   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 spearheaded 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 brain disabling 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 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 condition 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 looser 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
(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 uncompensated therapeutic labor 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. Uncompensated 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 individual to prepare for or participate in subsequent legal proceedings, 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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