Julie was in her final year of high school and looking forward to her plans for life, which included marriage and children. When she began having trouble at a new school after a bout of insomnia, she became withdrawn and quiet. A psychiatrist prescribed her an antidepressant. One week later, her father walked into his garage and found his daughter had hanged herself from the ceiling.
12-year-old Caitlin hanged herself using shoelaces in a school bathroom stall. Only two months prior, she had been labeled as depressed and prescribed an antidepressant, which led to prescriptions for three other psychiatric drugs. Her father stated: She wasn’t in control of the drugs and they were driving her feelings to the point where she couldn’t stand it anymore.
After moving to a new neighborhood, Matt’s parents noticed he was a bit sullen. Teachers recommended that Matt, aged 13, get professional help. A psychiatrist gave him a free sample of an antidepressant. Seven days later, Matt’s mother went to collect the laundry from her sons room and found he had hanged himself inside his closet.
Over 100 children have committed suicide while taking antidepressants like Prozac, prescribed for what their parents were led to believe was a chemical imbalance in the brain. However, little did they know that this was a drug company-marketing scheme designed to increase the sales of antidepressants. This admission by several executives of the American Psychiatric Association was made in 2005, some 18 years after Prozac came on the market.
Facts:
Unlike medical diseases, for which physical tests exist to diagnose, no such test exists for any mental disorder. The director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health testified before Congress that not a single cause or cure has been established for any mental disorder.
Drug companies produced new antidepressants with claims that they could correct a chemical imbalance in the brain that causes depression despite no test existing to prove this. The FDA there to protect the health of American citizens did not require any proof of this theory either. Investigative journalists determined drug company scams to get psychoactive (mind altering) drugs approved, reporting:
Drug companies fund studies that show the drugs efficacy in treating an obscurely known mental disorder in the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders the billing bible of psychiatry.
Prominent psychiatrists are recruited to publicly affirm the malady as a huge problem.
PR firms (for the drug companies) launch campaigns to promote the new disorder, using dramatic statistics from corporate-sponsored studies.
Patient groups subsidized by drug makersare recruited or invented to serve as the public face for the disorder, supplying quotes for the media.
The drug gets approved for use in this now epidemic problem.
The free booklet, “The Truth about Cocaine” (available on the drugfreeworld.org website) describes this drug, once the favorite of corporate executives and entertainment personalities, now a deadly street killer.
Ecstasy is usually taken orally in pill, tablet or capsule form. Taking more than one at a time is called “bumping.”
Ecstasy is a synthetic drug made in a laboratory. Makers may add anything they choose to the drug, such as caffeine, amphetamines and even cocaine. Ecstasy is illegal and has effects similar to hallucinogens and stimulants. It is addictive. The pills are of different colors and are sometimes marked with cartoon-like images. Mixing ecstasy with alcohol is extremely dangerous and can be lethal.
The stimulative effects of drugs like ecstasy enable the user to dance for long periods, and when combined with the hot, crowded conditions found at raves, can lead to extreme dehydration and heart or kidney failure.
Check out this intense video. I don’t want to say too much about it, you just have to watch it yourself.
They said I wouldn’t get hooked after the first hit…
As cocaine interferes with the way the brain processes chemicals, one needs more and more of the drug just to feel “normal.” People who become addicted to cocaine (as with most other drugs) lose interest in life.
Coming down from the drug causes severe depression, which becomes deeper and deeper after each use. This can get so severe that a person will do almost anything to get the drug — even commit murder. And if he or she can’t get cocaine, the depression can get so intense it can drive the addict to suicide.
Children are the future,
but psychiatry is making sure
20 million wont have one
by prescribing them psychiatric drugs. These drugs are so dangerous that government authorities have issued black box warnings of mania, hostility, suicide, stroke and sudden death. 20,000,000 means more children taking potentially lethal psychiatric drugs than the entire populations of Australia or Ireland, Denmark, Norway and Finland combined.
Think psychiatry has nothing to do with you?
Think again.
Through rare historical and contemporary footage and interviews with more than 160 doctors, attorneys, educators, survivors and experts on the mental health industry and its abuses, this riveting documentary blazes the bright light of truth on the brutal pseudoscience and the multi-billion dollar fraud that is psychiatry.
We think you have the right to know the cold, hard facts about psychiatry, its practitioners and the threat they pose to our children.
The same way psychiatrists prescribe psychotropic drugs, for a “chemical imbalance” in the brain which is causing a “mental disorder,” marijuana is being prescribed, in much the same way. And the only thing these drugs are really doing is masking the symptoms with addictive and mind altering drugs as opposed to solving the underlying problem which is causing these symptoms.
No one denies that people can have difficult problems in their lives, that at times they can be mentally unstable. Mental health care is therefore both valid and necessary. However, the emphasis must be on workable mental healing methods that improve and strengthen individuals and thereby society by restoring people to personal strength, ability, competence, confidence, stability, responsibility and spiritual well-being.
What I’m suggesting is practical solutions to life’s problems. Solutions which get you off mind-altering substances and on a road to better mental health.
While marriages still outnumber divorces, the gap is rapidly closing. In this chapter of the Scientology Handbook you will discover methods to make a marriage work, and find out why many marriages fail.
With the information in the Scientology handbook you’ll know who to associate with, who to avoid, and you will be able to help those who are mired in uncomfortable situations with others.
The application of Scientology principles to the bringing up of children can ensure that they are happy, loving and productive, and that they become valuable members of the societies in which they live.
With this chapter of the Scientology Handbook you can help someone get off the emotional seesaw of doing well one day and badly the next.
The Scientology religion contains workable answers to the problems people face in their lives. The subject matter of Scientology is all life. It contains practical means through which predictable improvement can be obtained in any area to which it is applied.
Scientology recognizes that man is not just so many vials of chemicals fortuitously combined into a remarkable stimulus-response machine. Scientology views man as a spiritual being with native capabilities which can be improved far beyond what is generally believed possible. In fact, it has been demonstrated that man deteriorates to the degree that he denies his spiritual nature and ceases to live with moral values, such as trust, honesty, integrity and other sometimes intangible characteristics.
By seeing man as essentially spiritual, Scientology follows in the traditional view of man and his relationship to the universe. Scientology, however, is unique in that it contains practical means of enabling man to resolve his material concerns and so come to achieve his spiritual aspirations. In this regard Scientology is an improvement over any earlier practice in terms of what it can actually do to help man.
The situations to which Scientology can be applied are as varied as human activity itself.
If a child cannot read well and is falling behind the rest of the class, Scientology study technology can help dispense with a liability that would otherwise affect the rest of his or her life.
With Scientology, many, many marriages have been saved and strengthened.
The emphasis in Scientology is on the application of exact methodologies in order to bring about change in the conditions of an individual’s life. The aim of Scientology is to put a person into a condition where he can be more self-determined about living a happier, more fulfilling life.
“There can be no purpose worth contemplating which does not include happiness and experience. When a man is no longer able to envision happiness as a part of his future, that man is dead.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Millions of people all over the world have used Scientology to improve their lives and help their fellows. This handbook contains the basic Scientology principles and methods most often employed to help people get along better in interpersonal relationships, be more successful in their work, improve their family life, and effectively help their friends, family and associates do the same.
Scientology does not require that one change his or her beliefs or convictions to use it successfully. All you have to do is apply the data and observe for yourself whether or not it works. You as you are now, can do more good for yourself and for those around you than you ever imagined, and gain enormous personal satisfaction doing it.
I have therefore provided links to on-line material which provides solutions to life’s big and little problems.
“Crack turned me into a liar. I lied to everyone including myself. I own a large record company, but almost lost it because I was unable to work any longer. I told people I had no time, when I was in fact spending my days taking drugs in my office. I didn’t care about anything. I made huge mistakes. The shareholders of my company would have tossed me out and I know I would have gone to jail if I hadn’t decided to stop.”
Of all drugs, cocaine creates the greatest psychological dependence. It stimulates key pleasure centers within the brain and causes extremely heightened euphoria. However, an individual quickly develops a tolerance to the drug, requiring higher dosages and more frequent use in order to get the same effect. Cocaine cravings can be so strong that just the memory of the euphoria associated with use of the drug can trigger the desire to use it again, even after long periods of abstinence.
Deadly combinations of drugs.
Cocaine is sometimes taken with other drugs, including tranquilizers, amphetamines, marijuana and heroin. Such combinations greatly magnify the danger of using cocaine. In addition to the likelihood of developing a two-drug habit, one can easily create a mixture of narcotics that proves fatal.
Hashish: A dangerous road toward cocaine addiction
A hashish or marijuana user is ten times more likely to become a cocaine or heroin addict than a cigarette smoker is to develop lung cancer. “I had no more future. I did not see how I could escape my cocaine dependence. I was lost. I was ‘exploding’ and unable to stop myself from continuing to seriously abuse cocaine. I had hallucinations that animals were crawling under my skin. I felt them each time that I shot up and scraped myself with the point of my syringe until I started bleeding in order to make them leave. I was once bleeding so heavily from this I ended up in the hospital.” What are the sort-term effects of cocaine? All drugs are poisons. The amount you take determines how a drug will effect you. A small amount can make you feel euphoric, energetic, talkative and mentally alert. Larger doses put you to sleep. An even larger dose can kill you. This is true of cocaine or any drug.
Initially, a cocaine high may last from 15 to 30 minutes, but as one’s tolerance to the drug increases, the high may last only 5 to 10 minutes, requiring increasingly larger and larger amounts of the drug to get the same effect.
Quantities of several hundred milligrams or more intensify the user’s high, but lead to bizarre, erratic and violent behavior. A person on the drug can experience tremors, dizziness, muscle twitches and paranoia. The drug can react on the heart, resulting in heart attack, seizures and failure in breathing.
What are the long-term effects of cocaine?
The phrase “dope fiend” was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side-effects of constant cocaine use. As tolerance to the drug increases, it becomes necessary to take greater and greater quantities to get the same effects. Prolonged daily use causes sleep deprivation and loss of appetite. A person can become psychotic and begin to experience hallucinations.
Coming down from the drug causes severe depression, a state that becomes deeper and deeper with each repeated use of the drug. In this condition, a person will do almost anything to get it, including commit murder. And if one cannot get cocaine, the depression can deepen to such a degree that he or she becomes suicidal.
“Don’t touch cocaine. I spent two years in jail because I took this drug. And when I got out, life was so hard I started taking the drug again. I know ten girls who became prostitutes because of coke. It’s much more extreme and degrading than we believe. At the time we take it, we don’t realize to what degree it is destroying us.”
Cocaine is one of the oldest and most dangerous drugs known to man. It is highly addictive and once a person begins taking it, it is almost impossible to free oneself from its grip. Today, cocaine is a world-wide, multi-billion dollar enterprise. Once considered a “rich man’s drug,” a young person today can buy a few grams of cocaine for little more than the cost of a movie ticket.
“You believe that coke will increase your perceptions, that it will allow you to surpass yourself, that you will be able to control things. It’s bloody nonsense. Soon you won’t pay your bills, you won’t bathe anymore, you give up your friends, your family. You will become defenseless and alone.”
But cocaine is very addictive. It can cause death from respiratory failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage or heart attack. Babies born to cocaine-addicted mothers are born addicts themselves. And many suffer birth defects, irreversible genetic damage and many other problems.
Cocaine use continues to flourish, even though the drug is so dangerous. Perhaps this is due to the large amount of false information about the drug that results in increasing numbers of people becoming trapped in the grip of addiction, unable to escape.
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“Crack turned me into a liar. I lied to everyone including myself. I own a large record company, but almost lost it because I was unable to work any longer. I told people I had no time, when I was in fact spending my days taking drugs in my office. I didn’t care about anything. I made huge mistakes. The shareholders of my company would have tossed me out and I know I would have gone to jail if I hadn’t decided to stop.” ![[image]](http://www.drugfreelife.org/img/page05_1.jpg)
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