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"In a lenient mood toward Vernon, the judge released him after three months, the minimum period of incarceration. In explaining why he was setting him free, the judge told Dr. Kirklander, "I don't believe your offenses were economic in nature. I think there are other forces that drove you and you need to sort all that out." It was, of course, very fortunate that Vernon was required to spend only three months in jail. But in the process, he lost his medical license. Vernon would not get a chance to sort out the pieces until he got to my office for a consultation many months later." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Thomas More, a psychiatrist who used to be a visionary scientist but now considers himself just an old-fashioned "psyche-iatrist"—a "physician of the soul, one of the last survivors in a horde of Texas brain mechanics, MIT neurone [sic] circuitrists"—is released from federal prison after two years of incarceration for selling prescription amphetamines at a truck stop." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Many have taken them before incarceration and some continue to obtain them illegally behind bars. A fellow prisoner finally informed Sam, "You're going through withdrawal. You're addicted to Xanax." Ordinarily prisons won't give Xanax to inmates under any circumstances. The addictive drugs are much too sought after as contraband in jail. Nonetheless, the prison doctor made an exception for Sam. Probably obtaining the Xanax from a prescription written by Sam's original psychiatrist, the new doctor tried to gradually wean Sam." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"If the health information is found to be false and likely to cause physical harm, then the remedy should be equal to that for the communication of false information not likely to cause physical harm plus a term of incarceration for the parties responsible." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"Jennie was the victim of so many tragic circumstances and betrayals, I thought that even without a Prozac defense a jury would show the girl sympathy and realize that she needed help rather than incarceration. There was even an element of self-defense in what she eventually did. Jennie reported that she was being subjected to abuse from a neighborhood boy—a six-foot three-inch 200-pounder who liked to hoist Jennie up and throw her around. Jennie was only five feet four inches tall and weighed 110 pounds." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "In addition, a few cases resulted in incarceration of juveniles. Once again, positive rechallenge reports were found for each drug. Finally, suicide also appeared as a risk. However, except for Strattera, there was less demonstrable causality: Suicidality has been identified as a safety issue for STRATTERA (atomox-etine), and this information is clearly conveyed in current labeling. A causal association between other drugs therapies of ADHD and suicidality cannot be ruled out on the basis of this review. Further evaluation of this issue is recommended." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Since the enactment of a 1978 conservation law, buying or selling a coco-de-mer without a government permit garners a five thousand rupee (eight hundred dollars) fine and two years incarceration. As a result, dozens of coco-de-mer poachers have served—and continue to serve—jail sentences for harvesting the fruit. Lured by the thought of tasting a forbidden fruit, hoping that I am stout and judicious enough for it, I book a flight to the island of Praslin, a speck of equatorial dust somewhere in the Indian Ocean." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "The Fruit, Vegetable and Plant Smuggling Act of2001 has resulted in felony sentences of up to five years incarceration and fines of 25,000 dollars. Repeat violators get up to ten years of imprisonment plus another fifty-thousand-dollar fine. Even minor smuggling acts are misdemeanor crimes punishable by a year in prison with fines of a thousand dollars and more for repeat offenders. Officials have started paying informers a percentage of the fine levied. Concerned parties can call a hotline if they have information about the smuggling of prohibited exotic fruits." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"It is simply not true that institutional psychiatry represented the beginning of a new mode of warfare between the haves and have-nots, the former resorting to the tactic of labeling the latter as insane in order to remove them to the madhouse. The incarceration of rich persons in private madhouses came first and was followed, considerably later, by the incarceration of poor persons in public insane asylums. Roy Porter emphasizes that psychiatry was not "a discipline for controlling the rabble. . . . Provision of public asylums did not become mandatory until 1845. . . ." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.) "It is a chronicle of protest on the part of the allegedly falsely committed person proclaiming his sanity, while acknowledging the insanity of his fellow victims and applauding their incarceration as just and proper. It seemed not to occur to the protestors to challenge the legitimacy of psychiatric slavery itself. Mad and sane alike accepted the principle that the illness called insanity justifies incarcerating the patient.18 Fortunately, madmen and madwomen claiming to be sane were not the only critics of the madhouse system." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.) "Psychiatrists became more sophisticated, concealing incarceration as hospitalization and torture as treatment. After 1800, the persistence of psychiatric abuses is attributed to a succession of fashionable scapegoats, such as untrained or sadistic doctors, inadequate government funding, the severity of the patients' diseases, the inadequacy of available treatments, and, today, to the overuse or underuse of psychiatric drugs." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"Clearly, the protection of Big Pharma markets is its top mission, and senior FDA officials will apparently use any means necessary, including threats of incarceration, to achieve their goals of keeping high-profit drugs—even known killer drugs—on the market as long as possible. It's also clear that many of the FDA's own drug safety scientists are, in fact, champions of public health, and that if they were allowed to make decisions on these matters, Rezulin, Vioxx, and many other dangerous drugs would have never been approved at all." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Explanations like better policing or longer incarceration are inadequate to explain such a marked shift. The answer comes from an unlikely source: The establishment of legal abortion on demand. When unwanted children could be aborted, many accidental or unplanned pregnancies were ended this way. Women who were economically or psychologically unable or unwilling to raise their babies had the option of abortion. Many exercised their new legal right. This meant that most of the babies born were wanted by the mother, father, or both." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"Mood Disturbances and Violent Behavior: A sub-optimal intake of lithium might be a predisposing risk factor for mood disturbances, violent behavior, and possibly even incarceration. Lithium might have a favorable effect on the prevention of violence and other associated crimes. In a 1990 study by G.N. Schrauzer and K.P. Shrestha, the drinking water of 27 Texas counties was analyzed for its lithium content. Normally, lithium in drinking water should range from 70-170 mcg/L." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"Indeed, it is fair to say that he nowhere criticizes the idea of mental illness or the incarceration of the mentally ill. He writes, "What, for instance, of those we call "psychopaths'? . . . Psychopaths are certainly abnormal, but whether it is proper to say they are mentally ill is another matter." Another matter? Ordinarily, Singer accepts people's self-evaluation of their happiness or lack of it. "Psychopaths," whoever they are, are an exception: "Must we accept psychopaths' own evaluation of their happiness? They are, after all, notoriously persuasive liars." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"If he is convicted, the international community is expected to cooperate in finding prison facilities for his incarceration. Taylor's trial stands to demonstrate the strength and effectiveness of universal jurisdiction. If no country is exempt, if no bank account is sacrosanct, if no murderous rampage is sufficient to cover their tracks, dictators (and their cronies) will be held responsible for their actions. There will be no escape, no comfortable retirement." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"The center customized a nutritional supplement regimen for Randy's particular needs, and he was permitted to take the supplements during his incarceration. Over the next two months, Randy's behavior improved significantly. He became more athletic, had fewer violent thoughts, and had no scuffles with other people. At the end of the third month, Randy was symptom free and was allowed to return home and to school, where his grades became better than average. His behavior at home and school substantially improved, and he showed no signs of violence or sadism." - 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.)

"In the past, doctors have told men that they have to fix hernias because of the danger of incarceration leading to gangrene," says Fitzgibbons. "Those data were based on historical times when medical care wasn't immediately available," he adds. "For men who have little or no symptoms from a hernia, it is safe to defer having an operation until they do have symptoms," says study coauthor Dr. Olga Jonasson, a professor of surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago. COMPLICATIONS FROM SURGERY Jonasson notes that hernia surgery can cause complications. " - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"He spent 14 months in jail and, in an ironic twist, it was due to the expert testimony of a psychiatrist about the adverse reactions to the drugs he was taking, that the teenager escaped extended incarceration and was released from jail under community supervision for five years. Along with his traumatized classmates, Baadsgaard survived to tell the story. How many others won't? 1 Monica Davey and Gardiner Harris, "Family Wonders if Prozac Prompted School Shootings" New York Times, March 26, 2005. 2 Physicians' Desk Reference, PDR 2005 59 Edition, Eli Lilly Prozac, pp.1873-78. 3 Ibid, pp." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"Is it not that dissimilar to a court ruling that would free a convicted murderer to walk the streets for a few more years before incarceration? What has happened to common sense? Should we all not be extremely concerned? A Closer Look at Dursban® «.s."**« .• Dursban® is one of 40 some organophosphate type pesticides known to damage the brain and nervous system in children and adults, and particularly the unborn infant.5'12b'c' 13a,b • Dursban® can cause birth defects and damage to the reproductive and nervous systems, as well as the kidney and liver. It is toxic to birds, fish and bees." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

"In 1881 he was sentenced for incarceration in Schliesselburg for life, where he had studied chemistry, physics, astronomy, mathematics and history, all on his own. In 1905 he was let free, having spent 25 years in gaol. After having received his freedom, he had immersed himself in a vast body of scientific and pedagogical work. His Memoirs are of the greatest interest, see fig. 1.22. Many authors wrote about N. A. Morozov - his literary biography, for example, was written by M. A. Popovsky ([675])." - Anatoly Fomenko, History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 2 (Get the book.)

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