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Report Criticizes Calif. Mental Hospital
By KIM CURTIS, Associated Press Writer
July 28/05
SAN FRANCISCO - July 28/05 - Patients at a state mental hospital overdosed on illegal drugs, were improperly restrained for hours on end and were forced to spend 12 hours in soiled diapers, according to a scathing report issued by the U.S. Justice Department.
The report said the problems were among "widespread and systematic
deficiencies" at Napa State Hospital, including suicide and inadequate medical care. Some patients were bathed only every two to four weeks, the report said.
State officials were given until Aug. 15 to implement "minimum remedial measures" at the mental hospital,
which has about 1,100 patients.
Lupe Rincon, a hospital spokeswoman, said many allegations were based on inaccurate information from family members, advocates and old surveys. But she said she could not respond to specific complaints.
"Releasing further information could compromise our negotiations for a settlement agreement" with the Justice Department, she said.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office had no response to the report, contained in a June 27 letter to him, and directed inquiries to the state Department of Mental Health.
The Justice Department investigation began in January 2004. The California Department of Mental Health has refused to cooperate, repeatedly preventing access to the facility, said the letter from Bradley J. Schlozman, acting assistant attorney general. A Justice Department spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
The report also said that hospital staff punished patients who sought release, failed to provide English interpreters and refused to intervene during violent episodes among patients.
Restraints and seclusion also are overused at Napa, according to the Justice Department. The report cited one patient who was restrained for 369 consecutive hours.
Forcing Kids Into a Mental Health Ghetto
U.S. Congress - Ron Paul - A presidential initiative called The “New Freedom Commission on Mental Health” has issued a report recommending forced mental health screening for every child in America, including preschool children. The goal is to promote the patently false idea that we have a nation of children with undiagnosed mental disorders crying out for treatment.
One obvious beneficiary of the proposal is the pharmaceutical industry, which is eager to sell the psychotropic drugs that undoubtedly will be prescribed to millions of American schoolchildren under the new screening program. Of course a tiny minority of children suffer from legitimate mental illnesses, but the widespread use of Ritalin and other drugs on youngsters who simply exhibit typical rambunctious, fidgety, and impatient behavior is nothing short of criminal. It may be easier to teach and parent drugged kids, but convenience is no justification for endangering them. Children’s brains are still developing, and the truth is we have no idea what the long-term side effects of psychiatric drugs may be. Medical science has not even exhaustively identified every possible brain chemical, even as we alter those chemicals with drugs.
Dr. Karen Effrem, a physician who strongly opposes mandatory mental health screening, warns us that “America’s children should not be medicated by expensive, ineffective, and dangerous medications based on vague and dubious diagnoses.” She points out that psychiatric diagnoses are inherently subjective, as authors of the diagnostic manuals admit. She also is concerned that mental health screening could be used to label children whose attitudes, religious beliefs, and political views conflict with the secular orthodoxy that dominates our schools.
The greater issue, however, is not whether youth mental health screening is appropriate. The real issue is whether the state owns your kids. When the government orders “universal” mental health screening in schools, it really means “mandatory.” Parents, children, and their private doctors should decide whether a child has mental health problems, not government bureaucrats. That this even needs to be stated is a sign of just how obedient our society has become toward government. What kind of free people would turn their children’s most intimate health matters over to government strangers? How in the world have we allowed government to become so powerful and arrogant that it assumes it can force children to accept psychiatric treatment whether parents object or not?
After 222 years
liberty must still be our goal
Americans must be
vigilant, vocal in demanding freedom
U.S. Congress - Liberty, freedom, self-determination. It was 222 years ago this week that a handful of colonists stood and demanded that these rights, inalienable be virtue of being endowed by the Creator, be recognized by the imperial Crown of England.
A bloody conflict ensued. But it is not the date that peace was declared and our nation organized which we recognize as pivotal to our history. No, the day we celebrate was the day our forefathers boldly proclaimed to the world that liberty was their goal, a desire for a life to be spent in pursuit of individual freedom.
Those who signed the Declaration of Independence envisioned a nation rising on this continent which was based on the Rule of Law and respected, unequivocally, the rights of the individual to live their lives free from oppression. To a degree perhaps unimaginable to that band of radical idealists, their vision has come to pass over these two centuries.
To a degree.
Each age has had its problems in the United States. The nineteenth century held slavery. The twentieth, the growth of socialism and its sister, fascism.
But rather than focus on where we have failed, our gaze should rest on the ideal. The freedoms we enjoy today are the direct result of the commitment of men and women who refused to compromise their ideals. Certainly they failed at times, even compromised when they should have stayed the course, the problems and deficiencies we see in society is proof that no one is perfect, and that we fall short of our ideal. But we mustn't be deterred from striving for the goal, for liberty.
It has been said that when one reaches for the highest of goals, he may not reach his destination but he will come far closer than the man who set his sights on a much lower standard. Our standard must be freedom and liberty. Unequivocally, and without compromise.
There can absolutely be no compromises between liberty and oppression, for one is the anti-thesis of the other. If we claim to strive for individual liberty, yet we agree to compromise with the forces of oppression, the loser will always be liberty, and the winner oppression. A little oppression is morally the same as the complete absence of liberty.
It is appropriate that this week be not only the observation of the Declaration of Independence, but also the time of year we as individuals - on average - become free of the cost of government.
For more than half of the year the average American toils not for his family, for his needs, or for his future. No, for the first six months of the year, the average American works to pay the cost of federal, state and local taxes and regulations. Imagine that, between January 1 and sometime around July 4, we were working to pay for government, not feed our kids, pay the rent or save for retirement. We were paying for government.
That is unconscionable. Our Founding Fathers would no doubt be embarrassed at our squandering of their vision. After all, they revolted at a comparable tax rate in the single digits or less. And yet we willingly suffer an effective tax rate of 50%, and much more in many cases.
We are not slaves, but many feel as if they are indentured servants to government. And by and large it has happened with our willing consent. We have allowed ourselves to compromise sacred liberty for temporary promises of security or false prosperity.
Prescription Drug Epidemic - Psychiatrists 'Pushers'
Newsmediaexplorer - July 9/05 - "Our nation is in the throes of an epidemic of controlled prescription drug abuse and
addiction," said Joseph A. Califano, Jr., CASA's chairman and president and former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. "While America has been congratulating itself in recent years on curbing increases in alcohol and illicit drug abuse, and in the decline in teen smoking, abuse of prescription drugs has been stealthily, but sharply, rising."
It would appear that something is wrong with the war on drugs highly touted by the United Nations and almost all its member states, especially the US. The target isn't right. In fact, prescription drugs quite legally produced by pharmaceutical companies seem to outsell the "illegal" variety by far. But then perhaps, there is something wrong with prohibition - period. Certainly prohibition seems to exacerbate the problem of drug connected criminality - or so say the experts. Prohibition is what makes drugs profitable.
Organized crime will fill the demand that cannot be legally filled - and since to do so is profitable, the bosses will find ways to "stimulate business" by hooking ever more souls to the most profitable drugs. Pushers do the dirty job.
Compare that with the epidemic of controlled prescription drug use CASA is denouncing. Here we have a different kind of prohibition - the suppression of alternatives to pharma's drugs. But we have pushers at work all the same: Psychiatrists push for pharmaceutical drugging. Psychiatric drug prescription algorithms have been put in place, financed by big pharma.
There is even a program to test every man, woman and especially the children in school for their need to undergo drugging at the hands of the state. It's called TeenScreen and is being pushed - always with pharma money and psychiatric backing. Psychiatrists are the pushers for pharma's addictive drugs. But everything is legal - it's got presidential approval.
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Bush
plans to screen whole U.S. population for mental illness
Sweeping
initiative links diagnoses to treatment with specific drugs
Jun 21/04 - WND - A sweeping mental health initiative will be unveiled by President George W Bush in July. The plan promises to integrate mentally ill patients fully into the community by providing "services in the community, rather than institutions," according to a March 2004 progress report entitled New Freedom Initiative (www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/newfreedom/toc-2004.html). While some praise the plan's goals, others say it protects the profits of drug companies at the expense of the public.
Bush established the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health in April 2002 to conduct a "comprehensive study of the United States mental health service delivery system." The commission issued its recommendations in July 2003. Bush instructed more than 25 federal agencies to develop an implementation plan based on those recommendations.
The president's commission found that "despite their prevalence, mental disorders often go undiagnosed" and recommended comprehensive mental health screening for "consumers of all ages," including preschool children. According to the commission, "Each year, young children are expelled from preschools and childcare facilities for severely disruptive behaviours and emotional disorders." Schools, wrote the commission, are in a "key position" to screen the 52 million students and 6 million adults who work at the schools.
The commission also recommended "Linkage [of screening] with treatment and supports" including "state-of-the-art treatments" using "specific medications for specific conditions." The commission commended the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP) as a "model" medication treatment plan that "illustrates an evidence-based practice that results in better consumer outcomes."
Dr Darrel Regier, director of research at the American Psychiatric Association (APA), lauded the president's initiative and the Texas project model saying, "What's nice about TMAP is that this is a logical plan based on efficacy data from clinical trials."
He said the association has called for increased funding for implementation of the overall plan.
But the Texas project, which promotes the use of newer, more expensive antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs, sparked off controversy when Allen Jones, an employee of the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General, revealed that key officials with influence over the medication plan in his state received money and perks from drug companies with a stake in the medication algorithm (15 May, p1153). He was sacked this week for speaking to the BMJ and the New York Times.
The Texas project started in 1995 as an alliance of individuals from the pharmaceutical industry, the University of Texas, and the mental health and corrections systems of Texas. The project was funded by a Robert Wood Johnson grant – and by several drug companies.
Mr Jones told the BMJ that the same "political/pharmaceutical alliance" that generated the Texas project was behind the recommendations of the New Freedom Commission, which, according to his whistleblower report, were "poised to consolidate the TMAP effort into a comprehensive national policy to treat mental illness with expensive, patented medications of questionable benefit and deadly side effects, and to force private insurers to pick up more of the tab" (http://psychrights.org/Drugs/ AllenJonesTMAPJanuary20.pdf).
Larry D Sasich, research associate with Public Citizen in Washington, DC, told the BMJ that studies in both the United States and Great Britain suggest that "using the older drugs first makes sense.
NewsTarget - Feb 05 - The latest act of state-sponsored medical insanity has been announced by the Bush administration with their so-called New Freedom Commission on Mental Health that plans to conduct mental-health screening on all children and adults in the United States. As people are screened under this plan, they will of course be put on highly-profitable and extremely expensive psychotic drugs and anti-depressant drugs, which are manufactured by the very same companies that have donated heavily to the Bush administration and Bush re-election efforts.
This New Freedom Commission plan is based on the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP), a medication treatment plan that also screened people for mental health problems and prescribed high-profit prescription drugs to them. But the Texas plan has come under great criticism. A whistle-blower named Allen Jones, who was an employee of the Pennsylvania office of the Inspector General, published a document revealing that medical leaders who controlled the medication plan in the state of Pennsylvania received payment from drug companies who stood to benefit from the mental health screening plan.
In response, Allen Jones was, of course, fired. Similarly, the Texas plan has been formulated by drug companies. Allen Jones described the joint effort as "a political/pharmaceutical alliance" that was "poised to consolidate the TMAP effort into a comprehensive national policy to treat mental illness with expensive patented medications of questionable benefits and deadly side effects." So, at first glance, it certainly appears that this is no more than a good old boy strategy for boosting the profits of pharmaceutical companies through political influence -- it's the same old game.
Not surprisingly, an alarming number of the Bush administration's recent regulatory advances have been thinly veiled attempts to promote the profits of the pharmaceutical industry. The so-called Medicare drug discount cards were nothing more than a handout to pharmaceutical companies that created the illusion of discounts, where in reality people could buy drugs at much lower prices by simply shopping around on the internet. They could get them at lower prices still by buying them from Canada or other countries. Similarly, this mental health screening initiative is nothing more than a grand political scam designed to sell prescription drugs that benefit the pockets of companies who have supported the Bush election campaigns.
Just how much support has come from these companies? The Bush administration has very close financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who was appointed by Bush, served as the CEO of one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the United States. George Bush, Sr. was also a member of Eli Lilly's board of directors, and George Bush, Jr. appointed Eli Lilly's Chief Executive Officer to a seat on the Homeland Security Council. In what looks like nothing more than blatant political bribery, Eli Lilly made $1.6 million in political contributions in 2000. Four-fifths of that went to the Republican party and presidential candidate Bush. It is, in fact, the same company that started up the Texas project. And now, many members of the New Freedom Commission have also been found to have ties with pharmaceutical companies and have served on their advisory boards.
Under the Bush administration, the pharmaceutical industry has done extremely well in terms of boosting sales and generating profits. And it looks like the Bush administration is determined to continue the drugging of America, no matter what the cost to American taxpayers. They won't stop, it seems, until every American is dosed up on a dozen simultaneous prescriptions that generate tens of billions of dollars in profits for the pharmaceutical industry each year. Of course, to those who are familiar with the behavior of the Bush administration, none of this comes as much surprise. The Bush administration seems to be willing to engage in any sort of activity, no matter how lacking in ethics or how unfounded, in order to gain more power and enhance the financial position of its supporters. The Bush administration stands for war, for drugs, and for keeping the rich rich and the poor poor. And one of the easiest ways to keep the poor poor is to dose them on high-priced prescription drugs to the point where they can't think straight enough to vote with any measure of intelligence.
APA Press Release - July 22/03 - WASHINGTON - The American Psychological Association (APA) heralds today's release of the final report of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America, as a critical step forward in improving the quality of mental health services for our nation. About 30 percent of our nation's adults suffer from a diagnosable mental or addictive disorder, and 20 percent of our nation’s children display the signs or symptoms of a diagnosable mental disorder within the course of a year. The final report, which reflects months of hard work by the commissioners, both expert and public input and extensive deliberations, focuses on the inextricable link between mental health and physical health, and recommends a fundamental transformation in our nation's mental health system. The report offers the potential to enhance the health and well being of millions of Americans by enabling individuals with mental disorders to participate more fully in life's day-to-day activities.
“The recommendations offered by the Commission today will enable people with mental disorders to receive more timely and more appropriate care coordinated within a workable mental health service delivery system,” predicts Commissioner Deanna F. Yates, Ph.D., a private practitioner based in San Antonio and President of the Texas Psychological Association. Dr. Yates was one of three APA members to serve on the Commission, which also included Larke Nahme Huang, Ph.D., Director of Research at the Center for Child Health and Mental Health Policy at Georgetown University, and Stephen Wright Mayberg, Ph.D., Director of the California Department of Mental Health.
The Texas Department of Mental
Health and Mental Retardation (TDMHMR), which was created in 1965, ceased
operations on Sept. 1, 2004.
The department has worked to improve the quality and efficiency of public
and private services and supports for Texans with mental illnesses and
with mental retardation so that they can increase their opportunities and
abilities to lead lives of dignity and independence.
(Pro-TMAP)
July 5/04 - Called the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP), the guidelines, or algorithms, are a set of comprehensive management tools for doctors treating severely mentally ill patients within Texas' publicly funded mental health care system. They are the result of an innovative collaboration between UT Southwestern and the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (TDMHMR) initiated in fall 1997 to provide more uniform treatment for Texas' mentally ill patients.
Findings, which showed two to three times greater improvement in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) who were treated according to TMAP guidelines, are published today in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
Other researchers from UT Southwestern's Department of Psychiatry involved in the study were Drs. John Rush, professor; Michael Kashner, professor; Trisha Suppes, associate professor; assistant professors Thomas Carmody, Melanie Biggs and Kathy Shores-Wilson; and Kenneth Altshuler, clinical professor. Also contributing to the study were researchers from the College of Pharmacy, the University of Texas at Austin; Health Services Research and Development Service Research Career Scientist Program, Department of Veterans Affairs; TDMHMR; and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
(Funders of TMAP Project)
The research was supported by:
the National Institute of Mental Health,
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
the Meadows Foundation,
the Lightner-Sams Foundation,
the Nanny Hogan Boyd Charitable Trust,
TDMHMR, the Center for Mental Health Services,
the Department of Veterans Affairs,
the Health Services Research and Development Research Career Scientist Award,
the United States Pharmacopoeia Convention Inc.
and Mental Health Connections.
National Screening for "Mental Illness" - http://psychrights.org/
The Reports and Facts you are looking for
TMAP - NFI - Proposed Form to resist Forced Drug Testing for your Child
Mandatory Mental Health Tests Coming
[note: This Legislation PASSED in the Omnibus Funding Bill]
Thursday, Nov. 11, 2004
Under new law being considered, the federal government
would require that every
child in America undergo psychological screening and receive
recommended treatment, including drug therapies.
Next week
the Senate re-convenes to consider an omnibus appropriations bill that
includes funding for grants to implement mandatory universal mental health
screening for almost 60 million children, pregnant women, and adults
through schools
and pre-schools.
One of the most “dangerous side effects” from anti-depressants commonly prescribed to children is suicide, regarding which AAPS added, “Further, even the government’s own task force has concluded that mental health screening does little to prevent suicide.”
The bill would fund initiatives of the “New Freedom Commission on Mental Health,” including a program designed to subject every school age child in the country to psychological testing and recommendations for treatment. The House has already voted to appropriate $20 million for the plan, and the Senate will be considering whether to bump it up to $44 million.
Get it while you can - the 66 Page PDF Report that exposes the New Freedom Initiative: (Give it a moment to load so that you do not miss any of it)
Allen Jones' Full Whistle-Blower Report on Drug Company influence on states' drug purchases.
Doctors Group Opposes Mandatory Mental Health Tests for Kids
the respected Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS) decry what they see as “a dangerous scheme that will heap even more coercive pressure on parents to medicate children with potentially dangerous side effects.”
One of the most “dangerous side effects” from anti-depressants commonly prescribed to children is suicide, regarding which AAPS added, “Further, even the government’s own task force has concluded that mental health screening does little to prevent suicide.”
The bill would fund initiatives of the “New Freedom Commission on Mental Health,” including a program designed to subject every school age child in the country to psychological testing and recommendations for treatment. The House has already voted to appropriate $20 million for the plan, and the Senate will be considering whether to bump it up to $44 million.
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"Health": Bio-chip featured at government health showcase
Syringe-injectable device 1 of 20 top innovative health technologies chosen by HHS
April 29, 2004
A syringe-injectable microchip implant designed to carry medical records and personal identification information underneath the skin of humans is just one of 20 new technologies chosen by the government to be showcased today and Friday at the Healthier U.S. Summit in Baltimore, Md.
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Reasons to say No:
Side Effects of Ecstasy (MDMA)
Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments:
An Entheogen Chrestomathy
Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D. and Paula Jo Hruby, Ed.D.
It is not surprising that
after nearly thirty years of the association between psychedelics and
spirituality, a strong belief that such drugs can serve as an adjunct has become
firmly entrenched. Respondents who were engaged in New Age or other spiritual
pursuits were particularly eager to try MDMA because
of its reputed empathic, bonding, and psychedelic properties. One woman, who was
the child of an alcoholic father and attended self-help groups to deal with
childhood traumas , described her motivation: "I am very interested in
spirituality. ... I was studying Eastern religion, and I studied crystals, and I
always looked at things outside myself. ... [MDMA] is almost like being close to
God." (page 37-38)
A Retrospective Study of Alterations in Consciousness
During Shamanistic Journeying and MDMA Use
The purpose of this study was to compare how MDMA and shamanistic journeying were experienced by two groups of participants. Phenomenological scales and case studies were employed to assess and describe the two experiences...
In conclusion, it appears that when used with a mindset and setting of "serious" purpose, MDMA use and shamanistic journeying are potent triggers facilitating self-transformation. The practices may be precursors of what Needleman (1975) referred to as "new religions" (p.220). Harlow and Beck (1991) call these MDMA practitioners "New Age Seeker," while Doore (1989) referred to shamanistic journeyers as the "New Shamans."
MDMA and harm
John Fitzgerald, Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne
MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine or Ecstasy was placed on a restricted schedule in 1985 by the Drug Enforcement Agency in the USA. Similarly, MDMA has been placed on a restricted schedule in Australia. The reasons fpr restricting access to the drug were that it was thought to be neurotoxic, it had high abuse potential and it had no medical use. Since that time there has been a great deal of pharmacological research into both its neurotoxicity and its abuse potential.
In this report, the actions of MDMA will be compared to those of some other neurotoxins and to the stimulant actions of amphetamine. In light of the harm minimization initiatives of the Australian national Campaign Against Drug Abuse 9Rolfe, 1989) this report will discuss new information about MDMA use in the community, its potential for harm and will arrive at a recommendation for keeping MDMA on a restricted schedule.
Pharmacology and harm
MDMA is known to reduce brain content of the neurotransmitter
serotonin and to damage serotoninergic nerve terminals in the rat and
primate brain selectively (for reviews see Peroutka, 1990). Repeated low doses
(2.5 mg/kg twice a day for four days) selectively reduce the activity of
serotonin synthesizing enzymes (Ricaurte et al., 1988). Larger doses result in
neurodegeneration of serotonin containing cell bodies and nerve terminals in
several regions of the brain (Battaglia et al., 1987). Other drugs which, like
MDMA can be considered as amphetamine derivatives, such as para-chloramphetamine
(Sanders-Bush et al., 1974), methamphetamine (Ricaurte et al., 1980; Hotchkiss
& Gibb,1980) and the prescribed appetite suppressant, fenfluramine (Steranka
& Sanders-Bush, 1979; Appel et al., 1989) have been reported to have similar
neurotoxic effects, in similar dose ranges.
Ecstasy: what are the real dangers?
Controlling Drugs
By Greg Raver-Lampman, AlterNet. Posted June 12, 2003.
In May 2000, senators Joseph Biden, Bob Graham, and Chuck Grassley introduced the Ecstasy Anti-Proliferation Act of 2000 "to combat Ecstasy trafficking, distribution, and abuse in the United States." Such measures are popular with many voters.
It's a routine that gets replayed all to often -- the announcement of a crisis, a policy to stifle it, followed months later by reports that the crisis has grown worse and tougher measures are in order.
Where does it end?
Terence McKenna Interview, Part 1
Terence McKenna Interview, Part 2
Electrophysiological evidence of serotonergic
impairment in long-term MDMA ("ecstasy") users
OBJECTIVE: "Ecstasy," or 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), causes long-term impairment to the serotonin (5-HT) system
Links Human psychopharmacology of Ecstasy (MDMA): a review of 15 years of empirical research
MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) or 'Ecstasy' was scheduled as an illegal drug in 1986, but since then its recreational use has increased dramatically. This review covers 15 years of research into patterns of use, its acute psychological and physiological effects, and the long-term consequences of repeated use. MDMA is an indirect monoaminergic agonist, stimulating the release and inhibiting the reuptake of serotonin (5-HT) and, to a lesser extent, other neurotransmitters....These problems seem to remain long after the recreational use of Ecstasy has ceased, suggesting that the neuropharmacological damage may be permament.
Role of metabolites in MDMA (ecstasy)-induced nephrotoxicity
The metabolism of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ecstasy) has recently been implicated in the mechanisms underlying ecstasy-induced neurotoxicity and hepatotoxicity...Thus, it appears that toxicity induced by thioether metabolites of ecstasy at the apical membrane of renal proximal tubular cells is the result of extracellular events, presumably redox cycling.
Unilateral infusion of a dopamine transporter antisense into the substantia nigra protects against MDMA-induced serotonergic deficits
The present study was designed to elucidate the consequences of antisense oligonucleotide-mediated knockdown of striatal dopamine reuptake transporters on 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)-induced neurotoxicity...These results suggest that the dopamine transporter plays an essential role in the neurodegeneration induced by MDMA, and provides additional support for the hypothesis that extracellular dopamine is involved in the neurotoxic process, at least in the striatum.
BRAVE NEW WORLD ?
Huxley & A Defence Of
Paradise-Engineering
E for Ecstasy by Nicholas Saunders
MDMA - House Judiciary Committee
Side effects of Marijuana (THC)
Cannabis Dangers
Five recent studies published in the medical literature report serious harmful effects of cannabis use in relation to development of schizophrenia
NEW BROWSER SAYS ENSURES PRIVACY (at long last
!!)
Your private window on the Web
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New Browser 'Browzar' for Privacy
The founder of Freeserve (a European Internet Service Provider), has launched a new Internet Web Browser named "Browzar,"
which according to the company, is designed to protect user privacy.
http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/article.jsp?article_id=75595&cat_id=643
Electronic Privacy Information Center - Practical Privacy Tools
Microsoft XP Spying on You
Microsoft has programmed Windows XP to contact other computers and transfer information from the user's computer to the other computers:
a) If you have only three DVDs that your children watch sometimes on your home machine that is always connected to the Internet (through a broadband connection), you may not care that Microsoft knows when they watch them. If you seldom use the Windows XP help facility, you may not care that Microsoft is able to know the level of expertise of the people who use your computer.
However, if you are using Windows XP in a large corporation or a government, the fact that another organization believes that it can gather data from you may be completely unacceptable.
This article is support for your own investigation.
The Microsoft article tells how to disable the hidden downloading. However, the disabling is very time-consuming. Also, Microsoft has a history of using defect fixes and security fixes to change the operating system settings. This means that all the settings would need to be checked after every defect fix or security vulnerability fix.
Source: http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
Article in Spanish http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft-es.htm
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