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IMPORTANT
FACTS
1. The goal of psychiatry’s
Methadone was never a cure but to make the addict “functional.”
2. Despite the fact that
street heroin has many more users, methadone kills more people.
3. Other “therapeutic”
drugs like buprenorphine can cause respiratory depression.
4. Joseph Glenmullen of Harvard Medical School says that potent prescription
drugs merely “numb feelings just as the addictive behavior once did” and won’t
enable the person to successfully overcome his or her addiction.
CHAPTER
ONE The Selling of ‘Incurability’
A close review of drug rehabilitation today shows it is a field nearly monopolized
by psychiatry.
In a 1998 article published in the “National Journal of Justice,” Alan I. Leshner,
professor of psychology and then head of the National Institute of Drug Abuse
(NIDA), stated, “Addiction is rarely an acute illness. For most people, it is
a chronic, relapsing disorder.” One of today’s top “authorities” in the field
of drug rehabilitation is teaching that, for most people, addiction is a “disease”
that the individual will never overcome.
In the same article, Leshner also defined positive performance in the field
of drug rehabilitation with the statement, “… a good treatment outcome—and the
most reasonable outcome—is a significant decrease in drug use and long periods
of abstinence, with only occasional relapses.” Based on his theory, those who
manage drug rehabilitation are doing a good job if the addict merely abuses
drugs less frequently.
Leshner’s most revealing statement tells us exactly where curing addiction
fits into psychiatric drug rehabilitation. He says, “… a reasonable standard
for treatment success is not curing the illness but managing it, as is the case
for other chronic illnesses.” Actually curing drug addiction doesn’t enter into
it at all.
Not surprising, drug abuse is rampant. In 2001, an estimated 5% of the world
population age 15 and above abused drugs.
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