In recent years, among American teenagers, an increasing so-called farm parties are gaining popularity. Their members bring with them whole handfuls of tablets, mainly psychotropic drugs and antipsychotics, and pour them into the general a large bowl. Later it remains only to take them from there and to a roar music drink alcohol.
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Of course, when you use a kind of “dope” often cases of overdose, including fatal. So that parents of high school students overseas are increasingly recommended to hide medicines under the lock.
Antidepressants are everywhere
In general, Americans confidently hold first place in the world in the use of drugs. The United States accounts for nearly a third of their purchases for over the world worth over $ 300 billion a year. Moreover, in the top three most commonly prescribed drugs in the states are easy addictive antidepressants and opioid painkillers, which allows experts to say: the nation is deeply hooked on legal drugs.
According to research company IMS Health, in the United States at a population of about 320 million people are discharged annually 250 million prescriptions for antidepressants. For example, among women from 40 up to 50 years, every fourth sits on antidepressants.
Back in 1994, the journalist Elizabeth’s autobiographical book Wurzel “Prozac Nation” (Prozac is one of the most common antidepressants) instantly became national in the US a bestseller, because in the main character of the novel everyone could recognize themselves third american. Since then, the situation has only worsened – for US sales of antidepressants in the past 20 years have risen by 400%
Medical journalist Brittany Stepniak says:
– Due to massive advertising and dishonesty Americans have developed pharmaceutical companies misconception about action and possible consequences The most popular antidepressants are Zoloft, Prozac and Celex. The terrible truth is that often negative side the effects outweigh the benefits of taking the medicine. In accordance with independent research, a positive result is achieved in all in 30% of cases.
Now compare with a list of side effects: weight gain, insomnia, nightmares, headache, dizziness, problems with eyesight. Almost everyone taking these pills has decreased sexual desire, up to a complete disorder sexual function. And often a long intake of antidepressants leads to even deeper depression.
Nowadays, it even comes to the point that antidepressants can become cause … environmental disaster. In some american traces of medicines were found in water bodies. In particular, the same Prozac. And this is by no means the consequences of some technogenic disasters. The thing is different. Medicines enter rivers along with sewer waste.
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The concentration of these drugs in the body of many Americans such that the drugs cease to be absorbed properly and pass organism through and through. Wastewater treatment plants – filters and complexes biological treatment – not adapted to contain such kind of pollution.
Benzodiazepines are relatives of heroin
Recently, a huge scandal erupted in the United States and Great Britain: it turns out, back in 1982, scientists warned that drinking tranquilizers or, more simply, sedatives, leads to the same brain changes as chronic alcoholism. Then a large-scale study of this effect was planned, but for unknown reason, scientists have not received the necessary financing.
Not only that, the reception of popular sedatives from the class benzodiazepines for four or more weeks leads to the same physiological addiction, as with the use of heroin. Side effects occur corresponding: hallucinations, headaches pain, cramps and even death.
– A burning sensation as if you were stuck in a spinal cord naked wire – piercing pain goes through the spine to the ends fingers and toes, – consumes his feelings benzodiazepines patient.
With heroin, benzodiazepines have a similarity in common: with them almost impossible to jump off.
– It’s as if someone was shouting in my head: accept more, more, more of these pills, – trying to refuse to share her impressions from the medicine, a patient named Rita. – I was so deep depression that cut my veins. But I don’t even remember how did it.
– With a sharp rejection of these medicines, the risk is great epileptic seizures, stroke, heart attack and hallucinations, – confirms Dr. Stephen Melimis. – you wake up in the cold sweating, and pounding you as if your heart was about to jump out breasts. And it usually starts quite innocently: due to stress on At work, the doctor prescribes a sedative. A couple of days – and you Feel great. After a week or two, stress at work repeats, and again you take benzodiazepines, and again everything a few days. But trouble at work happens more often, and already after a few months, you find yourself swallowing pills everyday.
The problem is that tranquilizers are prescribed for the disorder. nerves and insomnia, but the longer you drink them, the more nervous and sleep worse. So, you need to increase all the time dose. The final stage of dependence on benzodiazepines doctors called depersonalization, which is expressed in the loss of interest in life and often leads to suicide.
Pain-relieving painkillers
A fair amount of painkillers prescribed in the USA are not just similar to drugs. These drugs are drugs, in fact, and are. According to the Government Center for Control and disease prevention, so much is sold every year in the States opioid painkillers that within a month all adult the country’s population may receive daily on potentially lethal dose of semi-synthetic opioid hydrocodone.
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So there is nothing surprising in the fact that every year from an overdose of painkillers dies 15 thousand Americans – more than heroin and cocaine combined.
Where drugs, even legal ones, are always terry color blooms crime. And a couple of years ago Florida State Drug Police Covered in Special Operation a network of one-day clinics. The work of the “pill factory” was built on extremely simple scheme: throughout the state for a short, sometimes just a few days, the deadline – so that the police do not have time to react – the so-called Centers for the fight against pain were opened, the only whose function was to sell prescription painkillers drugs. It is theoretically possible to get a prescription from the “pill factory” was in any pharmacy, but the organizers strongly recommended to do it’s only in proven places so that the criminal scheme doesn’t last longer aroused suspicion.
The investigation of this opened the eyes of Americans to two unpleasant fact. First: up to 70% of opioid painkillers go directly to black market. Second: the drug mafia has discovered a new niche for itself and included pharmacies in its field of activity. As a result already today about 12 million Americans use painkillers in non-medical purposes, for the first ten years of the new century of sale legal opioids increased fourfold and as many times increased number of deaths from their overdose. Annual number ambulance calls related to receiving and overdosing painkillers, exceeded half a million.
Panacea for ADHD?
Carried away by such indisputable treatment of adults psychoactive drugs, Americans do not disregard and children. In this case, it is primarily about drugs for ADHD – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. They supposedly can improve academic performance in children who do not study well in school.
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Over the past 10 years, the diagnosis of ADHD has been made twice as often. And so already a third of American parents believe their children will be better learn by taking drugs for ADHD, even if they have everything with their heads in order.
In this case, psychoactive drugs act on the fragile children’s psyche in the most unpredictable way. One study showed that in 14% of young people taking antidepressants causes periodic attacks of aggression. Some 12 year old member studies often dreamed about how he kills his first classmates, and then himself. Extremely Realistic Nightmares repeated until the boy stopped taking tablets.
And on Betty Henderson’s online portal, “Stories About antidepressants “collected information that in most cases unpredictable explosions of school violence juvenile delinquents took psychoactive drugs. Shooting at school in Alabama 7 November 2011 – A criminal drinking drugs for depression and ADHD. The New York School hostage taking November 9, 2010 – young Limedea took antidepressants. Murder at school in Massachusetts April 28, 2010 – again after taking medication for depression and ADHD
So what a strange treatment it turns out. Both for adults and for children. And this problem is not unique to the United States, but there flashed somehow particularly brightly.
Valdis PEYPINSH
USA
