Prescription Addiction Radio is here!

Hi Everyone!

I apologize for not being around recently and this will not happen anymore - don't worry I am not going anywhere :)

Well, the latest and greatest is that two of my good friends and I did a radio show in Tampa FL last night that was on the prescription drugs and the abuse of them that people and kids especially are getting into. It was very good and I enjoyed being part of it quite a bit. You can listen to it by clicking here and going onto the March 2nd show and listening to it. www.prescriptionaddictionradio.com/

It was very good to go on this show and was great to be able to speak my mind about these drugs and be free from inhibitions and just say what I know is true - That these Prescription drugs are actively destroying peoples lives and NOTHING is being done about it to show the people of the world today the truth.

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I read something today from a study on Prozac and three other drugs in the same class and I want to share it with you.

"Prozac, the bestselling antidepressant taken by 40 million people worldwide, does not work and nor do similar drugs in the same class, according to a major review released today.

The study examined all available data on the drugs, including results from clinical trials that the manufacturers chose not to publish at the time. The trials compared the effect on patients taking the drugs with those given a placebo or sugar pill.

When all the data was pulled together, it appeared that patients had improved - but those on placebo improved just as much as those on the drugs.

Given these results, there seems little reason to prescribe antidepressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients, unless alternative treatments have failed," says Kirsch. "This study raises serious issues that need to be addressed surrounding drug licensing and how drug trial data is reported"

The pattern they saw from the trial results of fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Seroxat), venlafaxine (Effexor) and nefazodone (Serzone) was consistent. "Using complete data sets (including unpublished data) and a substantially larger data set of this type than has been previously reported, we find the overall effect of new-generation antidepressant medication is below recommended criteria for clinical significance," they write.

To see the article go to: www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/feb/26/mentalhealth.medicalresearch

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WOW - Is this not amazing, I mean if you follow and monitor these company's closely then I guess that it is not that amazing as you would see the dirt on them all the time that somehow is pushed under the chair and never made public, BUT if you are not familiar with these company's then I am suggest you do start familiarizing yourself with these company's as they are NOT what they state and from what I can see are doing MUCH more harm then they are help.

I also saw something the other day that I was astounded by and it was the fact that Prozac is being made and marketed to ANIMALS - I read the "symptoms" that would make it a good idea to prescribe it to your animal and there were things like Drooling or panting, being active, barking, etc

No below I have listed some of the Side effects that might happen to your dog if he were to take this drug.

Side effects associated with fluoxetine (Prozac) include lethargy, panting, hyperactivity, shaking, restlessness, excessive vocalization, aggression and temporary lack of appetite. The animal may also seizure.

HELLO!!! They are the same symptoms that you are trying to "CURE" except that your beloved animal might have a seizure and die in the process... Outrageous!

Anyways these are my thoughts for today.


Later - Monty

'Gravely disabled' Spears involuntarily committed to psychiatric ward...

Britney Spears has been classified as "gravely disabled," a precondition for the pop star to be involuntarily committed to a hospital psychiatric ward, reports say.

Sources at UCLA Medical told gossip website TMZ.com that Ms. Spears - who was taken from her home by ambulance early yesterday and escorted to the hospital by more than a dozen police officers in cars, on motorcycles and in helicopters - had "fallen into a 'manic state' due to her bipolar disorder," the website reports.

Grave disability is defined legally as a condition in which a person, as a result of a mental disorder, is unable to provide for his or her basic personal needs for food, clothing or shelter.

Meanwhile, a source close to Ms. Spears told Usmagazine.com her trip to the hospital was "a carefully orchestrated intervention."

Ms. Spears, the source continued, "had been up since Saturday without any sleep. But that was a good situation for her to be in because she would be too exhausted to protest going in."

A Los Angeles police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the 26-year-old pop star was being taken to the hospital to "get help."

According to several reports, Los Angeles Police Department officers arrived at Ms. Spears's mansion about 11 p.m. Wednesday night, and were reportedly told to refer to her as "the package."

Around midnight, an ambulance arrived to transport Ms. Spears, who was strapped to a gurney, to hospital, reports said.

About four hours later, an LAPD source confirmed to TMZ, Ms. Spears was ordered to remain in hospital for a "three-day psychiatric hold" under supervision. The website reports that stay will likely be extended to 14 days.

Ms. Spears's mother, Lynne Spears, was seen leaving the psychiatric hospital about 5:30 a.m. When asked by a throng of paparazzi and reporters whether Ms Spears was doing all right, she replied, "Yeah," before leaving in a Range Rover.

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You know I am sorry to say but this worry's me quite a bit as I think that she will be the next Marilyn Monroe or something of that nature as from what I can tell she is on the down and out and I honestly do not think that the psychiatrists are going to help her one bit... She has been taking Psychiatric drugs now and I think that this is directly affecting her "erratic" behavior.

So we shall see ... But don't say that I did not say anything about this as I really think that something not pleasant will happen due to all of this....

What About you?.....

Later - Monty

Eli Llily to pay more than $1 billion to federal and state governments for Psych Drug Zyprexa?

Eli Lilly and federal prosecutors are discussing a settlement of a civil and criminal investigation into the company’s marketing of the antipsychotic drug Zyprexa that could result in Lilly’s paying more than $1 billion to federal and state governments.

If a deal is reached, the fine would be the largest ever paid by a drug company for breaking the federal laws that govern how drug makers can promote their medicines.

Several people involved in the investigation confirmed the settlement discussions. They insisted on anonymity because they have not been authorized to talk about the negotiations.

Zyprexa has serious side effects and is approved only to treat people with schizophrenia and severe bipolar disorder. But documents from Lilly show that between 2000 and 2003, Lilly encouraged doctors to prescribe Zyprexa to people with age-related dementia, as well as people with mild bipolar disorder who had previously been diagnosed only as depressed.

Although doctors can prescribe drugs for any use once they are on the market, it is illegal for drug makers to promote their medicines any uses not formally approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Lilly may also plead guilty to a misdemeanor criminal charge as part of the agreement, the people involved with the investigation said. But the company would be allowed to keep selling Zyprexa to Medicare and Medicaid, the government programs that are the biggest customers for the drug. Zyprexa is Lilly’s most profitable product and among the world’s best-selling medicines, with 2007 sales of $4.8 billion, about half in the United States.

Lilly would neither confirm nor deny the settlement talks.

“We have been and are continuing to cooperate in state and federal investigations related to Zyprexa, including providing a broad range of documents and information,” Lilly said in a statement Wednesday afternoon. “As part of that cooperation we regularly have discussions with the government. However, we have no intention of sharing those discussions with the news media and it would be speculative and irresponsible for anyone to do so.”

Lilly also said that it had always followed state and federal laws when promoting Zyprexa.

The Lilly fine would be distributed among federal and state governments, which spend about $1.5 billion on Zyprexa each year through Medicare and Medicaid.

The fine would be in addition to $1.2 billion that Lilly has already paid to settle 30,000 lawsuits from people who claim that Zyprexa caused them to suffer diabetes or other diseases. Zyprexa can cause severe weight gain in many patients and has been linked to diabetes by the American Diabetes Association.

Prescriptions for Zyprexa have skidded since 2003 over concerns about those side effects. But the drug continues to be widely used, especially among severely mentally ill patients. Many psychiatrists say that it works better than other medicines at calming patients who are psychotic and hallucinating. About four million Zyprexa prescriptions were written in the United States last year.

Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia are leading the settlement talks for the government, in consultation with the Department of Justice headquarters in Washington. State attorneys general’s offices are also involved. Lawyers at Pepper Hamilton, a firm based in Philadelphia, and Sidley Austin, a firm based in Chicago, are negotiating for Lilly.

Nina Gussack, who is representing Lilly at Pepper Hamilton, said she could not comment on the case. Joseph Trautwein, an assistant United States attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, also declined to comment.

While a settlement has not been concluded and the negotiations could collapse, both sides want to reach an agreement, according to the people involved in the investigation. Besides the escalating pressure of the federal criminal inquiry, Lilly faces a civil trial scheduled for March in Anchorage, Alaska, in a lawsuit brought by the state of Alaska to recover money the state has spent on Zyprexa prescriptions. A loss in that lawsuit would damage Lilly’s bargaining position in the Philadelphia talks.

While expensive for Lilly, the settlement would end a four-year federal investigation and remove a cloud over Zyprexa. While Zyprexa prescriptions are falling, its overall dollar volume of sales is rising because Lilly has raised Zyprexa’s price about 40 percent since 2003.

Federal prosecutors have been investigating Lilly for its marketing of Zyprexa since 2004, and state attorneys general since 2005. The people involved in the investigations said the inquiries gained momentum after December 2006, when The New York Times published articles describing Lilly’s multiyear efforts to play down Zyprexa’s side effects and to promote the drug for conditions other than schizophrenia and severe bipolar disorder — a practice called off-label marketing.

Internal Lilly marketing documents and e-mail messages showed that Lilly wanted to convince doctors to prescribe Zyprexa for patients with age-related dementia or relatively mild bipolar disorder.

In one document, an unidentified Lilly marketing executive wrote that primary care doctors “do treat dementia” but leave schizophrenia and bipolar disorder to psychiatrists. As a result, “dementia should be first message” to primary-care doctors, according to the document, which appears to be part of a larger marketing presentation but is not marked more specifically. Later, the same document says that some primary care doctors “might prescribe outside of label.”

In late 2000, Lilly began a marketing campaign called Viva Zyprexa and told its sales representatives to suggest that doctors prescribe Zyprexa to older patients with symptoms of dementia.

The documents were under federal court seal when The Times published the articles, and Judge Jack B. Weinstein of Federal District Court in Brooklyn rebuked The Times for publishing them.

The settlement negotiations in Philadelphia began several months ago, according to the people involved in the investigation.

Last fall, the two sides were close to a deal in which Lilly would have paid less than $1 billion to settle the case, which at the time consisted only of a civil complaint.

Then Justice Department lawyers in Washington pressed for a grand jury investigation to examine whether Lilly should be charged criminally for its promotional activities, according to the people involved in the negotiations. A few days ago, facing the possibility of both civil and criminal charges, Lilly opened new discussions with the prosecutors in Philadelphia.

I hope that this happens as I want these people to understand the horrors that they are doing to others... Money is not a problem for them but... It is a statement that the USA is not going to take there BS anymore...

Later - Monty

The "deadly" truth about opiates

I know that I have been spending a lot of my time writing about drugs etc recently, but I feel that this is a responsibility that I must take on as I have been working at a medical detox facility in Florida called Novus and we get people off drugs.

The most prevalent drugs that I see in people coming to get clean are the use of "legal" opiates and some illegal as well. Oxycodone (Percodan), Hydrocodone (Vicodin), Raw Opium, Opium, Codeine, Morphine, Heroin, Hydromorphone (Dilaudid), Methadone (Dolophine) and the list goes on...

"Possible" Effects of Opiates

I put the above in parenthesis as I see these things happening all the time when people are coming off drugs and it is NOT fun for the user at all and so to me it should be classed as more than just "possible" effects...

General effects of narcotic analgesics include: sedation, slowed reflexes, raspy speech, sluggish "rubber-like" movements, slowed breathing, cold skin, and possible vomiting. However, as a user continues to abuse narcotic analgesics he or she will build a tolerance to the drug, therefore causing the effects to diminish. Heroin, a very strong narcotic depressant, completely destroys the users ability to reason. Its synthetic form, known as "designer drug" has been proven to be even more deadly and addictive. If the abuser wishes to maintain the same effect, he or she will have to take steadily larger doses as the tolerance develops.

Heroin users generally experience certain psychological effects immediately after injection. These include a feeling of euphoria: relief from withdrawal symptoms: and, relief from pain. Physical effects, if they are evident at all, typically will become evident after 15-30 minutes. Physical effects may not be evident if the user is tolerant and has taken a normal dose. With new users, the physical effects include: nodding off, poor motor coordination, depressed reflexes, and slow breathing.

If a user is addicted to opiates he or she will suffer withdrawal symptoms if they don't receive another dose, or "fix", before the drug is completely out of their system. Withdrawal effects can be chills, aches of the muscles and joints, nausea and insomnia. These symptoms normally start 4-6 hours after the last dosage of the drug. The withdrawal signs and symptoms intensify from 14-24 hours following the injection, and may be accompanied by gooseflesh, slight tremors, loss of appetite and dilation of the pupils. Approximately 24-36 hours since the last "fix", the addict experiences insomnia, vomiting, diarrhea, weakness, depression and hot/cold flashes. Withdrawal signs and symptoms generally reach their peak after 2-3 days. At this point, the addict usually experiences muscular and abdominal cramps, elevated temperature and severe tremors and twitching. This twitching, especially of the legs, is referred to in the expression "kickin' the habit". The addict is very nauseated at this time, may gag and vomit repeatedly, and may lose 10-15 pounds within 24 hours.

Signs of an overdose of narcotic analgesics are depress respiration, slow and shallow breathing, clammy skin, convulsions, possible coma and death.

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So I know that that your friends might tell you how cool it is and if your doing it yes you might enjoy the "high" BUT when you decide to stop it is going to be an extremely wild and un-fun ride so why get into it into the first place...

So I hope that you can use this information in your life as I see a lot of people that I work with do not realize just how hard it is to get off these legal and illegal opiates.

Later - Monty

Jason Lee — Skateboarder, Actor and Scientologist

Jason Lee was born on April 25, 1970 in Orange, California. He is a professional skateboarder and has been for years, particularly in the late 80s and early 90s.

He since has been focusing his career in acting and doing quite well at that.

He currently stars in as Earl Hickey in “My Name is Earl”, which is an extremely popular tv show on NBC.

Jason Lee has also been in numerous well-known movies, including Vanilla Sky (with Tom Cruise), Almost Famous, Enemy of the State (with Will Smith), A Guy Thing (with Julia Stiles), Heartbreakers (with Jennifer Love Hewitt), Dogma, Chasing Amy (with Ben Affleck) and Mallrats, among others.

Jason Lee was also nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Television Series — Musical or Comedy.

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So as I am a skateboarder and surfer I thought that it would be appropriate to let you guys out there know that there are people just like you from all religions including Scientology.

I'll post something again tmrw.

Later - Monty

Novus, A life changing Medical Detox facility

Hello,

Today I wanted to give you guys and girls out there something to read about and this is in terms of drug addiction and why it is so important to handle these problems.

If you have been reading my blog then you more than likely know that I am working at a drug detox center called Novus in Florida USA. I work there as I love to help people and I am a councellor there and what I do is just help the patients with whatever they need to get off the drugs as smoothly as possible.

I know that this might seem like I am using this blog as a promotional thing but that is NOT my intention... I just want to let the people know that there are centers out there that actually do care for there patients and have there #1 objective of the patient off drugs forever. If you know of anybody that is on drugs or alcohol (this can be either legal or illegal drugs) then please do your part in helping them get off. You can check out our website which is www.Novusdetox.com and you can call them from that website and if you want to go somewhere else we could help you out as well.

The main point of our facility is to make it as comfortable as possible while someone is there detoxing and believe you me, it is...

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Just so you know there are many good facilities out there and one other that I would like to recommend is Narconon and this is where I try to send my guys after our program as it is a rehab pgm. This pgm will get the reasons WHY you are taking the drugs or alcohol and handle that problem so that alcohol and drugs are no longer needed to "get away" from it all as you will have your own personal life handled and squared away.

So if you want to detox then go click here on Novus.
If you want to Rehabilitate after the detox then click here on Narconon.

Just so you know this coming week I am going to be doing some education in terms of narcotics and alcohol which I think you will enjoy. Stay tuned...


By the way its FRIDAY! Hope all of you have a great weekend... I will!

See ya!

Later - Monty

Australian-born actor Heath Ledger, 28, the co-star of the Oscar-winning movie "Brokeback Mountain," was found dead in a New York residence on Tuesday...

Today has been a sad day for Hollywood and all who liked Mr Heath Ledger. I am putting this on my Blog as I really thought that this actor was very good and was well respected and loved by many but also the fact that i have heard (and I dont know if this is actually true) that it seems he might have overdosed... I just wanted to let this be known as he was a very good actor and was starting to become very big and had a lot of potential...

So take this to heart and stay away from drugs - and when I say that I mean both illegal contraband as well as these psychiatric drugs that are passed out avidly like candy nowadays...

My point is - Don't end up like this amazing person... just because you are not "famous" does not mean that you cant also be fucked over by the drugs that are out there.

Chew it over....

Later - Monty