Drug Culture: 101

What are we coming to, vis-à-vis our safety, sanity, and the drug culture in our world? What is our civilization heading towards? I have to tell you, personally, I’m terrified. Am I over the top or just plain ol’ paranoid? Tell me, please, am I missing something here? To wonder how we’re going to survive with so many turning to psychotropic drugs isn’t that far fetched ¾ is it? The taking of these drugs has gone so far that I’m beginning to think it’s almost recreational.

How many stay au courant with what is rife in our society today? Not many I assure you. If anyone has investigated, or simply paid attention, they would be quite aware of all the killings linked to antidepressants and psychotropic drugs. Especially in the schools across our great land: Columbine, Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University, and a plethora of others.

One of the earliest recorded shootings was at the University of Texas in 1966, sixteen killed by Charles Whitman. Whitman, a troubled man, started mental health treatment years prior to 1966. His family problems were known to be a dominant issue, one which had been expressed to a psychiatrist at the University of Texas Health Center on March 29, 1966. Whitman was also known to have abused amphetamines on a regular basis, and allegedly psychotropic drugs.

How about one not too far back in our history. The Northern Illinois University shooting on February 14, 2008. Steven Kazmierczak, toting a Remington shotgun, Glock 9mm, Sig Sauer 9mm, and a .380 Hi-Point, shot twenty-four people. He killed six and wounded eighteen. He was a sociology graduate, a low level off-shoot of psychology. The Northern University of Illinois police chief, Donald Grady, once described Kazmierczak as “an outstanding student. One who reportedly stopped taking his medication and became somewhat erratic.”

When are we going to wise up folks? They don’t put black-box labels on pill bottles warning of violence and suicidal tendencies for nothing. If one were to check they would find that seven out of ten mass murders are committed by those who have had psychiatric treatment, on psychotropic drugs, or have recently come off them. The psychiatric industry is leading us down the road to perdition. Oh, I’m sorry, it’s not referred to as psychiatry any longer, it’s the pharmaceutical industry. Psychiatrists have become the modern day dope dealers for “Big Pharma”.

You have to understand, psychiatrists know nothing about the ills of the mind, and that’s according to their own testimony. There is no known cause or cure in the psychiatric field for the malaise or malady of mental aberration. Only symptoms are dealt with. Symptoms that are made up and usually handled by giving someone a prescription for drugs. A devastating and dehumanizing concoction of mind altering pharmaceuticals that will change an individual’s life forever. Not to mention those who love them and are part of their lives. How do I know that? Well, let me continue.

Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, the executive director of the International Coalition for Drug Awareness, is an expert on cases like Columbine. She wrote Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare. She is also a consultant in cases like Columbine where the use of antidepressants were found. She asserts that these types of killer’s, not only the shooters at Columbine but at a number of other schools as well, brains are inundated with serotonin. That’s the chemical that causes violence and aggression, and it also triggers sleepwalking where a person plays out their worst nightmares.

Days before the Columbine massacre Eric Harris had been rejected by the Marines because he was under a psychiatrist’s care. The Marines, along with other military institutions, do not induct individuals in their ranks with mental issues. At least that was the was the policy a number of years ago, before the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Sidebar: Psychiatry has infiltrated our government and armed forces to an insurmountable degree, and therefore have now developed drugs to make “super warriors.” Extremely violently and desensitized soldiers. I personally know men that have been on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan and they assure me psychotropics and antidepressants are as abundant as candy on Halloween. One soldier told me all you have to do is go to the PX and tell them you saw someone get shot, or you were shot at, and they’ll insist on giving you some. Another relays a story where he was out of Zoloft (the PX was closed) so he walked through the barracks asking if anyone had any. More than a dozen men offered him a variety of antidepressants. But let me get back to Dr. Tracy’s testimony.

Harris was under a “doctor’s” care and had been prescribed an antidepressant ¾ Luvox. This is a drug allegedly prescribed to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder. Once again, a made-up neurosis in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). Now the Columbine killings, and numerous other ghoulish shootings around the country, have been scientifically linked by many experts to a sleep disorder caused by the use of antidepressants, which affects the serotonin level in the brain.

According to Dr. Tracy’s testimony this is why the Columbine shooter’s brains were so inundated with serotonin. Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft are merely a few of the drugs used by psychiatrists that are in the same class of drugs as Luvox. It’s estimated that ten million Americans are taking these drugs and the number is steadily climbing every day. We are living in a drug-cultured society like none we have ever encountered in the history of our planet. It is pervasive in every aspect of our lives; government, education, transportation, and a whole host of other areas of life. I’ll give you a few examples.

In October of 2009 US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to be hospitalized after she fell out of her seat in an airliner heading to London where she and three other justices were representing the American judiciary at the inaugural ceremonies of Britain’s new Supreme Court. After giving her a physical to determine the cause of the episode, the physicians diagnosed the problem as mixing narcotics with cold medication. Justice Ginsburg had been taking Ambien CR II.

According to expert testimony, Dr. Reed Young, a doctor licensed in Texas and submitting his statement to the Texas Court of Appeals in Houston on October 11, 2007, said this; “Ambien, like Halcion, can cause peculiar side effects if someone takes it and tries to stay awake for a while. Specifically, they can act somewhat psychotic.”

So the questions would be ¾ why is a seventy-six year old Chief Justice taking such a drug? Does she take them often? And has she taken any such drugs prior to, or during, sitting on the bench? If not, how long does it take for the effects of these high-powered drugs to wear off? Days? Weeks? It is scientifically known that chemicals are retained in fatty cells of the body and released into the blood stream days, weeks, and even years later. Remember LSD flashbacks from years gone by? A reality my friends.

I hate to speak ill of the dead, and often try to refrain from doing so, however, let’s look at the late Chief Justice Rehnquist. For nine years, 1972-1981, he was a prolific consumer of a drug called “Placidyl.” I guess one could call him a drug addict, only it was sanctioned by the psychiatric industry. Does that makes it okay?

Make no mistake about it, Rehnquist was definitely a drug abuser. I’m not merely stating my opinion, it’s highly documented. I personally remember when the Washington Post broke the story in 1982, after investigative reporters spotted him going into a hospital to get the drug. Also in 1986 when Reagan nominated him as Chief Justice his medical history was prepared for the Senate Judiciary Committee, it contained even more about his rapacious drug habit. The report described Rehnquist as seriously “dependent” on Placidyl from 1977 to 1981. In 1981, according to an article in the New York Times on January 4, 1982, Rehnquist sought help with his drug addiction by entering George Washington University Hospital. The spokesman for the hospital said Rehnquist suffered “disturbances in mental clarity, characterized by distorted perceptions.”

What’s scary here folks ¾ okay, one of the things that’s scary ¾ is that Rehnquist got his dope from Dr. Freeman Cary, the attending physician to Congress. That’s right ladies and gentlemen, just like I said earlier, these drug dealers disguised as doctors have infiltrated all aspects of our life. Isn’t this somewhat troubling since this judge determines what happens to the lives of so many?

Let me tell you a little about Placidyl before I close the book on Rehnquist and move on. Some try to downplay it as nothing more than a pain killer. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Placidyl is a sedative-hypnotic. Even their own experts recommend limited use for a short term period due to catastrophic side effects. In 1986 an associate professor of psychiatry at John Hopkins University told the Post it was “a strong drug I would use only under very exceptional circumstances.”

But that’s not the real problem as far as I’m concerned. People from all walks of life are going to take and abuse drugs, probably for all  eternity. What’s bothering me is how pervasive they are and how they affect all our lives, even if we don’t condone or use them ourselves. Who knows if Justice Ginsburg has taken Ambien CR prior to court, or whether it affected her judgment while sitting on the bench. There have been reports of her passing out in her chambers before. And it’s pretty clear that Rehnquist, as profound as his habit was, could have had it affect his judgment on any given day.

But again, I don’t want to dwell on one issue interminably. All I’m trying to point out is how devastating and pervasive the psychiatric industry and their copious drug machine is. They’re tearing apart not only the culture of America, but the entire civilization of the world. Nonetheless, let me continue with my final example, not that I couldn’t come up with a myriad of others.

Would you drive in a car with someone hopped up on dope? Would you want your child to ride with a friend that has been taking drugs? I would assume you wouldn’t. But what about if someone you knew owned a plane and wanted to take you up for a little ride. Would you mind if they took a few drugs while they flew you around? Well, that’s exactly what’s going on now, only worse.

On April 2, 2010 the Federal Aviation Administration announced new federal rules whereby pilots will be able to take antidepressants while operating a plane. Just think about it, you’re flying at about 35,000 feet when a pilot passes out. Your only hope is that his co-pilot isn’t up there feeding on the same drugs. Or maybe it could be worse. What if the pilot decides life isn’t worth living and decides to take all the passengers with him to whatever fantasy of nirvana he is engaged in?

Under previous rules pilots weren’t allowed to take antidepressants. Furthermore, any pilot who was thought to be depressed, or under psychiatric treatment for depression, was grounded. But wait, I think we’re all going to be safe now. The Federal Aviation Administration says it will  “try to make sure the side-effects don’t manifest themselves.” Apparently they’re unaware of everything I mentioned here earlier.

Here’s a quote from Randy Babbitt, the FAA administrator. “We know more today about the science of the medications being given, and we know a lot more about depression itself. The policy is changing ¾ I mean our number one priority is safety and the public certainly has the right to know that everybody in the cockpit is healthy, both mentally and physically.”

Hmmm? Do you feel more comfortable now that Mr. Babbitt has assured us, from his “authoritative” position, that everything will be as if we were taking a stroll through the rose garden? Well if you do, let me fill you in a little more.

The new rules allow pilots to take any of the four commonly prescribed drugs that are used to counteract depression: Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa and Lexapro. These are the same class drugs that the killers of our children were taking. Same or similar to those Ginsburg and Rehnquist had problems with. They are proven to kill on the battlefield by our own soldiers, where the psychologists and psychiatrists force feed it to them.

Is anyone really listening to what these alleged pundits are saying? Are you buying it? The marketing is unbelievable. They have turned our whole society into a drug-sensitive and drug-induced culture. You have a headache, take a pill. You worry about you child’s education, take a pill. If you stress a little about the economy, take a pill. I’m telling you folks, the number of diagnoses is off the chart. What’s next? I’ve been concerned about an ingrown toenail — can I get a pill for that?

The DSM-I (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) was first published in 1952. It had 106 mental disorders listed. There has been a slow progression of marketing and pharmaceutical sales that has caused additional diagnoses since then. In 1994 the DSM-IV was published and listed 297 disorders. Currently psychs use the DSM-IV-TR, the revised edition, with even more diagnoses. These are nothing but made up disorders used by the psychiatric and pharmaceutical industry to market and sell their products. Whenever a new pill is made, a new disorder seems to find its way in the DSM. I’ll give you a little example how this works.

The DSM-II, published in 1968, contained a “homosexuality disorder.” However, after national upheaval over the implications of such a diagnosis, and the ardent protest by gay activists at APA (American Psychiatric Association) conferences all across the land between1970-1973, the “homosexuality” disorder was taken out in 1974. So, what does this mean? Maybe that public outcry overrode the amount of money they could make from such a fallacious disorder. Or maybe they simply slid something else into its place. Who knows. All I know for sure is that these blackguards are the cause of a number of the problems in our society, and responsible for many of our children’s deaths.

But let’s get back to Randy Babbitt. He also said, “we want to make certain that those side-effects don’t manifest themselves as they (pilots) go under these medications.”

What side effects was he taking about? Well, in the same report this was listed. “Antidepressants have a long list of side-effects. The most severe are seizures, problems with eyesight, memory loss, hallucinations and thoughts of suicide.” Damn! That sure sounds like the pilot I want flying my airplane.

Babbitt also said the new rules are aimed at removing the stigma of mental illness in the same manner it dealt with drug abuse and alcoholism in the cockpit forty years ago, with its Human Intervention and Motivation Study program. Here are his words. “When people heard that there were going to be pilots who had been alcoholics returning to the cockpit, there was concern. But that program took a lot of people that needed help, they got the help, and they finished great careers as safe pilots. And I think that’s what this is going to do.”

Does that mean they’re going to send these pilots to rehab and try to get them the kick the antidepressant habit? I doubt the psychiatric and pharmaceutical industries are going to like that very much. Has anyone bothered to tell Mr. Babbitt that there are many major differences in his analogy? If a pilot comes in toting a jug of gin someone may notice. Don’t you think? If he smelled of alcohol someone might notice. Or if he were staggering getting on or off the airplane someone may just notice ¾ don’t you think?

But all that aside, alcohol and street drugs aren’t even close to what we have here. Have you not been paying attention? What about the suicidal tendencies, killings, hallucinations, seizures, and a plethora of other side-effects that crop up. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to ride on an airplane under the tutelage of a drunk or someone smoking marijuana, but that’s a far cry from what we’re talking about here. Our government, Mr. Babbitt specifically, is espousing pilots taking drugs. What’s the difference between being drunk, taking street drugs, or prescription LSD? I would say the latter is worse in any case. And wouldn’t a sane person consider it abject behavior that officials are condoning it? And that our sympathetic, drug-injected society is standing idly by and accepting it? Lord help us, it makes one wonder what’s to come next.