tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post4200824191447177623..comments2024-03-19T04:32:18.795+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Is docile drug dependence now regarded as 'a good thing', and being covertly-promoted by the postmodern state?Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-88348096137010778112014-06-09T18:56:35.655+01:002014-06-09T18:56:35.655+01:00I actually give a lecture on this topic to the nur...I actually give a lecture on this topic to the nurse practitioners at the University of Wyoming-using proton pump inhibitors (prilosec, nexium), as an example. It can relatively easily be shown that proton pump inhibitors, while they block gastric acid production, very quickly the stomach increases its production of acid-so that within a few weeks, symptoms are worse than when the medication was started. Also, if taken over a period of years, the acid producing cells of the stomach proliferate (fundic gland polyps).<br /><br />Both the doctor and the patient are under an illusion, though. The patient presents with a symptom. The med stops the symptom. When the med is stopped, the symptom returns-even stronger. The patient must really need the med!!<br /><br />But the treatment for the disease is now causing the disease.<br /><br />After clearly showing the example, I show that it can be generalized to other-possibly almost all-categories of medications.<br /><br />Thanks for posting this.<br /><br />NateNatenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-63675009534890199862014-06-06T18:56:20.997+01:002014-06-06T18:56:20.997+01:00@MC - In my opinion, psychotherapy (of the psychod...@MC - In my opinion, psychotherapy (of the psychodynamic type) doesn't work. <br /><br />More specifically, there is no evidence that professional psychotherapy is any better than talking with anyone else. <br /><br />And it may be worse, because there is a big problem of sexual contact between psychotherapists and their clients - because the therapeutic relationship lacks boundaries. <br /><br />For talking through difficulties, I think the best strategy is therefore to speak with someone known and trusted. <br /><br />Cognitive Therapy is reputed to be effective for selected conditions and among highly-selected individuals (intelligent, motivated, patient, with self-analytic skills). <br /><br />Behaviour therapy certainly works for simple phobias. <br /><br />In some ways, psychological therapists are even more prone to magical thinking than drug-prescribers - in the sense that they see their treatments as panaceas with not dangers or side effects. <br /><br />My view is that anything powerful enough to do good is powerful enough to do harm. <br /><br />The most obvious harm of psychotherapy is - like drugs - dependence; and many psychotherapists seem to encourage this (for obvious, financial reasons). Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-10522808065141360632014-06-06T18:29:50.355+01:002014-06-06T18:29:50.355+01:00Question from a layman: what is anyone's of py...Question from a layman: what is anyone's of pyschotherapy? Would you say it is underutilized relative to drugs for depression? It seems that most people I know with symptoms of depression (including a number of family members, an ex-girlfriend, etc.) take drugs for it, but only one or two of them have gone to a therapist. But I've heard some therapy horror stories as well, so I have no idea what the best course would be.MCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-79101260401859353482014-06-06T14:09:20.629+01:002014-06-06T14:09:20.629+01:00This topic may be about licit prescription drugs b...This topic may be about licit prescription drugs but it may as well be about street drugs as well.<br /><br />There is a blog, Orthodoxy and Recovery, that criticizes the "harm reduction" paradigm. The blogger mentions that harm reduction makes the assumption that drug usage cannot be stopped, nor does it question the need to do drugs in the first place, so may as well make the messiness of addiction as clean as possible.<br /><br />He has a point: a lot of centers that provide free, clean paraphernalia would shut down otherwise.<br /><br />I believe there is no real motivation to stop illicit drug use for the same reason there is an over prescription of psych meds--it produces a docile, dependent society.<br /><br />In recent months it has been reported that heroin has gotten much cheaper and easier to obtain. The volume present in my country, USA is not possible without some level of government corruption or cooperation.Ingemarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05695600705603036692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-79478824365689549172014-06-06T13:43:06.210+01:002014-06-06T13:43:06.210+01:00@D - By David Healy there is Let Them Eat Prozac, ...@D - By David Healy there is Let Them Eat Prozac, or Pharmageddon, or Psychiatric Drugs Explained; by Robert Whitaker there is Anatomy of an Epidemic. These have tons of references. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-70934583299096150112014-06-06T13:34:46.615+01:002014-06-06T13:34:46.615+01:00I agree with what you say entirely. No one will li...I agree with what you say entirely. No one will listen to me. I am told to tell my patents that antidepressants are not addictive and have no withdrawal effects. Are there at least any papers that support this that I can read or offer to those that will listen? We must be strong and continue to pray to heavenly father for guidance. Unwinable battles are still worth fighting on principle.Davidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-13046244752503185182014-06-06T11:21:31.883+01:002014-06-06T11:21:31.883+01:00@dfo - That's a very good point.
If it ever ...@dfo - That's a very good point. <br /><br />If it ever does become acknowledged that serial killing and suicide by violence (especially hanging from a kneeling position) are indeed side effect of SSRIs and similar drugs - albeit rare side effects - then that acknowledgement may induce some kind of response. <br /><br />However, up to now it has been easy to deny the causality by confusing the issue, making false assumptions and setting the bar for proof ridiculously and anomalously high.<br /><br />(The bar to prove that a new drug *has* side effects, or creates dependence, is harder to clear than the ludicrously unscientific and medically-unprecedented assumption that THIS new drug has *no* (significant) side effects and *no* problems of dependence !)<br /><br />Especially considering that so many of the ruling elites are themselves dependent on SSRIs (or their girlfriends, wives and daughters are dependent). Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-54255081926211368942014-06-06T09:24:09.608+01:002014-06-06T09:24:09.608+01:00"The new generation of prescribed drug 'a...<em>"The new generation of prescribed drug 'addicts' are docile, and do not create trouble"</em><br /><br />In the case of SSRIs that might be a rather optimistic assessment.dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.com