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B.C. struggles with how to treat the most severe of mentally ill drug addicts
Such are the hallucinations and paranoia felt by those with a stimulant drug addiction. Sometimes the substance abuse is so severe it causes neurological damage and psychosis becomes a chronic condition. Combine untreated addiction with homelessness and physical health problems, and you get a health emergency. Vancouver police and the region's health authorities are desperately trying to figure … Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

Troubled launch of 'Obamacare' tops health news for 2013
As 2013 nears to a close, the year's top health news story — the fumbled debut of the Affordable Care Act, often dubbed Obamacare — continues to grab headlines. Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

Question by JP: How can a person block a remote direct energy weapon?
Medical record says “shot by air-projectile record”. Most of the colon had to be surgically removed. Remote direct energy weapons are also known as “soft-kill” weapons that interfere and degenerate internal organs and cognitive health; but the most lethal applications cause heart attack, stroke, cancer , diabetes, even instant death. They use electromagnetic and acoustical frequencies including high power microwave. They are weapons of mass destruction – the most hi-tech sophisticated weapons ever known whose use on innocent unwitting citizens is likely classified. It interferes with ability to work and have healthy relationships and destroys their lives. The remote weapons are also known as remote political control technology; are used to cause “mind-effects ” and “physical effects”. They are used in mind-control cases. Mind-control is operational, experimental, and sometimes extermination . They can cause serious mental illness symptoms akin to schizophrenia via inducing audio and visual hallucinations, paranoid or repulsive content dreams, silent hypnosis, silent homicidal or suicidal thoughts that an unwitting or mentally unstable will follow as their own thoughts. The victims of these remote weapons are termed “Targeted Individuals” or “TI’s”. Government propaganda and the programmed public ignorance usually say that targeted individuals are mentally ill with schizophrenia or delusional personality disorder especially in rare cases where the unwitting and/or mentally unstable goes on a what’s the media calls “community killing spree” and lies and says the killer is mentally ill and did not know any of the people they shot by firearm when in reality is most were likely known as stalkers and those that harassed and harmed the targeted individual . Corporate media black-out exist on the facts surrounding innocent citizens who are targeted via “wireless weapons” having experiences of interference, torture, maiming, and death. To add insult to injury, targeted individuals, who seem to be government crime approved test subjects and target practice, are watched, under surveillance, electronically and in-face-to-face stalked by large groups of teams of citizens who along with local Sheriff and police participate using stealth moving surveillance methods that are not recognizable to the public or any untrained or experienced eyes. The people involved in the stalking are from all backgrounds, vocations, ages are usually involved in the illicit drug trade counter-surveillance and other criminal activity aside from helping to provide security for business and corporations and its other citizen leaders. Aside from wireless “nonlethal” weapons (that are being used to be lethal as already mentioned), deployment of other non-lethal weapons are done in the form of planting biological and chemical agents in the environment. And, using a “sleep frequency” , the perpetrators with the ability to circumvent most any lock on home doors, enter the home to drug or poison food, tamper, vandalize, theft and raping are also occurring. In May 2007 on CNN (news network), CIA boss John Long disclosed that a “rogue element” of the CIA was using a direct energy weapon on an innocent Australian university student’s backside and legs to harm their health. He asked, “Is that torture?”- then went into uncontrollable laughter. Currently, federal and local law enforcement refuses to investigate and prosecute whoever is using remote weapons/political control technology and methods on innocent citizens to destroy their lives. In a few cases, the law enforcement mentioned Homeland Security, the military, intelligence agencies as reasons they do not have jurisdiction to intervene to stop the abuse, torture, and murder of innocent citizens. To date, Congress has refuse to intervene also. Only one law enforcement agency, in California, has admitted that organized group or “gang stalking” exist to stalk and terrorize and set-up crimes against targeted individuals. The perpetrators cite “national security” and use slander to say targeted individuals are mentally ill to cover up the abuse, torture, and murder. The remote weapons seem to penetrate any material, and lock onto a targeted individuals unique brain resonance frequency.    Read more...

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Warning signs parents can't ignore
"Typically, the rate of violence among the mentally ill is actually lower than the general population," he said, but substance abuse can exacerbate existing symptoms such as paranoia, isolation or impulsiveness. What to do? There is hope, experts said.
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Prescription drug abuse hits newborn babies hard
The effects of NAS are in addition to the impact of the drug on the infant's development. The severity and duration of withdrawal depends on the drug involved. Symptoms include seizures, tremors, excessive high-pitched crying, hyperactivity and vomiting.
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Question by : Do you agree with Ron Paul on this? What do you think of the Parental Consent Act introduced by him?
“Madam Speaker, I rise to introduce the Parental Consent Act. This bill forbids Federal funds from being used for any universal or mandatory mental-health screening of students without the express, written, voluntary, informed consent of their parents or legal guardians. This bill protects the fundamental right of parents to direct and control the upbringing and education of their children.

The New Freedom Commission on Mental Health has recommended that the federal and state governments work toward the implementation of a comprehensive system of mental-health screening for all Americans. The commission recommends that universal or mandatory mental-health screening first be implemented in public schools as a prelude to expanding it to the general public. However, neither the commission’s report nor any related mental-health screening proposal requires parental consent before a child is subjected to mental-health screening. Federally-funded universal or mandatory mental-health screening in schools without parental consent could lead to labeling more children as “ADD” or “hyperactive” and thus force more children to take psychotropic drugs, such as Ritalin, against their parents’ wishes.    Read more...

Question by ?: How can i start a life-saving fundraiser, to help get my daughter into a private rehab (long-term)?
My daughter was emotionally abused and neglected by her dad as a child,( we had shared custody, and I wasn’t aware of how he spoke and made her feel. I would have filed for custody.) as a result, she has had severe chronic depression, generalized anxiety, P.T.S.D, B.P.D, ADD, chronic fatigue and, recently, signs of fibromyalgia beginning to start up. (She’s literally battling to keep the will to live each day….it breaks my heart when she says she forgets what normal feels like). She’s always tried so hard to conquer her emotional problems with counseling, psychiatry, C.B.T, exercise, medications, hypnotherapy, meditation, keeping a job (despite how hard it is for her to get out bed, get in the shower, and step out the front door) then there’s the thing I’m most proud of….she does all of the above, and has forced herself to go back to college and get a medical degree, to better understand her conditions, in an effort to help herself and others who are mentally ill. Now, here’s the issue that concerns us both the most. She’s only told a very small number of friends/family about her condition because she feels ashamed, guilty, worthless, and so on….all the symptoms that come with the territory…..and she basically has played the role of a regular girl…(acted like she was fine), since she was 18, to keep in touch with some type of a sense of normalcy in her life, through having people treat her like everyone else. She says it’s exhausting being two people, but therapy and books have taught her that you need to “fake it ’til you make it”. I can understand her reasons….after all, who would want to be known as the “troubled girl”, or the “mental case”…..people who don’t have this illness can be so ignorant, assuming she’s just a Drama Queen, feels sorry for herself, lazy, or doesn’t know how to deal with life….Well, it’s not that simple, it’s a serious disease; the number one cause for suicide. So it can’t, and must not, be taken lightly. So here I am, without money to get her into the only program in the world, proven to heal people with dual-diagnosis, and I have no clue how to start one alone…..one that gets positive results, online. I’m almost praying that the people who read this would email us or help us start a website, a fundraiser, or anything ???
I can’t take out a loan, or ask anyone for help, since we don’t have a way of paying back. So, now you are wondering why she needs dual-diagnosis rehab long-term, huh? She became addicted to food at a young age, from emotional eating, and that only made her self-esteem get lower and lower, as her father verbally abused her to the point where she wanted to risk her life and get weight-loss surgery. She survived the surgery, but the depression got worse. During her recovery period, the doctors kept her on heavy addictive pain meds. Well, being unable to eat, her addiction to food switched over to prescription pills. At first, she was naive, and didn’t even realize that was what was happening. She only realized it after the prescriptions were gone, and her body was physically addicted. She couldn’t deal with the withdrawls, and any educated person knows that drugs alter your judgement, actions, intentions, and personality. She’s been to rock-bottom, and thankfully, today, manages to take just what her doctor gives her, to control the withdrawls….so she can function. I monitor her intake too, to keep temptation at bay. She feels more depressed and guiltier than ever for being so naive about prescriptions being “ok”to take, if it helped her feel happier and normal. That would be my fault for not catching on to what was beginning. This is why we’ve done the research, and know she needs to go to a facility that can treat people who have severe emotional problems, and self-medicate, otherwise she may have had a nervous breakdown from all the anxiety and depression of 12 years. I know if I woke up each day feeling like…well, you need to picture your saddest moment in life…the way you felt when someone you loved died, when a spouse left you, when you were told you had cancer…a moment like that….well your sadness probably got a little better each day, and eventually you were able to be strong enough to move on and not let it keep you down, right? Well, she can’t….she’s tried for over a decade. She wakes up feeling the way you felt at your worst moment…only she re-lives that pain internally everyday. No anti-depressant has ever helped. She just lives in eternal sadness, to the most painful level inside her heart and mind. I think anyone who is in this position, and still young, would do just about anything to escape that type of pain. I can’t be mad at her. All I can do is live in the “now”…& ask for advise. She wants to be sober and learn healthy coping. Suggestions? Help? Anyone out there?    Read more...

Question by Cleopatra: What is the truth about weed and pain relievers?
I have a friend who smokes weed often and also takes painkillers (oxycotin) every once in awhile. He has also done worse drugs in the past. This scares me. He tells me he has done his research and that these won’t have any terrible lasting health effects. I feel in my gut that he is wrong… what is the truth? I am really scared for him I care about him alot. I don’t want him to ruin his life… how can I tell him this? He is a smart guy and could go far. He keeps telling me not to worry, but I can’t help it. How do I deal with this?

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Answer by Ryan S
eh i wouldnt worry, he sounds like the type to party hard throughout college and then move on after    Read more...