Resources for the Marginalized

Freedom of Information + Safety + Warnings

FREEDOM of INFORMATION

Amnesty International - Irish section is an advocate for mental health since 2003. www.amnesty.ie

Article 19 ( global access to information) www.article19.org
Headquarters: London & S. Africa info@article19.org info@article19.org.za

Charge Card reports showing your payment to the psychiatrist can also show up in your Credit Reports & affect your ability to get a loan, etc.8/6/03 Wall St Journal, Personal Finance, per S Marciniak www.wsj.com

Committee for Freedom of Choice www.americanbiologics.com/noframes/cfcm.htm
USA advocacy for alternative medicine cfm@americanbiologics.com

1,4 Dioxane, a known carcogen, is found in some baby shampoos and cosmetic products. It is outlawed in Europe, but not in the Us. Ethylene-oxide is added to the Sodium Laurel Sulphate to create Sodium Laureth Sulfate; in the process you get Di-Ethylene Oxide, which is another name for 1,4 Dioxane. It can be completely removed by what's called vacuum stripping. http://www.loe.org/shows/shows.htm?programID=07-P13-00007 FDA Cosmetic Regulatory Page EU Risk Assessment of Dioxane
What’s in the products you use every day Lab results from independent study on dioxane

Disabled Kids Abused in Serbia http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Nov14/0,4670,SerbiaAbusedChildren,00.html
"Troubled children bound tightly to fetid cribs they have never left since birth. "

Fire retardants may be toxic to your health & your child's development. http://www.iceh.org/bulletins/LDDIbulletin6-13-07.html#art14 "The successful (California, USA) bill prohibits the use of either chlorinated or brominated fire retardants in domestic furniture or bedding such as mattresses, pillows and comforters. It also revises strict California fire safety standards that now require foam inside cushions and mattresses be flame retardant. Instead, manufacturers would be allowed to leave the foam untreated if a flame resistant barrier surrounds it. Chemicals made with bromine or chlorine have repeatedly proven problematic. Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, used in industrial transformers were banned in the 1970s after a series of industrial spills highlighted the compound's potent neurotoxicity. Two types of flame retardants, known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers -- or PBDEs -- and common in foam, were withdrawn from the global market earlier this decade after scientists linked PBDEs to developmental effects and a tendency to linger in humans and wildlife."
Douglas Fischer, Oakland Tribune 6/7/2007 http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/ci_6086775

Freedom of Information Act 1997 Dublin, Ireland FOI Act Regulations or FOI Act Request Form foi@diroco.ie

Freedom of Information & Protection of Privacy Act, Canada
Also see legislative advocacy - www1.servicecanada.gc.ca/en/hip/odi/documents/obstacles/obstacles_full.pdf

Freedom of Info Handbook www.fda.gov/cder/foi/index.htm
Informed Consent www.fda.gov/oc/ohrt/irbs/appendixb.html Informudo Consento (Japanese)

Informed consent requires that before doing a medical procedure, the doctor must describe to patient the procedure plus explain risks and benefits. Before delivery, it is reasonable to ask for the afterbirth/placenta/umbilical cord to store for medical purposes, to dispose of ceremonially, or to bless ceremonially.
Hammerschlag, Dr Carl A & Silverman, Dr Howard D Healing Ceremonies http://www.berkley.com

Nutrition and Mental Health winter 2004 newsletter editor sends out a serious WARNING to families of mentally ill and families with histories of mental illness. The US government has implemented a major policy initiative called "New Freedom Commission on Mental Health". The Commission recommends mandatory mental health screening and treatment for every child in America, without parental consent. It's biggest lobby is the pharmaceutical industry. www.orthomed.org

Medical Information Bureau Get your own individual medical records for $8.00 www.mib.com
Central data bank containing 12 million American medical, psychological & personal histories, MIB or Medical Information Bureau, Westwood, MA, USA per Boston Business Journal 11/5-7/84 vol 4 #36
Central data bank is only for medical and insurance professionals.

Medicating Kids http://www.pbs.org/science/science_health.html

Mental Screening for Young to Begin for Massachusetts children on Medicaid 12/27/2007 goldberg@globe Boston Globe newspaper www.boston.com The bar is very low. The subjective evidences for mental illness cited in the Boston Globe are those typical behaviors for many children. Our concern is mandated medication or uninformed parents/school being pressured to subject their children/ students to medical oversight and relinquishment of parental rights. There is a danger of the loss of child/parental consent. Most freedom of consent paperwork signatures are coerced and done during emergency/crisis.

Mroczek, Nancy http://www.nancymroczek.com/about Nancy warns consumers to use glass or hard plastics for food storage. The softer the plastic, the more apt it is to leech into food. These toxins gravitate to the fatty tissues, such as breast, causing/contributing to/triggering disease such as cancer.

National Assoc for Rights (NARPA) www.connix.com/~narpa/tenet.htm

Safety of Clinical Trials - 2 USA accrediting groups www.ncqa.org www.aahrpp.org

SNOMED software tracks all medical records Available to doctors, hospitals & insurance firms.
Health & Family Wall St Journal 7/2/03 Anderson www.wsj.com

The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994 in USA guarantees free access to vitamins.

Treatment Advocacy Center Arlington, Virginia, USA www.psychlaws.org

USA Internet Dates Background Check ($50.00 fee) www.ussearch.com

USA Nursing Homes Graded by Government www.medicare.gov 1-800-medicare

PRESCRIPTION WARNINGS

11/24/03 Abilify is not as good on negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
Risperdal stiffens muscles.
Geodon causes cardiac rhythm disturbancs.
Zyprexa causes weight gain.
3/24/04 Antipsychotic meds have side effects risks: diabetes, jerky limb movement, suicide, weight gain, adverse impact on blood fats (lipids) www.healthyplace.com www.wsj.com

Antidepressants or SSRI's may be harmful for those under the age of 18,
because they do more harm than good and are not licensed for use in Britian.
Wall St Journal , Technology and Health , Spring 2004 Nutrition and Mental Health newsletter
www.wsj.com 12/12/03 2/3/04 3/23/04 7/20-21/04 8/5/04 9/28/04 www.time.com 12/22/03 www.orthomed.org 2004

Other antidepressants with serious side effects are Seroxat/Paxil, Sertraline/Lustral/Zolof,
Citalopram/Cipramil/Cellexa, Escitalopram/Ciprales/Lexapro, Fluvoxamine/Favarin/Luvox.
Warning = To reduce/titrate down, go very slowly. www.wsj.com 8/6/04 www.lef.org March 2003

Antidepressants Under Scrutiny Over Efficacy 1/17/2007 editorial in Personal Journal www.wsj.com Unpublished data show doctors are making inappropriate prescribing decisions that are not in the best interest of their patients. This is a violation of their oath to do no harm. The drug industry is suppressing/ignoring negative data while only publishing/ sharing favorable trials/studies/research. www.clinicaltrials.gov is NOT comprehensive.

Buying larger tablets & splitting tablets, plus buying in Canada may save LOTS of money. Buy smaller doses, if larger doses are not warranted, to prevent overdosing & to assist the mentally challenged.3/03 www.lef.org

DANGER - Salvia divinorum herb, diviner's sage, contains salvinorin A, a potent hallucinogen almost as strong as LSD. It targets a single chemical brain cell receptor involved in consciousness and reality perception. The receptor is located in neurons having a role in depression, drug abuse and schizophrenia. It has been used by the Mazatec Indians in Mexico. It can cause thoughts not original with one's personality, depression, dysphoria, suicide, visions, and disembodiment. 4/3/2006 USA Today newspaper Nation editorial www.usatoday.com

Dateline TV Inside the world of counterfeit drugs Dateline Hidden Camera Investigates Chinese counterfeiting of drugs. 6/4/2007 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13137839/page/5/

Effexor like cymbalta is a dual-action antidepressant www.wsj.com 8/5/04

Effexor, an antidepressant, boosts 2 brain chemicals: serotonin & norepinephrine, and may cause hostility & suicide per Wall St Journal 9/3/03 and Wyeth www.wsj.com

Ethical minefield is what Friday's 10/1/04 Wall Street Journal's Science Journal calls conventional drugs (which have many side effects) to be used for memory and attention.
Current drugs being used for cosmetic neurology are (toxic) botox, beta blockers (as propanolol which seems to erase negative emotions associated with bad memories), Modafinil or Provigil, ritalin, cholinesterase inhibitors such as donepezil or Aricept, and CREB inhibitors (proteins which seem to erase only disturbing memories). www.wsj.com sciencejournal@wsj.com

Generic clozapine is "NOT" bioequivalent to Clozaril R per Dept Pharmacy, Riverview Hospital, Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada www.ncbi.nlm.hih.gov

Generic clozapine in question for effacy
Wall St Journal 10/24/00 www.namibuffalo.org/news/archive/may-june/warnings.htm

Potential Side effect of clozapine is diabetes per Dept Medicine,
Cleveland Clinic Health System, Fairview Hospital, Ohio, USA
Food & Drug Admin plan to require warning label for diabetes for atypical antipsychotics 9/18/03 WSJ
www.ncbi.nlm.hih.gov www.wsj.com

Glycine is inadvisable if one is taking the antipsychotic drug clozapine per Pure Encapsulations.
www.purecaps.com

Clozapine (Clozaril) may be adversely affected by large amounts of cocoa due to its caffeine content. Cocoa may exacerbate psychotic symptoms and toxicity of clozapine plus inhibit clozapine metabolism Related foods are black and green tea, coffee, cola, guarana and mate. Excess cocoa may also trigger migraines in sensitive people.
The sudden withdrawal of large amounts of cocoa may cause lithium toxicity, due to cocoa's caffeine content.
Oral contraceptives and grapefruit reduce caffeine clearance. (note=Grapefruit increases med dosage; thus can be good when titrating medication dose down.)
MAOIs with high cocoa intake may trigger a hypertensive crisis due to tyramine content.
Excess cocoa has been known to cause shakiness, increased urination, rapid pulse and constipation. www.naturaldatabase.com

Clozapine/clozaril can interact with the following herbs/supplements; however this med may be able to be reduced/titrated down with the consistent use of the same - green tea, kava kava, milk thistle, manganese, melatonin, B2 (riboflavin), B6 (pyridoxine), and/or vitamin E. www.umm.edu/altmed/ConsDrugs/Clozapinecd.html

Clozapine side effects may be reduced by the addition of vitamin supplements NAC (N-acetyl cysteine + Vitamin C), Selenium, and (5-HTP) 5-hydroxytryptophan. Smoking may reduce blood levels of drug, whereas caffeine intake may increase blood drug levels. Glycine supplementation may increase drug induced side effects. Clozapine side effects and natural alternative medicine
http://www.publix.com/wellness/notes/Display.do?id=Drug&childId=Clozapine

Clozapine reduction/titration down - Take ascorbate vitamin C powder with bioflavonoids and rutin, ½ teaspoon every hour to bowel tolerance daily for the first month of healing. (Vitamin C is a natural tranquilizer. It will help in withdrawal from chemical tranquilizers and drugs.) http://www.herbsmd.com/cure186/TardiveDyskinesia.html

Immunologic & coagulation disorders have resulted from Long Term Antipsychotic Drugs As Chlorpromazine www.ncbi.nlm.hih.gov

Grapefruit can be awesome or dangerous - depending on you having knowledge. If you want to lower dosage safely, then add grapefruit. If you want to prevent toxic drug side effects, then do not eat/drink grapefruit with some meds. The bottom line is that grapefruit makes some medicines more powerful. "Individuals have different levels of an enzyme in intestines and liver, called CYP3A4, that breaks down drugs before they even have a chance to get into the blood stream." Grapefruit compounds furanocoumarins can "obliterate CYP3A4 in the gut. The result: More drug gets into the bloodstream." For those with high furanocoumarins, one could have 10X the amount of 1 med/pill in bloodstream. 11/27/2007 www.wsj.org Personal Journal section

Prescription drugs may be dangerous to your health. FDA relies on safety tests of company selling drugs.
Buy Frontline documentary at 1-800-544-4440.
(Codex) Codex Alimentarius Commission, plus drug companies wish to have control over vitamins. 3/04 www.lef.org
11/17/03 www.frontline.com www.lef.org/codex

Risperdal and Risperdal Constr (injectable) may cause tumors per 10/30/03 WSJ Health & Family www.wsj.com

Risperdal is now FDA approved for teenagers with schizophrenia, contending that the disease is worse than the negative side effects, the side effects being the lesser of 2 evils. Some of the side effects include weight gain, fatigue, nausea, and prolactin/ breast milk production. Short term use is also approved for teenagers diagnosed with bipolar mania. Other approved use is for dementia. Side effect for that is premature death. 8/23/2007 www.wsj.com

Russian investigators have found that antipsychotic drugs may cause antibodies to the meds/medications and recommend lower daily doses. Govorin & Lozhkina www.ncbi.nlm.hih.gov

Side effects of antidepressant Prozac (fluoxetine) are suicidal feelings, anxiety, insomnia, weight loss and headaches www.wsj.com www.lef.org March 2003

5 schizophrenia atypical anti-psychotic medications (Zyprexa, Risperdal, Trilafon, Geodon, and Seroqual) have been evaluated in a study called CATIE (clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness).
All are deficient (causing a degree of weight gain, increased blood sugar and/or cholesterol) plus are deficient in preventing relapses. 9/20/05 The Nation www.boston.com www.bostonglobe.com allen@globe.com Personal Journal www.wsj.com Older antipsychotics such as Haldol and Trilafon (perphenazine) may cause involuntary movements, jerkiness and tremors - in excess of the newer atypical drugs. Success of drugs was based on "how long a patient was willing to stay on them" before quitting due to side effects and/or failure of drug to work!

7 atypical antipsychotic meds - Zyprexa, Risperdal, Symbyax, Seroquel, Clozaril, Geodon and Abilify are used to treat psychiatric conditions, like schizophrenia, but are now used "off label" to treat dementia behavioral disorders, resulting in stroke, infections and death. 4/12/05 Wall St Journal www.wsj.com healthjournal@wsj.com

Cymbalta hits 2 brain chemicals norephinephrine & serotonin rather than only serotonin as most SSRIs.
1 cymbalta suicide death occurred 2/04.WSJ 8/5/04 www.wsj.com

Duloxetine indited in suicide per 2/13/04 Technology & Health, Wall Street Journal. Also see 6/3/04 WSJ
10 major USA antidepressant drugs are cited as potential suicide risks for both adults and children per 3/23/04 Personal Journal of Wall Street Journal.
See 4/20/04 Personal Health of Wall Street Journal on Serzone/nefazodone re: teen liver failure & death.
www.wsj.com www.newsweek.com/tipsheet 4/5/04

Neurontin is under scrutiny for contributing to suicide 5/20/04 www.wsj.com

Side effects of atypical antipsychotic drugs include extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS), hyperprolactinemia, sexual dysfunction, weight gain, diabetes mellitus (DM), cardiovascular problems such as myocarditis, pregnancy and lactation dangers to infant (neural tube defects), blood dyscrasias, plus increase in density of D2 receptors (dopamine) making patient biologically dependent on meds, thus at high risk for psychosis and schizophrenia if/when stopping drugs. 1st quarter 2006 www.orthomed.org

SSRI users are 4 times more likely to experience bleeding following surgery. You may want to advise your surgeon per Bottom Line Health. June 2004 www.bottomlinesecrets.com

Suicide warnings are noted by Glaxo Smith Kline & in 8/27/03 Wall St Journal, Personal Journal
for SSRI's (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), especially Paxil (Seroxat) an antidepressant.
also see 10/28/03Wall St Journal, Personal Health re: Zoloft/sertraline,fluoxetine/Prozac,Effexor,Paxil www.wsj.com

Wall St Journal 8/7/0 Money & Investing cite Paxil side effect of suicide and aggression.
Also CNN 8/8/03 Morning Edition television USA www.wsj.com

Wall Street Journal 4/11/03 by Anand & Burton www.wsj.com
Drug Debate: New Antipsychotics Pose a Quandry for FDA, Doctors. Diabetes danger. Warnings Abroad, Not in US - These atypical drugs often cause carbohydrate cravings, obesity, frequent urination & excessive thirst.

Zyprexa danger (6/5/03 WSJ) diabetes concern www.wsj.com

Zyprexa danger (2/20/04 WSJ) stroke concern:
Atypical class of antipsychotics for dementia may be dangerous and include Risperdal, Seroquel, Abilify

Zyprexa taken off preferred drug list in Texas for health insurance program to the poor.
Zyprexa is the most costly atypical anitpsychotic & causes weight gain. 3/1/04 Wall St Journal

MEDICAL TREATMENT WARNINGS

ADD ADHD patients with no change in symptoms may be re-diagnosed and given bipolar meds as FDA has lowered age to which children may be given anti-psychotic drugs. www.askthepharmacist.com 9/2007

Drug firms 'inventing diseases' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4898488.stm

Published case studies of negative side effects of ECT (electric shock treatment) for depression - Cached www.ect.org
Individual case study is an important and necessary method of collecting evidence. It allows the nature and extent of amnesia, memory disability, and memory loss to be described in detail impossible to obtain in-group studies. Consistency in individual case studies illustrates that ECT’s permanent effects have not changed over the years.

As Empty As Eve, by Berton Roueche; first published in the New Yorker 9/9/1974; reprinted in The Medical Detectives, 1981 “There weren’t just gaps in my memory. There were oceans and oceans of blankness. And yet there seemed to be kind of a pattern. My childhood recollections were as strong as ever. The fog of amnesia increased as I came forward in time. The events of the past several years were the blurriest and the blankest. Another area that didn’t seem to be affected was ingrained habits—repetitive acts and procedures. I mean, I hadn’t lost my command of the English language. I still knew the multiplication tables…But worst of all my problems was that I couldn’t seem to retain. I couldn’t hang on to my relearning. Or only a part of it. The rest kept sliding away again.” Cached www.ect.org

Electroconvulsive Therapy and Memory Loss: A Personal Journey, by Anne Donahue; The Journal of ECT, June 2000.
“My long-term memory deficits far exceed anything my doctors anticipated, I was advised about, or that are validated by research. To the contrary, either I am one in a thousand, a complete anomaly, to be able to document memory loss still remaining after 3 years and extending as far back as occurrences eight to nine years ago, or the profession in general, after all these years of treatment with ECT, has still failed to identify and come to terms with the true potential risks.” Cached www.ect.org
Anne has pioneered legislature in Vermont where one needs to sign informed-consent paperwork before receiving ECT.
Informed consent includes a more candid video for prospective ECT patients.

Evidence for permanent memory and cognitive impairment is found in the neuropsychological evaluations (standardized batteries of tests for brain damage, taking place over two or more days) obtained by individual survivors at their own expense; many of these are collected in the archives of the Food and Drug Administration, Docket #82P-0316. Cached www.ect.org

Psychiatric drugging of children PBS/Frontline TV broadcast
http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/youth-mental-health/pbs-on-psychiatric-drugging-youth program broadcast
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/medicatedchild/ broadcast preview
"Al is a psychiatric survivor, psychologist, author and expert on the resilience of the human spirit."
"Jay Mahler...is a survivor of forced electroshock who spent 10 years in the mental health system...He founded Mental Health Consumer Concerns and the California Network of Mental Health Clients."
"Psychiatrist and author of Talking Back to Ritalin, (Peter) Breggin founded the nonprofit Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology. He has been a vocal opponent of the ADHD diagnosis and he strongly opposes prescribing psychiatric medications to children." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/medicating/interviews/breggin.html
"My profession has pandered to the guilt of parents by saying, "We'll relieve you of guilt. We'll tell you your child has a brain disease, and that the problem can be treated by a drug...There's actually a great deal of evidence for a conspiratorial relationship. According to international law, you cannot directly promote a highly addictive Schedule II drug to the public. Ritalin is in Schedule II along with amphetamine, methamphetamine, cocaine and morphine. And you're not allowed to put ads in the newspaper for that. You're not allowed, according to international conventions, to directly promote to the public. What Ciba-Geigy, now a division of Novartis, has done is to fund a parents' group, CHADD, and the group has then gone and promoted Ritalin to the public. So that's one potential aspect to the situation...One of the big differences in what Ciba-Geigy is doing, say, compared to a drug company who might give money for a diabetes drug to the AMA, is that Ritalin is a Schedule II--a highly addictive drug. And there are special controls put upon it by the US government. CHADD, in fact, has lobbied the US government to try to get Ritalin taken out of Schedule II. They couldn't do anything more valuable for the drug company, and more dangerous to the public, than that. Fortunately, they failed, and they failed in part because of our disclosures . . . about CHADD having so much money from the drug companies...Even before Prozac was approved by the FDA, the drug company was sponsoring seminars for doctors throughout the country on the biochemical basis of depression, mentioning over and over again serotonin, which is the neurotransmitter that's affected by Prozac. They didn't happen to mention that there may be 200 neurotransmitters in the brain, and that connecting any one to depression is absolutely foolish speculation. The brain is an integrated organ, with probably thousands of substances participating in its function. To label one, serotonin--which is, in fact, a widespread neurotransmitter that goes to every single lobe of the brain and affects everything from memory to coordination to cardiovascular function--imagine that that one happens to be the one that's out of balance, because Eli Lilly is selling Prozac...Now they run into problems. Because the next drug that comes along affects a different neurotransmitter, and then the next one affects a different neurotransmitter. And they're all working, because they all cause certain disabilities of the brain that some people experience as an improvement. They either can anaesthetize your feelings, or they give you an artificial high, or simply give you an enormous placebo boost."
"ADHD doesn't even involve emotional suffering on the part of the child. There is nothing in the diagnosis that says the child is distressed. It's all about distressing behaviors. It's a list of behaviors that distress adults." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/medicatedchild/

Shock Therapy Revisited 10/18/05 www.wsj.com/health In 1940 psychiatrists recognized that electricity aimed at the brain could cause mood shifts, but also induce seizures and permanent memory loss. Now often very expensive, invasive brain and chest surgery to produce milder electrical stimulation is being attempted with Deep Brain Stimulation, Magnetic Seizure Therapy, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, and Vagus Nerve Stimulation (which may cause hemorrhage, stroke, twitching + may require further brain and chest surgery).

"Single-Payer" government-run health care systems as practiced in Ontario, Canada can be horrendous per Stuart Browning's film
A Short course in Brain Surgery regarding Lindsay McCreith's medical care for cancerous brain tumors. http://www.mercola.com

Foreign organ transplants can be both an ethical and medical problem. China uses its prison population to provide organs for transplants. In China there is only a 30 day wait, compared to years in other countries. Until now Israel allowed its citizens to have the the health insurer foot the overseas transplant bill. A number of high risk patients have died on the Chinese operating table. 4/6/2007 China Reconsiders Fairness of Transplant Tourism www.wsj.org

VACCINE WARNINGS

Vaccine Truth http://www.vaccinetruth.org/sv40.htm www.vaccinetruth.org/excellent_vaccine_articles.htm
A...long-term complication of vaccination involves the 'one cell-one antibody' rule. This means that once a B cell is committed to an antigen (disease-causing virus or bacteria), it becomes inert and incapable of responding to other antigens or attacks on the immune system. If a child contracts childhood diseases naturally, it is estimated that up to a total of 7% of their immune system is taken up with responding to these diseases. However, a child who undergoes the routine course of vaccinations, risks having up to 70% of his/her immune system committed to these antigens and no longer available for other immune challenges... meaning the immune system is always in 'attack' mode - which also weakens it and leads to auto-immune diseases.

FOOD CONTAMINATION

5/9/2007 Subtitle Toxic Dyes and Preservatives Are Often Key Ingredients Where poverty and lack of refrigeration abound, formaldehyde is a magic food preservative and industrial Sudan Red dye is an added color ingredient to boost appeal of drinks and egg yolks. www.wsj.com

1/4/2008 www.wsj.com Cloned Livestock Poised to Receive FDA Clearance Whole Foods Market Inc notes, "The lack of...governmental oversight and (mandatory) tracking could mean consumers will lose the ability to choose clone-free products." "There is no mandatory tracking system in place for products from clones or their progeny."

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE +/-

Chinese Dr Hu Weimin Innovative Doctor Brutally Assaulted for sharing alternative methods of healing that are not dependent on the purchase of prescription medications costing lots of money - 7/2007 www.lef.org
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4763312.stm

Generic Lithium may not be as effective as brand name Lithium.
Also be aware that low dose lithium is available over the counter (OTC) as a supplement/vitamin.

Grapefruit can double or triple some meds (antiseizure, antidepressants, calcium-channel blockers, cholesterol-lowering satin) due to it's containing a group of chemicals called furano-coumarins. 5/2006 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition per 5/23/2006 www.wsj.com
(note - This can be good for those wishing to increase drug efficiency, reduce/titer down drugs, and reduce drug side effects)

SUICIDE

SUICIDE warning to be posted on all 32 anti-depressant drugs sold in USA per 10/16/04 www.wsj.com

Safety PUBLICATIONS

A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives and Poisons in Your Food author Ruth Winter - Crown Publishers

Block, Dr Mary Ann No More ADHD - No More Ritalin Autobiography.
Excellent read. Great forward of So Johnny's on Ritalin by Dr Fred Baughman
+ superior chapters Step 1, Understand the Medical System and Step 9, Stand Up for Your Child.
Block, Dr Mary Ann No More Antibiotics The Block Center, Hurst, Texas, USA www.blockcenter.com

Bleach (alone) OR hydrogen peroxide (alone) - (Do NOT mix.) - will kill many tenacious hospital pathogens. http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/health/4871840.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/health/4871840.stm

Chinese medicine, transplant organs, herbs, or over the counter medications like cough syrups can be problematic at the least to lethal at the most. 5/6/2007 From China to Panama, a Trail of Poisoned Medicine www.nytimes.com

Confessions of a Medical Heretic by Dr Robert Mendelsohn contends the medical profession is a religion.

Controlled Therapeutic Trials - Disadvantages and Advantages editorial 9/04 Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine www.orthomed.org

Complications, A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande www.picadorusa.com trademarketing@stmartins.com

Criminal Mind - On Death Row - Fate of Mentally Ill Is Thorny Problem - Can States Execute Inmates Made Sane Only by Drugs? Medical, Legal Quandry - A Test Case in Mr. Thompson 12/14/2006 www.wsj.com

Deadly Medicine by Thomas Moore

Death by Medicine editorial by Gary Null, C Dean, M Feldman, D Rasio in 1st Qtr 2005 Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine www.orthomed.org

Death by Modern Medicine book + Death by Medicine paper by Dr Carolyn Dean - 1st quarter 2006 review www.orthomed.org

Death by Prescription Ray Strand MD www.sidroth.org/radio

Day, Dr Lorraine www.drday.com Drugs Never Cure Disease

Food irradiation     http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/106/6/1505
Codex Standard      http://www.icfi.org/foodtrade.php?PHPSESSID=ef015749576e3f85482ba3f8a5a42b24
1 - The international food irradiation symbol is optional, but when it is used, it shall be in close proximity to the name of the food.
2 - When an irradiated product is used as an ingredient in another food, this shall be so declared in the list of ingredients.
3 - When a single ingredient product is prepared from a raw material which has been irradiated, the label of the product shall contain a statement indicating the treatment.
The United States does not require labeling of irradiated ingredients regardless of their proportion in other foods (in the U. S.). Several countries, including Argentina, Canada, Israel and Thailand, require labeling when irradiated ingredients exceed certain proportion in other food ( 5% or 10%, for example). Australia and New Zealand and those belonging to the EU require labeling of every minute proportion of irradiated ingredients (essentially to the last molecule) in other foods.
There is NO proper guidance with regard to irradiated ingredients incorporated in second or third generation processed food (a classical example is irradiated pepper incorporated in sausages which are in turn incorporated into pizza).
There is a clear need to harmonize labeling on imported/exported food containing irradiated ingredients.   http://www.organicconsumers.org/Irrad/cfsirrad.cfm     Scholarly articles for joseph mendelson irradiation
2acb is a toxic/harmful chemical resulting from irradiation. www.itap.physik.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/jb/Bericht_2002.pdf

Genetically Engineered Foods: Are they safe? You decide. www.natural-food.com www.natural-law.org
Laura & Robin Ticciati share the generational dangers, often invisible.
Howard Gordon, producer of X-Files says that this booklet is scarier than anything on the X-Files!

Genetic Engineering section in the Germs for Life chapter of The Secret Life of Germs by Philip M Tierno warns us that the cows are already out of the barn. Genetic engineering began in 1971 with the Israeli break down of crude oil by bacteria. As of 2001 a fourth of US plants are genetically engineered, including half of soybeans and cotton plus a third of corn. So far sheep, mice and pigs have been cloned. However, clones are prone to be an unstable, defective representation. www.somonsays.com

Genetically Engineered Food - Changing the Nature of Nature Teitel, Martin www.gene-watch.org & Wilson, Kimberly Genetically engineered food is NOT engineered, but rather an unscientific alteration of food crossing species, doing harm not good. Unlabeled genetically altered food and food ingredients are being secretly slipped into our daily diet (groceries/ restaurants). Currently the safest way to protect oneself is to (1) say grace before eating and (2) eat organic that is local and in season.

Inventor of Safer Automobile Destroyed by Federal Government due to deliberate delay of safety features of USA agencies. Condemned to Death by Medicine Gary Null editorial cites research paper Death by Medicine condemning unnecessary meds and procedures which harm patients and Dr Lucian L Leape's 1994 Error in Medicine JAMA editorial. It cites Dr Martin Charcot (1825-1993) who removed the uterus (hystera) to eliminate female psychological imbalance. His cure became the fix for mental instability. Dr John Gofman discovered uranium - 233 and isolated plutonium. He contends that radiation from medical procedures (x-rays, CT scans, mammography, fluoroscopy) contribute to 75% of new cancers. 8/2006 editorials www.lef.org

Mendelsohn, Dr Robert Mal(e) Practice about the harm of X rays

Medicine on Trial Inlander, Levin and Weiner Prentice Hall Press
1988 unabridged expose of medical mistakes - from annals of medical and public health research. Chapter 4 Seeing Things has an excellent section on Mental Breakdown where doctors more often than not misdiagnose and thus mistreat medical problems which are incorrectly labeled psychiatric problems. Thorazine (given to assumed schizophrenics) can cause permanent side effects like tremors and spasms. Neuroleptics given to depressed patients may cause/trigger suicide.
Chapter 12 What Did He Say? What Did I Hear? What Did We Do? section on Faith reminds us that even though interns have been taught (brainwashed) that they (or at least medical science) represent gods (the last word), that in fact, they are not.

Mullins, Eustace Murder by Injection

Over the Counter Medications (OTC) such as [Tylenol (acetaminophen) and Aspirin] taken long term (without protection with such as N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) supplementation) may deplete glutathione and result in liver failure, death. www.mercola.com

Ray Strand MD books Death by Prescription and What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You 8/04 Sid Roth radio www.sidroth.org

Should Doctors Train on Dying or Dead Patients? www.online.wsj.com/public/health

Stop the Medicine www.breakonthroughpress.com
autobiography by Cynthia A Foster MD who cured herself naturally when doctors failed

The Informed Patient (Wall St Journal newspaper) www.informedpatient@wsj.com e-mail

The Truth about the drug companies. How they deceive us and what to do about it. 2005 editorial by Dr Marcia Angell www.orthomed.org

Vaccines-Are They Really Safe & Effective? Neil Z Miller a medical research journalist expounds. www.thinktwice.com

Other MEDICAL Problems

Biopure, a red blood substitute, made by Biopure Corp, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA may cause more side effects than if no blood had been administered at all. Side effects may include adverse cardiac events, strokes, mini-strokes, hypertension, fluid in the lungs, cardiac arrest, and/or heart failure. 7/12/2006 www.wsj.org

Childhood Vaccines by Eli Lilly may contain preservative thimerosol (6/5/03 Wall St Journal) www.wsj.com

Dextro-meth-orphan (DMX, Robo, DM) is in a class of drugs known as dissociative anesthetics, similar to ketamine or PCP. Many have psychedelic affects & can be fatal when mixed with other drugs.
DMX is one of the active ingredients in many cough suppression products sold over the counter (OTC) in brand names such as Robitussin, Sucrets, Contac & Vicks. DMX tend to increase any existing mood.
Visual hallucinations, dizziness, staggering, & double vision are common.
Mind/body dissociation, vomiting, seizures, heart attack, stroke & irreversible brain damage may occur.
www.southbostononline.com
Another OTC product is NyQuill which contains acet-amino-phen (a Tylenol like product) which may cause permanent liver damage & death.7/8/04 Health
www.southbostononline.com
Acet-amino-phen is sold under the brand name Tylenol and is contained in 600 other drug products. It is a painkiller that causes severe kidney toxicity and liver failure. Overdose medical therapy is a vitamin =
N-acetylcysteine taken in excess over a period of weeks.
2005 Collector's Edition www.lef.org

OTC cough/cold medicines are NOT recommended for infants/toddlers under age of 2 per USA Food and Drug Admin/ FDA . 1/17/2008 www.wsj.org

Is this movie non-stressful? Stress (, extreme emotions, resurfacing of hurts, etc) can trigger psychiatric problems.
Check out movies to see if they are free from violence & sex? 1-800-311-4CCC

VeriChip, the size of a rice grain, is approved for implant into the arms of the public in USA and Mexico. It is now used by vets to track pets and livestock. It contains a bar code to identify an individual. The bar code then accesses a central computer bank containing all relevant medical and insurance info. Producer is Applied Digital Solutions Inc, Palm Beach, Florida, USA. Radio waves are used. Implant has a life of 20 years. 10/14/04 www.bostonherald.com www.wsj.com
WARNING = Scripture forbids Christians and Jews place identification marks on hand or forehead.

VNS system of Cyberonics Inc, Houston, Texas, USA is an implant that sends electrical signals via the vagus nerve and stimulates the brain to help epilepsy and also major depression per 6/16/04 Wall St Journal www.wsj.com

Warning - Cyberonics Inc neck implant to treat epilepsy by sending electrical signals along vagus nerve to control seizures may NOT be safe or appropriate to treat depression in patients who do not respond to antidepressant drugs.5/12/05 WSJ Danger - Patients with implanted neurological devices should NOT use MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) which may induce coma and permanent neurological impairment. Radio waves can heat implanted device and damage brain tissue. 5/12/05 Wall St Journal www.wsj.com (Will not work and may harm patient if any implanted battery is too low or not working.)

WEB SITES

potential DANGERS in alternative medicine

Amino acid arginine should not be taken by those with schizophrenia, herpes, or nursing infants per Balch & Balch in Prescription for Nutritional Healing Foods high in arginine are carob, chocolate, coconut, dairy, gelatin, meat, oats, peanuts, soybeans, walnuts, white flour, and wheat germ. www.penguinputnam.com

Glutamate (GABA & glutamine) & aspartate are 2 of the most common brain neurotransmitters that can in excess overexcite and kill brain neurons per authors Baylock & Russell Excitotoxins:
The Taste That Kills and Eva Edelman Natural Healing for Schizophrenia and other Mental Disorders
www.boragebooks.com (edelman@boragebooks.com)

Magic (sacred/psilocybin) Mushrooms act on the serotonin brain receptors to distort perception of reality and can trigger psychosis, paranoia, and anxiety. 7/11/2006 www.wsj.com Also see online 7/11/2006 journal of Psychopharmacology editorial by Roland Griffiths, John Hopkins neuroscientist and his team in conjunction with The National Institute for Drug Abuse. The mushroom ingredient psilocybin is considered a schedule 1 substance in USA, putting it in the same class as heroin and LSD addictive drugs, although it is not considered addictive. Ritalin, a methylphenidate, was used as the study control agent due to mood-changing effects and timing similar to psilocybin. Study excluded patients with family history of schizophrenia or psychosis.

NutraSweet /Equal /Spoonful/Aspartame is a (brain poison) NeuroToxin per H J Roberts MD, FL, USA
Also see Prescription for Nutritional Healing by Balch 1-561-832-2408 betty@pd.org

Over the counter drugs (OTC) are often dangerous, namely: Aspirin, Zantac, Motrin or Iboprofen, Tylenol & Claritin.
Journal of Orthomolecular Med www.orthomed.org 2003

Overdose medical therapy is a vitamin = N-acetylcysteine taken in excess over a period of weeks.
2005 Collector's Edition www.lef.org One can also overdose on vitamin A.

Sugar substitute Splenda may cause mental disturbances. www.mercola.com
Do NOT confuse with (very sweet low calorie) Stevia Reubaudiana herb from South America
When buying any sweetener always check ingredients on package label!
Splenda is NOT sugar and contains chlorine! 4/6/2007 www.wsj.org

Healing Services & Prayer

Charles Carrin Ministries Florida, USA www.charlescarrinministries.com carrinmin1@aol.com
Charles Carrin 3/18/02-3/22/02 (Sid Roth radio broadcast tape on schizophrenia) www.sidroth.org

Healing & Restoration Ministry (Catholic) Boston, MA, USA www.fathermcdonough.org

Healing Rooms (worldwide-places to go for prayer) International Cal Pierce Ministry, California www.healingrooms.com/iahr/iahr_rooms.htm

Foundation of Praise, PO Box 2518, Dept A Escondido, CA 92033-2518, USA www.merlincarothers.com
A Most Amazing Story by Merlin Carothers
Ask for a free brochure of a hospitalized mentally ill patient cured by a dad's praise to God. mail@merlincarothers.com

John Hagee Ministries San Antonio, Texas 1-210-491-5100 www.jhm.org/prayer.asp

Larry Hutch's Free at Last (Book about breaking generational family curses)
www.sanbooks.com/products/books/sb010111.htm
June 2003 Audio Cassettes www.sidroth.org/radiobroadcasts.htm

Mahesh Chavda Ministries International, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA www.watchofthelord.com 1-707-543-7272

Peter Gammons' healing services at Cathedral of Faith Orlando, Florida, USA www.wyrecompute.com/pg/pgammons.nsf/webcathedral 1-888-7-MIRACLE

Reinhard Bonnke's healing services at Christ for the Nations ministry South Africa www.cfan.org/rsa

Sid Roth's Messianic Vision Georgia, USA #VREN God's Word Won't Fail 1/03 audio
Cristine Spanbauer's mentally ill mind healed www.sidroth.org 1-800-548-1918

Video Healing School, Charles + Frances Hunter, Kingwood, Texas, USA www.cfhunter.org

Hospices - conventional psychiatric

Brother Francis Joseph Gillen (Catholic) San Juan de Dios hospice (St John of God hospice)
Igulot, Bocaue, Philippines.
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João Teixeria de Faria, also known as “John of God.” João’s healing center is known as the Casa de Dom Inácio de Loyola (Saint Ignatius) and is located in the small town of Abadiânia, Brazil. http://www.ronroth.com/home/ronandjohn.cfm

Second Chance Program for treatment of refractory psychosis patients unlikely to be discharged from state hospitals. Steven M Silverstein Phd, Director, 21 Bloomingdale Rd, White Plains, NY,10605 USA stevensilverstein@att.net

L'Arche Community (Catholic) (caring for the mentally ill), Trosly Breuil, France, Cassidy, Dr Sheila, St Luke's Hospice, Plymouth, England Sharing the Darkness, the Spirituality of Caring, book for caretakers of the dying

Hospitals -conventional psychiatric

Rate USA hospitals for various procedures www.cms.hh.gov/quality/hospital   informedpatient@wsj.com
www.healthgrades.com    www.healtscope.org www.leapfroggroup.org   www.myhelthfinder.com
www.phc4.org   www.wicheckpoint.org

Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics Kansas City, Missouri, USA www.childrens-mercy.org

Christian Health Care Center & psychiatric hospital
Wyckoff, New Jersey, USA 1-201-848-5200 www.christianhealthcare.org/about_history.shtml

King County Hospital King County, Washington state, USA www.kentwa.org/foundation.htm
New model program where mandate is patient wellness. merrily@msn.com www.margotkidder.com

Grading Hospitals: National, USA www.healthgrades.com www.healthcarechoices.org Grading Hospitals: California, USA www.healthscope.org Grading Hospitals: Madison, Wisconsin, USA www.qualitycounts.org

McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA www.mcleanhospital.org - Traditional teaching psychiatric hospital - 1-800-333-0338 press 1 for inpatient, press 2 for outpatient - Continuing education for professionals & public (free) www.mclean.harvard.edu brown@mcleanpo.mclean.org
617-855-3151 or 3152 Cole Resource Center for Patient/Family/Friends/Employers resctr@tiac.net 1-617-855-3298 High-end facilities for the well to do in America are
McLean's "Pavilion", "Butler's Duncan Lodge" at
Butler Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island,
"The Retreat", Sheppard Pratt, Towson, Maryland, & "Silver Hill Hospital", New Canaan, Connecticut www.wsj.com McLean has a brain bank per 6/13/04 Boston Globe www.boston.com/globe/magazine
www.national_databank.mclean.harvard.edu Gracefully Insane by Alex Beam of McLeans' history www.amazon.com

New Life Clinics (+Hospital & Radio Program) Traditional Christian orientation, Dallas,Texas,USA www.newlife.com

Ramapo Ridge Psychiatric Hospital (1989) of Christian Reformed church, Wyckoff, NJ, USA
Dual Diagnosis Program Pathways - Outpatient mental-health program 1-201-848-5200 www.christianhealthcare.org/about_history.shtml

Westwood Lodge Hospital, Westwood, MA, USA 1-781-762-7762

Housing for immediate family of patients at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass is at
Halcyon Place, 27 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, Boston, USA 02116 Reduced Rates

Housing for immediate family of Massachusetts patients Wayside Bed and Breakfast, CAP member
(Christian Association Prime membership) Small Rate 1-800-443-0227

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Hospitals for Children with Multiple Disabilities
Children's Center, Bethany, Oklahoma, USA 4/04 1-405-789-6711 www.charismamag.org
Hospitals - Christian - free for indigent
Calcutta Mercy Ministries www.butain.org INDIA WATCH 12/26/2007 SEND TO FRIEND Benny Hinn Interviews Huldah & Bonnie Butain
The Fistula Foundation www.fistulafoundation.org ETHIOPIA
Hostels
Hostel-Alan Walker College of Evangelism Sydney, Australia Local 02-9630-0777 or 61-2-9630-0777
Housing for alcohol and drug treatment
Adolescent drug care, Daytop, New Jersey, USA 1-800-668-help
Boston Emergency Shelter commission oversees various local shelters in Massachusetts. Some of these have short term (28-day) substance abuse treatment programs and 2 year TIL (transition to independent living) programs.
BRM is a Christian mission + a wet shelter (which takes the homeless in any condition). BRM has a post-detox program plus a residential unit per 3/20/05 Boston Globe Kingston House, Kingston St, Boston, Massachusetts, USA allis@globe.com www.boston.com/globe
Jewels' Crossing for 15 Women and infants (drugs) lsellers@orlandosentinel.com
Teen Challenge No maximum age restriction www.teenchallenge.com Springfield, Missouri , USA tcusa@teenchallengeusa.com international e-mail address: tciworld@flash.net Boston, MA, USA-male 1-617-825-3918 Brockton, MA, USA-male teenchal@aol.com New Haven, CT, USA- sayno@iconn.net Providence, RI, USA-female 1-401-467-2970
3905 Grissom Parkway,Canaveral Groves,Fla,USA
David Mallory's Campus of Care, Naples, Florida, USA houses & rehabs addicts 12/3 1-239-774-1165 www.charismamag.org
Manuel Alvarez's New Hope CORPS, Homestead, Florida, USA provides counseling, outpatient, residential and prevention services. 12/03 1-786-243-1003 www.charismamag.org
Treatment is NOT recovery/a cure/fix but a discovery, a beginning. Biggest challenge is doing the next right thing each time.
Housing for homeless
America Family Inns - New York, USA locations = Prospect in Bronx, Saratoga and Springfield Gardens in Queens, Clinton in Manhattan. All may contain a temporary 24 hr crisis nursery. www.homesforthehomeless.com www.familyhomelessness.org
Bazelton Center for Mental Health Law Legal site for Fair Housing Advocacy, DC, USA www.bazelton.org/housing.html
Betty's Place for 15 women, Boston, Massachusetts www.projectplace.org
Bridge Over Troubled Waters Boston, Massachusetts, USA bridgeotw@gis.net www.communityroom.net/NPOMission.asp?156
BRM is a Christian mission + a wet shelter (which takes the homeless in any condition). BRM has a post-detox program plus a residential unit per 3/20/05 Boston Globe . Kingston House, Kingston St, Boston, Massachusetts, USA allis@globe.com www.boston.com/globe
Champ House Hyannis, Massachusetts, USA 1-508-771-0885 www.champhouse.org
CEEH or CEE Homelessness Inc Boston, Massachusetts, USA www.ceeh.org/aboutus.asp
David Mallory's Campus of Care, Naples, Florida, USA shelters the homeless 1-239-774-1165
Homelessness Information Exchange Washington DC, USA 1-202-462-7551
Housing Again - Searchable database for Agencies & Developers http://resources.web.net/index.cfm?app=housing&types=link
Housing First http://www.npr.org/news/specials/housingfirst/index.html http://www.housingfirst.net/ Good effort to eliminate homelessness.
Housing for the homeless in Jerusalem, Israel www.jerusalempage.netfirms.com
Jeremy Reynalds runs Joy Junction homeless shelter in Albuquerque, New Mexico & provides food & housing for 2-3 months for 6,000 homeless. 7/03 www.charismaamag.com
John Stover is a homeless advocate for change in his Civil War American novel Common Cents Also 8/15/04 Urban Update TV channel 7 interview
Magnus Stenbock Hotel, Helsingborg, Sweden 18 single rooms, furnished, bath, linnens 30 day lease 46-42-123036 www.mentalhealth.org/publictions/allpubs/ken-01-0108/hotel.asp
Massachusetts USA Dept of Housing offices for shelters,temporary housing, homelessness www.mass.gov.dhcd/publications/howto.htm
National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington DC, USA 1-202-638-1526
Pathways http://www.endhomelessness.org/content/general/detail/1128 http://www.pathwaystohousing.org
Shelter Partnership Inc, Los Angeles, Calif, USA Resource for Agencies 1-213-688-2188 www.shelterpartnerhsip.org
Travelers Aid Family Services, Boston, Massachusetts, USA http://www.taboston.org/aboutus.html http://www.taboston.org/programs.html Program for homeless women with children
Housing for hospital discharge and psychiatric community
Franciscan Hospital for Children, Brighton, Massachusetts http://www.franciscanhospital.org/ including Kennedy Day School (PDF) Kennedy Hope Academy for special needs rehabilitation. Includes home care. 20 psychiatric beds. 100 invalid beds. Volunteer program.