Drug company raised Naloxene (opiod treatment) price by 600% (to capitalize on Big Pharma-caused (Johnson & Johnson etc) opioid overdose crisis)

WAR BY DRUGS REMEMBRANCE DAY VICTIMS, November 2019 (Are these people the casualties of their own choices or the hapless victims of some war?)

900-tonnes Afghan heroin hitting world streets, London Telegraph, Nov 11, 2018

Corrupt UN-World Bank steal billions Afghan aid, GlobeMail, Nov 11, 2018

Afghan worst drought in history starving millions & watch UN crooks ask $-millions for Afghan drought, Telegraph/YouTube, Nov 11, 2018. Go to Big Brother United Nations a sect doing evil

USA kids take more meds (dangerous drug mixes rise), Health Day, Aug 27, 2018
Everyone worries about drug abuse among children, but a hidden danger for some kids rests in prescription medicines intended to help them, a new study warns. Some children and teenagers who are prescribed multiple medications are at risk of drug interactions that could literally stop their heart, according to the report. "We found that about 1 in 12 kids using two or more medications together were potentially at risk for a major drug interaction", said lead researcher Dima Qato, an assistant professor with the University of Illinois at Chicago's College of Pharmacy. Most of the potential drug interactions detected in the study can create dangerous heart rhythms called arrhythmias, which might lead to sudden cardiac death, Qato explained. Teenage girls were most at risk for these interactions, which most often involved the combination of a long-term antidepressant and a shorter-term medication like a nonopioid pain reliever, an antibiotic or an anti-nausea drug, Qato said. She noted that the problem is probably even larger than observed in the study, since the researchers relied on data regarding prescription medication use. "We actually likely underestimate the prevalence of this problem because it's limited to prescription drugs. Many short-term medications like naproxen [such as Aleve] are available over the counter," Qato said.... "Extrapolating these data to the population at large, the message is that nearly 1 of every 100 children in the U.S. is potentially exposed to dangerous combinations of prescription drugs", said Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center in New Haven, Conn. He was not involved with the study....

2,000% rise in street drug samples testing positive for fentanyl, November 9, 2017

Former top cops get into marijuana-services business (Fantino, once outspoken against culture of 'dopeheads' says he has 'become more aware' of the drug's medicinal benefits), Globe & Mail, September 23, 2017

Tainted government-supplied Medical Cannabis (multi-billion dollar industry for corporations and shareholders, including politicians), Globe Mail, August 19, 2017

LSD officialy tested by chemist creator in 1943 (demon invaded & took possession of body/mind/soul),GlobeMail, Apr 19, 1943-2018
Everything in my field of vision wavered and was distorted as if seen in a curved mirror. I also had the sensation of being unable to move from the spot", Swiss chemist Albert Hoffmann wrote in his 1980 auto-biography LSD: My Problem Child. Hoffmann had just ridden his bike home from his lab after deliberately ingesting a small amount of a drug he had created to be used as a medicine. But he'd taken too much and Hoffmann experienced the first bad acid trip. He said it felt as if a demon had invaded him and taken possession of his body, mind and soul. "The substance, with which I had wanted to experiment, had vanquished me. It was the demon that scornfully triumphed over my will", he wrote. Later, Hoffmann's employer began producing the drug for psychiatrists to use in experiments. While they failed to discover any medical use for it, free samples for experminents were distributred widely. Hoffmann's hallucinogenic trip went on to inspire a counterculture of drug use -- and what happaned on April 19, 1943, became known (and celebrated) as Bicycle Day.

BC expands access to fentanyl testing (to encourage people to bring illegal drugs to government for testing), November 10, 2017

KILL AFGHAN POPPY STOP HEROIN TRADE (turning cities into drug-dominated war zones). See IN AFGHAN FIELDS

Afghanistan 224000 hectares opium/6400 tons heroin (USA/EU soldiers could easily erradicate poppy fields), Global Research, October 2016

Heroin epidemic deaths/new users all across America

Chinese fentanyl poisoning America's heroin addicts (synthetic opium made from chemicals not poppies), Nov 11-20, 2016

BC music fest crowdfunds for drug-checking machine amid fentanyl crisis, by Tamsyn Burgmann, CanadianPress, Aug 1, 2016
VANCOUVER -- For the past 14 years, organizers of a giant electronic music festival on a British Columbia mountain ranch have quietly helped participants test their recreational drugs to find out what substances are inside. Shambhala organizers will also hand out 4,000 pamphlets warning about the deadly drug fentanyl to those attending the festival that starts Wednesday. But what they really want to increase safety is a miniature mobile mass spectrometer. Unable to secure government funding for the sophisticated drug-testing machine, which could cost up to $250,000 or more, organizers have launched an online crowd-funding campaign hoping to make the purchase by next year. The machine can detect many ingredients in one substance. The campaign comes amid the declaration of a public health emergency over a surge of opioid overdose deaths in the province, many of them related to fentanyl. Premier Christy Clark announced last week that a task force had been created to scale up the response. One of its stated goals is to improve street drug checking. But Shambhala organizers say they can't wait. "We have to move very quickly if we're going to stop any more deaths from happening," said Chloe Sage, who has run the harm-reduction operation at the festival for the past six years. The tent provides recreational users chemical agents that change colours when tested so they can personally check their drugs, but they don't work for fentanyl. Sage said the creation of the provincial task force is movement in the right direction, and has only recently become possible as public opinion shifts. BC's Ministry of Health funded Sage and a colleague to write a 60-page "how-to guide" for drug checking at music festivals this spring. "The conversation has only become a national conversation in the last year," she said....

GOV'T DRUG-PUSHING NALOXONE ON ADDICTS, 2016

Opioid overdoses not limited to street users, by Nick Eagland, VancouverSun, Jul 28, 2016
Fraser Health is warning drug users about fentanyl's wide reach... Doctors in the region have also seen overdoses involving fentanyl-laced heroin, cocaine, amphetamines, ecstasy and mixed substances, she said.... Confronted by this, Fraser Health has launched a new advertisement campaign focused at public engagement and community awareness. It's aimed at educating youth and their parents through school programs in partnership with police. Lee said the health authority is working to make sure drug users know to use in the company of someone who is sober and to not mix substances. As well, it is increasing distribution of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone.... The provincial government on Wednesday announced the formation of a joint task force to tackle the public health emergency. That same day, drug-user support workers set up an illegal, temporary supervised injection site in Whalley in time for income-assistance payments, when overdoses are known to surge. Marion Allaart, executive director of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, said organizers plan to return to Whalley this week to set up another site.

Naloxone opioid antidote is no cure in heroin epidemic, by Katharine Seelye, NewYorkTimes, Jul 27, 2016
...Naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, has also had unintended consequences. Critics say that it gives drug users a safety net, allowing them to take more risks as they seek higher highs. Indeed, many users overdose more than once, some multiple times, and each time, naloxone brings them back. Advocates argue that the drug gives people a chance to get into treatment and turn their lives around and that there is no evidence naloxone increases the use of opiates. And, they say, few addicts knowingly risk needing to be revived, since naloxone ruins their high and can make them violently ill.... But Naloxone does not truly save lives; it merely extends them until the next overdose", Mr LePage wrote in his veto message in April. "Creating a situation where an addict has a heroin needle in one hand and a shot of naloxone in the other produces a sense of normalcy and security around heroin use that serves only to perpetuate the cycle of addiction".

Canada cuts off opioid funding to dying patients (to prevent illegal drug users obtaining opioids), GlobeMail, Jul 26, 2016 (Palliative-care doctors are calling on the Ontario government not to cut off access to high-dose opioid medications for their patients, saying those nearing the end of life or suffering from cancer pain "deserve better". Ontario will become the first province to stop paying for all opioids that exceed the equivalent of 200 milligrams of morphine a day under its public drug plans. The policy change, first reported by The Globe and Mail, takes place against a backdrop of rising addiction rates and overdose deaths across Canada... The Ministry of Health has posted a notice on its website saying 24- and 30-milligram capsules of hydromorphone, transdermal patches that deliver 75 and 100 micrograms of fentanyl an hour, and morphine in 200-milligram tablets will be delisted from the province's drug formulary as of January 2017. The issue for palliative-care physicians is that patients who have difficulty swallowing pills will be forced to take more lower-strength hydromorphone or morphine to replace the higher-dose versions. Darren Cargill, section chair of palliative medicine at the Ontario Medical Association, explained that he will have to "wallpaper" patients with multiple fentanyl patches to deliver the same pain relief they get from a single higher-dose patch....)

Canada plans free heroin/opioids at drug injection sites, by Andrea WOO, GlobeMail, Jul 21, 2016 (Health officials in British Columbia want to provide pharmaceutical-grade opioids to some addicts at supervised-consumption sites to tackle the province's soaring number of overdose deaths. While they caution that there are no concrete plans yet, such a measure would make British Columbia the first province in Canada to provide prescription narcotics to addicts outside a clinical trial, while significantly expanding the role of facilities such as Vancouver's Insite -- the country's first public supervised injection site, which has never offered drugs to users who inject there....)

watch Afghan children/civilian war dead surges, AlJazeera, Jul 25, 2016 (...hit a record high in the first half of 2016, the UN has said, with a particular surge in the number of children killed or wounded. The report, released by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Monday, said there were 5,166 documented civilian casualties in the first half of 2016, an increase of four percent in total civilian casualties as compared to the first six months of 2015...)

watch US War In Afghanistan Fueling Global Heroin Epidemic & Enabling Drug Trade, MintPressNews, Jul 20, 2016, YouTube (...It's hard to believe that a region under full USA military occupation -- with guard posts and surveillance drones monitoring the mountains of Tora Bora -- aren't able to track supply routes of opium exported by the country's various poppy farms...)

HELP DRUG/ALCOHOL ABUSERS/ADDICTED (physical changes in brain alter way brain works), Email, Jul 26, 2016

Afghan heroin flooding Europe/USA/CAN/UK/OZ/NZ (despite tax-funded US$20-billion to counter-narcotics) & Heroin use on rise -- Poppy crops thrive. NBC/DailyCaller, Nov 11, 2015

Jamie says thanks for the info on Drug Abuse and sends a link for further research

Canada 12-years in Afghanistan/158 dead

Afghan heroin soars under UN troops, November 11, 2013

Veterans boo/refuse shake mayor's hand (He's #1 man in the city and he's smoking it up and boozing it up), National Post, Novermber 12, 2013

CANADA MAYOR SMOKES CRACK & The Gonzo life of Canada Mayor McCrack. November 11, 2013

John lives 30-miles away from where the Prime Minister's ship was busted for transporting coke back in 2004

Vancouver to hand out clean, unused crack pipes, CTV, Jul 31, 2011
VANCOUVER -- Among the impoverished drug addicts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, crack cocaine users face an extra hurdle to feed their addiction. Heroin users can pick up clean needles from needle-exchange programs or the city's controversial safe-injection site, which have at least partly curbed risky needle sharing. But crack pipes are more difficult to come by. Some crack smokers can afford to buy small glass or Pyrex stems to use as pipes. Others fashion makeshift pipes from bottles, cans or even hollow car antennas. And in many cases, they just simply share, potentially putting themselves at risk of contracting disease. That's about to change, as the local health authority prepares to launch a pilot project later this year to distribute clean, unused crack pipes to drug users. It's part of the city's harm-reduction strategy that seeks to reduce the transmission of disease while ensuring health-care and social workers are able to interact with hard-to-reach drug addicts. Currently, the city distributes clean mouth pieces for crack pipes, but not the pipes themselves....

Drug users' brain damage, Sydney Morning Herald, September 6, 2010
ABOUT 20 per cent of users of the drugs ecstasy, ice and speed in emergency showed tell-tale signs of brain damage, according to a study published in the Australian Medical Journal today. About two-thirds had concentration and mood problems, and half said they had general health problems. Researchers scanned the brains of 30 patients who had been admitted to emergency for problems related to amphetamine use and interviewed them for the study. About half, or 14 patients, admitted to suffering memory problems when not high on drugs, according to the study by doctors at Royal Perth Hospital. Six patients showed signs of brain damage, often an ''unidentified bright object'' on their scan which indicated a point of damage usually in their brain's frontal lobe. ''Abnormalities on brain MRI scans were identified in six patients, most commonly an unidentified bright object,'' said the Professor of Emergency Medicine, Daniel Fatovich, from the hospital's Centre for Clinical Research in Emergency Medicine.

High anxiety over Australian cocaine boom, SMH, Sep 4, 2010 (...St Vincent's Hospital emergency department chief Dr Gordian Fulde said: "Cocaine use has definitely increased over the past couple of years. It used to be seen as this elitist drug but it's very easy to score. Symptoms can include psychotic episodes and chest tightness."...)

Canada consider provide rooms smoke crack cocaine (already provide rooms to inject heroin). Globe Mail, Oct 19, 2009.

CRACK HIT-KITS HIT CANADA

Safer Crack Cocaine Smoking Kit (contains materials to smoke crack). HepInfo, Oct 19, 2009

Canada ban tobacco smoking private homes (already bans smoking in public places). Canadian Press, Oct 18, 2009

CHIMP GOES APE ON XANAX

DRUG ADDICTION PRESCRIPTION

Sniffer dogs government's best friend ("keep kids safe from drugs"). ToryParty, May 3, 2008. Go to 27.Goodthink & POLICE DOGS IN ANIMAL FARM

Did LSD change Britain? (homosexuality-abortion-feminism-greens). BBC, May 1, 2008. Go to BABY BOOMERS KNOCKING SOCIETY & 39.Love Instinct & Family & LSD A CIA PROJECT (replaced by ecstasy in 1980s)

Inventor of drug LSD dies at age 102 (1 gram enough for 20,000 people). AP, Apr 30, 2008

DRUG COPS HOME INVASIONS

Police raid suspected meth house (only find a fish tank) & Warrantless search upsets homeowner (accused of grow-op over hydro bill). TVNews/VanSun, Apr 30, 2008. Go to 20.Police Snitches & 37.We're Dead

Reader Ray says Big Brother has his dirty mitts all over the drug trade, including the poppy fields in Afghanistan

CONCERNED CITIZEN DRUG WAR (reader Bruce wants no more dealers or users)

Gov't bans tobacco selling & smoking (in or near all public buildings). Victoria Times Colonist, Apr 14, 2008

Drug scene kills another business (constant threat of violence). Business Examiner, Apr 7, 2008

Gov't wants more needle injection sites (free crack cocaine, heroin...). CanadaWest, Mar 31, 2008

Reader Carrie says powerful street drugs like crystal meth and heroin are killing people all over the world

CANADA DRUG SCENE DISGUSTING

Canada's drug scene is human misery (heroin, cocaine, crack, crystal meth injected & smoked in open downtown). National Post, Sep 2, 2007

CANADA HEROIN-HIT KIT

HIPPOCRATIC OATH DOCTORS HYPOCRITES (...Huge areas of North American cities are open-market drug-zones with people selling and buying illegal drugs under the noses of police and surveillance cameras. Teenagers and young adults are regularly filmed live on national television smoking crack and injecting heroin into their arms with needles supplied "free" by the government of Canada "to keep them safe". But doctors and their medical associations haven't spoken out against the "risks" of this behaviour...)

Doctors want smoke-free cars ('to protect young lungs from dangers of tobacco smoke'). CanWest, Aug 23, 2007. Go to 22.Doublethink & 27.Goodthink

England growing heroin poppies (says it's opium for morphine) & A world awash in heroin (92% - 6,100 tons - from Afghanistan facilitated by all foreign armies). EveStand/Economist Jul 18, 2007

Doctors hope to switch off brain's craving for tobacco. London Times, Jan 25, 2007
A study of smokers who suffered strokes has shown that part of the brain, the insula, appears to be intimately involved in their addiction, indicating that it could be targeted to help people to give up the habit. Patients who had strokes that damaged the insula, which is thought to be involved in emotions and cravings, lost the urge to smoke immediately, and many have not touched a cigarette since. The findings suggest the possibility of helping smokers to give up by manipulating the insula to kill their addiction, without causing the extensive brain damage of a stroke. Drugs could be developed to alter its activity, or it could be disrupted using magnetic fields. Another technique called deep brain stimulation, in which electrodes are implanted in the brain to switch off particular areas, has already been used successfully to treat Parkinson’s disease and depression...“The insula also carries out lots of normal everyday functions, so we would want to make sure we only interfere with functions that disrupt bad habits like smoking but not something vital like eating,” said Antoine Bechara, of the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of Iowa, who led the research. Nevertheless, the work is exciting because damage to the insula appears to break many smokers’ habits instantly; their brains seem to forget that they are supposed to crave cigarettes. “There is a lot of potential for pharmacological developments,” Dr Bechara said. “One of the most difficult problems in any form of addiction is the difficulty in stopping the urge to smoke, to take a drug, or to eat for that matter. Now we have identified a brain target for further research into dealing with that urge.”...The insula-damaged patients, however, gave up because it no longer occurred to them to smoke.

CANADA'S CIA MIND-CONTROL HERO

Lawsuit over CIA mind-control study (Canadian government helped finance) & Ex-patient tells of CIA torture (pills, shocks, brainwashing). Mercury/GlobeMail, Jan 11, 2007

AFGHAN NARCO-STATE NOW

Afghan heroin flooding USA (the purest in the world causing seizures & overdoses). PakistanTrib, Jan 1, 2007. Go to NATO DYING FOR DRUG TRADE

Afghan poppy harvest at record level (cheap heroin for UK streets). Times, Aug 19, 2006

Police want heroin injection sites (5,000 users in downtown Vancouver). CBC, Aug 19, 2006

WAR BY DRUGS

Reader wants safe illegal drugs

Heroin fields' grim reapers (opium growing has increased tenfold) & Brain pills for all urges UK gov't scientist. Sun/Times, Jun 7, 2006. Go to 22.Doublethink & 22.The Brotherhood

Medical journal advocates LSD in labs (ecstasy & magic mushrooms too for stress disorder & headache). Guardian, Apr 14, 2006 & LSD A CIA PROJECT & BE LEERY OF LEARY ON JFK & SOMA IN BRAVE NEW WORLD

Prisons offer needles to inmates (to inject illegal heroin). National Post, Nov 11, 2005. Go to 34.Ministry of Love (Torture) & 22.Doublethink (mental condition: controlled insanity)

GOVERNMENT TOUGH ON TOBACCO

DRUG DEFECATORS NEED TOILETS

Governor general tells cocaine jokes (plays on word "coke" and "party line" while toasting Quebec Party leader who admitted snorting cocaine). CBC, Nov 3, 2005

BE LEERY OF LEARY ON JFK (reader asks if JFK took LSD & other psychedelics)

Heroin trade thrives in Iraq (non-existent under Saddam's rule). Telegraph, Sep 3, 2005

LSD project at CIA uncovered (administered LSD & electric shock to unwitting human subjects). Washington Post, Jun 22, 2005 & LSD A CIA PROJECT. National Post, Jun 22, 2005

Aussie gets 20 years in Bali prison (marijuana planted in bodyboard bag). MSNBC, May 27, 2005 & Aussie's sentence to be appealed (baghandlers planted grass in Sydney). NewZealStuff, May 27, 2005. Go to CANADA'S PM SHIPS COCAINE

CYCLISTS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN (thoughts on Easter weekend). Mar 25 - 28, 2005

UN tobacco control comes into force (WHO cracks down on cigarette smuggling). CBC, Feb 27, 2005. Go to 2.Big Brother & 35.The Brotherhood

Britain on top of heroin league (all of it comes from Afghanistan). Sunday Times, Feb 27, 2005. Go to IN AFGHAN FIELDS

Drink, drugs and rape. Sunday Times, Feb 27, 2005
The culture of drink and drugs dominating Britain’s urban social scene has clouded perceptions of acceptable behaviour....half the rape victims have been drinking or are high on drugs before they are assaulted....Increasing numbers of young men are using the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra...“It’s cheap, it makes you feel horny all night and you can mix it with speed, cocaine or ecstasy to add to the fun. Loads of men I know take it to enhance their sex lives. You don’t want to waste it by going home alone. Viagra makes you need sex. You might not be able to talk without slurring, but you can have sex.”...