PUTNEY — Why would psychiatrist Neil Senior take time to write about the dangers of marijuana use before wrangling with the drug problems of his own field?
He challenges that marijuana hasn't ever killed anyone, which it might not have. Meanwhile, proof abounds that drugs dispensed by the psychiatric field kill routinely. Doesn't Neil Senior care that psychiatrists are killing? Wouldn't he like to see a robust new oversight of the entire field?
I would. From my perspective as a mom, psychiatrists are sanctioned drug dealers, more dangerous to us all because they deal drugs in a white suit, sanctioned by society.
They prescribe drugs created by drug companies that make a profit only when people are “sick.” Their job is to convince people they are “sick” and use the drugs that corporate drug-dealing companies profit from.
How many beside me followed the thread on the underside of the web of the stories of mass killings around this country and saw that every one of them had a killer on meds? As well, evidence of iatrogenic deaths (death by medicine) is beginning to be known, and the numbers are hugely significant.
In my own small life, I have seen such deaths occur twice.
My beloved soul mother, Versa, suffered from burns due to a chemical reaction to a drug to treat her cancer before dying. (There is ample living testimony from people who will testify that marijuana has cured their major diseases.)
The second time, a lovely young woman of 18, Christina, asked to stay at my home because she felt she safe there. I loved her as my own. She would have been safe. She flourished. She quit smoking, she began taking walks in the woods. She was singing.
But every night she would take the medications that her psychiatrist at the Brattleboro Retreat prescribed to her. She'd began to slur her words and act so woozy that she had to go to bed.
Over the course of the months she stayed, her psychiatrist gave her another two prescriptions (unbeknownst to me, who had advised her to cut down). In total, she had nine medications in her body (some contraindicated, her family later said) when she died of an overdose in my home.
The autopsy blamed a psychiatric medication she got on the street and a partially finished fifth of vodka. The psychiatrist subsequently moved from the Retreat to work for HCRS.
I don't smoke (I have in the past), but I don't worry about pot. In fact, I am a candidate for governor and my views hold with Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) that no addiction should be criminalized. Jailing addicts does not make society safer; doing so only gives us higher taxes that are not being used effectively.
I support the full legalization of pot, and its local production, where we can inspect it to verify that it hasn't been laced with something bad, such as heroin. Our alcohol laws work for pot use.
I asked my psychiatric nurse sister over Thanksgiving if there is such a thing as exercise therapy for depression? Wouldn't it be effective? Why don't we see it?
She answered that the major studies are done by drug companies to show that their drug works, and there isn't money for a study that shows exercise works.
Our schools here in Putney - Landmark and Greenwood - are filled with medicated children. Can Neil Senior write about that problem? About how the meds are showing up in water supplies across the country? About the fact that there just might be a more-natural way to get healthy in mind, body, and soul than to medicate up the wazoo?