This blog addresses the adverse effects of the sleeping pill, Halcion/Triazolam, as it is being fraudulently promoted and recklessly abused now by dentists, along with the devastating effect it has had on my daughter after she suffered a traumatic brain injury.
Sophie has now been incarcerated on a hospital psyche ward since January 14th.
For 39 days she has not been allowed sunlight or a breath of fresh air. She has committed no crime, and yet the dental board that waived special licensing its own rules required dentists to obtain before using even 1/2 the amount of Halcion she was prescribed has no penalties imposed upon it, nor has the dentist paid any price whatsoever so far.
Penn State’s Dr. Anthony Kales, in an interview with 60 Minutes in 1991, said this about Halcion: “The scientific evidence is overwhelming; this is a very, very dangerous drug.”
But the FDA committee composed of mostly conflicted interested individuals, said basically, “that’s OK, we’ll just lower the dose a bit.”
Then a decade later, a dentist named Silverman and an NIH scientist named Dionne said, in effect, “All this talk about Halcion is just media hype; it’s not dangerous; let’s forget all that nonsense and promote it as the ideal dental sedative,” with Silverman, I suspect getting help from the manufacturer’s PR personnel, producing one of the slickest promotional packages anyone’s ever seen, centered around the concept of “sleep dentistry.”
So I know about several casualties of this so-called sleep dentistry besides my daughter’s. In the most severe incident, John Coleman went to his dentist for “sleep dentistry” and never woke up.
To make matters worse, the brain injury (TBI) that preceded the overdosing of my daughter has been denied by those who have taken control of Sophie’s life, and she has not only been denied her freedom, stripped of basic human rights, but she has also been denied by Dare County Social Services and the doctors they control, her right to the proper medical evaluation and treatment.
She has also been denied the right to see her own mother. You see, I am “dangerous,” “negligent,” according to DSS, because I followed orders of doctors who are not bought by or ruled by the pharmaceutical industry, who have the sense to recognize the serious adverse effects of psychoactive drugs and the ability to read the facts about brain injury, ie that CT Scans do not detect most brain damage, the kind that can cause the most severe psychiatric and behavioral symptoms, and that there IS no FDA-approved pharmacological treatment for brain injury.
But facts don’t matter to government agencies like our Department of Social Services. The government, in general, often doesn’t seem to factor in facts in its decision-making process.
So those who do and make those who don’t look bad, end up being punished for basing their actions on facts.
With DSS in charge, Sophie is being forced-drugged with drugs KNOWN to cause further brain damage, even though the cause of her current symptoms stems back to brain damage and prescription drug overdose.
And yet NOT ONE news source will tell this story or even discuss this issue as it relates to our seriously broken mental health system, while coverage of civil rights violations all over the world continues daily.
“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. ”
–Edward R. Murrow
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