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Big Pharma and Addiction

Big Pharma and Addiction

Big Pharma is in the Addiction business.

Not the healing business.

We watched the last episode of ‘Goliath’ on Prime Video last evening.  With Billy Bob Thornton in the lead and J. K. Simmons playing the sociopathic owner of the pharmaceutical company.

This last season of the show outlines how the head of the pharmaceutical company aggressively marketed extremely addictive opioids.For money.

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Simmon’s character George Zax, is a sociopath who has an answer for everything.  The character he plays very likely believes his own lies.  (Brilliant cast and acting all through.)

There is a much happier ending in the TV series than real life.

Customers for Life

Make no mistake -- pharmaceutical companies are not in the business of healing.  It has been said before, but they want customers for life. 

A case in point is Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family.  Purdue Pharma murdered and destroyed millions of lives in the USA with their ruthless marketing of OxyContin.  The Sacklers became quite famous when Purdue Pharma pled guilty in 2020 to three felony charges involving fraud, conspiracy, and kickbacks. The US Department of Justice commented that “The abuse and diversion of prescription opioids has contributed to a national tragedy of addiction and death …”  Purdue Pharma was dissolved in 2021 and the Sacklers ordered to turn over billions of dollars to address the opioid epidemic.  That will put a dent in the family fortune but still leaves these people very wealthy.

What is less known is the fact that any number of Big Pharma’s products could easily have been inserted into the story line to tell the same story.

Opioids, under their many labels (Hydrocodone, Hydromorphone, Percocet, Methadone, morphine, Oxycodone, Fentanyl, Vicodin, Demerol, Codeine, Opium, just to name a few), have been universally recognized for many years as being highly addictive.  Originally used for extreme pain, they have been marketed as ‘pain management’ over the last 20 years.

I have listed below just a few products of the pharmaceutical industry that are equally and often more addictive than the opioids in the television show.

Addictive Pharmaceuticals:

Alprazolam/Xanax - according to the CDC more than four times as many Americans dies in 2015 than 2002 overdoses that involved benzodiazepines.
Klonopin (Clonezepam)
Valium (Diazepam)
Adderall (Alprazolam)
Ritalin

Ativan (Lorazepam)
Librium (Chloridiazepoxide)
Phnazepam
Ambien (zolpidem)

Big Pharma and their henchmen (and women), the prescribing psychiatrists and doctors, have been marketing these drugs as beneficial and necessary for life maintenance.  They have been marketing these drugs directly to consumers for years and years.  They use TV ads and magazine ads; convincing the masses of the safety of these horribly addictive products. And convinced they are.

One of the nasty issues with these drugs, besides the fact the fact that they mess with your functionality is that they are so addictive.  It can take weeks and months to taper off.

Kelly Brogan, a psychiatrist, has several videos and articles on the addictiveness of these drugs and the dangers of withdrawal.

A quote from an article called ‘The Taper’ on Mad in America website:

Part of what has scared me straight about ever starting a patient on an antidepressant (or antipsychotic or mood stabilizer) again is bearing witness to the incredible havoc that medication discontinuation can wreak. This can range from transient headache, gastrointestinal distress, and irritability to violence, suicide, physiologic disability, and diffusion of identity.”  Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM  Nov 22, 2013

Another couple of quotes from an interview on the website Anxiety: Natural Solutions

“Even when we did [pharmaceutical withdrawal] responsibly, I was essentially running an outpatient rehab. I mean from neurologic symptoms to psychiatric symptoms, physical symptoms, autoimmune diseases flaring, patients developing impulsive behavior and even violence. It was beyond description.”

“When I taper patients off of meds, I normally do what’s called a test dose decrease, which often is around 20% to 25% of the dose. We come down by that. Again, this is after we’ve done the initial months at least of fairly strict dietary compliance working with relaxation response, doing 20 minutes or more of movement, working on sleep. All of this has to happen first. Then we begin, and so we start with a test dose. If we see in about 2 to 4 weeks that test dose is completely well-tolerated, meaning you don’t even notice the difference, then we probably can work in bigger increments. That’s actually a godsend. These tapers, when we’re working in 10% and less doses, could take literally years.”

- Medication Tapering and Withdrawal: an interview with Dr Kelly Brogan - Trudy Scott

It can take weeks, months and years for a doctor to help wean someone from these drugs.  The dangers of doing this incorrectly can be disastrous.

There are, though, two major problems preventing people withdrawing from these drugs at all. One, doctors and psychiatrists are not taught anything about health and how exactly to get people off these drugs. And two, the real problem is that those that are making billions of dollars from these highly profitable drugs just don’t want that to happen.

Safe and Effective?

Big Pharma just keeps marketing these drugs as ‘safe and effective”!

Check out the real life scenario.  The ‘Goliath’ TV show, I believe, was based on Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family, those wonderful people that created a swath of death through America with Opioids.  Search images of them and you will find happy, smiling faces. 

To me, if you were looking for the devil on Earth, any one of the Sacker family would be a good stand in. 

Again, though, you could insert any of the previous ‘mood altering’ drugs mentioned earlier and have the exact same story.  The marketing and the way these drugs are advertised allows Big Pharma to spread a thin veneer of respectability over something that is inherently evil and horribly destructive. 

And I’m being nice.

If one needs more information on tapering off pharmaceuticals, you should really get and read Dr. Peter Breggin’s book Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal 

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Here are the Aims of Psychiatry

#drugwithdrawal #kellybrogan #peterbreggin #drpeterbreggin  #goliath #sacklerfamily #purduepharma #psychiatry #bigpharma

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WHO Seeks to End Human Rights Violations

WHO Seeks to End Human Rights Violations

"World Health Organization Seeks to End Human Rights Violations"

I’m not normally a fan of the World Health Organization but I give them huge credit in this instance.  I have not read through all the documentation regarding this release but friends who I trust have.  Seems that all bases are covered. 

One of the notes in here is how little of government money goes to actual mental health, the majority, 98% of funds, going to psychiatric hospitals. 

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I’ve always felt that the psychiatrist industry is more about sickness and money that can be made from the ‘mentally ill’ than it ever has been about health. 

Big Pharma and psychiatry only make money if people are ill.  Exercise, eating healthy and long walks in the woods never garnered cash for these evil ones. 

This study coming out of The World Health Organization reminds me of a poem I heard years ago:

There is so much good
In the worst of us,
There is so much bad
In the best of us,
It ill behooves any of us,
To speak ill of the rest of us.
- Anonymous

The point for me, here, being that in this big bad organization there are some good people.  And in this case these folks are not just good but heroes in my book!

Here is a link to the news item on The World Health Organization's Website.  If you search online, you can find many, many references to this release.[/read]

The Hippocratic Oath

#who #worldhealthorganization #humanrights #mentalhealth

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WHO Redefines ‘Herd Immunity’

WHO Redefines ‘Herd Immunity’

World Health Organization Redefines ‘Herd Immunity’

I recently noticed on Instagram that the hash tag #naturalimmunity no longer existed.  You can tag a post with that but if you try and go to it, nada.  You can’t.  It has been deleted, made gone from the Instagram world.

I then started doing some research into Herd Immunity.

During this further research, I discovered the idea of ‘Herd Immunity’ is still there.  But it has been completely redefined by The World Health Organization.

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“The World Health Organization, for reasons unknown, has suddenly changed its definition of a core conception of immunology: herd immunity … Herd immunity speaks directly, and with explanatory power, to the empirical observation that respiratory viruses are either widespread and mostly mild (common cold) or very severe and short-lived (SARS-CoV-1). The reason is that when a virus kills its host … the virus does not spread to others. The more this occurs, the less it spreads … When it happens to enough people … the virus loses its pandemic quality and becomes endemic, which is to say predictable and manageable … This is what one would call Virology/Immunology 101. It’s what you read in every textbook. It’s been taught in 9th grade cell biology for probably 80 years … And the discovery of this fascinating dynamic in cell biology is a major reason why public health became so smart in the 20th century. We kept calm. We managed viruses with medical professionals: doctor/patient relationships … Until one day, this strange institution called the World Health Organization … has suddenly decided to delete everything I just wrote from cell biology basics. It has literally changed the science in a Soviet- like way. It has removed with the delete key any mention of natural immunities from its website. It has taken the additional step of actually mischaracterizing the structure and functioning of vaccines.”

from The American Institute for Economic Research

No more Natural Immunity?

So they take the idea of natural immunity out of the definition of ‘herd immunity’ and replace it with, well, vaccines. 

This is right out of the propaganda playbook of redefining words.  George Orwell would have been proud.  (Sarcasm) This is standard practice of modern Socialist tyrants.

Why would the World Health Organization (WHO) do something like this?  Money.  Follow the money.  That part is actually pretty easy.  With the WHO pushing vaccines instead of health, who benefits?

 

Some of the biggest financial supporters of the World Health Organization:

GlaxoSmithKline: over $7 million in 2017

Bayer AG: Over $1 million in 2017

Hoffman - La Roche: (Swiss Pharmaceutical) $2.6 million

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: $23 million

These people and companies make many times more than this back.  It’s been an excellent investment.  The pharmaceutical companies the Gates Foundation have made billions from vaccines.   

Another short quote from same article above:

“This change at WHO ignores and even wipes out 100 years of medical advances in virology, immunology and epidemiology.  It is thoroughly unscientific - shilling for the vaccine industry in exactly the way the conspiracy theorists say that WHO has been doing since the beginning of this pandemic. 
What’s even stranger is the claim that vaccine protects people from a virus rather than exposing them to it.  What’s amazing about this claim is that a vaccine works precisely by firing up the immune system through exposure … this has been known for centuries.  There is simply no way for medical science completely to replace the human immune system.  It can only game it via what used to be called inoculation.”

So, If definitions and 'facts' can be so easily changed online, perhaps it is time for us to go back to actual books for research! 

Definitions

Here are the 'before' and 'after' definitions of Herd Immunity from The World Health Organization website:

Before the definition was changed this was the definition of Herd Immunity on their website:

‘Herd immunity is the indirect protection from an infectious disease that happens when a population is immune either through vaccination or immunity developed through previous infection.’

It should be noted that “immunity developed through previous infection” is the way it’s worked since humans have been alive. Apparently, according to WHO, that’s no longer the case. In October 2020, here’s their updated definition of herd immunity, which is now a “concept used for vaccination”:

This is the NEW definition per The World Health Organization:

“Herd immunity”, also known as “population immunity”, is a concept used for vaccination, in which a population can be protected from a certain virus if a threshold of vaccination is reached. Herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not by exposing them to it. Vaccines train our immune systems to create proteins that fight disease, known as “antibodies”, just as would happen when we are exposed to a disease but—crucially—vaccines work without making us sick. Vaccinated people are protected from getting the disease in question and passing it on, breaking any chains of transmission. Visit our webpage on COVID-19 and vaccines for more detail. With herd immunity, the vast majority of a population are vaccinated … lowering the … overall amount of virus able to spread in the whole population. As a result, not every single person needs to be vaccinated to be protected, which helps ensure vulnerable groups who cannot get vaccinated are kept safe. This is called herd immunity.… The percentage of people who need to have antibodies in order to achieve herd immunity against a particular disease varies with each disease. For example, herd immunity against measles requires 95% of a population to be vaccinated. The remaining 5% will be protected by the fact that measles will not spread among those who are vaccinated. For polio, the threshold is about 80%. Achieving herd immunity with safe and effective vaccines makes diseases rarer and saves lives."

From the book: Truth About Covid by Dr Joseph Mercola

Completely different definitions. 

No more natural immunity in the newer definition!  Oops.

Add to the fact that Vaccine companies (read pharmaceutical companies) have been, for years, exempt from liabilities. They cannot be sued for any damages caused by vaccines. In the USA any lawsuits related to vaccines are defended by the Department of Justice and in the rare instance there is a payout, the money comes from taxpayers, not Big Pharma. 

Millions upon millions of dollars have gone into lobbying for laws and creating propaganda to make vaccines the solution instead of natural immunity.[/read]

Hippocratic Oath 

#herdimmunity #natural #immunity #worldhealthorganization #WHO #redefinitionofwords

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CBD Converts to THC

CBD Converts to THC

Is CBD safe?

It is possible for CBD to convert to THC under the right conditions.

This peer-reviewed scientific article expands on three key points:

 

1. CBD has been shown to convert to THC, the psychoactive component of marijuana with the use of electronic cigarettes.
2. Delta-8 THC is also one of the main components with the use of CBD in electronic cigarettes, which is psychoactive like delta-9 THC and is completely unregulated by the FDA and is easily accessible to youth without any safeguards in place.
3. CBD, is a main component found in hemp, was allowed by the US government to no longer be scheduled controlled substance – yet CBD converts easily to a controlled psychoactive substance (THC).

Read the full article:

"Our results point out that CBD in e-cigarettes can be considered as a precursor of THC, thus it bears all the dangers related to this psychoactive compound. Our findings are fundamental contributions to the safety profile of CBD-based e-cigarettes."
From Nature.com Article "CBD, a precursor of THC in e‑cigarettes"

Hippocratic Oath Page

#cbdoil #cbd #thc #marijuana

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René Firestone

René Firestone

The Last Days

“People wonder, how is it we didn’t do something, we didn’t run away, we didn’t hide. Well, things didn’t happen at once, things happened very slowly.  So, each time a new law came out or a restriction, we said, ‘Well, just another thing, it’ll blow over.’

- René Firestone, Holocaust survivor, from the documentary 'The Last Days'

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