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"Inmates of prisons tend to be very familiar with addictive drugs. 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.)

"This is why they are effective whenever and wherever social control is at a premium, such as in mental hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, institutions for persons with developmental disabilities, children's facilities and public clinics, as well as in Russian and Cuban psychiatric political prisons. They are even used in veterinary medicine to bend or subdue the will of animals. When one of our dogs was given a neuroleptic for car sickness, our daughter observed, 'He's behaving himself for the first time in his life.'" Dr. Breggin says we need to be looking at broader issues. " - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The same electricity that is used by a chiropractor or a physical therapist to stimulate your muscles and promote healing with a TENS machine is the same electricity that is used in prisons to execute people in electric chairs. So, is electricity good or bad? The answer is neither. It's just a question of what frequency and amplitude you use and how you use it. Charge Your Body with the Right Frequencies and You Prevent Disease." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"The Need to Reevaluate Your Construct of What Is "Real" The reason you should learn to deconstruct your ideas about what is "real" (as you will be able to do via the tools in this book) is that the boxes we create and live in can become prisons that threaten our physical health and wellbeing. Just as the world you thought was real is only a box of your own creation, the "you" that you presently experience is not a reflection of reality either. Nor is it fixed." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"By the 1600s, northern Europe had an abundance of slave and cheap labor, since the populations of the debtor prisons had swelled considerably as a consequence of the enclosure movement and the Reformation. When colonization began, the prisons rapidly emptied as convicts and peasants were shipped as bound servants or slaves to cash-producing colonies in the Americas. European peasants who were not in prison could emigrate and were encouraged to do so, but even the great majority of these "freemen" and women went as indentured slaves, servants, or mercenaries to colonial danger zones in America." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"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. Remarkably, the prison doctor officially diagnosed Sam with "iatrogenic addiction," indicating that Sam's prescribed treatment had caused it." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Because so many unsuspecting people trust government to look out for their health and believe in these studies, they affect the health of most Americans by influencing the food served in schools, hospitals, orphanages, prisons, mental institutions, day-care centers, nursing homes and the diets recommended by trained nutritionists and dieticians. Dr. T. Colin Campbell served on the committee that wrote the report (and later book) Diet, Nutrition and Cancer, one of the first investigations into the relationship between diet and cancer." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Promote healthy eating in government cafeterias, Veterans Administration medical centers, military installations, prisons, and other venues. ?Institute campaigns to promote healthy eating and activity patterns among federal and state employees in all departments. Food labeling and advertising ?Require chain restaurants to provide information about calorie content on menus or menu boards and nutrition labeling on wrappers. ?Require that containers for soft drinks and snacks sold in movie theaters, convenience stores, and other venues bear information about calories, fat, or sugar content. ?" - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"When the states added in what they paid for the medical care of government workers and inmates in the state prisons, health care consumed about a third of every state budget, a percentage that was rising every year. State and local government officials across the country had been forced to raise taxes and cut services, including education and road construction, to cover the rising cost. In Iowa, the cost of prescription drugs for patients covered by Medicaid had surged by almost 25 percent a year 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.)

"The tradition of saying grace has been linked to freeing transmigrating souls from their temporal fruit prisons. Buddhist and Jain ascetics eat only fruits that have been cut with a knife or poked by a fingernail because of the spirits believed to reside within. Fijians used to ask coconuts for permission to open them, saying, "May I eat you, my chief?" After bidding farewell to Shunyam Nirav, I catch a flight to Indonesia. Fruits play an important role in the sacred life of Bali, a predominantly Hindu island in an otherwise mainly Islamic archipelago." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Meditation is now practiced every week by more than ten million people in the United States alone, and taught in schools, corporate settings, hospitals, and prisons. The payoffs of meditating include stress reduction, enhanced memory, and relief from insomnia, high blood pressure, anxiety, and depression. (An exercise describing "Stop the World" can be found on pages 159-160.) Meditation is an ancient practice, but in the modern world it is often sold using the obvious benefits along with catchy names, trademarked modalities, and secret mantras." - Ray Dodd, BeliefWorks: The Art of Living Your Dreams (Get the book.)

"This is true in schools, prisons, and plantations. However, while the force of human nature is powerful enough to overcome institutional impediments to connecting, people often don't learn the skills and wisdom required to maintain satisfying relationships. Friendships and marriages are complex and require many skills and much wisdom. Many of us in our relationship-retarded culture increasingly don't have what it takes." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"In 1914, Dr Joseph Goldberg was assigned by the United States Public Health Service to identify the cause of the pellagra epidemic in the Southern states> 5 He soon discovered that the well-fed staff of both mental hospitals and prisons did not develop pellagra, while malnourished patients and inmates often did. He concluded that pellagra must be a nutritional illness, not one caused by germs, as was generally believed." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD, Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 (Get the book.)

"The fastest-growing public institution in American society is prisons, with more than two million people incarcerated in the United States at present. At least a few prisons have gardens as part of their therapeutic programs. I'm certainly not advocating that prisoners be forced to farm; however, more prisons could be institutionally encouraged to start gardening programs and also to purchase local food to serve to their populations. Some people have made a conscious choice to eat only local foods." - Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.)

"When colonization began, the prisons rapidly emptied as convicts and peasants were shipped as bound servants or slaves to cash-producing colonies in the Americas. European peasants who were not in prison could emigrate and were encouraged to do so, but even the great majority of these "freemen" and women went as indentured slaves, servants, or mercenaries to colonial danger zones in America." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"Overcrowded, poorly ventilated housing and overpopulated prisons are fertile breeding grounds for the spread of TB. Studies in India have confirmed that smoking contributes to half the deaths from TB in that country, perhaps by weakening the immune system. Tuberculosis may also be contracted from contaminated food or from milk that has not been pasteurized. In such cases, the primary focus of the infection usually is in the digestive tract. This type of tuberculosis is more common in developing countries. It is rare in the Western world." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Through TMAP, the drug industry methodically compromised the decision making of elected and appointed public officials to gain access to captive populations of mentally ill individuals in prisons and state mental health hospitals.... These new "miracle" drugs did not live up to their hype. They have proven to be no better than generics. Most importantly, most of the new drugs have been found to cause serious, even fatal side-effects, particularly in children. It is a statistical certainty that many lives have been lost and many others irreparably damaged." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Previously only found in hospital settings, the drug-resistant staph germ is now spreading through prisons, gyms and locker rooms, and poor urban neighborhoods. It can enter the blood, kidneys, liver, lungs and muscles around the heart. Most cases exhibit life-threatening bloodstream infections. However, about 10 percent of the cases involved the so-called flesh-eating disease, according to the study led by researchers at the federal CDC. It is estimated that 18,650 people die annually from this particular superbug, which is about 1,500 more than die from AIDS in the U.S. each year." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"The "heads I win, tails you lose" scenario is always of one's own making. The prisons people find themselves in are always first in their minds. You are a creator of circumstance, never a victim of circumstance. There is no such thing as a coincidence. You are at the cause of all effects. We live in an orderly universe governed by definite laws. Everything happens for a reason. You have something positive to learn from each experience. To reach spiritual fulfillment, first you must understand this law." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"These are the ones, we have no doubt, being held in prisons until psychiatric "diagnosis" and "treatment" can arrive—but hopefully not those expelled from preschools. The commission also recommended "linkage [of screening] with "treatment and supports" including "state-of-the-art treatments" using "specific medications for specific conditions." The problem is there is nothing specific about psychiatric conditions. None of them are actual diseases." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) "We consider it a disease because it makes it difficult to run our schools as we do, like maximum security prisons, for the comfort and convenience of the teachers and administrators who work in them. The energy of children is 'bad' because it is a nuisance to the exhausted and overburdened adults who do not want to or know how to and are not able to keep up with it. Given the fact that some children are more energetic and active than others, might it not be easier, more healthy, and more humane to deal with this fact by giving them more time and scope to make use of and work off their energy?" - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"But there's a dark side to this migration—some of the newer jobs are in problematic industries: meat-processing plants and prisons are two growth industries in rural America. Another troubling fact of rural growth is that it is especially pronounced in counties that border metropolitan areas, as city workers trade long commutes for lower costs of living. Many of the proposed scenarios for creating a green future focus expressly on urban America: they overlook the fact that pedestrian-friendly downtowns and public transportation aren't feasible in communities with low population densities." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Violence in prisons, however, is an especially serious problem. After all, people who were violent as free citizens are likely to be violent when they're incarcerated. Yet nutritional supplements and dietary improvements have been found to reduce in-prison violence and rule breaking. In a study of California inmates, researchers found that prisoners with up to four nutritional deficiencies were 50 percent more likely to be involved in serious violent incidents, and those with five to nine nutrient deficiencies were 90 percent more likely to be involved in violent acts." - 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.)

"I sued the Bureau of prisons, including the warden and assistant warden of the correctional institution that I was in. We proved that the warden, the assistant warden, and the food service administrator blatantly lied under oath and committed perjury. These are members of the Department of Justice! They should be in jail themselves. • A major researcher from the government of Korea put together a study on stem cells. The study was reported all around the world for months. It was then discovered that the study was a complete fabrication and 100 percent false." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Call me crazy, but accepting that the DEA knows what it is talking about, one has to wonder why the nation's prisons are full of men and women who have been incarcerated because of cocaine use. What if the incarcerated suffered from the alleged mental illness ADHD and didn't know it (DSM-ZP'Other (or Unknown) Substance-Related Disorders)" and cocaine was an "effective treatment" of their symptoms?" - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"Chemical prisons are just as strong as those steel ones. They allow for few alternatives in behavior. Beliefs are the psychic equivalent of repression. We can rechannel the flow but we will not change the volcanic activity. We can cap the explosion with ideas, but there is always a danger of another eruption; sometimes it is in the form of a seizure, other times it is found in being seized by a sudden realization—finding God and being born again." - Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.) "The person is forced into compensatory behaviors, just as society must build new hospitals and prisons to control those whose needs get out of control. Both therapy and the fascist state must seek to control the outburst of needs rather than fulfilling it. It is always dangerous to tell people what to think. And it is useless to tell them how to feel. Thought control works in subtle ways in the family. A young boy misses and needs his daddy. He is told that daddy has to work and be gone most of the time. The boy understands, and gets a bit of "love," or at least approval for understanding." - Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.)

"In France metal beds remained relegated to hospitals and prisons through much of the nineteenth centuty. But in England it was a different story, with arbiters of middle-class taste tesponding to the faux elegance of brass beds such as those so prominently displayed in the Great Exhibition, in 1851. The brass bed also called for appropriate brass accessories: brass door handles and fingerplates and, of course, brass bellpulls to call the servants. Moreover, the appeal of brass was not limited to interior furnishings." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"Because it has been found to have a tranquilizing effect on aggressive and violent people, pink is often used in prisons, hospitals, and juvenile and drug centers. Those suffering from anxiety or withdrawal symptoms can benefit from pink surroundings. Pink is also a good color for the bedroom, where it can help evoke feelings of romance. Orange is the color of choice for stimulating the appetite and reducing fatigue. Use this color in place mats and tablecloths, for instance—to encourage a finicky eater or to pique the appetite of a person who is ill." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

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