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June 12, 2011

War on Drugs Has Failed: Global Commission - Health Supreme NewsGrabs 12 June 2011

Global Commission on Drug Policy - Report

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The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, and 40 years after President Nixon launched the US government’s war on drugs, fundamental reforms in national and global drug control policies are urgently needed.

Vast expenditures on criminalization and repressive measures directed at producers, traffickers and consumers of illegal drugs have clearly failed to effectively curtail supply or consumption. Apparent victories in eliminating one source or trafficking organization are negated almost instantly by the emergence of other sources and traffickers. Repressive efforts directed at consumers impede public health measures to reduce HIV/AIDS, overdose fatalities and other harmful consequences of drug use. Government expenditures on futile supply reduction strategies and incarceration displace more cost-effective and evidence-based investments in demand and harm reduction.

The principles and recommendations in summary

End the criminalization, marginalization and stigmatization of people who use drugs but who do no harm to others. Challenge rather than reinforce common misconceptions about drug markets, drug use and drug dependence.

Encourage experimentation by governments with models of legal regulation of drugs to undermine the power of organized crime and safeguard the health and security of their citizens. This recommendation applies especially to cannabis, but we also encourage other experiments in decriminalization and legal regulation that can accomplish these objectives and provide models for others.

Offer health and treatment services to those in need. Ensure that a variety of treatment modalities are available, including not just methadone and buprenorphine treatment but also the heroin-assisted treatment programs that have proven successful in many European countries and Canada. Implement syringe access and other harm reduction measures that have proven effective in reducing transmission of HIV and other blood-borne infections as well as fatal overdoses. Respect the human rights of people who use drugs. Abolish abusive practices carried out in the name of treatment – such as forced detention,


CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS SUCH AS ICD AND DSM

This campaign proposes that the time has come to help theory and practice in mental health move beyond this impasse by abolishing formal psychiatric diagnostic systems like ICD and DSM. By incorporating the latest evidence from epidemiology, cross-cultural studies and treatment outcome studies, the campaign highlights the extent to which the data is inconsistent with the dominant, diagnostic based, medical model remaining as the organising paradigm for practice. Continuing to use formal diagnostic systems to organise research, training, assessment, and treatment for those in mental distress is inconsistent with an evidence based approach capable of improving outcomes.


Book: A Way Out of Madness: Dealing with Your Family After You've Been Diagnosed with a Psychiatric Disorder

Dan Mackler is an amazing guy. Here is his latest book, A Way Out of Madness: Dealing with Your Family After You've Been Diagnosed with a Psychiatric Disorder. Dan is a filmmaker, writer, and musician in New York City. He also worked for ten years as a psychotherapist in New York, though ended his therapy practice on March 1st, 2010. His writings focus on the causes, consequences, and radical significance of childhood trauma. He sees childhood trauma as ranging from the extreme, which is common, to the mild, which is so much MORE common that few even notice it at all, much less call them by its proper name. He views the norm in our culture as being highly traumatized, and he views the average, and even above-average, childhood as being extremely traumatic – and the average parent as lacking both awareness of this and deep empathy for the child.

Will Hall, a mental diversity counselor, consultant, and writer based in Portland Oregon writes:
"This book gathers the best information we’ve come across and the most valuable lessons we’ve learned about reducing and coming off psychiatric medication. Includes info on mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics, anti-depressants, anti-anxiety drugs, risks, benefits, wellness tools, psychiatric drug withdrawal, information for people staying on their medications, detailed Resource section, and much more. A ‘harm reduction’ approach means not being pro- or anti-medication, but supporting people to make their own decisions balancing the risks and benefits involved. Written by Will Hall, with a 14-member health professional Advisory Board providing research assistance and 24 other collaborators involved in developing and editing. The guide has photographs and art throughout, and a beautiful original cover painting by Ashley McNamara."


How Big Pharma really influences your doctor

“All journals are bought—or at least cleverly used—by the pharmaceutical industry,” says Richard Smith, former editor of the British Medical Journal, who now sits on the board of Public Library of Science (PLoS), a nonprofit open-access group publishing scientific journals that eschew corporate financing and are freely available online to the public.

Big Pharma, as the top tier of the industry is known, starts modestly, inserting the thin edge of its wedge by advertising copiously—and often inaccurately—in medical journals. …


Could Cell Phone Radiation be a Cause of Autism?

We are told that as long as radiation is not ionizing, it is not destructive to cells and can therefore do no harm to human and animal physiology. The whole idea of exposure limits is based on this knowledge and a huge increase in communications related technological radiation in the microwave band has been built up in the last few decades. A period of time that also coincides with a huge increase in autism and related developmental disorders.

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The connection escapes both industry and the authorities that are supposed to watch that those technological developments are not harmful to human health. What if they are wrong? What if there is a mechanism by which technological radiation, even below the threshold where it becomes ionizing and starts heating up tissues, can influence physiology?

Andrew Goldsworthy says that there is indeed a possibility cell phone radiation could cause autism and he proposes an exact mechanism for this effect. The question now becomes: Can anything be done about it?

I believe there is ... and explain in the article how that radiation could possibly be rendere harmless.


Magnesium and Sudden Death by Cardiac Arrest

Due to lack of magnesium the heart muscle can develop a spasm or cramp and stop beating. Most people, including doctors, don't know it but without sufficient magnesium we will die. It is more than helpful to understand that our life span will be reduced if we run too long without sufficient magnesium in our cells and that the principal way our life is cut short is through cardiac arrest. Yet when someone dies of a heart attack people never say "He died from Magnesium Deficiency." Allopathic medicine is designed from the bottom up which means it ignores the true causes of death and disease. In the field of cardiology this is quite obvious.


UK: Bad reactions to medicines lead to one million people a year being admitted to hospital

Bad reactions to drugs have reached epidemic levels, according to a group of doctors and scientists.

Around one in 15 hospital admissions, each year more than a million patients, is due to adverse drug reactions, says the Safer Medicines Trust, based on official figures.

They say the current system is failing and animal testing of drugs is exposing patients to ‘dangerous’ treatments.


A Practical Guide to Avoiding Drug-Induced Nutrient Depletion
(by Hyla Cass, M.D.)

little known, but potentially life-saving fact is that common medications deplete your body of a host of vital nutrients essential to your health. In this practical guide I’ll show you how to avoid drug-induced nutrient depletion and discuss options for replacing nutrient-robbing medications with natural supplements.


Genetically engineered vaccines ‘Inherently unpredictable, dangerous’

‘Molecular biology, recombinant DNA technology and genetic engineering have opened the door to alternative strategies for vaccine production. Professor Terje Traavik of the Norwegian Institute of Gene Ecology, Tromso, Norway, says that ‘...from an ecological and environmental point of view many first generation live, genetically engineered vaccines are inherently unpredictable and possibly dangerous...’ He emphasises that such vaccines ‘should not be taken into widespread use until a number of problems have been clarified’.

Traavik’s comments and conclusions on genetically engineered vaccines can be found in his major study entitled An Orphan in Science: Environmental Risks of Genetically Engineered Vaccines, written on assignment with the Norwegian Directorate of Nature Management.


South Africa: Two babies die after vaccination

A Cape Flats community is shocked and enraged after the sudden mysterious death of two infants.

Manenberg residents say the three-month-old babies died within a few hours of each other after receiving their routine vaccination injections at the local clinic.

As I said last week, if you look at the death statistics that show when vaccinations were introduced, *any* side effect of vaccination is too great a risk.

(look further down the page, if you are on the homepage of this site, and find a graphic of vaccine death rates to see what I am referring to)


Australia: Doctors concerned over low flu vaccine uptake

‎"This year, the uptake of vaccine is low - it's about 20% of what we had in previous years..." says the doctor.

So the feeling must be that vaccine side effects are worse than the illness in a great number of cases. The government doctor who is interviewed here, has some trouble explaining just why the flu vaccine is important for all children...


Measles, Mumps, Rubella - everything you need to know about the MMR Vaccine

This is a comprehensive page with many links - a resource for anyone who wants to find out more about these vaccinations and the controversy that developed around them.


Video: SAY NO TO THE VACCINE
by Trillion, rapper from New Zealand


USA: Designing a Vaccine Safety System

The Government is obsessed with preventing every last case of even mild infections with an unproven and bloated one-size-fits all vaccine schedule, but has no serious commitment to even know the extent of, much less prevent, chronic vaccine adverse events. The obsession has inevitably lead to pressure to ignore, trivialize, or accept as unavoidable and acceptable “collateral damage” any adverse effects by public health and medical practitioners, basically ignoring or “disappearing” the “vaccine veterans” in the war against disease. We have no idea how much chronic illness is being caused by vaccines because the Government has refused to fund a comprehensive program of research comparing the health of unvaccinated children and animals to those fully vaccinated, and to conduct adequate research on the mechanisms of injury.


SUPREME COURT “BUYS” VACCINES

The case was Bruesewitz v. Wyeth. In 1992, Hannah Bruesewitz, six months old, had a hundred seizures after receiving the DPT vaccine. She was never the same.

Her parents tried to sue the manufacturer, Wyeth, but there was already a federal law on the books which stated that the only recourse was through the government’s labyrinthine Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

How the US Government, the US Supreme court and the pharmaceutical companies made a deal to continue using vaccines, although liability for the horrible side effects were threatening to bankrupt the manufacturers...


E-Coli outbreak in Germany - Cucumbers, beansprouts or a laboratory experiment?

After the Spanish cucumber growers got upset when they were blamed for the outbreak, now the German authorities say it's beansprouts grown in Germany. No one likes to talk about the genetic experiments they were doing with E-coli...

Here is a short article, translated from the German, that a reader sent along:

EHEC - a laboratory accident?

The first cases occurred in Hamburg, the highest incidence is in Schleswig-Holstein and Bremen. In the centre of Hamburg is the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute, where two out of three of Germany's high-security laboratories, including a new facility built in 2009, are located.

There, GE experiments with E. coli bacteria were carried out. Last year, Intercell conducted a clinical study of an ETEC vaccine patch there. The contaminated and investigated cucumbers came from a wholesale market three kilometres' distance away.

The usual epidemiological studies concerning contact persons and the prevalence of the infection in the population in the district are not being carried out. Instead, the investigation has focussed in an almost fanatical manner on vegetables, even though it is known that this intestinal bacterium can also be transmitted by humans and animals to humans.

Common sense tells us that a contamination of foodstuffs is unlikely, because if this was the source, we would have a lot more infections and infectons which are spread out over a much wider area.

The genome of the pathogen has been deciphered in China and in Hamburg, Germany, The virus is apparently the result of a mutation and the mixing of two known strains.

There has already been, in 2009, a laboratory accident, with Ebola virus. As in Germany there is no Ebola, the incident could not be covered up. EHEC however exists all over the world. Meanwhile, even the Hamburg water police is looking for a cause.The high-security laboratory is located only about 100 metres from the river Elbe.


Boy with 11 tumours sent home to die... survives after grandparents' alternative therapy treatments

Eleven tumours spread from his neck to his knees and his case appeared hopeless.
In 2007, doctors told his family there was nothing more they could do. They said they should take him home to enjoy his final months.
But Connah's family refused to give up hope. His grandparents began treating him with alternative therapies and, remarkably, he survived.


Roundup Birth Defects: Regulators Knew World's Best-Selling Herbicide Causes Problems, New Report Finds


Industry regulators have known for years that Roundup, the world's best-selling herbicide produced by U.S. company Monsanto, causes birth defects, according to a new report. The report, "Roundup and birth defects: Is the public being kept in the dark?" found regulators knew as long ago as 1980 that glyphosate, the chemical on which Roundup is based, can cause birth defects in laboratory animals.

But despite such warnings, and although the European Commission has known that glyphosate causes malformations since at least 2002, the information was not made public.

Instead regulators misled the public about glyphosate's safety, according to the report, and as recently as last year, the German Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety, the German government body dealing with the glyphosate review, told the European Commission that there was no evidence glyphosate causes birth defects.

Those are the same regulators, by the way, that say vitamin supplements (and herbal medicines that have been used since ancient times) are dangerous and have to be rigorously tested and limited in their dosages because there COULD be a (very hypothetical) danger to those consuming them.

So vitamins and herbs are dangerous, but Roundup is safe... we need new regulators!


Chris Gupta: Why Remove Fluoride From Phosphate Rock To Make Fertilizer

Here is a bit of history that illustrates why they feed us hydrofluorosilcic acid in our water. Show this to those who ask why should the authorities slow poison us!

"One of the main reasons for processing the raw phosphate rock for agricultural purposes is because of the fluoride content – mainly in the form of fluorosilicates/silicon tetrafluoride.

Back in the early part of the 20th century when industrial farming was first starting-up, they did many experiments on cheap mineral supplements for animals to keep costs down and profits up...


Fluoride and the Phosphate Connection

The reality of artificial water fluoridation is so complex that determining the safety of the practice may be impossible. Tap water is chemically treated with chlorine, soluble silicates, phosphate polymers and many other chemicals. In addition, the source water itself may contain a variety of contaminants.

The addition of a fluoridation agent can create synergized toxicants in a water supply that have unique toxico-kinetic properties found only in that particular water supply. Consequently, any maladies resulting from chronic ingestion of the product likely would be dismissed as a local or regional anomaly unrelated to water fluoridation.

Technically, artificially fluoridating drinking water is a violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). Under statutes of the SDWA, federal agencies are forbidden from endorsing, supporting, requiring or funding the practice of adding any chemicals to the water supply other than for purposes of water purification. However, the Public Health Service (PHS) applies semantics to circumvent Federal law in order to promote and fund the practice.

PHS states that they only recommend levels of fluorides in the drinking water, and it is the sole decision of a state or community to fluoridate drinking water.

Federal agencies are forbidden from directly funding or implementing water fluoridation but Federal Block Grants are given to States to use as they see fit. Through second and third parties (such as the American Dental Association, state health departments and state fluoridation coordinators), PHS encourages communities to apply for Federal Block Grant funds to implement fluoridation.

The legality of using of Federal Block Grant funds to fund water fluoridation, a practice prohibited by Federal law, has never been addressed in the courts.

Vendors selling the pollution concentrate as a fluoridation agent use a broad disclaimer found on the Material Data Safety Sheet that states: "no responsibility can be assumed by vendor for any damage or injury resulting from abnormal use, from any failure to adhere to recommended practices, or from any hazards inherent to the product."

The next time you turn on the tap and water gushes out into a glass, reflect on the following disclaimer from the EPA's 1997 Fluoride: Regulatory Fact Sheet: "In the United States, there are no Federal safety standards which are applicable to additives, including those for use in fluoridating drinking water."

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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Sunday June 12 2011
updated on Tuesday December 13 2011

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Readers' Comments


for drug pushers, crack dealers, etc. they ruin a life... take their life.. bring back capital punishment. Kill the bastards. the policy of minor incaceration has failed. the same for herion...and all other drugs that ruin lives. Keep it simple.. fry them in the chair.. email me... I'll do it. Just replug ol sparky in.

Posted by: george romanus on June 12, 2011 03:55 PM

 

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