PSYCHIATRIC
DRUGS:
Hazards
to the Brain
PROLIXIN
MELLARIL HALDO
COGENTIN
NAVANE TRILAFON LITHIUM
CARBONATE
THORAZINE STELAZINE COMPAZINE
Review of:
Psychiatric Drugs: Hazards et al -
Breggin
Review of
HALDOL from Physicians Desk Reference (PDR), with Side
Effects
Review of Guide
To
Prescription...Drugs
Wisconsin
Statutes in Regards to Psychotropic
Drugging
Wisconsin
Statutes Recognizing Anti-drug
Religions
MIND-ALTERING
DRUGS - WHAT
DOES GOD’S WORD SAY?
Dr. Roger Peter Breggin, M.D. is
Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Psychiatry,
a psychiatric reform institute.
Dr. Breggin’s radical departure from mainstream, drug-oriented psychiatry
came about with the realization
of the immense damage being done by psychiatrists who use long term
major tranquilizers on
patients. With his rejection of drugs that abuse, rather than heal, he has
spear-
headed the need for
psychiatry to look at the scientific facts of what they are doing to their
patients.
Besides having a
non-drug psychiatric practice in Bethesda, Maryland, he is also a teaching
fellow at
Harvard Medical
school. He also has been a full-time consultant to the National Institute of
Mental Health involved in research of crippling diseases. His book:
PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS: Hazards to
the Brain
is published by Springer
Publications, New York, 200 Park Ave. South, 10003. He also has 28 other
publications such
as:
PSYCHIATRY and
PSYCHOTHERAPY as Political
Processes
ELECTRO-SHOCK: Its
Brain-Disabling Effects
The
Psychiatric Holocaust
The
Supreme Court as Child
Abuser
Psychiatric Oppression of
Prisoners
Psychosurgery for
Political Purposes
Therapy as
Applied Utopian
Politics
Brain-Disabling
Therapies
PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS: Hazards to the
Brain
by Peter Roger Breggin,
M.D.
(Copyright requirements have
been met and permission has been granted
to extract excerpts for this
study.)
The vast majority of patients on the
typical hospital psychiatric ward receive one
or more major tranquilizers, known by
trade names such as Thorazine, Mellaril, Prolixin, Stelazine, and Haldol.
Others receive lithium or antidepressants such as Elavil. Often
90 to 100% of the patients in state
mental hospitals, veterans administration hospitals, general hospitals and
private facilities receive one or more of these drugs. (Pg.
1)
Many others who seem to be taking the
drugs voluntarily have not been informed about their potentially damaging
consequences.
BRAIN-DISABLING THERAPY
and BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
The apparent improvement that patients
show is actually a disability, a loss of mental capacity inflicted by the drugs.
By rendering the patients less able to think, to
feel or to determine the course of their
conduct, these drugs make the patients less troublesome to others and sometimes
less troublesome to themselves.
It
is widely assumed among psychiatrists that schizophrenia is a disease and
that major tranquilizers, such as
Thorazine, Mellaril, Prolixin, and Haldol are specific treatments for this
disease.
Severe depression is also
assumed to be a disease and to be treatable by the antidepressants such as
Elavil. Most recently we have been informed that “manic-depressive
disorder” is an illness much like diabetes, and that it can be held in
remission by lithium much as diabetes
can be controlled by insulin. (Pg. 2) But the major tranquilizers are used
for almost every diagnostic category in psychiatry; more
than two-thirds of patients in most
hospitals are treated with these substances. To
the contrary, we will find massive
evidence for a nonspecific brain-disabling
effect.
The various major psychiatric
drugs provide a sophisticated, disguised blow on the
head. (Pg.
3)
We already know enough about the
drugs to correlate their general toxicity,
plus their more specific disruption of
biochemical processes in the emotion regulating
centers of the brain, with their
widespread disruption of mental processes and their lobotomy-like
effects.
THE MAJOR PSYCHIATRIC
DRUGS
All the major psychiatric drugs are highly
neurotoxic (poisonous to nerve cells);
all frequently produce widespread brain
dysfunction in their routine therapeutic dose range; and all achieve their
primary, overriding effect on the patient by producing
some degree of brain
dysfunction.
As noted, the major
tranquilizers are the most common drugs used in mental hospitals and other
institutions. As I shall demonstrate, they produce
severe,
permanent neurologic
damage (tardive dyskinesia) and
should be presumed to
cause dementia,
lobotomy effects and permanent
psychoses.
They have a particularly
great capacity to produce severe disruption of the
mental
faculties.
Lithium is a metal that is
used in its salt form as a therapy for mania (extreme euphoric excitement) and
sometimes for depression, as well as for the long-term prevention of extreme
mood swings. It, too, is highly neurotoxic and in its effective
dose range, typically produces
widespread disruption of mental processes. Like all braindisabling therapies,
it can be used to suppress or control any animal or
individual. (Pg. 4)
When used in their effective
clinical doses, the major psychiatric drugs do not “tranquilize” at
all. They very frequently produce mental and physical discomfort and often they
cause severe neurological impairment and mental anguish. Usually the
patient usually feels
“curbed” or “suppressed”, often in an uncomfortable
manner; at worst, the patient feels tortured by physical and mental symptoms of
central nervous system dysfunction, such as severe jitteriness that makes
sitting impossible, or extreme mental sluggishness that makes thinking and
feeling difficult. (Pg. 5)
Unlike the minor tranquilizers, the major
tranquilizers are so mentally disruptive
in their effective dose range that
patients are sometimes unaware of their debilitated state. Much like surgical
lobotomy patients, they may not complain about their
iatrogenic (treatment-induced) symptoms,
or about the symptoms of other diseases
that they develop while taking the
drug.
The major tranquilizers were
developed in the setting of the state mental
hospital, and were initially used,
without apology, for the control or pacification of the
inmates.
They can be dangerous, even
lethal, especially in combination with other drugs, such as the major
psychiatric drugs or alcohol.
It is
ironic that the major psychiatric drugs, which cause far more damage and which
are often forced on patients, have received very little “bad
press”.
...but in my view it is
more dangerous that psychiatrists can abuse others by subduing and controlling
them with the major psychiatric drugs. (Pg.
6)
CHAPTER 2 -
DISABLING THE MIND WITH
THE MAJOR TRANQUILIZERS
Any casual visitor to a modern mental hospital
will be struck by the lethargy,
apathy
and indifference that characterize the majority of the
inmates.
Nearly every one of these
patients is treated by a class of drugs variously called major tranquilizers,
ataraxics, neuroleptics, antipsychotic or antischizophrenic agents. These
highly neurotoxic, brain-disabling substances have replaced electroconvulsive
treatment (ECT) and psychosurgery as the main techniques of control in mental
hospitals. (Pg.
7)
ALL
THE MAJOR TRANQUILIZERS NOW IN CLINICAL USE PRODUCE TARDIVE DYSKINESIA IN A
LARGE PERCENTAGE OF PATIENTS DURING ROUTINE
TREATMENT.
This usually
irreversible neurological disease tends to appear most frequently in older
people after several months or more of therapy, but may appear earlier in the
course of treatment in people of any age and both sexes. Tardive dyskinesia
typically involves bizarre, disfiguring, involuntary rhythmic movements of the
face and mouth (protrusion of the tongue, puffing of the cheeks, chewing or
puckering movements),
and more
occasionally, various involuntary movements of the limbs, trunk and
respiratory system. It can be slightly
or wholly debilitating.
Finally, the
major tranquilizers are known to produce permanent psychoses,
and must be presumed to produce
permanent psychoses and must be presumed to produce a deep lobotomy-like effect
by disabling the reticular activating system, as
well as a classic lobotomy-like effect
disabling the limbic system and the frontal lobes.
In more severe cases, these drugs can
cause irreversible mental dysfunction, leading
to dementia or delapidation. These
results are achieved by a combination of general toxicity for nerve cells and
specific disruption of neurotransmission systems. (Pg.
8)
The paradigm (example) for this is
the state mental hospital where many
diverse individuals are confined. But
the drugs are also used extensively in other institutions, including nursing
homes, institutions for the retarded, prisons and, in
the Soviet Union, political
prison-hospitals. The effect of these drugs, far from being specific for
“the treatment of schizophrenia”, is everywhere the same-the
enforcement
of conformity to authority
within the institution. One of the most tragic uses of the tranquilizers takes
place on a routine basis in the typical nursing home. In many the major
tranquilizers are the most frequently prescribed drugs, and in some nearly all
the patients are made listless and
docile until death overtakes
them.
A decade ago, Nelson H.
Cruikshank, president of the National Council of Senior Citizens, declared
“Exclusive use of the tranquilizers can quickly reduce an ambulatory
patient to a zombie, confining the patient to a chair or bed, causing the
patient’s
muscles to atrophy
(wasting away of a part or parts of the body) from inaction, and causing general
health to deteriorate
rapidly”.
...one of the
undesirable side effects of these drugs is that they reduce one’s
desire and ability to interact with
other people.
...often persons are
automatically put on these drugs upon admission, regardless
of physical or emotional con-
dition-that senility is chemically induced by medication in
many instances, thus justifying the use
of even more drugs. Case histories of such
abuses abound in the files of federal,
state, and local health and welfare agencies.
(Pgs. 19 & 20)
Chapter 7 -
LOBOTOMY, DEMENTIA and
PSYCHOSIS PRODUCED
BY the MAJOR
TRANQUILIZERS
Can the major tranquilizers produce permanent
mental dysfunction by damaging the
higher centers of the brain? These
drugs are powerful neurotoxins (nerve poisoning) that frequently damage loser
portions of the brain, often causing permanent neurological
dysfunction. It takes no great leap
of the imagination to appreciate the possibility that these
same drugs may produce damage to the
limbic system (lobotomy-like effects) and more
generalized brain damage. Yet this
tragic possibility has seldom been mentioned even in
passing in the psychiatric literature
and relevant evidence has been suppressed. The most threatening aspect of
modern psychiatric treatment is that millions of patients throughout the
world are being saddled with
permanent lobotomy effects, irreversible drug-induced psychoses, chronic organic
brain syndromes and ultimately, dementia. (Pg. 110)
PHYSICIANS DESK
REFERENCE
1987 Edition
HALDOL - (brand of
Haloperidol)
Description
- Haloperidol is the first of the butyrophenone series of major
tranquilizers
Actions -
The precise mechanism of action has not been clearly
established.
Indications - Haldol haloperidol
is indicated for use in the management
of manifestations of psychotic
disorders.
Haldol is effective for
the treatment of severe behavior problems in children of combative, explosive
hyperexcitibility (which cannot be accounted for by
immediate
provocation).
Haldol is also
effective in the short-term treatment of hyperactive children who
show excessive motor activity with
accompanying conduct disorders consisting
of some or all of the following
symptoms: impulsivity, difficulty sustaining
attention, aggressivity, mood lability
and poor frustration tolerance. Haldol
should be reserved for these two groups
of children only after failure to
respond to psycotherapy of medications
other than
neuroleptics.
Contraindications
- (To indicate the danger or undesirability of a given drug or
treatment)
Haldol haloperidol is
contraindicated in severe toxic central nervous system depression or comatose
states from any cause and in individuals who are hypersensitive to this drug or
have Parkinson’s
Disease.
Warnings -
Tardive Dyskinesia: A syndrome consisting of potentially irreversible,
involuntary, dyskinetic movements may develop in patients treated with
neuroleptic (antipsychotic) drugs.
Although the prevalence of the syndrome appears to be highest among the elderly,
especially elderly women, it is
impossible to rely upon prevalence
estimates to predict, at the inception of neuroleptic treatment, which patients
are likely to develop the syndrome.
Whether neuroleptic drug products differ in
their potential to cause tardive dysknesia is unknown. Both the risk of
developing the syndrome and the
likelihood that it will become
irreversible are believed to increase as the duration
of treatment and the total cumulative
dose of neuroleptic drugs administered to
the patient increase.
However, the
syndrome can develop, although much less commonly,
after
relatively
brief treatment periods at low doses.
Adverse Reactions -
Extrapyramidal reactions (Increased stimulation of two regions
of muscles located in the cerebral
cortex (the brain) and the associative nerves) during the administration of
Haldol haloperidol have been reported frequently,
often during the first few days of
treatment. In most patients, these reaction involved Parkinson-like symptoms
which, when first observed, were usually mild
to moderately severe and usually
reversible. Other types of neuromuscular
reactions (motor restlessness, systonia
and tardive dystonia, akathisia,
hyperreflexia, opisthotonos
(arched-back position with head and heel on the horizontal), oculogeric crises
(eye diseases prominent in elderly) have been
reported far less frequently, but were
often more severe.
Severe
extrapyramidal reactions have been reported to occur
at relatively
low doses.
As with all antipsychotic agents Haldol has
been associated with persistent dyskinesias (impairment of the ability to make
any physical motion). Tardive dyskinesia, a syndrome consisting of potentially
irreversible, involuntary,
dyskinetic
movements, may appear in some patients on long-term therapy...
Complete Guide To
PRESCRIPTION & NON-PRESCRIPTION
DRUGS
By H. Winter Griffith,
M.D.
Haloperidol - (Brand Names)
Apo-Haloperidol,
Haldol
Uses - Reduces
severe anxiety, agitation and psychotic
behavior.
What Drug Does - Corrects
an imbalance in nerve impulses from the
brain.
Symptoms -
COMMON: Shuffling, stiffness,
jerkiness, trembling, blurred vision, dry
mouth,
constipation.
INFREQUENT:
Dizziness, faintness, drowsiness, rash, circling motions of
tongue, nausea or vomiting, urination
difficulty, decreased sexual
ability.
Drug Class -
Tranquilizer
(antipsychotic)
Warnings and
Precautions - Don’t take
if:
*You have ever been allergic to
haloperidol.
*You are
depressed.
*You have Parkinson’s
Disease.
*Patient is younger than 3
years old.
Before you
start - consult your doctor:
*If
you take sedatives, sleeping pills, tranquilizers, antidepressants,
antihistamines, narcotics or
mind-altering drugs.
*If you have a
history of mental depression.
*If you
have had kidney or liver problems.
*If
you have diabetes, epilepsy, glaucoma, high blood pressure or heart
disease.
*If
you drink alcoholic beverages
frequently.
Over age 60
- Adverse reactions and side effects may be more frequent and
severe than in younger
persons.
Prolonged Use
- May develop tardive dyskinesia (Involuntary movements of jaws,
lips and
tongue).
Discontinuing
- Don’t discontinue without consulting doctor. Dose may
require
gradual
reduction if you have taken drug for a long
time. Doses of other drugs may also require adjustment.
THE MAJOR
TRANQUILIZERS
Chlorpromazine Compazine Dartol Daxolin
Haldol
Lidone Loxitane
Mellaril Moban
Permitil
Proketazine Prolixin
Quide Repoise
Serentil
Stelazine Taractan
Thorazine Tindal Trilafon
Vesprin
(Pg. 9)
51.51 MENTAL HEALTH ACT
85-86 WIS. STATS.
1026
...such conditions
through the department or a county department under s. 51.42
or 51.437 or in a private
treatment facility. “Patient does now include persons
committed under ch. 975 who are
transferred to or residing in any state prison listed under s 53.01. In private
hospitals and in public general hospitals, “patient” includes
any individual who is admitted
for the primary purpose of treatment of mental illness, developmental
disability, alcoholism or drug abuse but does not include an individual
who receives treatment in a
hospital emergency room nor an individual who receives treatment on an
outpatient basis at such hospitals, unless the individual is otherwise covered
under this subsectional except as provided in sub. (2), each patient
shall:
(a) Upon admission or
commitment be informed orally and in writing of his or
her rights under this section.
Copies of this section shall be posted conspicuously in
each patient area, and shall be
available to the patient’s guardian and immediate
family.
(b) 1. Have the right to
refuse to perform labor which is of financial benefit
to
the facility in which the
patient is receiving treatment or service. Privileges or release from the
facility may not be conditioned upon the performance of any labor which is
regulated by this paragraph. Patients may voluntarily engage in therapeutic
labor
which is of financial
benefit to the facility if such labor is compensated in accordance
with a plan approved by the
department and if:
a. The
specific labor is an integrated part of the patient’s treatment plan
approved as a therapeutic
activity by the professional staff member responsible for supervising the
patient’s treatment;
b.
The labor is supervised by a staff member who is qualified to oversee the
therapeutic aspects of the
activity;
c. The patient has
given his or her written informed consent to engage in such labor and has been
informed that such consent may be withdrawn at any time;
and
d. The labor involved is
evaluated for its appropriateness by the staff of the
facility at least once every 120
days.
2. Patients may also
voluntarily engage in noncompensated therapeutic
l
abor which is of financial
benefit to the facility, if the conditions for engaging in compensated labor
under this paragraph are met and
if:
a. The facility has
attempted to provide compensated labor as a first alternative and all resources
for providing compensated labor have been
exhausted;
b. Unconpensated
therapeutic labor does not cause layoffs of staff hired by the facility to
otherwise perform such labor,
and
c. The patient is not
required in any way to perform such labor. Tasks of a personal housekeeping
nature are not to be considered compensable
labor.
3. Payment to a patient
performing labor under this section shall not be
applied to costs of treatment
without the informed, written consent of such patient.
This paragraph does not apply to
individuals serving a criminal sentence who are transferred from a state
correctional institution under s. 51.37 (5) to a treatment
facility.
(c)
Have an unrestricted right to send sealed mail and receive sealed mail to or
from legal counsel, the courts, governmental officials, private physicians and
licensed psychologists, and have reasonable access to letter writing materials
including
postage stamps. A
patient shall also have a right to send sealed mail and receive
sealed mail to or from other
persons, subject to physical examination in the patient’s presence if
there is reason to believe that such communication contains contraband materials
or objects which threaten the security of patients, prisoners or staff. Such
reasons shall be written in the individual’s treatment record. The
officers and staff
of a facility
may not read any mail covered by this paragraph.
(d) Except in the case of a
person who is committed for alcoholism, have the
right to petition the court for
review of the commitment order or for withdrawal of
the order or release from
commitment as provided in s. 51.20
(16).
(e) Have the right to
the least restrictive conditions necessary to achieve the purposes of admission,
commitment or placement, except in the case of a patient
who is admitted or transferred
under s. 51.35 (3) or 51.37 or under ch. 971 or
975.
(f) Have the right to
receive prompt and adequate treatment, rehabilitation
and educational services
appropriate for his or her
condition.
(g) Prior to the
final commitment hearing and court commitment orders, have
the right to refuse all
medication and treatment except as ordered by the court under
this paragraph, or in a situation
where such medication or treat- ment is necessary to prevent serious physical
harm to the patient or to others. Medications and treatment during such
period may be refused on religious grounds only as provided in par. (h).
At or after the hearing to
determine probable cause, the court may issue an order permitting medication to
be administered to the individual regardless of his or her consent if it finds
that such medication will have therapeutic value and will not unreasonably
impair the ability of the indi- vidual to prepare for or participate in
subsequent legal pro-ceedings, and that there is probable cause to believe that
the individual is not competent to refuse medication. Before issuing such an
order, the
court shall hold a
hearing on the matter which meets the requirements of s. 51.20
(5), except for the right to a
jury trial.
An individual is
not competent to refuse medication if because of mental illness, developmental
disability, alcoholism or drug dependence, the individual is incapable
of expressing an understanding of
the advantages and disadvantages of accepting treatment, and the alternatives to
accepting the particular treatment offered, after
the advantages, disadvantages and
alternatives have been explained to the individual. Following a final
commitment order, the subject individual does not have the right to refuse
medication and treatment except as provided by this
section.
(h) Have a right to
be free from unnecessary or excessive medication at any
time. No medication may be
administered to a patient except at the written order
of a physician. The attending
physician is responsible for all medication which is administered to each
patient shall be kept in his or her medical records.
Medication
may not be
used as punishment, for the convenience of staff, as a substitute for a
treatment program, or in quantities that interfere with a patient’s
treatment
program.
Except when medication or medical treatment has been ordered by the
court under par. (g) or is
necessary to prevent serious physical harm to others as evidenced by a recent
overt act, attempt or threat to do such harm, a patient may
refuse medications and medical
treatment if the patient is a member of a
recognized
religious
organization and the religious tenets of such organization prohibit
such
medications and
treatment. The individual shall be informed of this right prior
to
administration of
medications or treatment whenever the patient’s condition
so
permits.
(i)
1. Except as provided in subd. 2, have a right to be free from physical
restraint and isolation except
for emergency situations or when isolation or restraint
is a part of a treatment program.
Isolation or restraint may be used only when less restrictive measures are
ineffective or not feasible and shall be used for the shortest
time
possible.
MIND-ALTERING DRUGS -
What does God’s Word
say?
(The original
Greek meaning of the words sorceress, sorcerer, and sorcery in the following
verses comes from “kashaph”.
It means “to
practice sorcery”.)
Exodus
22:18 - “You shall not allow a
sorceress to
live.”
Deuteronomy
18:10 & 11 - “There shall not
be found among you anyone who
makes his
son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one
who practices witchcraft, or one who
interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who
casts a spell, or a medium, or a
spiritist, or one who calls up the
dead.”
2
Chronicles 33:6 - “And he made his
sons pass through the fire in the valley of Benhinnom; and he practiced
witchcraft, used divination, practiced sorcery, and
dealt with mediums and spiritists. He
did much evil in the sight of the Lord,
provoking Him to
anger.”
(The
original Greek meaning of the word sorcery in the following verses
comes from
“pharmakeia”. It’s Greek definition is “to administer
drugs; the
use of
medicine, drugs or spells; sorceries”.)
Galatians
5;19-21 - “Now the deeds of the
flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry,
sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes,
dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like
these of which I forewarn you just as I
have forewarned you that those who practice
such things shall not inherit the
kingdom of
God.”
Revelation
18:23 - “and the light of a lamp
will not shine in you any longer; and
the voice of the bridegroom and bride
will not be heard in you any longer; for your merchants were the great men of
the earth, because all the nations were deceived
by your sorcery.”
SIN:
Sorcery
Major and minor tranquilizers
used on a habitual, repetitive, basis, NOT AS
MEDICINE TO HEAL ORGANS, but as
mind-altering, behavior changing, brain
disabling subduing drugs in order to
manage a person behaviorally. This category
of drugs, particularly and specifically
the MAJOR tranquilizers: HALDOL, MELLARIL, PROLIXIN, COGENTIN, NAVANE, TRILAFON,
LITHIUM CARBONATE, THORAZINE, STELAZINE, COMPAZINE and similar drugs,
DO NOT AID
HEALING but slowly kills the patient; thus,
it does not fit the “medicinal” category, even though doctors
mistakenly
call it
“medicine” to cover the hidden, evil motives for using sorcery
drugs, and
ignoring the welfare of the
patient. Patients on major tranquilizers DO NOT HEAL;
they actually get worse! Doctors then
use “cover up” drugs or drugs that “mask”
the worsening of the patient’s
condition (drugs like COGENTIN).
A
drug used once in a normal dosage, and then not used again (I am not
talking about ...illegal drugs), usually
causes no problem. But if it is a toxic drug,
being used repetitively for its toxic
“effect” on the brain, and is used in massive or
high sustained dosages in order to
“gain control” over’s one’s free will (or to make
him feel so miserable, he will agree to
almost anything)...such a drug practice IS
THE
SIN OF SORCERY. Or to say it another way-it
is manipulated poison control;
and such
manipulated poison control IS WITCHCRAFT! The intent here is to DO
EVIL TO THE
PERSON.
In the Major tranquilizing
category of patients, they don’t know why they feel
so bad, or why they are dying, and
generally aren’t told why. Thus the true intent
of using psychoneurotoxins IS evil, but
concealed and sometimes even concealed
from the staff workers
themselves.
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