Chapter 166: Why We Don’t Need Halcion, Antipsychotics, or other Brain-Damaging Drugs

Because there is a better way. We only have to let the people know the facts, and let them decide. We must STOP suppressing treatments that are not promoted by the pharmaceutical industry. Our system must integrate alternatives to drug treatments and our Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance companies must be required to pay for these treatments. Below is info on Finland’s successful Open Dialogue treatment. The Youtube trailer is a great and brief summary, and below it are statistics on how well this program is working. There is no excuse for the United States to continue to ignore what works and what is the safest and most compassionate way to help those suffering distress.

Again, please support my petition to Bring Robert Whitaker’s research to light in N.C. and start your own for your own state or region. America needs to hear what he has to say, and it must have this discussion sooner or later, so why not now?
http://www.change.org/petitions/north-carolina-public-radio-invite-robert-b-whitaker-to-speak
and Kingsley Knight’s petition to allow Whitaker to respond to an opinion printed in the NY Times supporting antidepressants
http://www.change.org/petitions/a-petition-to-nyt-requesting-an-opportunity-for-robert-whitaker-to-respond-to-dr-peter-kramer

Judi Chamberlin

http://spiritualrecoveries.blogspot.com/2006/05/dr-jaakko-seikkula-open-dialogue.html

http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/finnishopendialogue/

Other treatment options are also being suppressed – like Abram Hoffer’s work with Orthomolecular treatment and info found on the Brain Bio Centre’s website.

Chapter 72 — Thinking Outside the Pillbox

Just want to share this reply to one of the comments I received:

I’m hoping not only to expose the dangers of Halcion and other brain-altering drugs, but to also introduce treatments such as homeopathy and orthomolecular medicine (OM).

Margot Kidder, a proponent of OM, first turned me on to this discipline, and then I read Hoffer’s book on treating schizophrenia, and I can report that when my daughter followed a very simple protocol that focused on high levels of niacin (in the form of nadh – or a NO-FLUSH version), along with 1,000 mg of vitamin C, hydroxy B12 w/folic acid drops (recommended by Dr. Vinitsky), taurine, B6, Cal/mag and B-Complex, she improved DRAMATICALLY within a week.

However, this is a treatment that cannot be stopped once the patient starts recovering, and she did stop – and relapsed, seriously, only after about 2 months of not too strict adherence to the dosing.

I really really hope that “mental” institutions, “mental” health providers, and anyone who deals with disorders or deficiencies in the brain will START considering this and/or the homeopathic protocols BEFORE drugging people into states from which they may never recover.

In the case of benzodiazepine withdrawal, or even niacin deficiency (pellagra), a person can appear to be suffering from schizophrenia, for which they are usually given very strong and often destructive drugs, when in the case of benzo withdrawal, this kind of treatment could exacerbate the condition, and in the case of pellagra, the drug treatment would fail to address the problem that is easily cured with niacin.

We have become so much a drug-based society, that we can’t seem to think outside the pillbox any longer.

I appreciate your comments.
Brainrobber