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"Clearly, the "war on drugs" needs to include pharmaceuticals. Perhaps Nancy Reagan should have said, "Just say no to prescription drugs!" Maybe, as I once told a friend, we should all join in partnership for a prescription-drug-free America. In conclusion, let's consider these 17 quotations regarding the use of drugs in medicine, most of them made by MDs themselves: • "The cause of most disease is in the poisonous drugs physicians superstitiously give in order to effect a cure." —Charles E." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"They showed how the fastest-growing danger of abuse and addiction for the nation's children in the early twenty-first century was not from cocaine flowing in from a South American drug cartel or from ecstasy, heroin, or the other illegal substances that have long been the focus of the nation's "War on Drugs.'' Instead, it came from prescription pills legally manufactured on U.S. soil and sitting in Americans' medicine chests." - 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.)

"For all the puritanical condemnations of licit and illicit substances—the self-righteous, simplistic "Just Say No" campaigns and the other-directed war on drugs (in which we place the blame for our mass consumption of cocaine not on ourselves but on the Colombians and Venezuelans)—Americans have never been able to get by for very long without their drugs. Prohibition was a disaster and lasted only a little more than a decade." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"I didn't know if he was being polite to a guest or simply didn't know the complexities of our government's war on drugs. I didn't mention that some organic farms in Colombia were losing their certification because the aerial sprays drifted onto their coffee plots. Many of these were farms that had given up coca for coffee and other crops to break away from the cycle of violence and ecological damage related to cocaine production. I stroked the leaves of one plant. They were firm and deep green. The stems were thick and flexible, apparently very healthy." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"The sweet poison even the FDA didn't want to approve3 A good place to have started the war on drugs all those years ago would have been to bring down GD Searle Corp. and prosecute its CEO, Donald Rumsfeld, for his blatant violations of the Constitution and his shameless disregard for the safety of the American people. You see, Rumsfeld is not only the current point man for the disaster in Iraq, but he was also the point man who brought to your table the most toxic substance ever added to food — aspartame (commonly known as NutraSweet)." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"Yet, it helps wage war on drugs (sic). Dual Diagnosis clients are a major problem for the field but not because of the good drugs we prescribe. Bad ones are those that are obtained mostly without prescription. APA likes only those drugs from which it can derive a profit - directly or indirectly. This is not a group for me. In my view, psychiatry has been almost completely bought out by the drug companies. The APA could not continue without the pharmaceutical company support of meetings, symposia, workshops, journal advertising, grand rounds luncheons, unrestricted educational grants, etc." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "These tragic testimonials were just a small sample of the dozens of families who seized the opportunity that frosty February day to recount similar horrific events that left them innocent victims of this new, yet undeclared "war on drugs." But only a handful of these personal tragedies were necessary before it became difficult and painfully uncomfortable to continue to listen." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"War on Drugs under way and many scholars agreed with his perspective.485 A significant indicator of increased cocaine use could be found in emergency room admissions data. In 1977 just 1 percent of all ER cases nationwide was related to smoked cocaine; that figure reached 5 percent in 1986. (Overall government surveys of hospitals showed that serious drug-related emergencies, involving any narcotic or stimulant, increased radically during the Reagan war on drugs, as did drug-related deaths." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.)

"One Judge's Attempt at a Rational Discussion of the So-called 'War on Drugs'." Spotlight Lecture at Colby College, Waterville Maine, 25 April 1996. 46. Gray, Judge James. P. Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the war on drugs. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001, referencing Lay, Judge Donald P. "Our Justice System, So-called." New York Times, 22 Oct 1990. 47. "Federal Judge Concludes Drug Legalization Is the Way to Go." Buffalo News (New York) 2 March 1997. 48. Gray, Judge James P." - The Disinformation Company, Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (Get the book.)

"In addition to the need for healthy food, a real "war on drugs" is needed—those mostly symptom-controlling and nutrient-depleting pharmaceutical phantoms on which our government spends annually $ 2 bdlion more than on medical services {Medical Post May 13,2003). Those and the genetically engineered freaks the food industry tries to force us to eat are, however, most successfudy combated by consumer resistance and conscious engagement with "the right molecules". An orthomolecular way of life offers the way to health. Sources and Resources J.M." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)

"Generally speaking, the U.S. "War on Drugs" is a continuation of European colonialism and an instrument for criminalizing the Indians and their spiritual kin. This phobia about drugs is nothing new, for drugs have been viewed as wild and reprehensible since ancient times (think of the persecution of the mystical followers of Dionysos, as well as of the witches, alchemists, and hippies). The fear of drugs and the experiences associated with them is found even throughout the various camps of shamanism fans and in academic circles." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"UPDATE: The nation's scandalous "war on drugs" has been cited often by Project Censored over the years. The #21 Censored story of 1989 reveals how government and media propagandized the war on drugs; the #5 story of 1990 reports the continued media blackout of drug war fraud; the #23 story of 1993 documents stories showing the highly touted DARE program was not effective; the #15 story of 1994 notes the DARE program cover-up continued." - Carl Jensen, 20 Years of Censored News (Get the book.)

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