Psychiatry's Main Role Today

EXCEPT IN THE CASE OF A FEW

WELL MEANING PRACTITIONERS

PSYCHIATRY’S MAIN ROLE TODAY

IS AS THE U.K’s PUSHER OF ADDICTIVE PHARMACEUTICAL PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

OUT OF NEARLY 3 MILLION ADDICTS IN BRITAIN

SOME 2.4 MILLION ARE ON HIGHLY PROFITABLE

PHARMACEUTICAL PRESCRIPTION DRUGS

PAID FOR BY UK TAXPAYERS. i.e. PAID FOR BY YOU !

Although the writer of this blog is a lifelong Conservative, he dedicates it to

JIM DOBBIN,

former Labour M.P. for Heywood & Middleton, Lancs.,

“for fighting the good fight” as Chairman of the

ALL PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUP ON INVOLUNTARY TRANQUILLISER ADDICTION.

PSYCHIATRY’S ROLE

AS ONE OF THE U.K’s TWO MAIN PUSHERS OF ADDICTIVE & HYPNOTIC PHARMACEUTICAL PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

(THE OTHER PUSHERS ARE OF COURSE OUR LOCAL DOCTORS.)

Because of continuous T.V. and other advertising - coupled with shop window presentations, counter top displays and attractive packaging in the thousands of chemist’s and pharmacists around Great Britain - it is easy to get the impression that over-the-counter sales of headache powders, cold cures, tonics, backache pills, foot balms, creams, lotions, cough mixtures and hair and skin care products, etc., etc., are the main business of the pharmaceutical drug companies.

BUT THIS IS NOT SO.

Without the pharmacists’ business of filling local doctor’s and psychiatrists prescriptions added in, over-the-counter sales achieved by high street shops contribute little more than a minor percentage of the profit generated by bulk chemical sales and by marketing prescription drugs en-masse to the N.H.S., its associated specialist departments and to or through other U.K. government departments.

96 years ago Rockefeller & Carnegie initiated their grant making plan for the pharmaceutical industry to take over U.S. medicine on a palliative symptom handling basis, and over the last 64 years, the manipulation and control by worldwide big pharma and international psychiatry of the so-called “mental health therapy sector” has HUGELY increased, so that today Psychiatry - coupled with G.P. prescribing - is now the chemical industry’s main prescription drugs marketing arm, thus making pharma-ceutical “drug-pushing” Psychiatry’s main source of income today.

This is seen not only in our hospitals and in doctors’ surgeries, but also in our schools, our prisons, in the military and in our court-rooms, where Psychiatry increasingly prescribes dangerous pharmaceutical drugs to the man–and-woman-in-the-street, to our children, to pensioners, to juveniles and to law-breakers – drugs which history has shown and continues to show SELDOM CURE ANYTHING, but regularly lead to addiction, a poor quality of life, Dementia and even early death.

To this cosy psycho-pharm commercial relationship Psychiatry brings its close contacts with the Department of Health and the N.H.S., individual doctors, drug users, drug workers, the military and the general public through psychiatric surgeries and universities, teaching hospitals, Drug Advice Centres, Public Health England, political, medical, police and prison ‘reform’ programmes, seminars and lobbyists, plus Psychiatry’s increasing influence and pressure on councils, education authorities, schools and Parent Teacher Associations, etc.

Psychiatry in turn receives from the pharmaceutical industry a ready-made set of ‘treatments’, ‘therapies’ and drug based interventions capable of being recommended for a range of most often merely assumed, speculative and even simply invented “mental” conditions, all of which are able to be prescribed without need of further investigation or testing by individual psychiatrists, the ‘scientific’ work of ‘assessing’ the value of each drug having been done for them by their ever helpful pharmaceutical suppliers.

But today Psychiatry gains even more from pharmaceutical ‘answers’. Whereas fifty years ago doubtful psychiatric “treatments” were comprised mainly of Electro Convulsive Treatment (ECT), Narcotic Shock Therapy, pre-frontal lobotomy, leucotomy and other brain tampering surgery and, whilst today such inhumane ‘treatments’ are still amazingly prescribed and delivered in the U.K. EVERY WEEK of the year, the number of pharmaceutical drug interventions today out-numbers such other ‘treatments’ by many many magnitudes.

In fact it is recognised that without the availability of the thousands of widely obtainable non-cure symptom handling drugs (see below*) Psychiatry itself would essentially have nothing to offer as “mental treatment”, Psychiatry’s own earlier developed devastating “therapies” still today continuing to prove non-curative and much more often than not contributing to a damaging worsening of the patients’ condition.

* such as the Amphetamines, the major and minor Tranquilliser groups, Methadone, Prozac, Ritalin, Naltrexone, the Hypnotics (Benzodiazepines, Zolpidem, Zopicione, Chloral Hydrate and its derivatives, Clomethiazole, the Antihistamines), the Anxiolytics, (Buspirone, Beta-Blockers and Meprobamate), the Barbiturates, the wide range of Antipsychotics and Antimanics, (Carbamazepine, and Lithium), the Aversion Reaction Stimulators, (Disulfiram, Acamprosate Calcium), the Antidepressants, (the Tricyclics, the MAOIs, the Selective Serotonin Re-Uptake Inhibitors), and the Central Nervous System Stimulants, etc., plus a host of other psychiatric so-called “drug therapies’.

IN OTHER WORDS, IT IS THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY,

PLUS ITS EXPANDING RANGE OF UNSAFE BUT POTENT PRESCRIPTION DRUGS,

WHICH TODAY KEEPS U.K. PSYCHIATRY IN BUSINESS.

But make no mistake. The pharmaceuticals also gain from Psychiatry’s ability to influence and control an army of psychiatrists, fellow travellers and other physicians. So-called “professionals” found not only functioning and prescribing in the medical field, but also influencing national and local government policies at so many different levels and in so many different ways.

In fact the ability to directly & indirectly influence political thinking is a major psych contribution to the psycho-pharm relationship.

WHY? Because it is very seldom – if ever - that the patients who are prescribed psycho-pharmaceutical drugs make their own purchasing decision or have to find the money to pay for them. Instead, in the vast majority of cases, the drugs are prescribed by a psychiatrist or other physician, and are paid for by government out of taxpayer’s funds.

So, big pharma has little necessity to market and sell prescription drugs to the general public. Their ‘clients’, i.e. the people they have to convince, are the policy-makers in the DoH, the NHS, the PHE, the DfES and the Prison Service, etc., PLUS the senior policy-makers in government and their often psych trained ‘advisers’ in the Civil Service.

Psychiatrically orientated practitioners can include educational psychologists, psycho-analysts, psycho-therapists, social scientists and social and political psychologists, etc., and these as well as psychiatrists have been increasingly insinuated into management positions in the government organisations mentioned. As a result, indirect but highly effective control by pharmaceutical companies of U.K. government health budget spending has become a fact of life.

And that control is exercised by those who make – and who strive by every means possible to continue making – enormous turnover and huge profits from drug sales, paid for by government out of U.K. electors’ compulsory tax contributions. An expenditure that most voters would never condone – if they knew the truth !

Like the iceberg which sank the Titanic, 90% of pharmaceutical prescription drugs marketing is below the surface consciousness of a majority of politicians, civil servants and the U.K. population. The pharma’s P.R. departments lay emphasis on the iceberg’s visible 10% to project an ‘ethical’ image of a benevolent and stately activity serenely floating along as a clean whiter-than-white monument-like industry shining brightly in the sun of stock exchange approval and seen by most observers as an attractive and worthwhile investment rather than as the threat to our society that it really is.

Some of that image is of course true, so this blog is not intended to blacken the whole of the pharmaceutical industry in which many companies and products do try to live up to the image which their P.R. departments and lobbyists like to project. But it is such a large industry, dealing in so many life threatening substances, that less than half of its members and their dangerous products are sufficient to create the devastating scenarios exposed here. (There are of course also some good amongst the numerous bad apples in the psychiatric barrel.)

To fully understand the real threat of pharmaceutical turnover and profit intentions, we must differentiate between their marketing of their huge range of non-prescription retail chemist shop and other over-the-counter reliefs, ‘cures’ and placebos, versus their vast range of dangerous, unsafe, habit-forming and life threatening prescription drugs, which are designated as “only available on prescription” precisely because they are dangerous, unsafe, habit-forming and life threatening !

Non-prescription over-the-counter drug and ‘medicine’ sales are of course used to develop a friendly, helpful and sympathetic image and are promoted openly and with vigour by the manufacturers themselves, with little need of psychiatric or other medical support, except perhaps as ‘professional’ endorsements – a marketing contribution normally more effectively made by music and film star celebrities and sports personalities, whom the general public trust more than psychiatrists.

But, in a marketplace based predominantly on a State provided ‘free’ National Health Service, rather than on ‘paying-patient’ private medicine, ‘prescription’ drugs are sold in bulk to the politicians and the Civil Servants running the N.H.S. – NOT to the patients / users.

As a result, the main prescription marketing tool is not public advertising, but instead is based on a broad range of professional P.R. and lobbying organisations, medical academia, overt and covert ‘health-interest’ front groups and publications, so-called ‘fact articles’ and all the paraphernalia needed to influence the decision-makers at every level of the government selection and purchasing cycle, plus local private G.P. “advice” to patients.

Quite a lot of this ‘marketing’ is done by pharma industry executives and senior psychiatrists mixing socially and commercially with senior politicians and civil servants, as well as by pharmaceutical industry ‘advisers’ and sales reps.

Medical reps deal at G.P. level, hospital buying officer level and junior

civil service level. But much big government buying is also quietly done via pharma moles already installed in decision influencing positions, as well as by vested interest psychiatrists employed unwittingly by the State to actually make such procurement policies and decisions.

Whilst we have been told that the drug market’s most obvious suppressors of our society are the producers, smugglers and pushers of illicit drugs of all types (those which customs officers & police have been attempting to halt with expensive law enforcement activities for 50 years) these “drug barons” are NOT the main problem. Illicit drugs are the smaller part of the U.K. drugs supply, and it is other vested interests, those which influence demand and supply, which are our real problem.

These fall into 4 main classes:

1) Elected policy-makers, MPs, civil servants, medical and psychiatric advisors and other government staff who are themselves users of addictive substances - examples being the former Deputy Drugs Tsar and his Cabinet Office Minister, and there are hundreds of others whose attitudes are dictated by their own use of addictive drugs.

2) Policy-makers, MPs, Local Councillors, civil servants, medical and psychiatric advisers, other official employees, pharmacists and local chemists, etc., whose income, employment, livelihoods or lifestyles depend directly or indirectly on drug consumption and distribution and / or on chemical production.

3) Those national and international business interests for whom legal drug production and sale can (and already does) provide and develop income and profitability of eventual astonishing magnitude. This is mainly the ‘psycho-pharm fraternity’, held by many observers to control the N.H.S. which has been entrusted by successive governments with solving our drugs problems, yet has more employee personal drug-use problems than any other government public service department. Businesses for which demand is the most valuable resource on earth and so never to be wasted by curing, but instead to be diverted to one’s own products.

4) Those disguised lobbying organisations and individuals working ‘under-cover’ for wealthy vested interests dedicated to taking over and expanding world drug supplies by covertly seeking the legalisation of currently illicit drugs. These include the former UN Drug Control Programme Demand Reduction Chief Mike Trace, and George Soros, Mike Ashton, ex-UKDPC members, and many of their colleagues and contacts including DrugScope’s former executives.

If that were not enough, psychiatric physicians are now signing prescriptions for patients they have never seen to lend a spurious legality to the pharmaceutical companies’ escalating profitable sales of prescription drugs over the Internet. In other words psychiatrists are now by-passing every U.K. government drug prescription regulation in order to expand their sales into areas they pretend to be protecting.

To whom are they selling ? They don’t know !

Because the anonymity of the Internet means that any child with access to a credit card number now also has access to a whole range of dangerous prescription only drugs – dangerous, because that is why they are ‘prescription only’.

SO WHAT FOLLOWS IS A REVEALING, FRIGHTENING & DETAILED LOOK AT THE LIST OF:

                 

                 PRESCRIPTION DRUG MARKETING METHODS.

ONE: 

         SEEK TO CONTROL THE EDUCATION OF MEDICAL

         PROFESSIONALS AT ALL LEVELS - IN THE DIRECTION OF

         PALLIATIVE SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT BY PRESCRIPTION.

Attention has already been drawn above to the fact that it is 96 years since Rockefeller & Carnegie initiated their grant making plan for their chemical industries to take over United States medical training for physical trauma on a palliative symptom prescribing basis.

And over the last 64 years, the manipulation and control by worldwide pharmaceutical companies and international psychiatry of the so-called “mental health therapy sector” has also HUGELY increased, so that today Psychiatry - coupled with G.P. prescribing - is now the chemical industry’s main prescription drugs marketing arm, thus making pharmaceutical “drug-pushing” Psychiatry’s main source of income today.

In that same period, international pharmacology and psychiatry have together ensured that the new shape of medical training developed in the United States of America is today applied in practically every other developed country of the world.

Thus giving control not only in the medical training course-rooms but, more importantly, in the thinking and diagnosing of General Practitioners and doctors EVERYWHERE, as they go about their hard-pressed daily consultancy work based on lengthening queues of patients all now mainly on palliative non-cure “symptom management by prescription”.

PRESCRIPTION MARKETING METHODS CONTINUED.

TWO:

         IN ORDER TO ENSURE AS MUCH CONTROL AS POSSIBLE

         OF MEDICAL PRACTICE IN RESPECT OF BOTH PHYSICAL AND

         MENTAL TRAUMA, TAKE AS MUCH ADVANTAGE AS POSSIBLE

         OF CO-OPERATION WITH THAT INFLUENTIAL PART OF THE

         MEDICAL PROFESSION WHICH HAS NO AGREED UPON AND

         SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN TECHNOLOGY.

This is of course Psychiatry which, outside of their booming pharmaceutical prescribing of the last two decades, still struggles with its own failed practices such as Electro Convulsive (Shock) Treatment and a variety of damaging brain operations plus very heavy drug dosing procedures.

However, because mental trauma, is now more and more being handled in G.Ps local surgeries – by doctors who are guided by the discredited American Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, local psychiatrists, as part of the NHS, are useful for keeping G.Ps on the palliative symptom prescribing path.

Which is needed for full and continuing implementation of the pharma-ceutical industry's planned marketing strategy in progress across the country, and in fact across the developed world.

PRESCRIPTION MARKETING METHODS CONTINUED.

THREE:

             SEEK TO ADDICT AND HYPNOTISE PATIENTS INTO DAILY

             COMPULSIVELY, IRRESISTIBLY & ADDICTIVELY DEMANDING

             RECOMMENDED “MEDICATION” IN AN EFFORT TO AVOID

             THE DEVASTATING “COLD TURKEY” EFFECTS OF HAVING

             TO DO WITHOUT THAT MEDICATION

by prescribing: Hypnotic + Addictive, Reinforced Demand Substances.

“H.A.R.D.S.”, or “HARD Substances” are names given to those habit forming drugs which have the ability to combine their chemically ADDICTIVE action with their soporific properties, to unintentionally or otherwise plant in a patient’s unconsciousness a HYPNOTIC command “TO USE” that same addictive substance.

The main medication handbook – the British National Formulary - lists numerous pharmaceutical drugs which are officially indicated as habit-forming and / or addictive. In addition, many of them are also classified as “hypnotics” or as being soporific. i.e. Whilst under the influence of a recent dose, statements directed at the drugged patient are often able to take on the force of a hypnotic command or implant, which that person must unwittingly obey.

The patient is thus saddled with two separate and distinct compulsions to both demand and consume that substance:

* the FIRST acting chemically on the body’s metabolic system to develop a psycho-physiological SUBSTANCE ADDICTION in the same way as drugs like cocaine, crack, heroin, methadone, skunk and speed, etc., and,

* the SECOND acting long term on the unconscious mind of the hypnotised subject to also enforce a purely psychological DEMAND which can become further reinforced by additional commands.

If the availability of HARD Substances was scarce, this would still be a suppressive situation to be very carefully avoided in any democratic country. But shockingly some 6,000,000 doses of such drugs are swallowed every day of the year by over two million elderly NHS Patients, plus 100s of 1,000s of doses a day of other addictive prescription drugs by younger persons – and by far the vast majority of these dosages are paid for by U.K. taxpayers.

Whilst a wide variety of drugs can have hypnotic side-effects, the main prescription drugs officially categorised in the B.N.F. as being addictive AND ALSO having hypnotic properties include:

“The Hypnotics”, “The Anxiolytics” and “The Barbiturates”.

The Benzodiazepines are probably the best known and most widely used of these three classes of “hypnotics”, and for a variety of safety and quality-of-life reasons it is important that the following facts are fully known, not only by the prescribing doctors, but also by the patients as well as by the patients’ close family members.

In addition to the “benzos” there are the “Z” drugs, Chloral drugs and derivatives plus Clomethiazole, followed by some of the Anxiolytics and the Barbiturates.

BECAUSE THEY ARE DANGEROUS ALL OF THESE ARE “PRESCRIPTION ONLY” DRUGS, AND THUS A MATTER OF PHYSICIAN SPECIFICATION RATHER THAN PATIENT SELECTION.

So we are not talking about patients using recreational substances for fun. We are into the involuntarily addicting of millions of patients of all ages and thus the formation and maintenance of by far the largest group of addicts in Britain – larger my many many magnitudes than the illegal addicts against which the so-called “War on Drugs” is being waged around the world by our Government at an annual cost of £Billions !

Furthermore, the Government’s National Audit Office tells us that overall it costs U.K. taxpayers more than £8.46 BILLION per year to pay for the once a day dosing and other maintenance and support costs generated by just our 180,000 legally prescribed methadone users.

If that’s what 180,000 legally prescribed once-a-day methadone users officially cost our taxpayers every year, how much per year are nearly six times as many legally prescribed three-times-a-day benzodiazepine and other involuntarily addicted medical drug users costing us ?

And the answer is – likely as much again, plus the costs of other “HARD Substances” most likely totalling £15 BILLION per year on just these few examples of just a few controlling addictive and hypnotic drugs.

This very dangerous situation is created by 3 main factors:

1) The hypnotic, addictive and demand developing nature of many of their products is well known to the pharmaceutical industry, which, for turnover and profit reasons, prefers to play down the huge cost and social problems they cause because the development of regular and increasing demand for their industry’s products is by far the main goal of their marketing people, and many of these people are leading psychiatric professionals.

2) The doctor’s most difficult and responsible job is finding out what is wrong with you – i.e. diagnosing. Once he knows for sure, deciding how to treat you is far easier, especially when his diagnosis is correct. To help him make correct diagnoses, the doctor has many tools, not always in his surgery, but at local hospitals and medical testing laboratories.

However, because nearly all medical practices are understaffed, and doctors overworked and short of time and resources, they have been trained to rely on time-saving “personal professional diagnostic decisions” made on-the-spot, which helps them more quickly attend to that day’s lengthening queue of patients.

Unfortunately, no doctor can know about or immediately detect the

effects of the thousands of chemicals which are often added to the foods we expect to find on supermarket shelves, and the over 700 different chemical compounds which have at various times been found in common drinking water.

There are also agricultural chemicals, pesticides, herbicides (and other chemicals intended to kill) and the vast ranges of industrial process chemicals, plus all the animals, insects, plants, flowers and natural products to which humans can often be allergic. Then there are the chemicals we actually choose to add to our body's intake !

As a result, because no doctor can possibly keep up to date with all these factors, we have specialist testing laboratories which can in a matter of hours or days (and in some 50% of cases) tell the doctor exactly what is likely troubling his patient. e.g. “Not enough of this in his or her diet.” “Never eat this and avoid that, because they are poisoning you”, etc.

By tracing the symptoms back to the cause, which is so often not a germ or virus but just an allergy or dietary imbalance, there is found no need for medication. No need for drugs. Cases solved, patients happy again or they would be if enough people were being as thoroughly tested, and tested as often, as they should be - but are not.

However, a partial reason for not bothering to test is that patients don’t want to make a return trip to the surgery in a week’s time to get the news or to wait that long before being told what’s wrong.

Neither does the doctor, who, not unnaturally, just wants to take the quick and easy route of deciding, prescribing and moving on to the next patient.

In addition, U.S. psycho-pharmacology has “helpfully” supplied doctors with an “easy-prescribing” bogus “reference book” entitled “The Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,” which lists many of the symptoms (BUT NOT ACTUAL CAUSES) for which HARD Substances are prescribed, and so sells “HARDS” via local doctors.

Furthermore, any test procedure costs more money than 10 minutes of the doctor’s surgery time, so that even the N.H.S. and the Chancellor of the Exchequer are happier avoiding the 50% of cases that possibly didn’t need testing, and go along with efforts to raise that proportion as often and as far as they can.

But whilst all of this might look like effective time and cost saving, in the

long run it far too often proves to be false economy, extending treatment times, producing no results and prompting false prescribing plus wasteful and often harmful consumption of a huge amount of expensive medical drugs, some of them far too often forming a basis for devastating involuntary addiction - lasting years and even for life.

On this basis, as symptoms can so often have more than one possible cause, the old adage: “prevention is better than cure” translates into “accurate diagnostic testing is better than permanent daily sickness, illness or disease MANAGEMENT” based on addiction. This is because accurate DIAGNOSIS BY TESTING leads to finding causes, and then on to applying the right cures !

3) The third reason for the country being swamped in HARD Substances paid for by our taxpayers is the fact that the Government goes on year after year accepting advice on health matters from the psychiatric and pharmaceutical industries.

Even though these are the very same business people whose professed goal in life is to increase the quantities of their products being manufactured, the amounts being distributed, THE AMOUNTS BEING USED, the number of U.K. citizens using them, the amounts each citizen is using and, amongst other ploys, they work hard to divert attention away from effective non-medication cures, because cures stop people from being customers for their daily drug medication.

So the Government, which has been conned into believing it is receiving advice from the game-keeper, is in fact locked deep in discussion with, and being manipulated by, the local poacher ! Because, Civil Servants, Ministers and other Politicians are seldom if ever experts on addiction.

Nor is the NHS, which is not only the Government Department with the biggest staff addiction problems, but also an organisation which does not even attempt to cure addicts, but hides its lack of cure technology by “commissioning” other organisations to deliver such “rehab” services against standards which reveal the NHS's abject lack of addiction recovery expertise.

Expecting psycho-pharms (the NHS’s “treatment mentors”) to know anything about recovery, is like illogically expecting those engineers who make the sharpest scalpels to automatically be the best surgeons !

In Britain, 3% of addicts on methadone and 20 to 30% of addicts in 12 Steps Groups, attain doubtful abstinence in a period of years rather than months, as a result of which psychiatrists and pharmaceutical suppliers are currently working hard to keep politicians and civil servants away from those addiction recovery training systems which have been bringing addicts to 3 month long residential self-help cures for 50 years.

Because first time through, residential training in self-help addiction recovery techniques helps 55 to 70+% of addicts at 100 plus training centres (including prison units) in 49 countries to attain lasting relaxed abstinence, it follows that senior government decision makers – in order to receive unbiased viable and provable guidance on real and effective solutions to addiction - must now wrest control of drug rehabilitation away from the DoH & NHS and start listening to those with 50 years of practice in “curing by self-help training”.

This can be delivered for a ONCE ONLY cost of less than 62% of what the National Audit Office states it costs EACH and EVERY YEAR to handle each existing prescription methadone patient for up to 40 years !

But this saving will not happen until Civil Servants & Politicians start talking to those groups in the community which the psycho-pharms have been denigrating, blackballing, ridiculing, defaming and lying about for 66 years with the express intention of making absolutely sure that Civil Servants, Ministers and other Politicians will be too afraid of being politically “soiled” by talking to those groups.

What is desperately needed today is a political establishment with the courage to stand up to the vested interest groups which are using HARD Substances to make huge commercial fortunes, whilst crippling our education system, our NHS, our working population, our retirement, our reputation and our national sanity.

Proof of the existence or otherwise of political courage will be furnished by the replies received to the following polite and respectful invitation:

“Kindly phone Ken Eckersley on (01342) 810151 to invite him for discussion at your ministerial office on – how to inexpensively procure effective relaxed addiction recovery to lasting abstinence.“

HOW MILLIONS OF PATIENTS ARE ACTUALLY HYPNOTISED

INTO DEMANDING SUPPLIES OF ADDICTIVE DRUGS

Most people know that an addictive drug is one which has the chemical ability to alter for varying periods the metabolism of a human body in such a way as to create an irresistible physiological and psychological demand for regular supplies of that particular chemical. In the absence of further supplies of that chemical, the individual can suffer a variety of painful, embarrassing and weakening bodily effects, which have come to be known as “cold turkey” withdrawal symptoms.

Most of the time we hear about these debilitating and controlling effects - just in relation to those few hundreds of thousands of so-called “recreational” drug users who are short of further supplies of their cannabis, cocaine, crack, heroin or skunk, etc.

However, one form or another of these cold turkey effects also impose themselves on patients who have been prescribed one or other of a wide range of officially designated habit forming, addictive and / or dependency developing pharmaceutical drugs.

Out of the nearly a quarter million doctors in the U.K. there are some 60,000 General Practitioners and, prescribed by them, every working day many millions of doses of these drugs are taken by their patients as medical “treatment” for an ever increasing number of “symptoms” categorised as either physical or mental disorders.

Few patients would regard themselves as being in need of “mental health treatment”, but psychiatry has been busy expanding the market for their own professional skills as well as for pharmaceutical products, and the main result has been that G.Ps are now prescribing as much medication for “emotional” symptoms as they used to do for back ache, ear ache and head aches, etc.. etc., etc.

BUT WHO HYPNOTISES PATIENTS, AND WHO GIVES THEM THE HYPNOTIC COMMANDS TO USE DRUGS ?

It is the drugs supplied by the pharmaceutical companies and prescribed by local doctors, which hypnotise and addict people !

Today, nobody needs to stare into your eyes, swing a bright object in front of you or speak in a monotonous tone to induce a hypnotic trance state. The pharmaceutical medical drugs listed below (and others) will all to a greater or lesser degree induce a light hypnotic trance condition, lasting for a few hours after each dose.

So when a 67 year old pensioner who lost her husband 2 weeks ago is in her doctor’s surgery at 10.00am for new advice, she is still under the hypnotic influence of the last of the Benzodiazepine tablets which she took with breakfast, and part of the discussion goes something like this:

Doctor: And how did you get on with the tablets I gave you ?

Patient: Well I have to confess I took one too many of them on two or

             three occasions. Would that be why I had a little diarrhoea ?

Doctor: Possibly, but the main thing is to take them regularly, so

             DON’T FORGET TO TAKE ONE WITH EVERY MEAL.

After collecting her new prescription she goes home for lunch and has her next tablet. And an hour later her daughter Betty pops in:

Betty: So what did the doctor say ?

Mother: He wasn’t pleased about me taking too many of the tablets.

Betty: Well he’s right. YOU MUST NEVER FORGET TO TAKE ONE OF

          YOUR TABLETS WITH EVERY MEAL.

The type of statements shown above in Capital Letters, when directed at a person under the influence of any of the following drugs, can have the power and force of hypnotic commands which will likely be obeyed !

Chloral Hydrate, Chlordiazepoxide, Clomethiazole, Diazepam, Flunitrazepam, Flurazepam, Formetazepam, Loprazolam, Lorazepam, Lormetazepam, Nitrazepam, Oxazopam, Promethazine Hydrochloride, Temazepam, Triclofos Sodium., Zolpidem, Zopiclone - and others.

There are some 8,000 medical drugs, many of which have side effects which include dependency, addiction and hypnotic properties.

The above list of HARDS is therefore by no means exhaustive and,

being subject to change, the above and other substances should be

checked out against the BNF, with a medical dictionary, or at

your local Citizens Advice Bureau.

There is also a wide range of other prescription drugs which are addictive but not necessarily hypnotic, which you may wish to avoid or handle cautiously.

PRESCRIPTION MARKETING METHODS CONTINUED.

FOUR:

          BLAME THE ILL-ADVISED AND MISINFORMED ADDICTS FOR

          THEIR ADDICTED CONDITION, RATHER THAN THE REAL

          CAUSE OF ADDICTION. i.e. THE DRUGS RECOMMENDED BY

          BOTH CRIMINAL PUSHERS AND BY MEDICAL PRESCRIBERS.

It is obviously rather difficult for the psycho-pharms to push the

idea that drug addiction is incurable AND at the same time admit that it is drug usage which causes addiction.

Because any sane politician is going to say “if addiction is incurable, THEN for God's sake, stop manufacturing addictive products !”

As a result, rather than lose their excuse for “symptom and habit management by prescription” by confessing to their lie about addiction being “incurable”, they decided several decades ago that, to avoid the consumption of their drugs being rightly blamed and thus banned, something or someone else had to be the focus of blame.

So government psychiatrists influenced by pharmaceutical friends came up with “people become addicts because they have an addictive personality !”. Another lie based on yet another invented mental disorder.

This led to “dual diagnosis” claims – the idea that a person who is mentally ill is likely to take criminal drugs and, equally, that someone who takes criminal drugs is also mentally ill.

Strangely, the treatment for both of these conditions is to give them free daily doses of “legal” prescription drugs.

The psycho-pharms also came up with the idea that, because daily supplies of prescribed drugs are “good for you”, anybody who allows him or her self to become addicted (even to criminal drugs) must be “misusing” their drug supply !

And today's government held gross misconception that addicts are to blame for their addiction is reflected in departmental names like “National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse”, the “Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs”, and the “All Party Parliamentary Drugs Misuse Group”, etc.

How can any government ever hope to implement any effective addiction eradication strategy when its “expert” advisers from the very beginning saddle ministerial decision-makers with false causes, false blame and thus a false target to aim at.

PRESCRIPTION MARKETING METHODS CONTINUED.

FIVE:

        CREATE THE MOST ADVANTAGEOUS DRUG ‘USAGE’

         CIRCUMSTANCES:

If the psycho-pharms admitted that drug addiction IS curable then addicts (whose prescribed methadone doses are the foundation of much of the pharmas’ huge and profitable O.S.T. sales) would very quickly cease to be the large and increasing source of long-term income which has been developed by their marketing people in the guise of so-called habit management. Instead, to maintain sales – i.e. to keep those addicts using – three main strategies (both based on false ideas) have been developed:

i) Dual diagnosis, is based on the psychiatric false idea that drug addiction is a form of mental illness which, because of its innately neurotic, psychotic, paranoid or ‘inherited’ nature cannot be cured.

Illogically they say, the addiction must therefore be “managed” with psychiatrically prescribed drugs.

This keeps Psychiatry in the driving seat in respect not only of treatment, but also in regard to policy. After all, who other than a psychiatrist does a politician or Civil Servant misguidedly feel he needs most to consult on the subject of ‘mental illness’? And so: who quietly dictates government drugs policy?

ii) “Cannot be cured” is of course also the perfect excuse for the psycho-pharm’s continuous long-term increasing failure to handle our drug problems over the last 68 years.

Far from curing any form of addiction, the last decades have seen ever escalating levels of drug usage of all types, and the people responsible for government supported “treatment” over that whole period have been the psycho-pharm fraternity operating via the NHS as well as via both overt and covert lobbying organisations.

Via counselling sessions, assessing, referring, commissioning, ‘advice’ centres, clinics, pharmacies and surgeries, etc., psychiatrists and their pharmaceutical suppliers have been in near exclusive contact with – AND IN CONTROL OF – the addicts and other users, who in fact form the consumer demand side of our drugs marketplace.

To maintain that demand for the ‘treatment’ which creates psycho-pharm income, turnover and profit, decades of statistics show that THE LAST THING which that fraternity does, or wants to do, is to reduce drugs demand by curing the addicts who are the prescription drug users - upon whom they depend for their continuing highly lucrative business.

NOR DO THEY WANT ANYONE ELSE CURING THEM !

Little wonder that Keith Hellawell (whose anti-liberalisation policies were a clear danger to increasing drug use and a brake on rising drug sales) was moved sideways and out,

as soon as he started to emerge as an effective Drug Czar.

iii) Harm Reduction, is a strategy also based on the false idea that drug addiction is incurable. Therefore (politicians are told) the ‘harm’ which drugs do must be ‘reduced’ by various “interventions”. (All of which, coincidentally but unmentioned, can be made to show a profit for the psycho-pharms and associated business interests.)

Originally ‘harm reduction’ was a set of apparently well-meaning ideas intended to “reduce harm” to THE ALREADY ADDICTED DRUG USER - to protect existing addicts from AIDS, HIV, hepatitis and other transmittable diseases in various ways, originally and mainly by providing clean needles to heroin injectors, etc. The concept was then taken up and twisted or spun into a wonderful long-term money-maker by vested interests in the psycho-pharmaceutical field.

“Harm Reduction” was craftily stretched to include existing methadone ‘maintenance therapy’, as the best way to ‘reduce the harm’ to the society in which the addict lives. So, at taxpayer expense, a ‘free’ daily supply of an addictive drug more powerful and harmful than heroin is prescribed – i.e. methadone or in some cases, buprenorphine (Subutex).

This, the politicians were told, is effective “management” of an otherwise ‘incurable’ habit ‘to the benefit of the whole community’, which would no longer be plagued by daily acquisitive crimes committed by addicts to feed their addictive craving. However, the “Big Issue in the North” August 1999 survey and report proved this to be downright false, as a huge majority (80%) of prescribed methadone users continue with other drugs on a daily or weekly basis, and thus also continue with a life of acquisitive and other crime to pay for their supplies.

To turn our youth into drug consumers

other facets of modern ‘Harm Reduction’ propaganda are now being used to get real and positive

PREVENTION and AVOIDANCE of drug use out of the way,

whilst having the effect of actively

PROMOTING INCREASING DRUG USE.

Promoted as “drugs education”, Harm Reduction concepts such as ‘safe use’ (of drugs), ‘informed choice’ (of drugs) and ‘responsible use (of drugs)’ combine to produce a child who will say to his or her parents: "Don't worry Mum, I know all about drugs”, and, because of that dangerous ‘little knowledge’ feels safely inclined TO USE THEM.

On the other hand, a child effectively schooled in real PREVENTION and AVOIDANCE will say to parents: “Don’t worry Dad, I don’t use drugs and I never will”.

But who would want prevention to fail? Obviously those who wish to sell more and more drugs to more and more users at higher and higher profits – because you can’t regularly sell drugs to a person who is not a user or an addict. And it makes no difference whether a drug is legal or illegal. Such designations are a whim of political policy and vary from country to country and from time to tie.

The main characteristic of a drug - legal or illegal - is that the consumer / addict can only say “YES” to his or her supplier. Addicts have no choice in this. Their insatiable, habitual and irresistible craving for the substance IS the decision-maker, as a result of which an addict is a goose which compulsively lays golden eggs – for his or her drug supplier – whether that supplier is illicit or legal, whether that supplier is a crook or a pharmaceutical company !

Which of course is why one finds psycho-pharm motivation behind virtually every overt and covert, and behind practically every direct and indirect, support or promotion of drug liberalisation and legalisation. Legalisation under psycho-pharm control of course, as they are the self-proclaimed ‘experts’ and ‘authorities’ in the drugs field.

Every time another youngster takes up illegal heroin, there is quiet psycho-pharmaceutical applause, because statistics show that in probably less than three years or so, that individual will be another customer for methadone, buprenorphine, disulfiram, naltrexone or Suboxone, etc., - ALL PAID FOR BY THE TAXPAYER.

PRESCRIPTION MARKETING METHODS CONTINUED.

SIX:

       CREATE NEW USES AND NEW REASONS FOR DRUG USAGE

i) Psychiatric purveyors of so-called ethical pharmaceutical drugs have been, and are increasingly, pushing bigger volumes of dangerous drugs into our schools than even the drug barons. 

 

Prozac (fluoxetine), and particularly Ritalin, are daily prescribed to 1,000s and 1,000s of our young and youngest British schoolchildren, and even though such dosages are now known – amongst other side effects – to sooner or later form a basis for addiction to other drugs (both illicit and legal) psychiatrists continue to use the spurious and unresearched and totally unproven “ailments” in the discredited American “Diagnostic & Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders” to label more and more U.K. schoolchildren with a false mental health problem, and thus create more and more “clients” for themselves and more and more turnover for their pharmaceutical drug suppliers.

Infant, Junior and Senior school prescribing of drugs to children (labelled by psychiatry with non-existent mental conditions when their real problems are allergies and / or other undiagnosed physical medical conditions or even just youthful high spirits or too much sugar, etc.) is proving another huge money-spinner for those vested interests.

Why? Because here also the drugs are paid for by government from taxpayer funds – another example of the ruthless marketing of pharmaceutical drugs by Psychiatry – not to the user, but to the government and Civil Service to provide an opportunity for prescribing to

create new individual drug users.

ii) Similarly, government employed and other psychiatrists prescribe for offenders on Drug Testing and Treatment Orders addictive and debilitating drugs such as methadone, which provably have no beneficial effect on the individual’s life and well-being, and in fact ultimately lead to physical and mental debility and lifelong addiction - more often than not accompanied by a (shortened) life of acquisitive crime and more or less total dependency on the State.

iii) The same situation applies to prisoners in a misguided attempt to subdue them, again thus basically ensuring they will become pharmaceutical (and / or criminal) drug users for life – inside and outside prison – and dependent on the State and its taxpayers for medical and housing support as well as for ‘free’ pharmaceutical drug supplies.

iv) The psycho-pharm fraternity regularly releases “new” drugs for “addiction control” when, as is inevitably the case, an existing ‘habit management‘ drug is finally found out to be ineffective as a cure and is recognised as clearly exacerbating the drug problem rather than reducing it.

Morphine was prescribed to manage Opium addiction. Then Heroin was prescribed to handle Morphine habituation, followed by Methadone and Buprenorphine to manage Heroin addiction, and most recently followed by Naltrexone to handle Heroin, Methadone and Buprenorphine addictions.

A RECENT AND CURRENT EXAMPLE OF HOW NEW USES FOR

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE INVENTED.

Whilst the above is a general statement of what is happening, over the last few years we have had a very specific example of the lengths to which international psychiatry plus a gigantic U.S. multi-national pharmaceutical company will go to take increasing control of our community health and education systems. Solely in order to be able to mass market more prescription drugs to our government and Civil Service for payment out of U.K. taxpayer contributed funds.

In the first half of 2005, under the banner “WITHOUT BOUNDARIES”, the World Federation for Mental Health - sponsored and supported by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Ely Lilly - set in motion an international plan to promote the wider diagnosis of the invented illness ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and other bogus, scientifically unresearched and totally unproven “ailments” listed in the discredited U.S. psychiatric “Diagnostic & Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders”.

This ‘manual’ – which is nothing more than a list of SYMPTOMS – not scientifically researched or proven but given psychiatric names merely by show of hands – is increasingly used to label more and more of our schoolchildren with false mental health conditions, and thus create more and more “patients / customers” for psychiatrists and other physicians, and more and more turnover for their pharmaceutical drug suppliers.

This U.S. psychiatric ‘manual’ purporting to catalogue human mental illnesses, already lists over 365 mental disorders – which the American Psychiatric Association falsely claims increases in number each year !

But what normal person has ever heard of or considered the following to be ‘mental’ problems? ‘Reading disorder’, ‘disruptive behaviour disorder’, ‘disorder of written expression’, ‘mathematics disorder’, ‘non-compliance with treatment disorder’ ?

BUT SYMPTOMS ARE NOT ILLNESSES.

NOR ARE THEY DISEASES OR CAUSES OF ANYTHING.

If water is coming through your living room ceiling, it might be the bath is overflowing, it might be a pipe is leaking, it might be that the ball-cock in the toilet is stuck, it might be a central heating radiator is leaking, it might be that the roof is leaking or it might be one of a number of other causes - but the SYMPTOM of ‘water coming down through the ceiling’ doesn’t tell us which.- because it can’t.

Whilst dad or mum might quickly try to handle the symptom of the problem by putting a bowl or bucket under the point where the water is coming down, the real cure action is to rush upstairs, find the cause and then handle that. Turning off the taps, draining the water cylinder, finding the leaking pipe, freeing the ball-cock, turning off the central heating, turning off the main water supply or getting a patch on the roof are all curative actions which can eventually and conclusively handle the

symptom.

But not if you are a psychiatrist. Many don't want a cure, because a cure is a lost client. Symptoms are your livelihood, and your continuing treatment (and income) depend on “managing” the symptoms of problems – because psychiatry doesn’t know any cures. So psychiatrists forget about the real cause upstairs. Instead, they carefully organise a chain of family members and friends with buckets to “manage” the water coming down from the ceiling and then cart it out to the road for disposal.

This can then keep you and them fully employed for as long as they wish.

Similarly, a child put on prescription drugs helps employ a psychiatrist for life! So the following is how they handle ADHD.

They first observe the behaviour of groups of young people. They note that some are more active, restless, or high-spirited than others and that their additional motion can be distractive for those who are less active. (They ignore the fact that some of the quickest and brightest students are amongst the ‘active’ group, and that they are bored by the slow pace of the lessons and want more faster action.)

They also carefully avoid testing for dietary problems caused by excess sugar, over-refined foods, too much fat, preservative chemicals, added colourings and flavour enhancers, etc., and they totally ignore any possibilities that some of the youngsters in the ‘active’ group might suffer from one or more of a range of food allergies or even allergies to cleaning materials, chemicals used in their lab work, etc., or cats, dogs and hay-fever, etc., etc., OR dietary deficiencies or excesses.

 

Instead they label the more active ones as ‘hyperactive’ and promote the idea that such hyperactivity is a ‘disorder’ and that they can’t concentrate because they have a shortage or ‘deficit’ of ‘attention’.

This then gives an excuse to say that their ‘hyperactivity’ must be curbed (for the benefit of others - NOT their own benefit)and this provides an opportunity to prescribe doses of a nice ‘ethical’

(and profitable) pharmaceutical drug on a daily basis for the rest of their school days and quite probably for the rest of their life, as most of the prescribed drugs are provenly habit forming or fully addictive.

Because it is not even a realistic lie, ADHD was not catching on as fast as the psycho-pharmaceutical industries had hoped, and so sales of the drugs which they pretend ‘manage it’ were not expanding as quickly as they had forecast.

As a result, Lilly even had the WFMH to cheekily ask the media to help in promoting ADHD to government, civil servants, other physicians, teachers, parents and social workers, etc., also implying that long-term treatment of a significant percentage of our youth with prescription drugs is vital to the general health and well-being of our nation ! ?

Psycho-pharms tell us there are no physical tests for ADHD. Isn’t this fortunate for them, as it means that diagnosis depends entirely on the unproven opinion of the psychiatrist, based on the American Psychiatric Association‘s Diagnostic & Statistical Manual – the world’s most discredited, biased and divisive pseudo-scientific publication.

Any unbiased competent medical diagnostic procedure would involve a whole battery of tests intent upon detecting or eliminating the whole range of possible causes of the observed symptom(s).

Are there dietary problems caused by excess sugar? By over-refined foods? By too much fat? By preservative chemicals, added colourings and flavour enhancers, etc?

Do any of the ‘active’ youngsters suffer from one or more of a whole range of food allergies? Is the youngster an addict – not just on drugs, alcohol or solvents – but on coffee & caffeine drinks, chocolate, cigarettes, sugar and fast foods, etc? Does he / she have allergies to cleaning materials, or to chemicals in their lab work? Or to chalk dust? Or to cats, dogs or new mown grass, etc?

There is a huge range of testable causal factors which can produce those same symptoms, which most psychiatrists single-mindedly, short-sightedly and resolutely designate as ADHD, usually without first making any of the above scientific tests to eliminate or detect other likely causes. This is pre-conceived ideas. This is deliberate bias. This is suppressive authoritarianism. This is intent to deliver profitable psycho-pharm products and services at any human cost !

The truth is that, because ADHD is an invented disease based on SYMPTOM INTERPRETATION and on no other evidence, thorough diagnosis such as that indicated above will normally reveal the true cause. And this is why large numbers of psychiatrists do not bother to do such tests, as they are looking for long-term prescription business and don’t want to lose any by finding real causes.

So, we have the joint Eli Lilly & World Federation for Mental Health promotion (under the title of “Without Boundaries” and in other guises), appealing to doctors, parents and teachers to make sure that they are not missing out on diagnosing the psych’s pet ADHD “disease”, and practically begging the media to spread the word about this hidden and undetectable (except to psychiatry) “hereditary” illness which they falsely claim can only be treated with pharmaceutical drugs and which should

be ‘diagnosed’ at the earliest possible date.

Why? Because a child starting on prescription drugs at 6 years is going to be a user of that and other profitable drugs for 20 years longer than someone starting at 26 years. And they offer so-called ‘guidance’ in “recognising” the symptoms of ADHD. But of course this is to indoctrinate parents, teachers and doctors into the psych’s own ‘tunnel-vision’ attitude which ignores the 100s of other possibilities for their child’s symptoms.

A May 2005 symposium in the Palace of Westminster – the seat of the U.K. Parliament – launched “The Coalition to Prevent the Psychiatric Labelling and Drugging of Children”.

MPs, Lords and Ladies, a Barrister, two well known successful and experienced champions of Dietary Healing, a Psychiatric Doctor, parents of children damaged by false psychiatric diagnoses and an audience of over one hundred other interested parties all joined in condemning ADHD and those psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies who promote it for their profit and business expansion.

One thing which became clear, is that the Lilly / WFMH promotion of ADHD has been brought (by them) out into the open because their earlier covert promotion was not expanding their sales as quickly as they had hoped. Increasing direct public experience of ADHD diagnosis and the effects of so-called ‘treatment’ having begun to work against them.

The truth about ADHD is beginning to emerge and so the psycho-pharm’s “Without Boundaries” promotion was mounted to try and counter the real truth by describing that truth as “myths” and pretending there exists some form of conspiracy against psychiatric and pharmaceutical treatments.

But the only ‘conspiracy’ against them is the natural inevitability – over time - of truth emerging - no matter how many lies are promoted and how much money and force are put into sustaining those lies.

The tentacles of the psycho-pharms are deeply embedded in our government areas, in health, education and even in our legal system. As a result, such high-powered promotion of ADHD will ensure that it takes a long time for it to succumb to the light of truth and so disappear.

However, whilst the muted desperation of the psycho-pharms’ “Without Boundaries” promotion may indicate that they are beginning to feel the necessity for some sort of defensive or rear-guard action, this is no reason for slackening off on the exposure and eradication of ADHD and other false psychiatric illnesses. Because ADHD is not the only one.

PRESCRIPTION MARKETING METHODS CONTINUED.

SEVEN:

             SEEK TO ELIMINATE BY CRITICISM, RIDICULE, FALSE

             REPORTS, MARGINALISING, SIDE-LINING, LIES AND BLACK

             PROPAGANDA ALL ADDICTION CURE PROCEDURES WHICH

             DO NOT USE PRESCRIBED PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS.

In the cut & thrust of multinational commercial politics, P.R., promotion, advertising, marketing and merchandising, etc., are not considered by psycho-pharm policy-makers as being enough to ensure success.

Psychiatrists and drug companies have clearly decided that they must also be prepared to stop others from being successful and particularly those other organisations, products, programmes, systems and services which are capable of exposing drug producer’s own short-comings, doubtful claims and downright lies.

One of the most revealing insights into the “courtship” of the “psychs” and the “big pharmas” is to be found in the history of failing “street drug treatments” in this country.

The three factors most likely to reverse our constantly worsening drugs scene are:

1) Truly Effective Prevention, (i.e. NOT so-called Harm Reduction),

2) The Training of Addicts to Rehabilitate Themselves (because we now

    know that ONLY the addict can fully cure him or her self) and,

3) Culture Change.

Controlled as we are by powerful and entrenched vested interests ‘Culture Change’ is vital to our ability to progress Effective Prevention and the Training of addicts in proven effective self-help cure techniques.

This is because it is the status-quo psycho-pharm hold on our culture’s official policies - governing Prevention and Cure activities - which maintains the present escalating usage of drugs of all types whilst deliberately keeping out other more effective solutions.

THE MAIN INITIAL CHANGE NEEDED IS

IN OUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS ADDICTS:

Psychiatrists tell us that addicts have so-called “addictive personalities” - yet another invented mental health condition. They tell us that addicts “abuse” alcohol and that they “misuse” drugs – all in order to divert attention away from the indisputable fact that it is just a few usages of an addictive substance which CREATES addiction.

The truth is that, in the hope of solving a persistent personal, physical, emotional or relationship problem, an individual is talked into “trying” an addictive substance as a solution to that problem.

The persuasive arguments or advice presented are far too often totally misleading, serving the ends of the pusher and, even when professionally delivered, no more than a fingers-crossed speculation based on psycho-pharmaceutical marketing and sales hype.

An addict is therefore actually the VICTIM of the addiction PLUS the VICTIM of the misleading statements made to persuade him or her to take drugs as a solution to his or her problem.

In the knowledge that an addict is a victim, the next obvious step is to provide State support to help them achieve a lifetime cure.

BUT NO. This is where the psycho-pharms again step in and insist that addiction is incurable. 1) because they can't cure it, and 2) because they don't want anyone else to take away their daily, year after year “habit management customers” by curing their addiction.

But, 70 to 75% of addicts of all types can be cured on a three month residential addiction recovery training programme.

And a cured addict is no longer a burden on the economy or a blight on society. The cost of a former addict's recovery programme is recovered in less than one year out of the savings in taxpayer funded drug supplies and other medical and police minding of addicts in “habit management”.

But not if government policy is to believe that “drug treatment” is good, that “addiction cannot be cured” and that Ministers should never listen to anyone who claims to be able to train addicts in how to cure themselves.

THESE POLICIES MUST THEREFORE URGENTLY BE CHANGED.

It was mainly submissions made by the ACMD, DrugScope, the N.T.A., the N.A.C, the so-called Police ‘Foundation’ (not to be confused with the highly principled and representative Police Federation), the UK Harm Reduction Association and their fellow liberalisers and legalisers which led to the earlier downgrading of cannabis – a move which was seen as sufficiently damaging to merit a government U-turn.

One UK MEP is reported as saying that whether he is in Brussels, Strasbourg, London or any other major E.U. city, he knows he can rely on three meals a day seven days a week all paid for by one pharmaceutical company, P.R. agency or another. He also said that constant psycho-pharm ‘networked criticism’ within the WHO, the NGOs and the E.U. is directed against any individual or organisation it appears might upset their status-quo hold on government drugs policy and addiction treatment, or on the escalating psycho-pharm prescribing of

drugs to our children.

Although there already exist in some 49 countries, over 100, 50 year established, provably and undoubtedly effective, centres and / or systems for training drug addicts to take themselves into comfortable abstinence for life - psycho-pharm P.R. agents, lobbyists and speakers continue to deceitfully insist that drug addiction cannot be cured or alleviated and must therefore be “managed” (by the daily usage of pharmaceutical drugs of course).

These ALREADY EXISTING effective handlings of addicts are unfairly ridiculed by dishonestly describing them, amongst other things, as searchers for the elusive and impossible “Magic Bullet”.

Dubbed by psychs as an obviously impractical and impossible one-stop cure which, the psycho-pharms cheekily claim, they themselves would have discovered by now if such a magic bullet existed.

Often with backing from organisations like the National Treatment Agency, the NHS, the ACMD and the DfES, major conferences, seminars and presentations directly or indirectly sponsored or supported by psychiatric and / or pharmaceutical organisations will regularly grant platform time to their own failed and failing viewpoints whilst excluding speakers liable to present an opposite or more effective “You Can Learn To Cure Addiction” programme or view.

At the same time, the featured platform speakers will indirectly attack opposing viewpoints which are not present and so not on the platform.

In fact, many such biased platform speakers often reserve their most aggressive attacks for later private conversations with U.K. opinion leaders and decision-makers when hidden away from the attention and possible denunciation which public platform statements might attract.

And attacks on other addiction control and cure methods only occasionally appear on TV or radio. This is because the real psycho-pharm attack is devoted to making sure that such other methods are NEITHER SEEN NOR EVEN HEARD OF on radio or T.V.

THIS IS DONE BY KEEPING COMPETITIVE SPEAKERS AND VIEWPOINTS OFF RADIO & TV, IN THE SAME WAY THAT SUCH SPEAKERS ARE KEPT OFF THE CONFERENCE PLATFORMS. 

Nevertheless, some TV companies have regularly been encouraged to attack effective addiction recovery programmes. Yes. Even our much revered BBC has been regularly manipulated by psycho-pharm propaganda, and still continues to be conned.

Because psycho-pharm activities make huge money and because the protests of concerned citizens are funded from their own pockets, the overwhelmingly MAJOR DIFFERENCE - by far - between the publicity machines and methods of the psycho-pharms and the honest endeavours of other addiction-control, prevention, avoidance and cure methods: IS SPENDING POWER.

This means that the psycho-pharms can make louder, longer noises from more directions than their smaller competitors, and is why one of the psycho-pharms’ tactics is to get their competitors to waste their meagre resources denying psycho-pharm lies.

Unfortunately, whilst repeating a lie does not make it true, it too often does influence Politicians, Officials, the Press and the Public.

PRESCRIPTION MARKETING METHODS CONTINUED.

EIGHT:

          BY ANY AND ALL MEANS POSSIBLE CONTROL AND DIRECT

           ALL TRADE, POLITICAL & PUBLIC MEDIA INTO PUBLISHING

           ONLY POSITIVE STATEMENTS ABOUT PHARMACEUTICAL

           PRODUCTS AND INTO THE AVOIDANCE OF ANY MENTION AT

           ALL OR OF ONLY NEGATIVE STATEMENTS ABOUT NON-

           PHARMACEUTICAL ADDICTION CURES.

In a May 17^th edition of THE TIMES, under the heading of “Editor says drug firms ‘use’ medical journals”, Nigel Hawkes reported as follows:

“MEDICAL journals act as a marketing device for drug companies, who profit hugely by it”, a long term editor of the British Medical Journal has charged.

Richard Smith who left the BMJ last year to join the U.S. health care company United Health Europe as CEO, and who now serves on the board of PLOS Medicine, an online journal, says that the studies funded by drug companies are carefully planned to produce positive results.

This can be done, he argues, by asking the right questions, using multiple endpoints (outcome measures) and selecting the ones that show the product in the best light, and by publishing trials again and again, in different journals, by different sub-group analysts, and in different geographic regions, to give the impression of a huge weight of evidence.

The trials are well conducted, he acknowledges, but adds “studies funded by a company were four times more likely to have results favourable to the company than studies funded from other sources.”

The companies will often order huge numbers of reprints, worth possibly more than £500,000 to the journal publisher, for distribution to doctors.”

This article is typical of others revealing the hidden pressures and the inducements regularly proffered to, editors and publishers by pharmaceutical P.R. and promotional departments and agencies.

But “media” in the fields of psychiatry, pharmaceuticals, politics and medicine is of course not restricted just to professional publications.

“Media” is any piece of paper, leaflet, agenda, newspaper, radio or TV programme, set of minutes, invitation, conference, seminar, audio tape, video tape, CD, DVD or blog or you-tube item, etc., which can influence a policy-maker, a physician, an MP, a local Councillor, a civil servant, a medical advisor, a Minister, an education authority, a parent teacher association, a grant making charity, a military commander, a prison or probation officer and / or any national or local government employee.

Psycho-pharm influenced media includes large beautifully constructed web-sites covering myriad subjects. Some sites are overtly promotional, but many others are so-called “independent” observers and attackers of non-pharma competitive prevention, addiction control and cure methods.

Psycho-pharm front-group lobbyists large and small, obvious and obscure, use their own weasel words as expertly as Hitler’s Goebbels manipulated his propaganda – both supportive and destructive – to promote the rise of Nazi Germany and to suppress its competitors.

These include the former SCODA & ISDD – DrugScope - DrugLink, the Federation of Drug and Alcohol Professionals, the ACMD, the Drug Education Practitioners Forum, D&D News, Forward Thinking on Drugs, The Alliance, the Roehampton Institute, the National Addiction Centre, the Police Foundation, UKHRA, UKDPC, Transform and the plethora of recent “recovery orientated” new groups, such as “Recovery Partnership”, etc.

Whilst a number of them are knowingly controlled by or working for the psycho-pharms, amongst them there are also other genuinely dedicated people who are unfortunately so naïve as to be unable to recognise that they are being manipulated by expert public relations concepts and operators.

Like the “honest Joe” General Practitioner, who was recently reported in the national press as saying that, whilst he had for years dismissed gifts and invitations from pharmaceutical companies as of no influence on him or other doctors, he was a short time ago suddenly appalled to recognise that many of his decisions had in fact been very definitely swayed by those contributions to his life and practice.

He couldn't believe that such overt ‘persuaders’ could influence his professional decisions, until he realised that they worked like the steady drip of water which over time wears away a piece of the hardest stone.

It is “media management” by their P.R. companies, ‘front-groups’, fellow-travellers, hidden allies and paid and unpaid opinion leaders which has convinced politicians that drug addiction is incurable, has ensured that the search for a one-size-fits-all system to end drug addiction should be abandoned, and has convinced government that their funding should be restricted solely to psychiatrically run organisations.

The truth is that the drug-use cure arena already has several very effective “magic bullets”, but this data is deliberately obscured and withheld from both the government and the general public by pretending that such programmes can never succeed because: “Well, we’re the experts and we all know that drug addiction can’t be cured – so why waste time on these myths?”.

ANOTHER MEDIA EDITOR'S VIEWPOINT:

In their May 2004 issue, the Brussels based magazine - “The Sprout” - published a review of what was either a real or a spoof “confidential” memorandum which purported to have been circulated amongst members of a real or imaginary ‘conspiracy-theory’ alliance of pharmaceutical companies and linked influential psychiatric groups.

What caught the attention of the magazine’s editors and prompted their closer investigation was the pretty unarguable truth of the various plans, policies, strategies and tactics attributed by the unknown author to his (or her) imagined “pharmaceutical industry trade promotion and protection society”, thus prompting the editors to suspect and to try and

seek out a “whistle-blower” of some sort.

The article was titled “The Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs”, the “goose” being your neighbourhood drug addict who – by virtue of his irresistible habit - has no choice but to buy or otherwise obtain his drug needs every day, either from a ‘pusher’ of illicit drugs or from a pharmaceutical source, and it became clear that for some time and still continuing, a war is raging between the illicit drug barons and the pharmaceutical companies for the custom of drug users around the world.

Both these massive opponents make money from initiating and maintaining lifelong addiction to drugs so, apart from the legal difference between these two rivals, the main difference is in the way in which they get their money. In both cases the society pays.

The drug barons callously push their addicted illicit drug customers into

increasing acquisitive crime in order to pay for their daily ‘fix’ or ‘hit’.

But the psycho-pharms are far more crafty.

The legal addict pays nothing for his prescription methadone, buprenorphine, disulfiram or naltrexone, etc., as the psycho-pharms have cleverly and just as dispassionately arranged for the government to pay them directly for the drugs the pharmaceuticals supply out of funds collected from U.K. taxpayers.

But the psycho-pharmaceutical drug pushers are also another step up on the drug barons.

Anyone starting on illicit amphetamines, ecstasy or cannabis today has an excellent chance of migrating to heroin at a later date.

WHEN THE ADDICT DOES SO,

THE LEGAL PHARMACEUTICAL DRUG SUPPLIER HAS EVEN MORE CAUSE FOR REJOICING THAN THE ILLICIT DRUG BARON HAS WHEN THE ADDICT IS FIRST HOOKED ON HEROIN.

BECAUSE THE PSYCHO-PHARM SUPPLIER NOW PROBABLY HAS THAT ADDICT ON LEGAL METHADONE FOR LIFE !

This is because drug-use market research shows that in less than three years after starting on illicit heroin, a majority of such addicts - in order to get free supplies - will likely enter the so-called “treatment system” to enrol for free daily prescription doses of methadone, buprenorphine (or even medical heroin) – supplied by the psycho-pharms and paid for by the taxpayers.

As a result, whilst psychiatrists in schools are hooking our youth onto prescription drugs, alongside them drug barons are enrolling our youngsters into the illicit drug scene, not realising that, ultimately, they are recruiting future customers for prescription pharmaceutical drugs.

And this arises because legalised drug use by prescription places the control, increasing turnover and profit from addictive drugs firmly in the hands of the psycho-pharm industry.

Little wonder that that industry and its fellow travellers are the greatest supporters both overtly and covertly of liberalisation and legalisation – because that is the easiest and most inexpensive way to expand the world drugs market.

Examples of this in the fields of addiction are smoking and drinking. Look at the escalating tax evasion, theft and other crime in our LEGALISED tobacco market. Look at the growing tax evasion, theft, violence and in-family and community crime in our LICENSED alcohol market.

That above so-called confidential leaked memo was concerned with the psycho-pharmaceutical industry’s approach to drug addiction, treatment systems and expansion of world wide drug use, and shows much of what is happening in the psycho-pharm’s political world and why its

campaigns for liberalisation are a main line to profit.

For those who enjoy good tongue-in-cheek exposés, the writer of this booklet would be happy to supply a copy of that now famous ‘leaked’ ‘confidential’ memo which he received through the post - apparently along with several hundred other addiction workers, MPs and other decision makers in the drugs usage field. (Just ring (01342) 810151 and request a copy.)

That writer also expects that your view of the ‘ethical’ pharmaceutical industry will be as shaken as his was by that document, as well as by the data set out above, and that you will thus be moved closer to the truth, and to decisions and actions of a more sane and effective nature supporting the excellent government Drugs Strategy of December 2010 – which is still extant.

An addiction cure is best defined as “relaxed abstinence for life” and the author holds that no-one can withdraw another individual from drug use. The addict himself is the only person capable of recovering himself. As a result the only truly viable route is to train that individual in a workable methodology which he may then - of his own volition - apply to himself and his condition. On this basis, there are at least 100 international rehabilitation centres (including prison units) which offer users:

1) training in how to comfortably withdraw themselves from drug usage,

    along with

2) education in those modes of rehabilitation and living necessary to aid

    them in their abandonment of drug use,

3) training in how to recover from the residual effects - on their lives and

    on their livelihood - of their earlier addiction, plus

4) training in the avoidance and prevention of future drug use by 

    themselves and others, with the goal of becoming contributing and

    productive members of society.

Such programmes stand completely outside the fields of treatment, care, counselling, habit management, therapy, needle-exchange, substitution prescribing, nursing, medical detoxification and other interventions, etc., and stand solely and only in those fields of training and education which support the drug user’s own abstinence intentions and goals.

This is, adult learning, self-improvement and development with a view to achieving knowledge about, responsibility for and control of themselves and their own lives, plus responsibility and respect for the lives of others in their environment.

THE END RESULT IS A FULLY EMPLOYABLE FORMER ADDICT OR USER:

i)  who since commencing a ‘training for recovery’ programme, has not 

    used his or her original addictive substance(s) for a period of not less

    than 12 months,

ii) who remains fully convinced that he or she will comfortably abstain for

    life,

iii) who has not replaced such earlier usage with another addictive

     substance, (e.g. alcohol or methadone, etc.),

iv) who is now taking responsibility for his / her own life and family,

v) who no longer needs or wants further rehabilitative support, and,

vi) who is now also taking responsibility for, and is contributing to, his or

     her community.

If you want to escape from under the heel of psycho-pharmaceutical manipulation of European Union policies on psychiatric drugs and on recovery from drug addiction, you cannot go wrong supporting a FULL implementation of the still current U.K. Government 2010 Drugs Strategy which psychiatry (instead of implementing) sought to destroy with its so-called PAYMENT by RESULTS “pilots” based solely on psycho-pharm “treatment” modalities – thus carefully avoiding the piloting of effective self-help addiction recovery programmes.

OUR GOVERNMENT’S EXCELLENT 2010 DRUG STRATEGY.

And how psychiatry delayed nearly 4 years to help big pharma

kill off the main features of that brilliant strategy.

PROGRESS REPORT ON “PAYMENT by RESULTS”.

Hailed far and wide as the most brilliant strategy of the last 60 years for the handling of Britain’s huge addiction and health cost problems, the Department of Health, made the mistake of appointing psychiatric Professor John Strang to carry out a 4 year “piloting” of so-called “new” Payment by Results addiction recovery procedures, intended to lead to the production of lasting abstinence to be paid for by Government – but payable only when a participating addict completed 12 months free of additive substance usage – a result which history shows overwhelmingly confirms the attainment of lifelong abstinence.

With spending on MEDICATION by far the NHS’s fastest escalating

expenditure, it was not surprising to find that for 64 years addiction “rehab” had been wastefully based on taxpayer medicating and drugging of addicts whilst “IN TREATMENT”, rather than paying for them “to be cured”, as a result of which the “treatments” supported by the earlier government’s now defunct National Treatment Agency were based on “habit management” by medical drug prescribing rather than by training addicts to resurrect responsibility for their own lives sufficient to recover control of their lives for and by themselves.

After all, life is unavoidably a “do-it-for-yourself” activity, which makes recovery from addiction a self-help procedure, wherein training in personal recovery technology is the underlying and indeed most fundamental rehabilitative requirement.

Most of Strang’s 8 x 4 year “pilots” (which were completed at the end of last year - 2015) were apparently based on various adaptations of the 1935 AA 12 Steps residential system of group supported rehabilitation, combined in most cases with some form of drug medication.

Whilst nearly 5 years after commencement of these “pilots” we still impatiently await the delayed publication of a final report of their success or otherwise, we do have an earlier interim report from Professor Strang which shows the direction in which he was very deliberately headed. In an interim report published by the now defunct DrugScope, he said:

“Our vision for the future is a system:

* In which the valuable role of prescribing continues to be
  recognised,

* That develops and supports staff to adopt recovery
  orientated practice and in which they  are trained to deliver
  psycho-social interventions alongside medical interventions.

* In which there are well defined roles for current and future
  medications.”

STRANG ALSO CONTINUED WITH:

“Our Full Report later this year is expected to cover:

* A summary of the key evidence for medication factors

  important in promoting recovery.

* A conceptual framework of recovery which specifically

  examines how the benefits of medication can be harnessed

  to best effect.

* A description of how to optimise opioid substitution therapy.

  (i.e. mainly methadone and Subutex.).

* The potential for the use of a range of medications in

  treatment and recovery settings.”

NOWHERE did Strang straight-forwardly state that he was intent upon finding a recovery programme (medical OR none medical) WHICH WOULD DELIVER A MAJORITY OF HABITUAL ADDICTIVE SUBSTANCE USERS TO ANY FORM OF LASTING ABSTINENCE.

Instead he confined the pilots’ “treatment” goals SOLELY to those

practices which continued to support and promote the prescribing of medication to addicts – with only lip-service mention of “recovery”, the definition for which multiple paragraphs have been written attempting to re-define it in ways which suit the ongoing failure of psycho-pharm practices to deliver full abstinent recovery as per the requirements of the Government's 2010 Drug Strategy.

Expecting drug producers to know anything about addiction recovery is like naively & illogically expecting those engineers who make the sharpest scalpels to automatically be the best surgeons !

All of which is exacerbated by the fact that the last thing in their profit orientated minds which should ever be wasted by reducing it - is “ADDICTIVE DEMAND”, which they have demonstrated for over a century they can only single-mindedly consider DIVERTING to their OWN PRODUCTS, rather than logically eliminating it altogether for the common good of the U.K. population.

Knowing that bringing existing addicts to lasting abstinence inevitably REDUCES DEMAND for pharmaceutical products, psychiatric prescribing takes advantage of the known hypnotic and addictive nature of a large proportion of such products to promote and maintain a chemically induced habitual demand for their consumption. i.e. they deliberately expose their patients to HYPNOTIC COMMAND and ACTUALLY ADDICT THEM - in direct opposition to the Government's “Demand Reduction” strategy.)

This calculated avoidance on behalf of psycho-pharm vested interests of the main principles of the brilliant 2010 Drug Strategy must no longer be tolerated if an effective addiction recovery policy is to be presented by any party at the 2020 General Election.

Fortunately 100 charitably based centres in 49 countries have been training many 100s of 1,000s of addicts in effective recovery technology since 1966.

And even though viciously and falsely blackballed and denigrated by psycho-pharm lobbying for 50 years, they still expand every year, SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY DO HELP A MAJORITY OF ADDICTS TO ACHIEVE A LASTING RELAXED CURE OF THEIR ADDICTION – the main foundation of the still current excellent 2010 Drug Strategy.

THAT STRATEGY MUST NOT NOW BE ABANDONED JUST BECAUSE PSYCHO-PHARM INTERESTS CANNOT DELIVER IT, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE KNOW THAT ANOTHER FULLY AVAILABLE 50 YEAR PROVEN PROGRAMME CAN DELIVER IT AT FAR LESS COST IN 55 to 70+% OF CASES.

PRESCRIPTION MARKETING METHODS CONTINUED.

NINE:

         BY ALL MEANS POSSIBLE, ENSURE THAT MINISTERS AND

         OTHER POLITICAL DECISION-MAKERS HAVE NO CONTACT

         WHATSOEVER WITH, AND REFUSE COMMUNICATIONS FROM

         ANY ORGANISATIONS AND / OR PROGRAMMES CAPABLE OF

         REGULARLY CURING ADDICTION WITH NO USAGE OF

         PHARMACEUTICAL DRUGS OR SERVICES.

This is an extension of Prescription Marketing Method number SIX above, into the purely political and officials arena, taking fullest possible advantage of old school tie and family connections, drug users and pharmaceutical share-holders, and particularly the psychiatric allies who, when moved out of mental hospitals and asylums under: “Care In The Community” policies, were found civil service jobs in a variety of related positions – particularly decision-making, commissioning and Minister advising on mental health, addiction and drug prescribing.

Every Ministerial Department today has its own “Communication Team” whose job it is to protect their Minister from crack-pots and communication overload, and it is not difficult to recognise that, over time, those Departments with any influence - however minor - on mental health, drug and / or addiction policy, have been thoroughly bombarded with, and had their files stuffed with, psycho-pharm propaganda, and even likely staffed by psycho-pharm sympathetic officials imbued with a lot of the misconceptions, misdirections, bias and lies put about by the psycho-pharms. But can we really blame the officials, because for them, the psycho-pharms appear to be the right people to learn from !

PRESCRIPTION MARKETING METHODS CONTINUED.

TEN:

        MAKE FULL USE OF USEFUL LAW - OR SEEK TO CHANGE IT.

i) To eliminate competition coming from none pharmaceutical anti-drug substances and viable addiction cures, some time ago attempts were commenced by the psycho-pharms to introduce legislation into the E.U. which would outlaw large dose format natural vitamin and mineral supplies. At the same time they attempted to limit vitamin sales to small dose daily supplies based on manufactured vitamins (rather than extracts from natural sources) which, by such new law, they wanted to be retailed only by established high street chemists and other allied or controlled pharmaceutical outlets: clinics, hospitals, etc.

This was thus seen by many observers as an attempt by the big pharma drugs industry to monopolise the food supplement industryin the same way as those same vested interests currently monopolise prescription drug production.

Additionally however, their attack on the large dose format natural vitamin & mineral extract producers hid a far more sinister motive.

As earlier noted, the basis of all psycho-pharm strategies is the continuing strong and broad promotion of the false idea that drug addiction is incurable. Unfortunately for them, there are numerous organisations around the world which do help addicts cure their drug addiction on a regular basis, with comfortable lifelong abstinence

success rates running between 55 and 70+%.

As part of certain worldwide highly successful rather unique self-help rehabilitation training concepts, withdrawal from drug usage utilises natural vitamin and mineral extracts in short-term controlled escalating doses to help the body confront its “cold turkey” deprivation of its previous addictive substance(s) and particularly to flush out the drug residues which can cause flash-backs and a resumption of drug use.

Such residential cure programmes are not only capable of taking drug clients away from the psycho-pharms, but are also capable of exposing costly psycho-pharm interventions for the rackets they truly are.

So the psycho-pharms’ grand plan was to cut off supplies of essential food supplements from those organisations capable of killing off the psycho-pharms’ golden goose - the addict - by curing him, and equally capable of killing off the psycho-pharm profitable stranglehold on government funded drug treatment programmes.

Unfortunately, the much vaunted E.U. fair-trading concepts have not prevailed, and the psycho-pharm “codex alimentus” plans, for a take-over of the food supplement field (and thus the elimination of real cures for addiction) are now psycho-pharm sponsored E.U. law. In addition, it is rather clear that this proposed legislation was only a first shot in what is certain to develop into a long-winded and large scale battle, because, if the psycho-pharms are to stay in their large and lucrative habit management and harm reduction businesses, they MUST maintain the idea that drug addiction is incurable, and to do this they must kill off those organisations which can prove them wrong – and they have already started that form of genocide ! 

 

ii) Whilst the National Treatment Agency was jointly formed by the Drug Czar, the Home Office and the N.H.S. with the intention of searching out, examining and aligning all forms of drug treatment interventions in order to make them more broadly available, it was interesting to note that Home Office and Drug Czar involvement was soon dropped out and that the N.T.A. became “a special health authority, with a remit to increase the availability, capacity and effectiveness of “treatment” for drug misuse in England”.

So addiction “treatment” with addictive drugs quietly became part of the NHS - the government department with the biggest personnel drug misuse problems in the U.K.

Furthermore, although full and effective addiction cure procedures exist here and to a greater degree abroad, it was impossible to find more than passing mention of non-pharmaceutical treatment interventions by the N.T.A. and in fact its ‘Models of Care’ “for treatment of so-called adult drug mis-users” emerged merely as a possibly better organised way of justifying and maintaining the status quo of the failing psycho-pharm “treatment” modalities with which the U.K. has been saddled for the last several decades.

Not surprising when one checks the membership of the Models of Care ‘development team’, which was comprised mainly of former DrugScope personnel, psychiatrists and pharmaceutical members.

Because DrugScope was for years seen by many drug scene observers as a front for the psycho-pharm industry, it was disconcerting to find two members of that lobbying organisation helping to run the N.T.A. In fact one of them was not only the Head of the N.T.A’s Personnel Department during the time when senior management appointments were made and the Models of Care development team members recruited, but she also took the Chair for that team.

She is also said to have been responsible for the appointment as a senior Director of the N.T.A. of the now discredited covert legaliser and drug user Mike Trace, and it is therefore not surprising that the N.T.A. was increasingly seen as a product of psycho-pharm covert lobbying – especially as members of DrugScope and of the ACMD were so closely involved in its formation.

It is also interesting that this fully government and funded said-to-be

‘independent’ body - in the forefront of national 'drug misuse' treatment - should also have held to the false idea that drug addiction is basically incurable. Hardly a confirmation of the open-minded approach they were said to be bringing to ‘the drug problem’ when the N.T.A. was in process of being formed, and good reason for its closure - or likely more accurately – its change of name to Public Health England.

Furthermore, their stand on legalisation of drugs was strangely reminiscent of psycho-pharm propaganda and their repeated support of “The (methadone) Alliance” (i.e. legalisation of opiates by prescription, plus agitation for increased dosages) continued without any support whatsoever for non-pharmaceutical treatment or training modalities.

iii) Unprincipled psychiatric physicians are today now signing prescriptions for patients they have never seen or previously heard of. The requirement for an authorised signature on a prescription is intended as a safeguard, but pharma prescription drug suppliers have gone out of their way to line up physicians who are prepared (for a fee) to lend a spurious legality to the drug producer’s basically illicit business of selling a variety of prescription drugs to individuals who want them – because they have become addicted.

Some of these sales are done over the local pharmacist’s counter, but the vast still escalating majority are done over the Internet.

In other words psycho-pharms are now by-passing every U.K. government drug prescription regulation in order to expand their sales into areas they pretend to be protecting with that prescription system. To whom are they selling? They don’t know! Because the anonymity of the Internet means that anyone with access to a credit card number now also has access to a whole range of dangerous prescription only drugs – dangerous, because that is why they are ‘prescription only’.

This useful, new and profitable marketing arm is perhaps within the letter of the law, but it entirely avoids its spirit.

 

POSTSCRIPT:

ON A SUBJECT DEAR TO JIM DOBBIN AND OTHER RIGHT THINKING POLITICIANS.

THE MOST VALUABLE BUSINESS RESOURCE ON EARTH IS A CONSUMER WHO IS TOTALLY INCAPABLE OF GOING WITHOUT A GIVEN MANUFACTURER'S PRODUCT ON A DAILY BASIS.

In a majority of businesses around the world, more of the annual expenditure budget is spent on DEMAND DEVELOPMENT and MAINTENANCE OF DEMAND than on most other operating costs.

Board directors dream of an easy life made possible by unlimited demand for their product or service, and if their product creates dependency or is addictive, that dream is daily chemically driven towards reality in terms of turnover, profit, dividends and bonuses.

When in December 2010 the senior Minister of State in the U.K. Cabinet Office established the first strand of its Drug Strategy as “Reducing Demand”, he and his colleagues knew well what they were doing.

They knew that it is demand which develops supply, aborts recovery and perpetuates a drug controlled life – all factors directly in opposition to that strategy. They knew that addictive demand deprives a user of wellbeing, employability and freedom, generates criminal acts and dependency, and most importantly, can create lifelong drug customers and continuous profitability.

They knew that non-users DO NOT demand drugs and that demand reduction is achieved solely and only by bringing existing addicts to lifelong relaxed abstinence.

In fact the only mistake the Government made was to be persuaded to delegate that “reduction of demand” to the Department of Health, which in turn entrusted it to a leading pharma allied psychiatrist. A fraternity for whom DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF DEMAND IS THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THEIR VERY EXISTENCE.

As a result there was never ever the faintest chance that the psycho-pharms would even attempt to reduce demand, and the events of the previous century, plus especially those of the nearly 6 years since the start of the 2010 Drug Strategy, totally confirm that.

It is therefore worth asking you to read again psychiatric Professor John Strang’s tongue-in-cheek interim report above, and his boldly deliberate AGAINST GOVERNMENT STRATEGY INTENTIONS.

NOWHERE does Strang state that he was ever intent upon finding RECOVERY programmes (medical AND / OR non-medical) which will deliver a majority of habitual addictive substance users to any form of lasting abstinence from ALL drugs.

Instead Strang confines his treatment goals ONLY to those practices which support and promote the prescribing of medication to addicts !

So who was (and is) Strang & his Department of Health supported NHS working for when piloting “Payment by Results” ???

Obviously NOT for the Government, NOR for the implementation of the Government's brilliant 2010 Drug Strategy. All of which is exacerbated by the fact that the last thing in psycho-pharm profit orientated minds which should ever be wasted by reducing it - is “addictive demand”, which they have demonstrated for over a century they can only single-mindedly consider DIVERTING to their own pharmaceutical products, rather than trying to eliminate it.

Knowing that bringing existing addicts to lasting abstinence also inevitably REDUCES DEMAND for PHARMA products, psychiatric prescribing takes advantage of the hypnotic & addictive nature of a large proportion of such products to promote and maintain a chemically induced habitual demand from their consumers. i.e. THEY EXPOSE THEIR PATIENTS TO HYPNOTIC COMMAND AND ACTUALLY ADDICT THEM - in direct opposition to the Government's “Reducing Demand” strategy.

It is clear that Jim Dobbin regarded Psychiatric Professor John Strang in many ways as his bête noire.

Whilst Jim was intent upon reducing and eliminating involuntary addiction to prescription drugs, Strang, on behalf of his pharmaceutical paymasters was doing his best to pump more and more addictive prescription drugs into the society.

As the above report from DrugScope on Strang's “pilots” plus comments from Jim Dobbin clearly revealed.

According to the Government’s National Audit Officeand Professor Neil McKeganey, Director of the Centre for Drug Misuse Research,

on average it costs more than £47,000 a year to maintain and support each prescription methadone user, of which there are at least 180,000 in the U.K.

That’s £8.460 BILLION per year, and their average lifespan is 40 years,

so that’s £338.4 BILLION all to be paid by UK taxpayers.

And that’s just methadone.

Add to this the six million DAILY doses of benzodiazepines, and thousands of doses of Ritalin and Prozac, etc., fed to so-called ADHD school pupils, and you can double and nearly triple the above harmfully addictive prescription costs.

Our ring-fenced NHS spending is spread across ambulances, premises, equipment, furniture, fittings, A&E Services, staff and doctor’s wages, recruitment and training, commissioning of services and

DRUG AND MEDICATION SUPPLIES, etc., etc.

But, because more and more patients are being “managed” with drugs, and fewer of them are thus being cured, patient numbers are continuously rising.

SO . . . . spending on addictive medication is wastefully rising every year, whilst all the other areas thus have less and less and less budget on which to operate !

ARE ALL BRITISH POLITICIANS NAÏVE ENOUGH TO THINK THIS IS AN UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT ?

THE SALVATION OF THE NHS AND ALL POLITICAL PARTIES IS NOT MORE SPENDING.

IT LIES IN THE REDUCTION OF CURRENT COSTS, BY CUTTING BACK ON THE PRESENT ABORTIVE, UNNECESSARY AND HARMFUL SPENDING

ON DRUGS & ADDICTIVE MEDICATION,

A MAJOR PART OF WHICH ARE DANGEROUS, ADDICTIVE AND DIRECTED NOT AT CURING, BUT AT MAINTAINING FUTURE DEMAND FOR THEIR DAILY PROFITABLE CONSUMPTION !

! BREAKING NEWS !

THE EASIEST PLACE TO GET DRUGS

IS FROM YOUR LOCAL PSYCHIATRIST !

BUT YOU DON’T NEED TO HAVE A MENTAL DISORDER, ‘COS

PSYCHIATRISTS ARE MENTAL ENOUGH TO GIVE DRUGS TO

ANYBODY FOR NEARLY ANY REASON.

(IN FACT, THEY'LL EVEN DREAM UP A NICE REASON FOR YOU

TO RECEIVE A PRESCRIPTION.)

THEY’LL REASSURE YOU THAT THEIR DRUGS ARE “FREE”,

BUT THE TRUTH IS THAT WE ALL PAY FOR THEM

OUT OF OUR FAMILY’S TAXES.

THEN, WHEN YOU’RE HOOKED, THE PSYCHIATRISTS AND ESPECIALLY THEIR PHARMACEUTICAL RUNNING MATES

CAN MAKE A PROFIT OUT OF YOU . . . . FOR LIFE !

ITS CALLED INVOLUNTARY ADDICTION.

IT DEMONSTRATES THAT ADDICTS ARE NOT “MIS-USERS” OR “ABUSERS”, BUT ARE VICTIMS OF LIES, MISINFORMATION, MARKETING HYPE AND PROFESSIONAL SALES PATTER

CALLED “ADVICE”.

AND ADDICTION IS VERY QUICK AND EASY TO BE

CONNED INTO STARTING,

BUT DIFFICULT TO ESCAPE FROM.

(BUT ONLY OF COURSE IF YOU LET THE MERCHANTS OF CHAOS

TALK YOU INTO IT !)

SO REMEMBER:

YOU CAN NEVER EVER BECOME ADDICTED TO A DRUG

WHICH YOU NEVER TRY, EXPERIMENT WITH, TAKE OR USE !

BECAUSE IT IS USING DRUGS THAT CAUSES ADDICTION.

Which is why “Say “NO” to Drugs of Every Sort”,

is by far the best life saving advice in the world.

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