From: hounddog23x@gmail.com   
      
   America's Dementia Epidemic   
   By Gary G. Kohls   
   March 14, 2013   
      
      
   Previously by Gary G. Kohls: Brain-Altering Psych Drugs and the BatmanShooter   
      
           
      
   Tens of millions of unsuspecting Americans, who are mired deeply in the mental   
   "health" system, have actually been made crazy, homicidal, suicidal and   
   neurologically disabled by the use of or the withdrawal from com   
   only-prescribed, brain-disabling,    
   brain-damaging neurotoxic psychiatric drugs that have been cavalierly handed   
   out like candy, with false assurance from a co-opted FDA. These synthetic   
   prescription drugs are often prescribed in untested and unapproved   
   combinations by unaware but well-   
   intentioned prescribing physicians who have been under the mesmerizing   
   influence of slick propaganda campaigns bankrolled by obscenely profitable   
   multinational pharmaceutical corporations.   
      
   That is the conclusion of a multitude of courageous psychiatric and   
   pharmaceutical industry whistleblowers (see some pertinent websites below),   
   including many authors of books. Most of these whistleblowers have been   
   black-listed by BigPharma, psychiatry,    
   medical journals and even the mainstream media because of the magnitude of the   
   unwelcome information they have revealed. In defense of most prescribing   
   physicians, many of the revelations about the dangers of these synthetic drugs   
   have been intentionally    
   hidden from them. In any case, the whistleblowers' revelations should be   
   shaking up physicians, their drug-taking patients and the drug industry, as   
   well as Wall Street.   
      
   I highlight two of these courageous whistleblowers below.   
      
   Practicing psychiatrist and scholar Grace E. Jackson, MD has written two   
   important books that should alert psychiatric drug prescribers and the   
   consumers of those drugs about the many dangers of those drugs. Dr. Jackson   
   has done meticulous review and    
   interpretations of the voluminous neuroscience research literature as well as   
   the clinical neuropsychiatric literature and has proven, beyond a shadow of a   
   doubt, how dementia-causing and brain damaging are many of the drugs that the   
   drug industry has    
   falsely reassured us as being "safe and effective".   
      
   Drug-induced Dementia: A Perfect Crime   
      
   Dr. Jackson's most dramatically ground-breaking book was published in 2009 and   
   was titled Drug-Induced Dementia: A Perfect Crime. She has documented the   
   often disastrous consequences of the chronic ingestion of any of the 5 major   
   classes of psychiatric    
   drugs (antidepressants, antipsychotics, psycho-stimulants, tranquilizers and   
   anti-seizure/"mood-stabilizer" drugs).   
      
   Drug-induced Dementia: A Perfect Crime presents compelling evidence that any   
   of the psychotropic drugs that target brain and nerve cells can cause   
   microscopic, anatomic, biochemical, clinical and radiological evidence of   
   brain shrinkage and other signs    
   of brain damage, which can result in clinically-diagnosable dementia,   
   premature death and a variety of other related brain disorders that can even   
   mimic diagnosable mental illnesses "of unknown cause". Jackson's first book,   
   Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs:    
   A Guide for Informed Consent was an equally sobering warning about many of the   
   hidden dangers of psychiatric drugs.   
      
   Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the   
   Mentally Ill   
      
   Investigative journalist and health science writer Robert Whitaker has devoted   
   many years of his life researching the serious downsides of psychiatric drugs.   
   He has reported his ground-breaking results in two books, the first of which   
   was titled Mad in    
   America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the   
   Mentally Ill (2002). In that book Whitaker explored the published literature   
   and discovered that, since psychiatric drugs (the first one being Thorazine)   
   began being widely    
   prescribed in the US in the mid-1950s, there has been a 600% increase in the   
   total and permanent disabilities of millions of psychiatric drug-takers in the   
   United States. This uniquely First World epidemic of "mental health"   
   disability has resulted in    
   the life-long, taxpayer-supported, Social Security disabilities of rapidly   
   increasing numbers of psychiatric patients who are now unable to live happy   
   lives or be productive, taxpaying members of society.   
      
   In Whitaker's second book Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric   
   Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America (2010), he   
   provides additional, overwhelming proof of these sobering realities. He   
   documents the history of the    
   powerful forces behind the relatively new field of psychopharmacology and its   
   major shapers, promoters and beneficiaries, namely BigPharma and the medical   
   and psychiatric industries. Psychiatric drugs, whose developers, marketers and   
   salespersons are all    
   in the employ of the giant drug companies, are far more dangerous than these   
   industries are willing to admit: Psychiatric drugs, it turns out, are fully   
   capable of disabling body, brain and spirit -- often permanently.   
      
   Jackson and Whitaker have done powerful services to humanity by presenting   
   previously hidden, but very convincing evidence from the scientific literature   
   to support their theses, that it is the drugs and not the so-called "mental   
   illnesses" that are    
   causing the epidemics of dementia and "mental illness" disability in America.   
      
   Aware, compassionate physicians and their aware patients should now be   
   motivated to be wary of any synthetic chemicals that can cross the blood/brain   
   barrier from the circulation into the brain. All of them are capable of   
   altering the brain, sometimes    
   permanently, in ways previously unknown to medical science and unsuspected by   
   them and the FDA, especially in cases of polypharmacy and/or long-term or high   
   dose use.   
      
   The sad truth is that there are long lists of serious, disabling short-term   
   and long-term toxic effects from each and every of these commonly prescribed   
   psychiatric drugs. And it seems to be the norm that patients do not receive   
   much information warning    
   them about those dangers. One of the common problems is the fact that many of   
   these potent drugs can be addicting (dependency-inducing) and therefore   
   decreasing the dosage of the drug can cause withdrawal symptoms that are   
   different from the original    
   symptoms that brought the patient to the doctor.   
      
   It is getting nearly impossible to fly over the Cuckoo's Nest   
      
      
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