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"But nevertheless, this is fact: eight million children a year, which is about 10% of the school-aged population, are prescribed behavior-changing and mind-altering drugs today for "learning and attention difficulties." Today there are 17 million children worldwide consuming mind-altering drugs.163 And psychotropic drugs are just the tip of the iceberg. We haven't even mentioned the increasing number of teens using prescription drugs, particularly painkillers, every day. "The National Institute on Drug Abuses" reported that 10.5% of 12th graders use Vicodin164 for non-medical reasons and 4." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Society needs to face the huge human toll in prescribing mind-altering drugs to millions of people, and we all need to be alert to the early warning signs of medication madness. A better understanding of spellbinding and medication madness may make us more skeptical about the rampant use of psychiatric drugs and may avert future tragedies. The concept of medication spellbinding helps to explain medication-induced mayhem, murder, and suicide, and also why so many people take psychiatric drugs that are doing them more harm than good." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Today there are 17 million children worldwide consuming mind-altering drugs.163 And psychotropic drugs are just the tip of the iceberg. We haven't even mentioned the increasing number of teens using prescription drugs, particularly painkillers, every day. "The National Institute on Drug Abuses" reported that 10.5% of 12th graders use Vicodin164 for non-medical reasons and 4.5% of 12th graders reported are using OxyContin165 without prescription. We didn't mention children's aspirin, which can cause Reye's syndrome, an illness with inflammation of brain, fever, vomiting, and progressive coma." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Some scholars believe that in the Greek epic The Odyssey, galantamine, in the form of an extract from the snowdrop flower, was presented by Hermes to the hero, Odysseus, who used it as an antidote to protect himself from the goddess Circe's mind-altering drugs. Circe had used her potion to induce amnesia and a delusional state in Odysseus's crew. With the help of galantamine, Odysseus was able to retrieve the lost memories of his crew and protect his own memory, enabling them to continue their journey to their beloved homeland of Ithaca. Folic acid and vitamins B?and B,." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"When you feel most desperate and alone, where will you go—toward psychiatry with its biological explanations and mind-altering drugs or toward improved principles of living, a more responsible and loving life, the fulfillment of your ideals, and oneness with a Meaning or Power beyond yourself? Your chosen last resort defines you as a person and gives direction to your life." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "The public—and not the medical or psychiatric profession—will have to stem the tide of cavalier prescription practices and the widespread use of mind-altering drugs that often do more harm than good. I hope the many stories in this book—plus the accompanying scientific explanations—will make the dangers of psychiatric drugs unmistakably clear. I also hope they will add to our knowledge about how drugs act upon human beings and about human nature itself." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Moreover, although new non-amfetamine-based ADD drugs have since been produced, a significant minority of children are on mind-altering drugs with the goodwill of every authority figure they could know: their parents, teachers, social workers and doctors. Medicating so many children has been the subject of intense debate in the media for years - not as to whether the condition actually exists because that is clear, but how it is so many kids can have trouble engaging with the world. The courts found there was no single cause." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"And millions more—many of them youngsters—are dependent on mind-altering drugs which, it now turns out, may actually be endangering their lives. The circumstances are serious. I am not overstating the situation. That's why my colleagues and I have written this book. The Divided Mind is about the principles and practice of psychosomatic medicine. It is not about alternative medicine, or some trendy New Age regimen. It is about straightforward, clinically tested medicine, as practiced by licensed physicians for over thirty years, working with thousands of patients." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"So, with help from the psychiatric community in screening Americans for mental illness, the use of psychiatric mind-altering drugs most assuredly will increase. Enter the pharmaceutical companies. According to a report from Business Communications Co. Inc., specialists in technical-market research and industry analysis, in 2002 the global market value for prescription central nervous system (CNS) psychotherapeutic drugs was $32 billion, and pharmaceutical revenues for the CNS class is expected to increase to $45 billion by 2007, with the U.S. comprising nearly 65 percent of the global market." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"Once ingested, antibiotics, as well as painkillers, tranquillizers, and mind-altering drugs, occupy receptor sites on the surface of our cells which trigger the expected responses such as relief of pain, calmness, and lessening of depression. While occupied by these external chemical agents, the cells' receptor sites can no longer receive and respond to the body's own drugs. The body then reduces production of its own drugs like endorphins, interleukins, serotonin, dopamine, etc." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"This particular point seems to escape the diagnosis process, and millions of American children and an unknown number of adults, diagnosed with the alleged mental disorder, are prescribed mind-altering drugs such as the stimulant, Ritalin (active ingredient: methylphenidate), which they are assured will "help" make them "better" - more subjective jargon." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"This argument is often put forward by critics of the growth in drug treatment for ADHD - mind-altering drugs such as Ritalin or Dexedrine, prescribed to correct the chemical imbalance in the child's brain. Both suggestions probably have some truth. But even then the increases are phenomenal. In 2004 the American Academy of Pediatrics recorded on their website that '1 in 6 children are diagnosed with a developmental disorder and/or behavioural problem'." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"And to top it all off, the Food and Drug Administration has determined that the psychiatric mind-altering drugs are potentially life-threatening to an unknown percentage of the population. The People, if given the truth, can take it." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"The school administrator or counselor could simply insist that a certain child be dosed with mind-altering drugs. It sounds bizarre, but it was absolutely true until just recently. Finally, Congress has passed legislation that bans schools from forcing parents to drug their children for behavioral problems. Now, you may think that this wasn't a problem, and you may have never even heard about it. But in fact, it was a huge problem." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "What possible medical justification could these doctors, hospital staff, and drug pushers have for prescribing mind-altering drugs to four-year-olds? Even the "disease" being treated here is entirely fictional. So-called "bi-polar disorder" was wholly invented by psychiatrists with strong financial ties to drug companies. The purpose of this disease is not to help children, but to sell drugs. When will the chemical child abuse be stopped?" - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "This so-called disease is massively over-diagnosed, primarily for the convenience of teachers, parents and school administrators—because once a child is put on mind-altering drugs following the diagnosis of this fictitious disease, the child is drugged out on powerful amphetamines and is easier to manage in the classroom. In addition, some schools actually receive bonus funds for each student they diagnose as having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Thus, schools have a financial incentive to get as many students as possible labeled with this disease." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "As a result, children are being used as guinea pigs for unproven, mind-altering drugs that are now being increasingly recognized as causing violent behavior, suicidal thoughts, and other bizarre side effects. Here's what Dr. John March, a professor of child psychiatry at Duke University, says: "We are using these medications and don't know how they work, if they work, or at what cost... It amounts to a huge experiment with the lives of American kids." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Considering the above, it's as if the benevolent ones sitting on the NFC had lost all sense of logic and reason and still recommended the TMAP as the standard, despite the fact that many of the mind-altering drugs intended for use in the algorithm have not been approved for adolescent use. Still hearing "God Bless America" in the background?" - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"But as prescriptions soar (between 2000 and 2002, 68 per cent more mind-altering drugs were prescribed to children in the UK alone), we must ask ourselves whether pathologising childhood in this way is an acceptable option. Apart from anything else, drugging a growing proportion of the nation's youth is an expensive option, and we don't know where it might lead. The rock stars Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, both on Ritalin as children, became confirmed drug addicts." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"In the 1950's and early 1960's, the agency gave mind-altering drugs to hundreds of unsuspecting Americans in an effort to explore the possibilities of controlling human consciousness. Many of the human guinea pigs were mental patients, prisoners, drug addicts and prostitutes?people who could not fight back," as one agency officer put it. In one case, a mental patient in Kentucky was dosed with LSD continuously for 174 days. Other experiments involved agency employees, military officers and college students, who had varying degrees of knowledge about the tests." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"In fact too rapid a catapulting through the chakras before we are ready - say, as a result of mind-altering drugs - may lead to a disturbing imbalance where we see our individual selves as special and separate from other mere mortals. We will have bypassed our vital heart center, and developed a dualistic - them and us - concept of the world. So how are we able to touch on the ultimate delights that our 7th chakra offers?" - Robin, Dr. Kelly, The Human Antenna: Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells (Get the book.)

"Tracy then goes on to describe the basic problem with all mind-altering drugs such as Prozac? noting that any disruption, whether it be a raising or lowering of any neurotransmitter, can cause drastic changes in brain function, behavior, mood, memory, sleep patterns, cognitive reasoning abilities, etc. The neurobalance of the brain is very delicate and sensitive, and repercussions from any disruption of that balance are often very extensive. The Physicians Desk Reference (PDR) states that Prozac?binds to "human serum proteins, including albumin and glycoprotein." - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.) "There is currently a concerted effort to place as many of our children as possible on extremely dangerous mind-altering drugs. In my next book, I will explain exactly how the pharmaceutical giants, have managed to create a very devious broad-based plan, to assure they can legally force as many innocent children as possible on their highly profitable drugs. Not only that, but they are even attempting to circumvent parental consent! Worst of all, is the tremendous potential for serious damage from their use." - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.)

"Tracy talks of many unbelievable things that patients who were placed on these mind-altering drugs by their doctor did, that were totally out of character. She calls them "divorce pills" as they can alter our personality. She claims that it is common, for couples who were happily marripH fnr manv ypar? tn np>t a Hivnrrp for nn annamnt rpfl?nn aftpr thpir is nlar.pH nn SSRI antidepressants. People's emotions tend to go, and they sometimes go into what Dr. Tracy refers to as a disassociative state. They basically have a numbing influence on a person's personality." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) "The information in this book is especially critical for anyone who is currently taking, or is considering taking, any of these mind-altering drugs, or whose children might have been placed on them. They pose the very same risks for everyone, young or old. For example, they can either lower your child's IQ, or increase your risk of prematurely developing dementia or Alzheimer's disease. And they increase everyone's risk of developing diabetes or cancer, (or both)." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"There, one can see from the correspondence the horrendous and circular dosing schedules of mind-altering drugs that many young people are ensnared in. And worse, as you enter the private world of that patticular behavioural condition, you pick up a conviction that this is normal, that you are trespassing on the private ground of some exclusive club where members juggle the consumption of two, three, sometimes four, different drugs a day." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"It's definitely a very effective marketing tool, and hopefully people will begin recognizing it for what it is, so they won't be deceived into believing that these dangerous mind-altering drugs are somehow a panacea, as portrayed in the next article. Pretend for a moment that you're a typical teenage girl (whom this magazine is targeting), and see if it's not rather enticing. Although the characters portrayed are likely fictional, and the results just fantasy, they are playing with real (not make-believe) lives." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) "They have allowed themselves to become the basis of a major "drug trafficking scheme", designed to promote the "totally unnecessary" use of extremely dangerous mind-altering drugs. The only difference between these drugs and illegal drugs is, "they are still legal", although once you learn all the facts regarding their potential dangers, you will likely wonder why, (as I now do)." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"His example paved the way for many psychiatrists after him who used themselves as subjects to determine the effects of the mind-altering drugs. How they felt they could use mind-altering drugs which would affect their judgement, even to the extent of producing hallucinations, and still be capable of gaining any perspective into how the drug was affecting them seems far beyond logical reasoning, but this self-experimentation became the common practice. Just how common it is today would be interesting to know." - Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D., Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? The Rest of the Story on the New Class of SSRI Antidepressants Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Lovan, Luvox & More (Get the book.)

"Danger increases if you drink alcohol or take medicine affecting alertness and reflexes, such as antihistamines, tranquilizers, sedatives, pain medicine, narcotics and mind-altering drugs. Discontinuing: Don't discontinue without doctor's advice until you complete prescribed dose, even though symptoms diminish or disappear. • Others: • Advise any doctor or dentist whom you consult that you take this medicine. • Be cautious about participating in hot weather activities since drug may cause excessive sweating." - H. Winter Griffith, M.D., Complete Guide to Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs 2005 (Get the book.)

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