=================================
I see no reason why Lactagen would not work. I am skeptical about a
claim that the cure is permanent, since
I have to repopulate my system with probiotics after antibiotics,
reactive metals and / or some food preservatives.
I have heard that some people with lactose intolerance are capable of
eating kefir and working up to yogurt.
There are also some people that learn they have been killing off the
probiotic microbes in their gut and learn how to
make their bodies a beneficial home for those probiotics that are so
beneficial for them. When they do this they find
that they may not have those same food reactions / allergies.

Get to know your body and how to recover from food reactions that cause
digestive upset,
especially those that progress to diarrhea, the following link may be
helpful.
Mon Dec 15, 2008  -- "Probiotics, Reactive Metals, Enteric nervous system"
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/HELP-1/message/86

Once you know how to recover, try new food but as part of a
"elimination, or challenge, diet".
http://www.cfids.org/about-cfids/elimination-diet.asp
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=diet&dbid=7

After you know how to recover (fast) from food reactions, have tried
kefir, and learned
about "elimination, or challenge, diets" and if you still have the
lactose intolerance
go ahead and try Lactagen, and if you still have a reaction, you will be
able to know if it was the
milk or another food that you accidentally added back to your diet at
that time.

Did I answer your question? If I created more questions, please tell me.
==
Web pages researched:
Hot Topic!  Lactagen - Questions, No Answers -- Updated August 4, 2005
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/stevecarper/lactagen.htm

Digestive Advantage Dietary Management of Lactose Intolerance, Caplets,
32 caplets
At last, something that WORKS!, September 23, 2006
http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A3920HYVB45WA5

Prominent New York Doctor Offers Favorable Comments on Lactagen®,
One-Time Solution to Lactose Intolerance  -- Business Wire,  June 14, 2007
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_June_14/ai_n27275147?tag=unt\
agged

Lactagen -- 5 star rating -- based on 2 reviews -- Category: Health and
Medical -- 6/8/2008
http://www.yelp.com/biz/lactagen-los-angeles
==
Laura Lanning~Shipton
USDA zone 8; Waco, TX
=================================

justinrizzo83 wrote:
> I have been lactose intolerance for about 2 years and I hate it
> because I can't have my milk, ice cream, cheesecake,....all the good
> stuff. Now I have to do the substitute thing and take in soy (which is
> unhealthful) and rice-milk (disgusting). I found Lactagen online but
> don't know much about it. What do you know about Lactagen?



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I originally learned about Lactobacillus Acidophilus when we
showed and bred dogs. If we had a female that had to have antibiotics
during welping the vet would give us a tube of acidophilus (cream type)
that they could lick off of our fingers. About 20 years ago I had to
take Zantac for about 3 years. I also get contact dermatitis (skin will
turn green and blister) from a nickel allergy to the point that I make
my own deodorant from Vodka, Willow Bark and Witch Hazel. Use probiotics
and a BRAT diet with adding in natural chicken soup. I also added
bananas. Watch hidden metals (particularly aluminum) in your food as you
buy.

Areas covered
[1] Antibiotic-associated diarrhea
Diarrhea is deadly and can effect your nutrition and have health side
effects.
[2] 2nd Brain / Enteric_nervous_system
you want to take care of your middle, it seems to be more important that
previously understood.
[3] BRAT Diet
I used this for the children but added acidophilus capsules or caplets.
Chicken soup with out added ingredients i.e. canola oil, just use
chicken, good water, and noodles. They used to grab the chicken soup
when they did not feel good before it got out of hand. Also add back in
fiber as soon as you can stomach it - raisons, raw carrots, ect. Make
sure you do not use chicken (from the store) that has added broth, have
heard that the broth my be from a wheat source. Your doing a elimination
diet where you eliminate any item that might be giving you problems
since you digestive system may not be up to long digestive times.
[4] reactive metal - Contact Dermatitis
There are some metals that our body does not handle well, that could
extend to internally. Stay away from them and a partial list is given below.
[5] Candidiasis / candida / tinea
When you kill your symbiotic bacteria it can allow the molds and yeasts
on your body to have the upper hand. Depending on your body type and
moistness this can show up in many ways. My next door neighbor was
diabetic and had a reoccurring problem in under her bosom, mine used to
be under my arms. Keep some calamine lotions handy and do NOT use corn
starch ( holds moisture or something like that)
[6] Lactobacillus Acidophilus
alternate with your meds. This is a natural bacteria of the body and the
earth. The Lactobacillus type bacteria are digestive bacteria and help
with digestion. They are one of the bacteria that helps with fermented
items as well.
[7] Probiotics
Beneficial parasites that live in a symbiotic relationship with us,
since we turn around and are parasites to probiotics.
[8] Yogurt / Kefir
Get to know about these, hopefully you like them as well
[9] Kombucha / sauerkraut
In learning how to make these you realize that using reactive metals are
detrimental to the cultures and see what could be happening to your own
digestive system. Kombucha is a balance of bacteria and yeasts, so if
one gets out of balance it messes up the whole ferment.
----------------
[1] Antibiotic-associated diarrhea
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/DS/00454.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotics
[2] 2nd Brain / Enteric_nervous_system
http://whyfiles.org/026fear/physio1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_nervous_system
[3] BRAT Diet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brat_diet
[4] cast iron, Aluminium- do not use these or any type of reactive metal
to ferment or store fermented items they can disrupt the fermentation.
- aluminium in - "buffered " pain relievers, coated ibuprofen, baking
powder, baking soda, (health food stores have alum free), dark teas,
cake mixes, frozen dough, non-dairy creamers, flouride toothpaste,
anti-diarheal drugs, very high in processed cheese of any kind,
antipersperant, antifungals, Lake food colors
- reactive metal - Contact Dermatitis nickel copper aluminum euro allergy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/sep/12/science.research
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Health_concerns
[5] Candidiasis / candida / tinea - result when "the normal flora,
constituting lactic acid bacteria, such as lactobacilli" are disrupted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidiasis
[6] Lactobacillus Acidophilus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acidophilus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactobacillus_acidophilus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactobacillus
[7] Probiotics - competitive inhibition (i.e., by competing for growth)
also competitive exclusion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probiotic
[8] Yogurt / Kefir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoghurt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kefir
http://users.chariot.net.au/~dna/Makekefir.html
http://users.sa.chariot.net.au/~dna/kefirpage.html
http://www.geocities.com/nourishingnights/kefir.html
[9] Kombucha
http://www.therpc.f9.co.uk/family/scobygrow/Day1.html
http://www.geocities.com/kombucha_balance/
http://www.kombu.de/anleit-e.htm
http://www.seedsofhealth.co.uk/fermenting/kombucha.shtml
http://users.bestweb.net/~om/~kombu/
http://www.westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/Realthing.html
Links - http://www.geocities.com/ladyfangs.geo/Page5.html

Also pictures of bad ferments
http://www.happyherbalist.com/pictures.htm
http://happyherbalist.com/gallery.htm
Current speculation is the "possible"
correlation in of effect aluminum may have on the body and the (2nd
brain) enteric neural / nervous system.

Laura aka Piper
USDA zone 8; Waco, TX



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I have been lactose intolerance for about 2 years and I hate it
because I can't have my milk, ice cream, cheesecake,....all the good
stuff. Now I have to do the substitute thing and take in soy (which is
unhealthful) and rice-milk (disgusting). I found Lactagen online but
don't know much about it. What do you know about Lactagen?

enzymes
plant proteases include papain (from the papaya), actinidin (from the
kiwi fruit), and ficin (from the fig). These proteases may induce a
prickly sensation in the mouth when consumed.

Pineapple / Bromelain - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromelain
papaya / papain          - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papain
kiwi / actinidin             - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinidin

fig / ficin                      - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficin
  Ficain (or ficin) is an enzyme which is derived from figs latex.
==================
cayenne pepper and capsaicin
works great to help keep chickens healthy while keeping dogs away from
areas.

Kefir
http://users.sa.chariot.net.au/~dna/kefirpage.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/022822.html
http://www.eatingoffthefoodgrid.com/a/index.htm?hm_kefiili.htm

Kefir Groups
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Good_Kefir_Grains/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Kefir_making/

Kombucha
Links - http://www.geocities.com/ladyfangs.geo/Page5.html
http://www.therpc.f9.co.uk/family/scobygrow/Day1.html
http://www.geocities.com/kombucha_balance/
http://www.kombu.de/anleit-e.htm
http://www.seedsofhealth.co.uk/fermenting/kombucha.shtml
http://users.bestweb.net/~om/~kombu/
http://www.westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/Realthing.html

Also pictures of bad ferments
http://www.happyherbalist.com/pictures.htm
http://happyherbalist.com/gallery.htm
" And finally the mushroom itself. Many potential high value markets
exist for thin film bacterial cellulose, including

acoustic diaphragms , artificial skin, artificial blood vessels, liquid
loaded medical pads, super-sorbers and specialty

membranes. Potential markets for bacterial cellulose produced as pellets
in agitated culture include the mining industry,

the oil industry, foods, and the pulp and paper industry.

[source: Production of Bacterial Cellulose from Alternate Feedstocks. D.
N. Thompson M. A. Hamilton. May 7, 2000 – May 11,

2000"

http://users.bestweb.net/~om/kmi/Genuine%20Kombucha.htm
"When Prof. Henneberg recommends using pure cultures, he means by that
nothing more than cultivating both constituent part - Bacterium xylinum
and the Pombe yeast - separately, and only then bringing them together.
Preparing the beverage at home, of course, one has to continue working
with the already combined constituents of the culture.

The sum up, one may say: The principal constituents Schizosaccharomyces
pombe and Bacterium (Acetobacter) xylinum are both unhesitatingly attested
in the writings of the experts. An exception to this is Wiechowski (1928),
who considers Bacterium gluconicum to be the principal bacterium and
Bacterium xylinum next in order of importance. Irrespective of these,
other bacteria and yeasts are mentioned as being constituent elements,
whose presence however varies."

-- Glass
$29.99_2.8 gal_
http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/sr=/qid=/ref=br_1_9/178-8711398-6205852?ie=\
UTF8&node=13895511&frombrowse=1&asin=B000GT

FMNA&rh=&page=1
http://www.onestopplus.com/clothing/Spigot-Jug.aspx?PfId=121992&DeptId=16978&pro\
ducttypeid=1&ViewAll=1&affiliate_id=017&aff

iliate_location_id=04&WT.mc_id=k17401&mid=j17234025
http://www.brylanehome.com/decor/Spigot-Jug.aspx?PfId=121992&DeptId=15217&produc\
ttypeid=1&ViewAll=1&affiliate_id=07&affilia

te_location_id=10&WT.mc_id=k24679&mid=j14947900

Spigots
http://www.happyherbalist.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=225

Kombacha Groups
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/original_kombucha/
had span on 12/14/2008 - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kambucha/

---------------------
for cultures - I have NOT ordered from any of these sites.
kefir, kombucha, water kefir, ginger beer plant, Matsoni Caspian Sea
Yogurt, - http://www.thekefirshop.co.uk/
- http://users.sa.chariot.net.au/
http://www.happyherbalist.com/

http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=9416273
Farmers, State officials concerned over EPA proposal
Posted: Nov 25, 2008 10:05 PM
Updated: Nov 26, 2008 07:59 PM

Montgomery, Ala. (WSFA) -- A proposal from the Environmental Protection
Agency could mean tougher times for farmers across the state.

State agriculture officials are now worried a plan to clean the air may
put farmers in jeopardy.

The Federal Government wants to require permits for livestock producers
and dairy farmers who raise large numbers of hogs and cattle, setting
fees that would cost thousands of dollars for some farmers each year.

Here is a breakdown of the fees, according to ALFA Farmers:

According to U.S. Department of Agriculture figures, any farm or ranch
with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs emits more than
100 tons of carbon equivalent per year, and thus would need to obtain a
permit under the proposed rules. More than 90 percent of U.S. dairy,
beef and pork production would be affected by the proposal. Mobley said
the figure could be even higher for Alabama.

Permit fees would vary from state to state, but EPA sets a "presumptive
minimum rate" for fees. For 2008-2009, the rate is $43.75 per ton of
emitted greenhouse gases. According to AFBF, the proposed fee would mean
annual assessments of $175 for each dairy cow, $87.50 for each head of
beef cattle and $20 for each hog.

"I can tell you if they're successful in putting this policy in place
it'll put our farms out of business," said Agriculture Commissioner Ron
Sparks.

Local farmers advocates say the proposal doesn't make any sense.

"There's no conclusive evidence that eliminating livestock in this
country would have any effect, and this proposal, in effect, would
eliminate livestock," said Perry Mobley of the Alabama Farmers Federation.

With the economy the way it is, many producers could barely find the
money and roll a profit.

"There isn't $4200 worth of margin in a 100 cow beef herd," Mobley said.

If you add to that financial stress over time, Mobley says an annual fee
may be dried up in the first year.

"It would just put them out of business, so the next year, they wouldn't
be around to pay it."

That's yet another reason, leaders say, to take action.

"This is one time the consumers of Alabama need to step up to the plate
and fight for the farmers that we have in Alabama," Sparks explained.

Transporting Broiler Chickens Could Spread Antibiotic-resistant Organisms
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081124130946.htm

Transporting broilers spreads bacteria to humans 26 Nov 2008
http://www.worldpoultry.net/news/transporting-broilers-spreads-bacteria-to-human\
s-3347.html
These drugs are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for use as
feed additives for broiler poultry
Transporting broilers spreads bacteria to humans 26 Nov 2008
There is evidence of human exposure to antibiotic-resistant bacteria from
intensively raised poultry - driving behind trucks transporting broiler
chickens from farm to slaughterhouse.

Broiler chickens are typically transported in open crates on the back of
flatbed trucks with no effective barrier to prevent release of pathogens
into the environment. Now, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
of Public Health have found increased levels of pathogenic bacteria, both
susceptible and drug-resistant, on surfaces and in the air inside cars
travelling behind trucks that carry broiler chickens.

Ana M. Rule, PhD, a research associate in the Bloomberg School's Department
of Environmental Health Sciences, along with Prof Ellen K. Silbergeld, PhD,
and Sean L. Evans collected air and surface samples from cars driving 2-3
car lengths behind the poultry trucks for a distance of 17 miles. The cars
were driven with both air conditioners and fans turned off and with the
windows fully opened. Air samples collected inside the cars showed increased
concentrations of bacteria (incl. antibiotic-resistant strains) that could
be inhaled. The same bacteria were also found deposited on a soda can inside
the car and on the outside door handle.

"We were expecting to find some antibiotic-resistant organisms since it's
pretty clear that the transportation conditions for these chickens are not
closed or contained," Rule said. "Our study shows that there is a real
exposure potential, especially during the summer months, when people are
driving with the windows down."

The strains of bacteria collected were found to be resistant to 3
antimicrobial drugs widely used to treat bacterial infections in people.
These drugs are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for use as
feed additives for broiler poultry. The study findings were also consistent
with other studies on antibiotic resistance in poultry flocks and poultry
products, said the researchers.

According to the authors, the findings support the need for further exposure
characterisation, and attention to improving methods of biosecurity in
poultry production.

* The study is the first to look at exposure to antibiotic-resistant
bacteria from the transportation of poultry, and the findings are published
in the first issue of the Journal of Infection and Public Health.

Related link:

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_24_15/ai_54968252

Doping Kids
Insight on the News,  June 28, 1999  by Kelly Patricia O'Meara

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Though shocked by bizarre shootings in schools, few Americans have
noticed how many shooters were among the 6 million kids now on
psychotropic drugs.

Just three weeks after Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on their
April 20 killing spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo.,
President Clinton hosted a White House conference on youth violence.
The president declared it a strategy session to seek "the best ideas
from people who can really make a difference: parents and young
people, teachers and religious leaders, law enforcement, gun
manufacturers, representatives of the entertainment industry and those
of us here in government."

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There was, however, complete silence from the president when it came
to including representatives from the mental-health community, whom
many believe can provide important insight about the possible
connection between the otherwise seemingly senseless acts of violence
being committed by school-age children and prescription psychotropic
drugs such as Ritalin, Luvox and Prozac.

There are nearly 6 million children in the United States between the
ages of 6 and 18 taking mind-altering drugs prescribed for alleged
mental illnesses that increasing numbers of mental-health
professionals are questioning.

Although the list of school-age children who have gone on violent
rampages is growing at a disturbing rate -- and the shootings at
Columbine became a national wake-up call -- few in the mental-health
community have been willing to talk about the possibility that the
heavily prescribed drugs and violence may be linked. Those who try to
investigate quickly learn that virtually all data concerning violence
and psychotropic drugs are protected by the confidentiality provided
minors. But in the highly publicized shootings this spring,
information has been made available to the public.

* April 16: Shawn Cooper, a 15-year-old sophomore at Notus
Junior-Senior High School in Notus, Idaho, was taking Ritalin, the
most commonly prescribed stimulant, for bipolar disorder when he fired
two shotgun rounds, narrowly missing students and school staff.

* April 20: Harris, an 18-year-old senior at Columbine High School,
killed a dozen students and a teacher before taking his own life.
Prior to the shooting rampage, he had been under the influence of
Luvox, one of the new selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, or SSRI,
antidepressants approved in 1997 by the Food and Drug Administration,
or FDA, for children up to the age of 17 for treatment of
obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD.

* May 20: T.J. Solomon, a 15-year-old at Heritage High School in
Conyers, Ga., was being treated with Ritalin for depression when he
opened fire on and wounded six classmates. Two other high-profile
cases from last year show a similar pattern:

* May 21, 1998: Kip Kinkel, a 15-year-old at Thurston High School in
Springfield, Ore., murdered his parents and then proceeded to school
where he opened fire on students in the cafeteria, killing two and
wounding 22. Kinkel had been prescribed both Ritalin and Prozac.
Although widely used among adults, Prozac has not been approved by the
FDA for pediatric use.

* March 24, 1998: Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, opened
fire on their classmates at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Ark.
Johnson had been receiving psychiatric counseling and, although
information about the psychotropic drugs that may have been prescribed
for him has not been made public, his attorney, Val Price, responded
when asked about it: "I think that is confidential information, and I
don't want to reveal that"

A great deal has been written about all of these cases. There have,
however, been no indications that all of these children watched the
same TV programs or listened to the same music. Nor has it been
established that they all used illegal drugs, suffered from alcohol
abuse or had common difficulties with their families or peers. They
did not share identical home lives, dress alike or participate in
similar extracurricular activities. But all of the above were labeled
as suffering from a mental illness and were being treated with
psychotropic drugs that for years have been known to cause serious
adverse effects when given to children.

At the top of the list of so-called "mental illnesses" among children
is attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, which is
diagnosed when a child meets six of the 18 criteria described in the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-IV,
published by the American Psychiatric Association, or APA.

ADHD was determined by a vote of APA psychiatrists to be a "mental"
illness and added to the DSM-IIIR in 1987. By definition, children
with ADHD exhibit behaviors such as not paying attention in school,
not listening when spoken to directly, failing to follow directions,
losing things, being easily distracted and forgetful, fidgeting with
hands or feet, talking excessively, blurting out answers or having
difficulty awaiting turn. The most common ADHD remedy among
pediatricians and representatives of the mental-health community is,
as noted, Ritalin.

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A Prescription for Violence?
Insight on the News,  May 21, 2001  by Kelly Patricia O'Meara

  The recent wave of school-shooting incidents has some concerned
parents demanding that the medical records of students taking
psychotropic drugs be made public.

In the last 10 shooting incidents at schools, a total of 105 students,
teachers and administrators were killed or wounded. Beginning in March
1998 with the shooting at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Ark.,
and ending with the March 22, 2001, shootings at Granite Hills High
School in El Cajon, Calif., six of the 12 juvenile shooters are
reported to have been on prescribed mind-altering drugs.

San Diego Deputy Public Defender William Trainor announced last week
that his client, 18-year-old Jason Hoffman, who is charged with the
shooting of five students and teachers at Granite Hills High School,
had been prescribed the antidepressants Celexa and Effexor. Whether
Trainor intends to use this medical information as part of his
client's defense is unclear, though he said that "the drugs [Hoffman]
was prescribed may help explain his actions." He adds that research
"indicates that the drugs that were prescribed are extremely powerful
antidepressants with the most dangerous side effects."

School Violence and Prescription Drugs: A Connection?

Total number of killed and wounded: 105

http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/1999/11/outfront.html#nami
By Elizabeth Hollander
November/December 1999 Issue

Prozac.org

The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) bills itself as "a
grassroots organization of individuals with brain disorders and their
family members." The alliance was a prominent participant in last
June's White House Conference on Mental Health. Earlier, President
Clinton named its executive director, Laurie Flynn, to the National
Bioethics Advisory Commission.

But some mental health activists say the Arlington, Virginia-based
organization -- which is widely viewed as an independent advocate for
the mentally ill, and an influential voice in mental health debates --
is overly influenced by pharmaceutical companies. It's certainly well
funded by the industry: According to internal documents obtained by
Mother Jones, 18 drug firms gave NAMI a total of $11.72 million
between 1996 and mid-1999. These include Janssen ($2.08 million),
Novartis ($1.87 million), Pfizer ($1.3 million), Abbott Laboratories
($1.24 million), Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals ($658,000), and
Bristol-Myers Squibb ($613,505).

NAMI's leading donor is Eli Lilly and Company, maker of Prozac, which
gave $2.87 million during that period. In 1999 alone, Lilly will have
delivered $1.1 million in quarterly installments, with the lion's
share going to help fund NAMI's "Campaign to End Discrimination"
against the mentally ill.

In the case of Lilly, at least, "funding" takes more than one form.
Jerry Radke, a Lilly executive, is "on loan" to NAMI, working out of
the organization's headquarters. Flynn explains the cozy-seeming
arrangement by saying, "[Lilly] pays his salary, but he does not
report to them, and he is not involved in meetings we have with
[them]." She characterizes Radke's role at NAMI as "strategic planning."

As a matter of policy, NAMI does not reveal the amounts of specific
donations. But spokesman Bob Carolla acknowledges that the group
receives substantial funding from drug firms, who provide "most if not
all" of the antidiscrimination campaign's $4 million annual budget. In
addition, Carolla told Mother Jones, corporate donations account for
$310,000 of NAMI's 1999 core budget of $7.1 million -- with most of
that coming from pharmaceutical firms. The rest of the budget, he
says, comes from charitable and membership contributions. (Another
affiliated program, the NAMI Research Institute, has a budget of $20
million. Focusing on the biological causes of mental illness, it is
fully funded by the private Stanley Foundation.)

Janet Foner, a co-coordinator of Support Coalition International, an
activist organization of "psychiatric survivors," says NAMI does a
good job in some areas, but argues that the group's corporate sponsors
help shape its agenda. "They appear to be a completely independent
organization, but they parrot the line of the drug companies in saying
that drugs are the essential thing."

Many experts believe that the umbrella term "mental illness" embraces
a broad array of conditions with equally diverse causes. NAMI
spokesman Carolla says the group views mental illness as a disease,
like diabetes or Alzheimer's, that can be treated most effectively
with medications. "Mental illness is a biologically based brain
disorder," he says. "That's not to say that other factors can't affect
mental illness, but the core problem is biologically based."

NAMI's critics agree that mental illness can be triggered by
biological factors, but point also to environmental causes such as
incest, child abuse, family dysfunction, and other traumas. NAMI's
approach "reduces human distress to a brain disease, and recovery to
taking a pill," says Sally Zinman of the California Network of Mental
Health Clients. "Their focus on drugs obscures issues such as housing
and income support, vocational training, rehabilitation, and
empowerment, all of which play a role in recovery." Furthermore,
Zinman argues, Thorazine, Prozac, and other drugs routinely prescribed
for the mentally ill can be counterproductive and even harmful.

NAMI's Flynn says her group is "not a captive of any outside
industry." But she acknowledges there is at times a "synergy" in goals
between NAMI and the drug companies. For example, both favor so-called
health care parity laws, which would require insurers to view mental
illness as they do other diseases. "[The drug companies] want more and
greater markets, and we want access and availability to all
scientifically proven treatments. We don't think drugs are everything,
but for the vast majority they are important."

Flynn says the Campaign to End Discrimination is funded separately to
ensure that drug industry money is not comingled with funds earmarked
for NAMI's core budget. Sally Zinman, for her part, says that taking
money for any purpose from drug companies -- which have a direct
financial stake in the mental health debate -- is at odds with the
ideal of independent advocacy. "NAMI is seen by the media as the voice
of the mental health community, but the integrity of its work is
called into question by its sources of funding," she says. --Ken
Silverstein

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An end run to marketing victory
Drug makers find ways to circumvent an advertising ban and promote
psychiatric drugs for children

By Lawrence H. Diller

Oct. 18, 2001 | In a step that represents an escalation in the
influence of the pharmaceutical industry over parents and children,
Alza Corp. has announced that it will use television commercials in
its campaign to promote Concerta, a drug for the treatment of
attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Alza, which pioneered
direct-to-consumer print ads to address ADHD last year, becomes the
first drug company to promote -- on TV -- the use of a medication for
a children's psychiatric disorder.

The groundbreaking TV ads for Concerta will not directly mention the
drug -- that would be illegal. Concerta, like most of the medications
used to treat ADHD in children, is a stimulant, which makes it a
candidate for potential abuse. For this reason, its production, like
that of Ritalin, is tightly controlled by the Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA), and its promotion is subject to controls set by
the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic substances.
According to these rules, monitored by the U.N. Narcotics Control
Division, drug companies are not allowed to market controlled
substances directly to consumers.

But Alza, along with a half-dozen companies marketing stimulants
directly to parents (in magazines like Redbook and Good Housekeeping),
neatly sidesteps the limits on specific product advertising by
promoting awareness of ADHD, not the drug treatment itself. In its
print ad from last year, Alza features a smiling school-age boy
holding a pencil who is surrounded by his beaming parents and sister.
The caption beneath the photo reads: "Thanks to new ways for
effectively managing ADHD, homework may be a more relaxing time at the
Wilkin house."

Readers of these prints ads, like those who will view the new TV ads,
are advised to call a toll-free number for the "latest treatment
information." Parents are then sent a video, a copy of a government
study on ADHD treatment and material on Concerta.

This strategy mirrors the one used by Purdue Pharma with OxyContin, a
time-release pain medication that has been so widely abused that the
company has been forced to considered a new plan for its formulation.
To adhere to regulations on the marketing of narcotics while creating
a market for its drug, Purdue didn't specifically promote OxyContin to
consumers, but chose an approach called "nonbranded education," in
which the company highlighted the plight of those who suffer pain and
need a drug exactly like OxyContin. In this way they were able to
broaden and prepare the market for their drug, while staying within
the law.

In the fast-growing market of psychotropic drugs for children, only
Celltech, a stimulant manufacturer, has challenged the rules by
explicitly mentioning its product, Metadate CD, in magazine ads aimed
at consumers. Consequently, the DEA has issued a cease and desist
order to Celltech; court actions, as well as international sanctions,
could follow. The company also is taking some heat for using a cartoon
superhero to promote Metadate CD in some of its ads. Comparisons to
the much-denounced Joe Camel campaign have been raised, even though
the manufacturer insists that the cartoon is meant for advertising
aimed exclusively at physicians.

The remaining several companies involved in advertising stimulants for
kids by promoting "awareness" of ADHD maintain that they are
performing a public service. However, in the affluent suburban
middle-class community where I work, you'd have to be living in a cave
without children for the last 10 years to be unaware of ADHD. In fact,
I regularly hear parents and teachers describe children's problems of
behavior and performance in what sounds like a learned catechism of
ADHD symptoms. "He's distractible in the class. He can't focus. He'll
only concentrates on the things he likes."

It's almost as if they've read a script. And that's the point.
Increasingly the pharmaceutical industry has come under fire for
influencing the way we think about ourselves, and now, for influencing
the way we evaluate our children. Recently, David Healy, a prominent
British psychiatrist, was fired from his high-profile mental health
post at the University of Toronto for speaking out about his
provocative revisionist history of American psychiatry. He claims that
our entire psychiatric diagnosis and treatment model of the last 50
years has been determined by drugs like Thorazine and Prozac and by
the pervasive influence of the pharmaceutical industry on research,
publications, professional organizations and promotion.

Meanwhile, a consortium of legal firms have filed class action suits
in five states against Novartis, the maker of Ritalin, and the
American Psychiatric Association, claiming a conspiracy between the
two to defraud the public about ADHD and the need for stimulant
medication.

Our right to free speech allows the powerful pharmaceutical industry
to promote a particular point of view on ADHD, a purported brain-based
disorder calling for a medication. And it is true that a child's brain
is important; but common sense tells us that homework completion is a
complex social/developmental undertaking that involves many more
factors. Unfortunately, there is no equal countervailing influence to
rebut the drug companies' strong suggestion that ADHD is the cause of
poor homework completion. There are no stock dividends or equity for
special education teachers, no TV commercials for family therapists
who might have a different, more nuanced point of view.

Drug advertising works, and pharmaceutical companies rely on it now
more than ever as they compete in narrow markets. With nearly a dozen
stimulants now available without too much to distinguish them
clinically, manufacturers will have to advertise heavily to maintain
or create their niche in the legal stimulant market -- worth some $750
million a year. It took just three years of relentless advertising
directed at physicians, for instance, for Adderall, another stimulant,
to surpass Ritalin in 1999 as the most common brand name drug
prescribed for ADHD.

Stimulants do work -- low doses have been shown to improve
concentration and work completion for everyone (child or adult, ADHD
or not). But stimulants are not the moral equivalent of -- or
substitute for -- helping parents parent and teachers teach. Yet I'm
afraid in our current environment, this doctor's opinion is likely to
be dwarfed by the next 30-second spot.

-- By Lawrence H. Diller

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New mad-cow rule poses health dangers of its own
Friday, November 21, 2008
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM, Associated Press Writer

LITITZ, Pa. —  A federal regulation aimed at preventing mad cow
disease from getting into the food supply could create health risks of
its own: many thousands of cattle carcasses rotting on farms,
spreading germs, attracting vermin and polluting the water.

At issue is a Food and Drug Administration rule, set to take effect in
April, that will prohibit the use of the brains and spinal cords of
older cattle as ingredients in livestock feed and pet food.

Some of the rendering plants that grind up carcasses for use in feed
have already announced they will stop accepting dead cattle from farms
because it would be too costly to remove the banned organs. Other
renderers are likely to raise the prices they charge farmers.

As a result, many farmers _ especially now, with the economy in crisis
_ may simply bury dead cattle on their property or let them rot in the
open, industry officials and regulators say.

"I think there will be some illegal disposal _ animals that get
dragged into the woods or into the back fields," said Gerald F. Smith
Jr., president of Winchester, Va.-based Valley Proteins Inc., which
operates 12 rendering plants in seven states but will no longer remove
dead cattle from farms come February. He said the fee per animal would
have to go from $85 to $200 to cover the additional expense, and "I
don't think the farmers would be willing to pay."

Farmers already routinely bury, abandon or compost millions of cattle
carcasses each year without serious environmental problems, according
to the FDA.

But the fear is that the new rule could lead farmers to put hundreds
of thousands more dead animals into the ground, especially on dairy
farms, which tend to have many more older cows than cattle ranches do,
and are often closer to populated areas, too.

According to the FDA's own environmental assessment of the new rule,
abandoning dead cattle or improperly burying or composting them can
cause foul odors; pollute soil, groundwater and streams; and attract
insects and scavengers. Moreover, the infectious agent that carries
mad cow disease may survive burial or composting, the agency said.

"In some areas of the country ... adverse environmental impacts could
be expected unless new disposal capacity is developed," the FDA said.

Thomas Glanville, an agricultural engineering professor at Iowa State
University, said farmers who opt for burial will need to pick sites
with favorable drainage and geology to avoid contaminating groundwater
and soil.

For decades, farmers have sent their dead cows to rendering plants to
be turned into pet food, soaps, cosmetics, toothpaste, lubricants and
other products. The carcasses are ground to a uniform particle size,
heated under pressure to separate fat, protein and bone, and then refined.

The FDA regulation is aimed at providing an added layer of protection
against mad cow, a brain disease that has been linked to more than 150
human deaths worldwide, mostly in Britain. Scientists believe the
human version of mad cow is transmitted when people eat tainted beef.
The United States has had no known human cases linked to U.S. beef.

Nearly 2 million head of beef and dairy cattle annually, or more than
40 percent of all those that die before they can be sent to slaughter,
are rendered in the U.S., according to government and industry
estimates. The remaining carcasses are mostly buried.

Regulators estimate the new feed ban will reduce the number of cattle
handled by rendering plants by 500,000 to 800,000 annually.

Some farmers will be hamstrung by state or local regulations that
limit burial or composting, in which the carcass is left to decay in a
pile of clippings and other organic material. Iowa, for instance,
limits the number of cattle carcasses that can be buried to seven per
acre. California prohibits composting of dead livestock.

Still, properly done, composting is a good alternative to rendering,
experts say.

Dairy farmer Tim Forry said he began composting his 1,200-pound
Holstein cows about two years ago after the cost of sending them to
the rendering plant got out of hand. When a cow dies on his farm in
Pennsylvania Dutch country, he dumps the carcass onto a 200-foot-long
compost pile behind his barn, where dozens of dead cattle are slowly
decaying in a steaming, aboveground tomb of manure, wood shavings, hay
and leaves.

"I can't say I've noticed any odor at all coming off of this," he said.

Glenn Stoltzfus, 42, a dairy farmer with 500 cows in Pennsylvania,
said he has been composting cows for years without a problem, although
a bear or coyote will occasionally dig up a carcass, and "then there's
not a very pleasant odor."

Other farmers, though, drag dead calves into the woods and leave them
for scavengers, Stoltzfus said. "You'll see the turkey buzzards
circling," he said. "It's not a very pleasant thing. A large cow, you
don't want to do that with."

Tom Craig, 60, who runs a 1,000-cow dairy farm near State College,
said he is not sure how he will dispose of his dead livestock if
rendering is no longer an option. Housing developments border his
1,600-acre farm, and he said the neighbors may not take kindly to a
compost pile.

"You don't want to have that next to somebody's house," he said.

The U.S. banned the feeding of bovine byproducts to cattle in 1997,
but regulators say that didn't eliminate the risk of mad cow. Without
the new rule, pigs and chickens could eat contaminated feed and then
in turn be rendered and fed to cattle.

Because younger cattle are believed to pose almost no risk of mad cow,
only the brains and spinal cords of cattle 2 1/2 years and older will
be prohibited from animal feed. The FDA rule is expected to affect the
dairy industry more than the beef industry because most beef cattle
are slaughtered before they turn 2 1/2.

In Pennsylvania, the No. 5 milk-producing state, hundreds of farmers
have attended recent workshops on composting. Agriculture officials
also plan to mail an informational brochure to livestock farmers. The
idea, said Shelly Dehoff, of Pennsylvania's agricultural ombudsman
program, is to "get the word out that there are alternative methods,
and legal methods, that do not include throwing an animal out in the
woods somewhere, and just expecting it to decompose or have other
animals pick away at it."

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/A Hill and Tip Trip/ Magazine article by Kelly Patricia O'Meara;
Insight on the News, Vol. 16, June 12, 2000.

06/12/2000
A Hill and Tip Trip
By Kelly Patricia O'Meara
omeara@...

This Clinton-Gore team advocates identifying
schoolchildren as mentally ill and requiring them to
take psychotropic drugs to control any inattentive
behavior.

I think that part of what we've got, though, is to reflect how we can
both identify and get help to children who need it, whether or not they
want it or are willing to accept it," declared first lady and wanna-be
junior senator from New York, Hillary Rodham Clinton. The first
lady's comment, put in the context of how to deal with tragedies such
as the shooting at Col-umbine High School in Littleton, Colo., was
delivered to a standing-room-only crowd at the June 7, 1999, White
House Conference on Mental Health. She was directly advocating the
forced drugging of schoolchildren with psychotropic drugs such as
Ritalin.

The first lady, however, was not alone in advocating this chilling
agenda for dealing with schoolhouse behavioral problems. During the
conference that critics dubbed a cheerleading session for the
pharmaceutical industry, the president's top mental-health adviser and
candidate for first lady, Tipper Gore, joined in leading the
psychopharmacological charge. In fact, nodding to Tipper, President
Clinton told the mesmerized crowd: "She knows more and cares
more about this issue than anyone else I personally know."

The vice president's wife "knows more" about this issue?
Beyond earning a masters' degree in psychology more than 20 years
ago and having been treated for depression, say critics, Gore's
knowledge of mental illness is limited at best and misinformed at
worst. For example, Gore displayed some of her knowledge on this
subject during the president's weekly radio address to the nation just
before the White House conference when she announced that
Americans must change their attitudes and "dispel the myths about
mental illness once and for all." She said, "One of the most widely
believed, and most damaging, myths is that mental illness is a personal
failure, not a physical disease ... and we are learning that many mental
disorders are biological in nature and can be medically treated."

Members of the opposing team, which include a growing number
of well-respected physicians who have spent their lives resisting
subjective diagnoses of mental illnesses, are astonished by such
pronouncements. They tell Insight they would jump at the opportunity
to present their contrary data from such a highly visible platform as
the well-publicized Clinton-Gore White House conference but were
not invited to offer opposing research. Instead, the spotlight was given
to Steven Hyman, director of the National Institute of Mental Health,
or NIMH.

Hyman pulled a slide show out of his black bag and wowed the
star-struck crowd with his evidence that, indeed, mental illness is a
"real disorder of the brain." To prove his point, Hyman said, "I
brought a few pictures" because "I think pictures are worth an awful
lot. I just want to show you a picture that is somewhat alarming. What
we see here on the left is a healthy person with a normal brain, and
then on the right, someone who has had severe depression for a long
time. What you see outlined in red at the bottom is that a key
structure acquired from memory actually gets smaller. It deteriorates if
depression is not treated."

Apparently caught up in the frenzy of breakthrough medical
"proof" of mental illness, the audience broke into enthusiastic
applause.

Hyman's slide show was nothing if not deeply flawed, the most
basic omission being a failure to present the case history of the
subject shown in the slides. For instance, during Hyman's show not
once did he mention whether the patient on the right, who "had severe
depression" and whose slide showed "red at the bottom" had been
given psychotropic drugs for any length of time prior to capturing the
brain on film. In fact, if this were the case, critics tell Insight, the
right-brain slides, rather than being reflective of a scientific
breakthrough supporting the premise that the depression caused the
mental illness, would support arguments made by opponents that the
change in the brain in fact was caused by prescribed psychotropic
medication.

To psychiatrist Peter Breggin, founder and international director
of the Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology
(www.Breggin.com), or ICSPP, a Maryland-based research and
educational network, and author of a dozen books, including Talking
Back to Ritalin, Talking Back to Prozac and Reclaiming Our
Children, Hyman's slide show was just that — a show. "Physicians
and researchers like Hyman are guilty of the PET-scan scam," says
Breggin. "They compare the brains of people who are diagnosed with
something like Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD,
or depression with people who don't have these diagnoses. They then
claim to the gullible audience that there is a discernible difference in
the brains." According to Breggin, "There is no known difference in
the brains of any patient with a psychiatric diagnosis, nor is there any
difference with the mythical biochemical imbalance. In fact, we have
no instrument for even measuring such an imbalance. When there are
differences in brain scans between two individuals they sometimes are
caused by psychiatric-drug use and other times represent normal
variation. No reputable physician would ever claim to be able to
diagnose a psychiatric problem from a brain scan."

Harold Koplewicz, the vice-chairman of the department of
psychiatry at the New York University Medical Center, an invited
guest speaker at the White House conference, even went beyond the
contention that mental illnesses are brain disorders. Koplewicz said,
"Essentially, these diseases are no-fault brain disorders. They are
familial, they run in families and they have predictable onset and
course." The doctor presented no data to support such interesting
remarks but "essentially" waived any personal responsibility or
validation that such life experiences as mental distress or anxiousness
might be normal.

Since such problems are physical, and beyond personal control
or remedy, Koplewicz reasons, tragedies such as what occurred in
Littleton are "most probably preventable" as a matter of public health.
"Normal children," he continued, "just don't snap and go out on a
shooting spree. Children who commit violent crimes almost always
have histories of violence, depression or other mental-health
problems. The problem is we have never really looked at the
underlying cause of all this violence — which is childhood psychiatric
illness."

So what was going on there? Apparently "looking at all the
possible underlying causes" of school-age violence — the announced
reason for the Hillary-Tipper conference — was not on the agenda.
Making a statement about the 6 million children being "treated" for
ADHD with highly addictive stimulants, including Ritalin, did not fit
that bill. Nor did even one of the distinguished speakers raise the
issue first reported last year by Insight [see "Guns & Doses," June
28, 1999], faxed to the White House before the conference, revealing
the dramatic connection between the then five most recent school
shootings: All the accused shooters had been treated with
psychotropic drugs, including Ritalin, Luvox and Prozac.

It would not be long before the New York Times, the
Washington Post and national weekly newsmagazines were following
Insight's lead, but when the Hillary-Tipper team had the chance to
recognize the problem quickly and in prime time they demurred.

The controversy surrounding the use of psychotropic drugs on
children began after the diagnosis for ADD/ADHD was voted into the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-IIIR,
in 1987. The prescription of Ritalin (methyl-phenidate), a highly
addictive stimulant categorized as a Schedule II drug by the Drug
Enforcement Agency, or DEA, skyrocketed from less than a quarter
of a million in 1986 to 6 million today. Certainly it is unlikely that
Clinton-Gore psychiatric spokesmen Hyman and Koplewicz were
unaware that Ritalin is pharmacologically similar to cocaine in its
pattern of abuse, given that red flags were raised years ago by the
World Health Organization, or WHO, the DEA and even the
Archives of General Psychiatry.

Within the year since Insight began reporting on this issue, not
only are many mental-health experts questioning the overuse of
psychotropic drugs on children but also the validity of the latest
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM-IV,
as it continues to broaden the circle of mental illness to in-clude
practically every child, with the implication that pharmacology offers a
quick solution. For example, in the January 2000 issue of Clinical
Psychiatry News, respondents were asked to evaluate the psychiatric
diagnoses presented in the DSM-IV. The result was dramatic. "The
DSM-IV has gone too far. There are too many diagnoses without any
objective basis or biological support," said Houston psychiatrist
Theodore Pearlman. "There has never been any criterion that
psychiatric diagnoses require a demonstrated biological etiology,"
said Harold Pincus, vice chairman of the DSM-IV task force.

To indicate how far from reality are the advocates of passing out
pills in the schools, it is noteworthy that Hyman apparently was not
even communicating with his colleagues at the American Academy of
Pediatrics, or AAP. All of the new AAP guidelines for diagnosing
ADHD, like those listed in the DSM-IV — for example, exhibiting
behaviors such as not listening when spoken to directly, failing to
follow directions, losing things, being forgetful and easily distracted
and fidgeting with hands or feet — are subjective observations on the
part of the treating physician. However, after listing the new
guidelines, the AAP concludes that "other diagnostic tests, sometimes
considered positive indicators for ADHD, have been reviewed and
considered not effective [emphasis added]. These tests include lead
screening, tests for generalized resistance to thyroid hormone, and
brain image studies [emphasis added]."

In other words, the dog-and-pony show that Hyman put on for
the first and second ladies was not based in science, and the AAP is
just another in a long list of experts to refute such fraudulent claims.
Hyman also was contradicting his own remarks made earlier in a
New York Times article when he said, "Magnetic Resonance
Imaging, or MRIs, produce scientifically meaningless pretty pictures
which are essentially reminiscent of phrenology. Who knows where
or when the much-sought answers will emerge?"

While it is insulting to many physicians who are aware of the
fraud that is being perpetrated in the name of treating mental illness for
men in positions of extreme power to continue to push the strict
pharmacological line, this has been endemic in the Clinton-Gore
administration. David Satcher, the U.S. surgeon general, is a case in
point.

Fred Baughman, a pediatric neurologist dedicated to exposing
fraudulent medical diagnoses of mental illnesses, took the surgeon
general to task for what Baughman called Satcher's "attempt to
represent mental disorders as actual diseases." In response to a
first-ever Surgeon General's Report on Mental Illness, made public in
December 1999, just months after the Columbine shooting tragedy,
Baughman wrote to the nation's top medicine man asking, "Why have
you chosen to be the first-ever Surgeon General to issue a report on
mental health? As I have shown, it has little or nothing to do with
medical science, bona fide diseases or epidemics. Have other factors
motivated you? You might have ad-dressed the biggest, most heinous
epidemic of all, that of mandating Ritalin and other addictive,
dangerous, even deadly amphetamines for 5-6 million entirely normal
American children, as `treatment' for the wholly fraudulent psychiatric
`disease' ADHD."

Baughman concluded his letter: "Your role in this deception and
victimization is clear. Whether you are a physician so unscientific that
you cannot read their contrived `neurobiologic' literature and see the
fraud, or whether you see it and choose to be an accomplice — you
should resign."

Loren Mosher, a psychiatrist and 30-year member of the
American Psychiatric Association, or APA, resigned from the
organization over the blatant infiltration of pharmaceutical money now
permeating the organization and concurs with Baughman about the
surgeon general's mental health report. Mosher tells Insight that "the
report is a joke." He says, "There are no tests for these so-called
mental diagnoses. You can't do that with psychiatric diagnoses."

Regardless of the continual stream of articles from reputable
physicians contradicting the biochemical advocacy being pushed by
the administration, Satcher, Hyman and Koplewicz have been
elevated in stature and now are considered foremost authorities on
psychiatric public health, greatly due to the platform provided by the
nation's first and second ladies. Now the first lady has announced a
$5 million research grant for Hyman's NIMH to study the effects of
psychotropic drugs on children under the age of 7.

"Hillary is promoting young children to take psychiatric drugs,"
says Breggin. "This is the most extreme Big Brother, Nineteen
Eighty-Four kind of national policy. It has empowered NIMH to do
something that they never would have done — that is to spend $5
million on clinical trials involving hundreds of preschool children. In
the past, NIMH would have been afraid of doing such dangerous,
unethical and unscientific research. The repercussions are going to be
worse because this will now encourage the Food and Drug
Administration, or FDA, to accept similar clinical trials done on very
young children with Ritalin of a sort that have shown disastrous effects
leading to the discontinuation of use in most cases."

For David Oaks, coordinator of Support Coalition International,
an Oregon-based organization representing 80 groups working for
mental-health rights, the first lady's research announcement was a
warning shot over the bow. Oaks is alarmed by what he considers the
push to medicate. "There is no safety anywhere," he tells Insight. "The
forced administration of drugs is definitely going up. Nearly 40 states
have laws where they have forced-drugging in your own home. Out
of the White House conference came the endorsement of the
Program of Assertive Community Treatment, or PACT. That's the
teeth of the outpatient forced-drugging: at-home drug delivery, where
they will come to your home every day if necessary for medication
compliance. Drugging is the be-all and end-all."

Not everyone is buying the Clinton administration line. In
mid-May a class-action lawsuit was filed in Dallas for alleged fraud
and conspiracy in overpromoting the stimulant medication Ritalin.
Three national defendants are named: Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp.
(formerly Ciba Geigy), the manufacturer of Ritalin; CHADD
(Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), a
parent's organization that is partially funded by drug companies; and
the APA. Among the allegations: The drug company "deliberately,
intentionally, and negligently promoted the diagnosis of ADD/ADHD
and sales of Ritalin through its promotional literature." The lawsuit
also charges the drug company with "actively supporting groups such
as Defendant CHADD, both financially and with other means, so that
such organizations would promote and support the ever- increasing
implementation of the ADD/ADHD diagnosis as well as directly
increasing Ritalin sales." And the lawsuit further claims that
"Defendant American Psychiatric Association conspired, colluded
and cooperated with the other Defendants" while taking "financial
contributions from Ciba Geigy as well as other members of the
pharmaceutical industry."

Andy Waters of the Dallas law firm of Waters and Kraus,
www.RitalinFraud.com, is lead attorney for the plaintiffs. He tells
Insight that "the nature of the lawsuit is for consumer fraud. The legal
concept is the unholy alliance of the psychiatrists, manufacturers and
parents groups that have combined to create a diagnosis that didn't
exist and create and accelerate an enormous market for Ritalin. My
sincere hope is that 60 to 90 days from now we'll have a judge
ordering the defendants to release information. I think we will find that
Novartis was involved in the making of the diagnosis — it's just too
close a connection to rule it out."

Meanwhile, a growing number of members of state boards of
education, state legislatures and the U.S. Congress have been taking
action to stop the tidal wave of psychotropic drugs being prescribed
for children under the guise of public health. New York, New Jersey,
Idaho, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Georgia, Colorado, Arizona and
Pennsylvania have passed or have legislation pending that confronts
the issue of widespread prescription of psychotropic drugs to
school-age children. Legislative topics include examining the impact of
psychotropic drugs, prohibiting school personnel from recommending
or discussing medications for schoolchildren, requiring pharmacists to
disclose the potentially addictive nature of psychotropic drugs and
preventing any school official from requiring that children be placed
on psychotropic drugs as a condition for remaining in school.

Back at the White House conference, however, the solution to
the violence confronting America's youth —the Hillary-Tipper answer
to the psychotropic-drug epidemic — was more drugging. In fact, the
first and second ladies exercised all their mental-health resources to
try to convince the nation that mental illnesses are "real illnesses
of the
brain" and "should be treated the same as physical illness." This
would mean, of course, that public-health authorities should have the
right to examine every American child for mental illness as a matter of
public health — and diagnose and treat them pharmacologically in
whatever way they choose.

Regardless of the fact that there simply are no data to support
such claims, the president praised his wife and mental-health guru —
the person "who knows more and cares more," Mrs. Gore, for the
"truly remarkable experience." The White House conference was, to
the president, "stimulating, moving and humbling," because "it's so
real."

Then, under the guise of exercising presidential authority, Clinton
in-structed the nation's largest private insurer, the Federal Employee
Health Benefit Plan, to provide full parity for mental and physical
health. He directed the Health Care Finance Administration to
encourage states to better coordinate mental-health services, and he
called for medication targeted at people with the most serious mental
disorders who rely on Medicaid. And, to wind up his mental-health
giveaway, the president announced that he had requested the largest
increase in history — some $70 million — "to help provide more
mental-health services."

Tipper Gore did not respond to questions Insight faxed to her
office and Hillary Clinton's communications director refused Insight's
request for an interview, saying, "We're going to pass on providing
comments to your questions." So one only can imagine the kind of
mental-health programs those ladies will be working for should Hillary
be elected to the Senate and Tipper take over as first lady. As for the
need to profile, diagnose and dope America's schoolchildren to
assure their mental health, well, the Clinton-Gore psychiatrists have
proved how much children "need" it — "whether or not they want it
or are willing to accept it."

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medications, a new study found, but the medical rationale is not yet
clear.

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COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale, Cengage Learning

Bibliography for "A Hill and Tip Trip"

Kelly Patricia O'Meara "A Hill and Tip Trip". Insight on the News. .
FindArticles.com. 26 Nov. 2008.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_22_16/ai_62741739

http://www.greenfacts.org/glossary/pqrs/skeletal-fluorosis.htm

Skeletal fluorosis
Definition:

Skeletal fluorosis is a health effect of excessive accumulation of
fluoride in bones leading to changes in bone structure and making them
extremely weak and brittle.

The early stages of skeletal fluorosis are characterized by increased
bone mass, detectable by x-ray. If very high fluoride intake persists
over many years, joint pain and stiffness may result from the skeletal
changes.

The most severe form of skeletal fluorosis is known as "crippling
skeletal fluorosis," which may result in calcification of ligaments,
immobility, muscle wasting, and neurological problems related to
spinal cord compression.

Source: GreenFacts
Related words:

Bone - Dental fluorosis - Fluoride

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2251152.stm
  You are in: Health

Thursday, 12 September, 2002, 00:52 GMT 01:52 UK

Euro coins 'trigger allergy'

The one and two Euro coins were studied
The one and two Euro coins were studied
High nickel levels in some euro coins can cause red hands and painful
itching, researchers warn.

Researchers from the University of Zurich say the design of the one
and two euro coins - an external ring of metal surrounding an inner
"pill" of a different colour - lead to the release of high levels of
the metal.

They say the yellow and white alloys contain different amounts of
nickel, copper and zinc, which encourage corrosion as metal ions flow
from one alloy to the other when they are exposed to sweat for long
periods.

It is only through continuous handling and through sweating that the
nickel leeches into the skin and causes this reaction

Dr Clive Grattan, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
They could contain between 240 and 320 times the quantity of nickel
allowed under the European Union Nickel Directive, according to the
scientists.

They say this explains why some people suffer bad skin reactions to
the euro coins, but not others such as the Swiss franc which have
similar levels of nickel.

Allergic reaction

Seven patients who were sensitive to nickel had coins taped to their
skins for 72 hours. All showed positive results when they were tested
for allergic reactions.

A study published last November showed nickel levels in euros were
high enough to trigger symptoms of eczema on the hands of people with
allergies if they held the coins for five minutes.

And in January, a Barcelona hospital reported 20 patients had sought
treatment for painful itching and red hands caused by handling the coins.

Constant handling

Dr Clive Grattan, a consultant dermatologist at the Norfolk and
Norwich University Hospital welcomed the study.

"It is an interesting development and it could have important clinical
implications."

But speaking to BBC News Online he added: "It is only through
continuous handling and through sweating that the nickel leeches into
the skin and causes this reaction."

The research is published in the journal Nature.

Norwich University Hospital
Nature - http://www.nature.com/
European Union

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Recently San Francisco Public Utility Commision (SFPUC) Exiting EPA
(disclaimer) changed from using free chlorine to chloramine in its
drinking water transmission pipes. Some people are concerned for
possible public health implications and for reported effects on fish
and amphibians.

Using chloramine to disinfect drinking water is a common standard
practice among drinking water utilities. A number of utilities have
made this switch from chlorine to chloramines to enhance water safety
and compliance with drinking water health standards. For example, the
East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) Exiting EPA (disclaimer),
which serves drinking water to customers in parts of the greater San
Francisco Bay area, switched from chlorine to using chloramine in
February, 1998.
Background information on chloramines

Chlorine has been safely used for more than 100 years for disinfection
of drinking water to protect public health from diseases which are
caused by bacteria, viruses and other disease causing organisms.
Chloramines, the monochloramine form in particular, have also been
used as a disinfectant since the 1930's. Chloramines are produced by
combining chlorine and ammonia. While obviously toxic at high levels,
neither pose health concerns to humans at the levels used for drinking
water disinfection.

Chloramines are weaker disinfectants than chlorine, but are more
stable, thus extending disinfectant benefits throughout a water
utility's distribution system. They are not used as the primary
disinfectant for your water. Chloramines are used for maintaining a
disinfectant residual in the distribution system so that disinfected
drinking water is kept safe. Chloramine can also provide the following
benefits:

     * Since chloramines are not as reactive as chlorine with organic
material in water, they produce substantially lower concentrations of
disinfection byproducts in the distribution system. Some disinfection
byproducts, such as the trihalomethanes (THMs) and haloacetic acids
(HAAs), may have adverse health effects at high levels. These
disinfection byproducts are closely regulated by EPA. EPA recently
reduced the allowable Maximum Contaminant Levels for total THMs to 80
ug/L and now limit HAAs to 60 ug/L. The use of chlorine and
chloramines is also regulated by the EPA. We have Maximum Residual
Disinfectant Levels of 4.0 mg/L for both these disinfectants. However,
our concern is not from their toxicity, but to assure adequate control
of the disinfection byproducts.
     * Because the chloramine residual is more stable and longer
lasting than free chlorine, it provides better protection against
bacterial regrowth in systems with large storage tanks and dead-end
water mains.
     * Chloramine, like chlorine, is effective in controlling biofilm,
which is a slime coating in the pipe caused by bacteria. Controlling
biofilms also tends to reduce coliform bacteria concentrations and
biofilm-induced corrosion of pipes.
     * Because chloramine does not tend to react with organic
compounds, many systems will experience less incidence of taste and
odor complaints when using chloramine.

Other concerns with chloramines in drinking water

Chloramines, like chlorine, are toxic to fish and amphibians at levels
used for drinking water. Unlike chlorine, chloramines do not rapidly
dissipate on standing. Neither do they dissipate by boiling. Fish
owners must neutralize or remove chloramines from water used in
aquariums or ponds. Treatment products are readily available at
aquarium supply stores. Chloramines react with certain types of rubber
hoses and gaskets, such as those on washing machines and hot water
heaters. Black or greasy particles may appear as these materials
degrade. Replacement materials are commonly available at hardware and
plumber supply stores.
For more information

Contact the Region 9 Drinking Water Office at (415) 972-3547. Your
drinking water utility may also have information about your specific
service.

Contact the San Francisco Public Utility Commision Exiting EPA
(disclaimer) for more information on San Francisco's conversion to
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http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/World/BerlinWallFall.html

For twenty-eight years, Germany lay torn in two by an Iron Curtain. From October 7, 1949 until November 9, 1989, a highly protected barrier separated East and West Germany. When this wall was erected shortly after World War II, it separated families, friends, and the nation. The Berlin Wall itself was only a remainder of the iron curtain, made of steel, cement, and barbed wire fences with traps and explosives. There were guard towers with machine guns and other weapons. Over the years thousands of people tried to cross the wall from East Germany to West Germany, and over one hundred people died in the attempt. [3] And so, the events behind the Iron Curtain barricaded the hopes and dreams of a nation and its people. For this reason, the fall of the Berlin Wall will stand as one of the crucial events within twentieth century politics.

To find the cause of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one must look, not in Germany, but in the Soviet Union. The change began when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985.  He tried to make changes in the state bureaucracy and in the Communist party by restructuring the economy’s production and distribution system, a plan now known as perestroika. In addition, Gorbachev also allowed for the policy of glasnost, or public criticism of the communist party. Gorbachev’s reform contributed to the breakup of the centralized structure of the USSR.  During this time some states such as Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania declared their independence.  In 1989, Gorbachev shifted his policies toward the satellite states of the communist block in Eastern Europe, including Germany. [2]

In effect, the politics in Germany also began to lead toward the destruction of the wall.  In the fall of 1989, there was an antigovernment demonstration in East Germany. In mid-October 1989, the Politburo forced the resignation of Erich Honecker, the leader of the GDR (German Democratic Republic). [5] In this way, Erich Honecker was ousted from office, and others soon followed. By the first week of November, the entire Politburo and all of the members of the East German cabinet resigned. [5]  The new Prime minister, Hans Modrow, announced plans to decentralize the economy and an easing of travel restrictions. [4]  This allowed the East Germans, from the communist sector, to cross the boarder into the west, the Allied sector.

At this point, East Germany began to reform. Then on November 9, 1989, the leader of the East Berlin communist party, Gunter Schabowski, announced that the boarder with West Berlin would be opened for "private trips abroad."  Masses of people started to use hammers and chisels to knock out pieces of the wall. Shortly thereafter, on November 10, 1989 and later on December 22, 1989 checkpoints were opened at Potsdamer Platz and the Brandenberg Gate. On March 18, 1990, free elections in East Germany took place for the first time in 58 years. [5]  By July 1, 1990, the wall tumbled down and Germany was completely united. [3] As a result, a massive emigration from East to West began, which has left economic and emotional scars that can only be healed by the hard work and understanding of generations to come. But on the day that the wall fell will stand out in all of history, as a day when friends and family and an entire nation were reunited, while tears of joy were being shed by all.

Notes:

For more info. on the Fall of the Berlin Wall:

http://www.swlink.net/~ateo/walllinks.html for other sites

http://www.appropriatesoftware.com/BerlinWall/Images8.html  AWESOME PICS!

Bibliography:

1. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/5465/thewall.htm

2. Matthews, Roy T. and Platt, F. DeWitt.  The Westen Humanities.  Mayfield Publishing Company.  Mountain View, California, 1995  p. 560-562.

3. http://members.aol.com/johball/bib.htm

4. Orlow, Dietrich. A History of Modern Germany.  Prentice-Hall.  New Jersey, 1999.

5. Sullivan, Richard E., Sherman, Dennis and Harrison, John B.  A Short History of Western Civilization.  McGraw-Hill, Inc.  New York, 1994, p755-758.

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“A Brain In The Gut.” NISE. [Online] Retrieved December 4, 2000.
                 http://whyfiles.org/026fear/physio1.html (Note: Two
brains are better than one, especially if you're hungry)

Gershon, Michael D. “The Enteric Nervous System:  A Second Brain.”
(1999.) McGraw-Hill. [Online]
http://www.hosppract.com/issues/1999/07/gershon.htm
      (Note: Once dismissed as a simple collection of relay ganglia, the
enteric nervous system is now recognized as a complex, integrative brain
in its own right.)

Sobel, Rachel K. “The wisdom of the gut.” April 3, 2000 [Online]
Retrieved December 4, 2000
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/000403/gut.htm
(For reasons that still mystify researchers today, the stunning results
of this experiment went into hibernation for nearly half a century and
are only now receiving fresh validation. Indeed, no one in medicine paid
attention again until a fledgling neurobiologist began touting its
clinical value in 1965. "The idea that the gut can be operating its own
nervous system was shocking," recalls Michael Gershon, now chair of the
department of anatomy and cell biology at Columbia University and author
of The Second Brain, a 1998 account of the acceptance of this scientific
idea. Since the 1980s, Gershon's colleagues have zealously embraced the
notionof "the little brain in the gut," as it's affectionately known.
"What Mother

Nature had done, rather than packing all of those neurons in the big
brain in the skull and sending long lines to the gut, is distribute the
microcomputer, the little brain, right along with the gut," says Jackie
Wood, a neurobiologist at Ohio State University.)  Printed 2 pgs.
                 [Note: In 1917 A Gernam scientist Paul Trendelenburg
found out about a self-contained, self-regulating nervous system that
operates independently of the cranial brain or spinal cord, embedded in
the wall of the gut.  By the year 2000 it was found out that there are
mast cells embedded in the lining of the gut, and that the gut brain has
at least 30 neurochemicals that are the same as the ones in the crainial
brain.

IBS is not imagined, or a psychosomatic cranial mental problem but can
be caused by the “little brain” causing chronic abdominal pain,
discomfort, and irregular bowel movements to the nerves or little brain
in the gut. ]

Sobel, Rachel K. “The wisdom of the gut.” Science & Ideas 4/3/00
[Online] Retrieved December 5, 2000
http://www.drkoop.com/news/stories/september/r/nausea.html
                 (Note: Those butterflies in your stomach are not just in
your mind)


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> Subject: More "Clinton Gold"
>
> Gold Star Mothers
>
> You really should be sitting down when you read this one.
> Gold Star Mothers is an organization made up of women whose sons
> were killed in military combat during service in the United States
> armed forces. Recently a delegation of New York State Gold Star
> Mothers made a trip to Washington, DC to discuss various concerns
> with their elected representatives. According to published reports,
> there was only one politician who refused to meet with these ladies.
> Can you guess which politician that might be? Was it New York
> Senator Charles Schumer? Nope, he met with them. Try again. Do you
> know anyone serving in the Senate who has never showed anything but
> contempt for our military? Do you happen to know the name of any
> politician in Washington who's husband once wrote of his loathing
> for the military? Now you're getting warm! You got it! None other
> than the Queen herself, Hillary Clinton. She refused repeated
> requests to meet with the Gold Star Mothers.  Now -- please don't
> tell me you're surprised. This woman wants to be president of the
> United States --- and there is a huge percentage of voters who are
> eager to help her achieve that goal. Sincerely, Cdr. Hamilton
> McWhorter USN (ret)
>
> PS: Please forward this to as many people as you can. We don't want
> this woman to even think of running for President.
>
> May you sleep in peace always...and please...hug or thank a Veteran
> for that privilege.
>
> Don't forget, our girl, Hillary Rodham Clinton, as a New York
> Senator, now comes under this fancy Congressional Retirement and
> Staffing Plan. It's common knowledge that, in order for her to
> establish NYS residency, they purchased a million+ dollar house in
> upscale Chappaqua, NY. Makes sense. Now, they are entitled to Secret
> Service protection for life. Still makes sense. Here is where it
> becomes interesting. The mortgage payments hover
at
> about $10,000 per month. BUT, an extra residency had to be built
> within
the
> acreage in order to house the Secret Service agents. The Clinton's
> now charge the Secret Service $10,000 monthly rent for the use of
> said Secret service residence and that rent is just about equal to
> their mortgage payment, meaning that we, the tax payers, are paying
> the Clinton's
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> and it's all perfectly legal. (When will it ever end?) How many
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The Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm Timeline
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Aug2000/n08082000_20008088.html

The Gulf War Story
http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/story_gwi.html
1990 Aug 2 Iraq invades Kuwait
1990 Aug 7 Operation Desert Shield
1991 Jan 17 Operation Desert Storm

Red Adair - The Fires of Kuwait
03/02/91 through 11/06/91
http://www.redadair.com/thriller.html

Medical Issues Relating to Symptoms Among Gulf War Veterans
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Human Genome Project - Major Events in the U.S. Human Genome Project
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http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/project/timeline.html
**1983 LANL and LLNL begin production of DNA clone (cosmid) libraries
representing single chromosomes.
**1986 Following the Santa Fe conference, DOE OHER announces Human
Genome Initiative. With $5.3 million, pilot projects begin at DOE
national laboratories to develop critical resources and technologies
**1990 was the formal launch of the Human Genome project

1993 Release of Jurassic Park (movie about clonning dinosaurs from DNA
[stem cells?] )

A Timeline of Biotechnology
http://www.bio.org/timeline/timeline.html
1997 Scottish scientists report cloning a sheep, named Dolly, using DNA
from adult sheep cells.

From discovery to decoding the genome
http://www.time.com/time/daily/special/genetics/timeline.html
November 1998 Two research teams succeed in growing embryonic stem
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Michael's story
     I have a child that has been called ADHD by his father (my
ex-husband) but I could
find nothing wrong with him - except for ear infections and allergic
type reactions.  I tried allergy testing (multiple results), elimination
diet (this got rid of the inhaler), structured home life, passive
discipline, and acidophilus (probiotics).
     Michael was in speech therapy a year before pre-school and continued
until third grade, but he was not always schooled in the public school
system.  Pre-school was a year of perfect attendance topped off by
winning a reading award.  Started with kindergarten I would end up home
schooling Michael by Christmas of each year because he started getting
in trouble.  His grades in public school were not always good, yet I
required a Standford test each year and managed to keep him at grade
level by home schooling.
     It was not until Michael was in fifth grade that I realize he had
been accused of ADHD because he could not hear well.  Since I did not
realize how frustrating this can be and how class mate would treat a
child that acted different, it seemed that Michael had just learned
better by being home schooled.  In reality it was that the curriculum
that was used was visual, instructions, lesson, and handouts were
included in each student book so that Michael could read them. I was not
a better teacher, I was just accidentally using a curriculum that a deaf
child could learn from.  Even though Michael's hearing problems were
intermediate (conductive hearing loss) because of hard ear wax and fluid
behind the ear drum, they occurred often enough to cause a learning
delay.

      If the child has reoccurring ear infections then the child may have
a sensory deprivation that may be helped by a visual curriculum and an
IEP's (Individual Education Plan).  Since it is hard to be socialized to
a social group if you can not adapt to different social situations -
because you can not hear and did not realize that the situation had
changed.  Example: A child that not gotten used [acclimatization] to
sotto voice whispering in a school room because the child's hearing was
messed up during their early years of school.
http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/2001/05/01.html
So the child
1) draws too much attention to themselves
2) is not comfortable in their own skin because they are not
acclimatization
3) the school system and the child's parents have let the child down by
not
recognizing the problem and offering a visual curriculum.
4) deaf children can learn in a public school and so could Michael if
his problem had
been identified.

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