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"Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical
Education set a maximum workweek of 80 hours for residents, with a maximum
shift of 30 hours."
Richard A. Friedman
"There is wide use of drugs to
medicate boys, especially, against their natural tendency toward action,
the better to "keep things on track."
I taught briefly in
a public high school and would
have loved to have set up a
Ritalin® fogger in my classroom.
It is a rare person, male or
female, who is naturally inclined
to sit still for 17 years in school, and then indefinitely at work." -
Matthew B. Crawford 1887
Amphetamine (alpha-methylphenethylamine) is
synthesized in Germany by Romanian chemist Lazar Edeleanu who names it
phenylisopropylamine.
1893 Methamphetamine is synthesized by chemist Nagayoshi
Nagai.
The molecular structure of this pioneering material is similar to
adrenalin, and so it passes easily through the blood and into the brain.
Unlike adrenalin, however, methamphetamine does not cause sudden rises
in blood pressure but works more gently and lasts longer.
The effect
occurs as the drug slowly tickles out
dopamine and
noradrenaline from the nerve
cells of the brain and pours them into synaptic gaps.
This puts the
brain cells in excited chain reactive communication.
As the neuronal
firework explode a biochemical machine gun starts firing uninterrupted
sequences of cyclic repetitious action thoughts.
The consumer feels
wide awake and experiences an increase in energy.
One feels livelier,
energized to the tips of one's hair and fingers.
Self-confidence rises,
there is a subjectively perceived acceleration of thought processes, a sense of
euphoria, and a feeling of lightness and freshness.
Neurologically a
state of emergency is experienced, a shock of terror, a time when an organism
mobilizes all its forces - even though there is no danger.
And this is
the reason that "speed does indeed kill."
1933 Smith, Kline and
French began selling Benzedrine®.
Benzedrine
sulfate is introduced and used to treat a wide variety of medical conditions,
including narcolepsy, obesity, low blood pressure, low libido,
chronic pain and as an over-the-counter inhaler to treat asthma.
When
Benzedrine® became a controlled substance, it is replaced by
propylhexedrine, also known as hexahydromethamphetamine.
Amphetamines
are "power drugs" that reduce fatigue, heighten aggression, and diminish human
warmth and empathy.
Amphetamines, used chronically, induce stereotyped
thought and behavior.
Long-term use of amphetamines often exacerbates
depression.
Extended binges on methamphetamine leads to
hallucinations and
paranoia.
Hallucinations and paranoia lead to methamphetamine induced
psychosis.
Methamphetamine induced psychosis is caused by effects on at
least three areas of the brain: the
visual cortex, the
auditory cortex, and the amygdala.
A large
part of this induced psychosis is the by
product of fatigue, a shutting down of the higher
thought
processes and lack of dreaming to reset neurons.
Frontal lobes are
often damaged by addiction to methamphetamine.
1941 Massive amounts of methamphetamines are produced by both
the Allies and Axis powers.
John F. Kennedy and Adolf Hitler both
receive daily injections of methamphetamine.
Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht
distributed methamphetamine tablets to German fighting troops throughout World
War II as did the US Army Air Forces.
The Japanese used methamphetamine
to help the teen age suicide
bombers (kamikaze) to complete their airplane flights to their intended
American warship targets.
After World War II there were huge stockpiles
of methamphetamines left in many countries, especially in Japan and throughout
northern Europe.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, a huge surge in
methamphetamine abuse was noted in Scandinavia and Japan following the dumping
of these methamphetamine stocks onto the civilian market.
"I have seen desperate
Heroin™ addicts, unable to find a workable vein to shoot their next
fix suffering from liver disease and God knows what else, recover physically
100% and go on to lead relatively decent lives. Stimulant abusers, too, can
make remarkable physical recoveries although, in truth, it's much more
difficult than recovering from Heroin™." - John J.
Coleman
1967 31 million prescriptions in America
for amphetamines.
Methamphetamine does not only pour neurotransmitters
into the gaps but also blocks their reabsorption.
For this reason the
effects are long-lasting, often more than twelve hours, a length of time that
damage the nerve cells at higher doses as the intercellular energy supply is
drawn into sympathy.
The neurons run hot and brain chatter can't be turned off.
Nerve cells give up and die off irrevocably.
This can lead to a
deterioration in the ability to find words, in attention and concentration, and
a general depletion in the brain where memory, emotions, and the reward system
are concerned.
The lack of stimulation once the effect fades away is a
sign of empty hormone stores, which have to fill back up again over the course
of several weeks.
In the meantime fewer neurotransmitters are
available: the consequences can include a lack of drive, depression,
joylessness, and cognitive disturbances.
1994
263 meth labs are seized in America.
2000 1,800
meth labs are seized by DEA.
4,600 meth labs are seized by local police in
America.
2006 Harvard Work Hours, Health
and Safety Group reports that one in five resident-physicians admitted
making a chronic
fatigue related mistake that injured a patient.
One in 20 admitted
a chronic fatigue related mistake that resulted in a patient's death.
"Working day and
night, rather than transferring patient care to a fresh doctor, increases
serious medical errors in ICUs by 36%, including a 460% increase in
serious diagnostic
mistakes.
Twenty-four hours without sleep slows reaction time
comparably to alcohol intoxication.
Physician-trainees routinely
fall asleep during lectures, on patient rounds, while examining patients and
even during surgery.
After working more than 24 hours, resident
physicians are 73% more likely to stab themselves with a needle and 168% more
likely to crash driving home." - Charles A. Czeisler
"Partway
through a 36-hour shift at Johns
Hopkins Hospital, I was
hungry and hadn't slept for 24 hours, but I was facing an overflowing
intensive care unit and somehow needed to discharge five patients to make room
for more.
Mr. "Smith", who had esophageal surgery, was a borderline
call.
Because of the pressure I was under, I decided to remove his
breathing tube.
That turned out to be a very bad decision.
After six hours he still wasn't waking up." - Peter Pronovost
2007 A raid in Mexico yields $205 million in
cash, mostly $100 dollar bills, weighing 4,500 lb earned selling
methamphetamines.
"No behavior or misbehavior
is a disease or can be a disease.
That's not what diseases are.
Diseases are malfunctions of the human body, of the heart, the liver,
the kidney, the brain.
Typhoid fever is a disease.
Spring fever
is not a disease; it is a figure of speech, a metaphoric disease.
All
mental diseases are metaphoric diseases, misrepresented as real diseases and
mistaken for disease." - Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry
Emeritus
Ritalin®, Vyvanse®, Strattera®, and
Adderall®
"People with attention deficit disorder (as well as
those with dyslexia,
depression,
bipolar disorder or
anxiety disorders)
usually have extraordinary talents that get
buried under troubles
and disappointments.
Getting enough sleep, eating right and getting lots of physical
exercise help with attention deficit disorder (and everything else)." - Edward
M. Hallowell
"There are many children whose only problem in life
is not doing their homework but are medicated with ADHD drugs; and the majority
of their parents had no idea that they were giving their children amphetamines
or amphetamine-like substances." - Bruce Levine
2001 Marketing of
attention-deficit
hyperactivity disorder drugs legalized.
PHRMA began aggressively
marketing attention-deficit hyperactivity drugs.
2001 to 2006 Use of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
drugs has increased 60%.
2006 25 people - including 19 children - die suddenly within
the last 4 years while using attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
drugs which include Ritalin®, Concerta®, Methylin® and
Metadate® - all stimulants; 43 people taking the drugs for
attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder experienced serious cardiovascular
events, including strokes,
cardiac arrest and heart
palpitations; 26 serious cardiovascular problems were
reported in children, including two heart
attacks and two strokes.
3.3 million Americans 19 or younger and
nearly 1.5 million age 20 and older are taking
attention deficit disorder
medicines.
Children in America are prescribed
attention-deficit
hyperactivity disorder drugs at 10 times the rate that children are
prescribed attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder drugs in
Europe.
Nearly 1 in 10 12-year-old American boys take a
stimulant.
2011 ADHD drugs and their
generic equivalents are responsible
for nearly 23,000 emergency room visits in America.
Over a six-year
span, there's been a 400% increase in
ER visits.
"Patients are no longer just taking medications in
childhood, but are encouraged to stay on them when they become adults.
Vyvanse®, an amphetamine, and Concerta® were introduced in 2008
for treating adults.
Students take drugs to increase academic
performance, and physicians and lawyers are taking stimulants in hopes
of boosting their productivity.
These
drugs have therefore become increasingly popular.
According to a 2007
study, prescriptions for ADHD drugs in the methalphenidate and amphetamine
categories rose by almost 12% per year between 2000 and 2005." - Paul
Solomon
The excess and continual use of methamphetamine while not
necessarily causing excessive
memory loss
causes the human brain to run in
a cyclic pattern of
thought, like a viynl record stuck
in a groove, that cycles back upon
itself repeatedly interjected with
hallucinogenic day
dreams.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez describes perfectly the psychosis
experienced by a methamphetamine user in his story about the
insomnia plague.
After
many hours of wakefulness the methamphetamine user is as close to
the zombies portrayed in horror
movies as all higher brain functions cease.
Frontal lobe functions no
longer work.
Chronic methamphetamine use is a
form of insanity.
"Two federal officials have concluded that
asthma sufferers risk death if
they continue to use four hugely popular
asthma drugs -
Advair®, Symbicort®, Serevent® and Foradil®." - Gardiner
Harris, 12/05/08 1982 FDA report
warns that phenylpropanolamine has "the ability to cause
cardiovascular effects, cerebral hemorrhage
and cardiac arrhythmias."
Two years later a memo from the medical
services department at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, which made the
phenylpropanolamine products Triaminic® and Tavist-D®, referred to
phenylpropanolamine as "an agent known to cause
hypertension and stroke," yet the pharmaceutical industry accelerated their
marketing of phenylpropanolamine, winning FDA approval to sell prescription
phenylpropanolamine products on an over-the-counter basis while introducing
flavorful new formulas for young children.
The
pharmaceutical industry
consistently challenged
any notion that phenylpropanolamine could be
dangerous and dismissed contrary
evidence.
Tracy Patton, at 37, and Tricia
Newenham, at 15, had a catastrophic stroke.
Only hours before the
catastrophic strokes each victim had taken an over-the-counter medicine
containing phenylpropanolamine the active ingredient in scores of popular
nonprescription decongestants and diet aids.
1999 Landmark $5 million Yale University study sponsored by
the pharmaceutical industry concludes the use of phenylpropanolamine is
associated with an increased risk of catastrophic stroke.
Tracy Patton
and Tricia Newenham, who had taken Triaminic® cold syrup, were among
hundreds of phenylpropanolamine consumers who had catastrophic strokes.
The pharmaceutical industry launches a yearlong campaign to keep the
results quiet and stall government regulation.
By the
time the phenylpropanolamine is removed from over-the-counter medicine, 13
months and hundreds of strokes later, the companies have reformulated
their brand names with
little interruption in sales or cash flow.
The
PHRMA market for
phenylpropanolamine, estimated at $500 million to $1 billion anually, is saved
and in the interim, Americans continue to purchase phenylpropanolamine products
off the shelf assuming they are safe.
The pharmaceutical industry
hoped to make it through the 2000 cold season without pulling
phenylpropanolamine products.
November 2000 Two
weeks after an FDA advisory panel concluded that phenylpropanolamine could be
hazardous, an official with Bayer,
which made Alka-Seltzer Plus® with phenylpropanolamine, drafted a proposed
"phenylpropanolamine crisis action plan."
The crisis action plan's
stated objectives: "Delay mandatory implementation of FDA recommendation. Blunt
PR impact by highlighting as questionable study
conclusions as they pertain to cough/cold products."
Ritalin®
Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis
of Therapeutics states that Ritalin® is "structurally related to
amphetamines. Its pharmacological properties are essentially the same as those
of the amphetamines." 1986 The
International Journal of the Addictions publishes "An Outline of
Hazardous Side Effects of Ritalin (Methylphenidate") by Richard Scarnati
[v.21(7), pp. 837-841].
Scarnati listes over a hundred adverse affects
of Ritalin® and indexes published journal articles for each of these
symptoms.
For every one of the following (selected and quoted verbatim)
Ritalin® effects then, there is at least one confirming source in the
medical literature:
• Effects pathological
thought
processes
• High-abuse potential
DEA Schedule II
Drug
• Can surpass
LSD in producing bizarre experiences
•
Brain damage is likely with
extended amphetamine abuse
•
Hypomanic and manic
symptoms, amphetamine-like psychosis
• Ritalin®, an
amphetamine-type chemical, creates amphatamine-like effects
•
Combo with antiDepressant reactions:
hypertension, seizures, hypothermia
Ritalin® acts much like
cocaine™."
American
Medical Association
1994 Textbook of Psychiatry, published by the
American Psychiatric Press, contains this review (Popper and Steingard):
"Stimulants [such as Ritalin®] do not produce lasting improvements in
aggressivity, conduct disorder, criminality, education achievement, job
functioning, marital relationships, or long-term adjustment."
"Stimulants such as Ritalin® and amphetamine have grossly harmful
impacts on the brain by reducing
overall blood flow,
disturbing glucose metabolism, and
possibly causing permanent shrinkage or
atrophy of the brain." - Peter Breggin, Talking Back to
Ritalin
1999 Running on Ritalin by
Lawrence Diller is printed.
"Dr. Diller has correctly described the
disturbing trend of blaming children's social, behavioral, and academic
performance problems entirely on an unproven brain deficit" - Dr. William
Carey, Director of Behavioral Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia
1911 Anton Köllisch, involved in
investigating syntheses for hydrastinine and methylhydrastinine, describes the
synthesis of the chemical MDMA.
1960
Project MKUltra is still
investigating new techniques of
brainwashing,
espionage and
mind control.
The CIA hopes
MDMA can be used as a chemical warfare agent designed to sow
confusion,
anxiety and fear in the
unwilling recipient.
Theodore John Kaczynski,
one of the test subjects undergoes "purposely brutalizing psychological
experiments" led by Harvard psychologist Henry Murray under the influence of
MDMA.
These purposely
brutalizing psychological experiments severely alter the brain of Theodore
Kaczynski.
May 31, 1985 MDMA becomes illegal in
America.
"A lot of the Ecstasy we see in Las Vegas comes from
Israeli dealers." - Sergeant Blake Quackenbush, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police
1994 to 2004 Israeli
chemical traffickers dominate the trans-Atlantic lines of shipment of
MDMA.
Oded Tuito* imported more than 7 million "Ecstacy" pills into
America before being arrested.
Oded Tuito died mysteriously while
incarcerated in a New York jail.
"Oded Tuito was known as the world's
largest trafficker of MDMA." - DEA administrator Karen Tandy before the US
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