat from market are followed. Using non-approved antibiotics on milking cows is scandalous. Problem is: because FDA has not approved using Banamine, Di-Trim, etc. for lactating dairy cows, the agency has not developed any guidelines for how long milk from cows treated with such drugs must be kept from market." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.) "FDA officials are even claiming that milk inspectors can enter farmers' houses (without search warrants) to ferret out alleged illegal drugs. Perhaps if FDA really wants to find a potential source of illegal animal drugs in the public milk supply, what better place to start than Monsanto's St Louis area research farm. Illegal drug use by Monsanto employees on bGH test cows is documentedfor FDA, in Monsanto's NADA files. Drugs used to illegally treat milking cows at Monsanto's research farm include: Banamine, Di-Trim, Gentamycin, Ivomec, Oxytet, Piperacillin, Rompun and Vetisulid." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"How is this different from the principle that guides the despised peddlers of illegal drugs? Glossy advertisements that show celebrities, athletes, movie stars, and even your next door neighbor 'cured' by a new miracle drug are an anomaly of pharmaceutical business law. The greedy bastards cannot make money if they cure a disease, especially one of a chronic nature. The 'star' of the advertisement is akin to a lottery winner. His/her good fortune can be attributed to a caring and compassionate pharmaceutical corporation." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.) "Today, we have more to fear from the regulated drug lords than from the peddlers of illegal drugs. Modus Operandi Let's take a look at the modus operandi of these corporate citizens, understanding that in all likelihood, if criminality is ever charged, they can escape punishment with a hefty influx of money. Greedy pharmaceuticals now pursue acne relief rather than a cure for ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) or a better antibiotic." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"Using alcohol or illegal drugs along with prescriptions is dangerous. This practice can not only deplete your body of nutrients, but also an accidental overdose or a bad combination of medicines with recreational drugs and/or alcohol can be deadly! • The use of multiple medications. Polypharmacy is a fact of life for some people, but they need to be aware that nutrient depletion can be amplified by this. • Poor diet. This is pretty obvious." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

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