#002: Hero - Hydra Stories – Dr. Peter Gøtzsche*

[On Jan 31, 2024, the Hero - Hydra story series was moved to its own blog site: https://heroes-and-hydras.blogspot.com/]

Perhaps Dr. Peter Gøtzsche should have been first in the Hero-Hydra story series,¹ but I only heard his story on January 18, 2024 in this 7-min video. First, because in the 2nd video below, he speaks of heroes (beginning circa 7:00 min.) and what it means to stand up against the prevailing narrative of “science,” OR (as I assert), it should more accurately be called: pscience.²

Dr Peter Gøtzsche exposes big pharma as organized crime
Dr. McDougall Health & Medical Center | Apr 1, 2015 | 7:41 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dozpAshvtsA

Additional Data - 2nd video:

Peter C. Gøtzsche: Death of a Whistleblower and Cochrane's Moral Collapse
(CrossFit | July 18, 2019 | Time 1:06:57) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxTgxCr1RUU
WARNING: some profanity

The hydras are everywhere, but so are the heroes; and they will prevail.

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Peter Christian Gøtzsche (born 26 November 1949) is a Danish physician, medical researcher, and former leader of the Nordic Cochrane Center at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration and has written numerous reviews for the organization. His membership in Cochrane was terminated by its Governing Board of Trustees on 25 September 2018.[1][2] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_C._G%C3%B8tzsche

1. [Hydra**: abbreviated from Heydrich (pronounced: high-drish) for ease and symbolic reference to the déjà vus of Then and Now.]
If we know our recent history, we know that Reinhard Heydrich was selected by Heinrich Himmler2 in 1931 as one of his organization men to seek out and neutralize resistance by arrests, deportations, murders, etc. In 1942, Heydrich chaired the conference that formalized plans for the “Final Solution.” Adolf Hitler described Heydrich as "the man with the iron heart."
First post in Hero – Hydra Series: https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2024/01/001-heroes-and-hydras.html
**Hydra: 1: a many-headed serpent or monster in Greek mythology that was slain by Hercules and each head of which when cut off was replaced by two others
               2: not capitalized : a multifarious evil not to be overcome by a single effort
               https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Hydra
2. Pscience is the corrupted offshoot of honourable Science. It is the inevitable consequence of man's obsessive pursuit and protection of power, gain, glory, and domination. Pscience is pseudo, psychopathic, propagandizing, plagiarizing, politicized, psy-opic, and above all, profit-obsessed, and profit-driven. This obsessive pursuit and protection by people without conscience is often enabled by naïve, trusting, or fear-filled acolytes. Pscience is a one-faith, one-dogma, “heretic”-fearing, self-deceiving, other-censoring system. The 21st Century question is: What are we now enabling or supporting? Science or pscience?

A Citizen's Appeal: Hiring Doctors and Medical Staff for Alberta

Indented below (starting with Subject: A Citizen's Appeal) is a copy of an email sent to Alberta Gov't. officials, today: Thu 2024-01-04 3:07 PM. But I begin with:

Whereas:

• I wished to cc the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA), but could not find an email address for them;
• the Alberta Medical Association (AMA) rejects my emails;
• experts and professionals of every stripe and College are not exempt from the Stanley Milgram (email ftn 4) study on obedience to authority (“Just following orders”);
• the name of the global order-world order (GO-WO) game is Utopian SICO^† Control;
• the pursuit of GO-WO uses fear and favour to capture and control, compromise and corrupt;
• I hope that both the witting and the unwitting in all professions will  awaken and reject the pscience (email ftn 2) that has been foisted upon them, us, and the world; OR if they refuse to awaken, that they will be left without excuse;
• there is yet a window of unknown time to awaken, confess, witness, repent, and remediate.
(† SICO:  https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/01/when-fico-becomes-sico.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-china-syndrome.html)

Therefore:

• I invite everyone with email addresses for narrative-captured medics, PHOs, and others to link and forward this Citizen's Appeal to them.

Copy of email appeal begins here:

Subject: A Citizen's Appeal — Hiring Doctors and Medical Staff for Alberta

Greetings: Premier Smith, Health Minister LaGrange, Justice Minister Amery, MHA Minister Dan Williams, PSES Minister Ellis, CFS Minister Turton, Education Minister  Nicolaides, SCSS Minister Nixon

Alberta may already be doing this, but if not, please review the many honourable medical professionals who testified at the National Citizens Inquiry (NCI¹) who lost their positions or careers by opposing or questioning the “official” COVID-19 narrative, and then offer them positions in Alberta. The same applies to many others (including Albertans) who did not testify at the inquiry but also lost jobs and careers. Let Alberta stand up and be recognized worldwide for backing honourable, evidence-based science, for preserving freedom of conscience and speech, and for the integrity of doctor / patient relationship. Let Alberta reject the pscience² that has driven the destructive COVID-19 narrative.

Yes, I recognize that dismissed professionals will need to be licensed or reinstated in Alberta, which raises the issue of the Health Professions Act and its various Colleges,³ many of which were complicit in suppression and censorship of facts and data and of revoking licenses of honourable Alberta professionals, thus knowingly (perhaps malevolently?) contributing to health staffing crises and escalating counts for all-cause mortality.

If you find this shocking, take time to listen to these two NCI witnesses:
    • Ottawa. ON, Day 1—Dr. Stephen Malthouse:
       https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-stephen-malthouse/
    • Vancouver BC, Day 1—Sean Taylor
       https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/sean-taylor/

If such College officials cannot be remediated from “just following narrative orders,” then perhaps Alberta, as creator of their College (corporation), can dissolve it, restructure it, re-staff it, or create a parallel licensing body (Integrative Medicine?) that honours evidence-based science and Hippocratic medicine. The more immediate route might be to encourage those who are still captured by fear, compromise, corruption, or the profusion of COVID lies to resign (or in the alternative, to be fired). This should also apply to all PH officials. If they cannot commit to critical thinking, to courage, and integrity, how can they be trusted in health care?

The NCI testimonies, plus many other doctors, researchers, studies, and organizations worldwide have proven, beyond doubt, that this COVID narrative was, and still is, a global fraud. At some point, narrative believers and advocates will have to face personal complicity and / or criminal liability which increases every day as they continue ignoring data and supporting a deception-ridden narrative in the face of overwhelming evidence of fraud and injury. The list of additional expert and professional testimony can be found here: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/expert-witnesses/ .

If the abuse of power by the Colleges and PHOs is allowed to continue it will destroy honourable science and medicine, constitutional freedoms and guarantees, and the hope and promise of Justice. It is time to begin the public exposure, accountability, and prosecution of those who are complicit or who conspired to harm others’ health, businesses, or careers. Let Alberta set example for the world to follow.

In addition, let the Minister of Justice initiate an awareness course for all enforcers of every description from police to sheriffs to health and other inspectors, to courts and judges, et al. to review the power-abuse and submission to authority propensities of human beings as clearly demonstrated in the Milgram⁴ and Zimbardo⁵ studies; and more recently, in the enforcement crimes of the last three years. Every enforcer and court official should be reminded continually that their chief duty is to protect and serve the People under Constitutional governance and to protect the People against recurring government overreach and power-abuse which has been a continual historical reality.

In the meantime (while prosecutions and accountability proceed), let Alberta stand as a beacon on a hill inviting those professionals whose courage, integrity, and passion for truth and freedom of conscience and speech cost them their careers because those in positions of power lacked such courage, integrity, and passion.

Let Alberta show the world what it means to be accountable, strong, and free.

Sincerely,
SM Smith

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1. Just a few testimonies of many from the NCI website: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/testimony/
For a full list of Expert Witnesses, see here: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/expert-witnesses/
If you have time for only a few, try these:
Truro NS, Day 1—Dr. Patrick Phillips: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-patrick-phillips/
Truro NS, Day 1—Nurse Vonnie Allen: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/vonnie-allen/
Truro NS, Day 3—Dr. Jordan Peterson: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/jordan-peterson/
Toronto ON, Day 1—Nurse Vittoria McGuire: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/vittoria-mcguire/
Toronto ON, Day 3—Dr. Mark Trozzi: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-mark-trozzi/
Winnipeg MB, Day 3—Retired PC Judge Brian Giesbrecht: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/brian-giesbrecht/
Saskatoon SK, Day 2—Pharmacist Dr. Luz Maria Gutschi: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-luz-maria-gutschi/
Red Deer AB, Day 3—Dr. Eric Payne: https://rumble.com/v2ly3x2-paediatric-neurologist-dr-eric-payne-shares-his-covid19-perspective-red-dee.html
Vancouver BC, Day 1—Sean Taylor: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/sean-taylor/
Vancouver BC, Day 3—Dr. James Kitchen: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/james-kitchen-vancouver/
Montreal, QB, Day 1—Scientist/Researcher Dr. Denis Rancourt: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/denis-rancourt/
Ottawa. ON, Day 1—Dr. Stephen Malthouse: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-stephen-malthouse/
2. Pscience is the corrupted offshoot of honourable Science. It is the inevitable consequence of man's obsessive pursuit and protection of power, gain, glory, and domination. Pscience is pseudo, psychopathic, propagandizing, plagiarizing, politicized, psy-opic, and above all, profit-obsessed, and profit-driven. This obsessive pursuit and protection by people without conscience is often enabled by naïve, trusting, or fear-filled acolytes. Pscience is a one-faith, one-dogma, “heretic”-fearing, self-deceiving, other-censoring system. The 21st Century question is: What are we now enabling or supporting? Science or pscience?
3. https://www.alberta.ca/regulated-health-professions#jumplinks-0
4. Milgram: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
   • The Milgram Shock Experiment | By Saul McLeod | updated 2017 | https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html
  • Explanations for Obedience -Variations of Milgram (1963) | https://www.tutor2u.net/psychology/reference/explanations-for-obedience-variations-of-milgram-1963
   • More shocking results: New research replicates Milgram's findings | March 2009 | K.I. Mills | https://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/03/milgram
   • Conducting the Milgram experiment in Poland, psychologists show people still obey | March 14, 2017 | https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170314081558.htm
   • https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stanley-Milgram
   • The Milgram Experiment: How Far Will You Go to Obey an Order? Understand the infamous study and its conclusions about human nature | By Elizabeth Hopper | Updated on December 17, 2019 |   https://www.thoughtco.com/milgram-experiment-4176401 See also: https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/04/real-life-milgram-spe.html
5. Zimbardo:
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Zimbardo
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
"Christopher Browning, in reflecting on the social forces that were operative in [the murderous] Reserve Police Battalion 101, cites both Milgram’s and Zimbardo’s research and identifies as particularly important: deference to authority, adaptation to role expectation, the intoxicating effect of exercising unrestrained power over others, pressure for conformity, and isolation from all countervailing cultural and institutional influences while in a foreign and alien territory [including culture turned upside down?] (Understanding Genocide, 6). [Ravven, Heidi M.. The Self Beyond Itself: An Alternative History of Ethics, the New Brain Sciences, and the Myth of Free Will (p. 433). The New Press. Kindle Edition.] (bold emphasis added)

Not to Mention ...?

For nigh ninety years, if not longer, we have been living in a fantasy land created for us by the (supposedly deserving) rich and famous. And the thing we keep not mentioning is how most of them got to be rich and famous in a world order (WO) addicted to power, gain, and fame (sometimes*). So once again, I refer readers to someone who has been mentioning and naming and exposing a myriad horrors that We The People (as a critical mass) must begin to openly acknowledge and refuse to tolerate:

Rockefeller’s Yerkes Nightmare
Bioweapons Monkey Farm
in Orange Park, Florida
(George Webb: December 18th, 2019, Time 10:06) at

https://vimeo.com/user1212232   or

https://www.patreon.com/georgewebb

Of course, these are things we don't want to believe, let alone openly acknowledge, but without exposing and prosecuting hubris, crimes, and criminality, the criminals will continue to combine and expand their kingdoms of tyranny. So let us:

Wake Up! Wake Up! Wake Up!
What is 2020 for if not that?

Dec. 20, 2019 UPDATE:

George Webb nails it!- The Yerkes Monkey Project!
(McDuff: Kennedy's Man to Smash the CIA: Time 14:32) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeK9-zXYEx0&t=329s



George Webb is Back! ... 12.20.19
(McDuff: Kennedy's Man to Smash the CIA: Time 1:07:47) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9KtlWQMdbY

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* Sometimes, some of them prefer to remain in the shadows while amassing and manipulating their power and gain.

Why? Why? Why?

WHY, with the recent, increasing exposés of corporate greed, corruption, and criminality,¹ do we still listen to their lies, their propaganda, and their spokesmen?

Can we not see how the BIG guns of power and gain are firing non-stop:

» at vaccination critics?
» at anyone who asks why known toxins, poisons, and viral/bacterial contaminations are deliberately added or allowed to remain in approved vaccines?
» at everyone who questions the safety of administering combined vaccines to infants, children, and adults?
» at those who expose the flawed science, manipulated trials, corrupted data, false attributions, compromised officials/scientists, etc. that underpin many vaccine approvals and justifications?

Isn't it way past time that WE, as primary stewards of personal and family health, quit trusting in those BIG guns, their dupes, and shills?² Harsh words, yes, but if “We the People” don't open our eyes to the reality of rampant deception and propaganda orchestrated by those BIG guns, we will continue to suffer devastating consequences.

So, please, (including all you trusting doctors, health care workers, and “journalists”), please take time to listen to these warning voices—warning voices that include hundreds of knowledgeable scientists and doctors of integrity. Such warning voices have been sounding for decades, so let us begin to use our God-given capacity to observe, to think, and to stand united against the increasing psychopathic tyrannies of power and gain.

Silent Epidemic:The Untold Story of Vaccines - Full Movie - Directed by Gary Null (Time 1:48:05) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ_2BVsfdgI



The Greater Good - Think You Know Everything About Vaccines... Think again. (Time 1:24:24) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_nWp6ZHA2Q
(When videos are taken down or censored, search the title on YouTube to see if it had been mirrored somewhere else. In this case at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO1C6MAEnwY .)

Vaccine Nation (Documentary) (Time 1:29:40) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLk641P8CE4

Plus watch the recent Vaxxed documentary and the many vaxxed posts at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwZDSEpPvE398OLazdituKQ

Let us GET INFORMED and quit believing the repeated, repeated, repeated “big lies”

» that the link between autism and vaccines has been debunked;³
» that vaccines have been proven safe and effective;
» that anecdotal evidence of vaccine injuries from parents and others is of no value;
» that everyone who questions the status quo of vaccine protocols is anti-vaccine;
» that corporate spokesmen are free to speak truth if it contradicts corporate agendas;
» that main stream media is fair, balanced, and truthful;⁴
» that bottom-line corps have top-line integrity;
» etc., etc.

How déjà vu Hitler:

... the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.⁵

Or as Joseph Goebbels (another criminal pursuer of power and gain) allegedly put it:

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”⁶

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1. A small sampling:
» List of largest pharmaceutical settlements at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_pharmaceutical_settlements
» Big Pharma companies that have paid the most in fines (Mar 31, 2016, 2:27pm EDT) at http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2016/03/31/gsk-pfe-bms-nvs-pay-most-in-fines.html
» Big Pharma’s Big Fines at http://projects.propublica.org/graphics/bigpharma
» Capital Punishment? ~ http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2015/10/capital-punishment.html ;
» Blinding Paradigms? ~ http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/11/blinding-paradigms.html ;
» Imagine ~ http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2016/08/imagine.html
2. http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2016/09/one-more-nail.html ; http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2009/07/to-loyalists-everywhere.html
3. As in this news article: Trump taps vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to launch review [of the current vaccine policy] (Thomson Reuters Posted: Jan 10, 2017 2:57 PM ET,  Last Updated: Jan 11, 2017 8:44 AM ET) at http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/vaccines-1.3929481
4. Imprisoned by Profit at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2016/06/imprisoned-by-profit.html
5. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X[1] at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie
6. Attributed to Joseph Goebbels at http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/goebbels.html

A Plea to Therapists, Everywhere

(Especially to non-prescribing Marriage and Family Counselors)

▫  You may have had years of experience.
▫  You may believe your skills are sufficient for every (or almost every) case.
▫  You may or may not be a believer in psychotropic drug therapies.
▫  You may feel you keep up-to-date with advancements in your professional field.
▫  You may have thought (even said), more than once, “I am very good at what I do.”
▫  And you may, indeed, be very good,

but in this age of Big Pharma¹ and polypharmacy,² if one of your first inquiries of a new or returning patient is not: “Are you taking any medications?” then, in nigh 100% probability, you are prolonging the suffering, confusion, and peril, not just of your patient, but of those who love that patient. (The same applies to a second question: “Have you attempted or are you now attempting to end a medication regime?”)

So this is the PLEA: Please, no matter how skilled you are:

▪  if you are not asking a patient about medications (& even herbs, supplements, or hormonal therapies that have psychoactive potential);
▪  if you are not factoring in known and potential side-effects;
▪  if you are not knowledgeable about adverse reactions, drug-induced CBI (Chronic Brain Impairment); anosognosia; medication spellbinding, etc.;³
▪   if you think it is not your place to question a prescriber;⁴
▪   if you are not open to the observations of family and friends of the patient;⁵
▪   if you are not reading and informing yourself about the mounting, evidence-based damage reports surrounding psychotropic drug use (and other psychoactive substances), AND the pervasive suppression of critical data by drug companies and others;⁶

then please, please, become humble enough to look beyond your present paradigm. Be humble enough to listen to:

Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe
TED talk (Time 13:30) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKmxL8VYy0M

Peter Breggin, MD: Simple Truths about Psychiatry (1)
Do You Have a Biochemical Imbalance? (Time: 7:42)
at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARZ2Wv2BoFs



Peter Breggin, MD: Simple Truths about Psychiatry (2)
How Do Psychiatric Drugs Really Work? (Time 10:50)
at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Xb29geVwE



Peter Breggin, MD: Simple Truths about Psychiatry
Psychiatric Drugs Are More Dangerous than You Ever Imagined
(Time: 9:18) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luKsQaj0hzs
(See also the balance of the Simple Truths series)

Please, be open to the truths of independent, evidence-based medicine and the credible, professional witnesses that are exposing the dark-side of Big Pharma.

Please explore:

•  Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and their Families by Peter R. Breggin, MD,  (Springer Publishing Company, New York, © 2013)
•  Psychiatric Drug Facts at http://breggin.com/
•  Toxic Psychiatry at http://www.toxicpsychiatry.com/
•  Beyond Meds at http://beyondmeds.com/
•  Numerous other credible witnesses. They are everywhere.

Please, do not wait before you investigate medications, side-effects, and adverse withdrawal reactions. If you ignore the unscriptable, chemical distortions of the mind, how can you hope to guide the mind and soul toward a lasting healing?

Please, be part of the solution to this manufactured epidemic profiled in

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker

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1. “Twenty percent {1 in every 5] of adult Americans were taking psychiatric drugs in 2010—15% of men and 26% of women (Medco, 2011).” As quoted in Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and their Families by Peter R. Breggin, MD, (Springer Publishing Company, New York, © 2013), p. 1.
2. “’Polypharmacy’ refers to the concurrent use of multiple medications in a single patient.” Quoted from a DovePress abstract titled, “Polypharmacy or medication washout: an old tool revisited” at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3215520/
3. See Breggin, Chapter 3: Chronic Brain Impairment: Four symptom complexes: 1. Cognitive dysfunction; 2. Apathy and indifference; 3. Emotional worsening; 4. Anosognosia (patient’s lack of awareness of their symptoms).
Anosognosia: is viewed as a deficit of self-awareness, a condition in which a person who suffers certain disability seems unaware of the existence of his or her disability. It was first named by the neurologist Joseph Babinski in 1914. Anosognosia results from physiological damage on brain structures, typically to the parietal lobe or a diffuse lesion on the fronto-temporal-parietal area in the right hemisphere. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anosognosia )
4. Review Breggin, p. 2-3, section titled: “Relationship between Prescribers and Therapists”; and Chapter 12: Developing Team Collaboration, p. 147-158.
Consider: What is your primary interest—to help your patient in healing or to protect the status of a prescriber?
5. “Always take seriously the concerns of family and friends; they can be the prescriber and the patient’s best ally during psychiatric medication treatment and withdrawal” (Breggin, p. 17). “The patient’s family and friends are often the first to notice adverse drug effects, including overmedication, and the prescriber and clinicians should pay close attention to their concerns and observations” (Ibid., p. 18).
6. Suppression of Data: review Ben Goldman at TED Talks; Breggin, p. 14-16, and numerous others studies and observations.

Washout ?

(Re-viewing psychotropic drugs)

Washout

4. (informal)

1. a total failure or disaster

2. an incompetent person

(http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/wash-out)

3. dose tapering of medication to more safely discontinue

its use or to (ostensibly) eliminate its effects

before commencing a different treatment regime

(source: industry idiom¹)

But perhaps we should expand the meaning of “washout” as we consider:

▪  the effects of profit motive on integrity and compassion;
▪  the psychopathology² of most profit-driven corporations;
▪  the psychopathology of many HyPEs;³
▪  the massive, addictive profits in PR and propaganda;⁴
▪  the practice of off-label drug marketing;⁵
▪  too many slap-on-the-wrist fines (relative to profits); “do NOT go to jail” standards;
▪  the myopia of permitting industry-funded efficacy studies and of FDA revolving doors;
▪  the pervasive “cancer” of publication bias and research misconduct;⁶
▪  the “accountable to shareholders” con;⁷
▪  the “rapid increase in the use of polypharmacy in psychiatry”;⁸
▪  the number of (ignored) witnesses coming forward,⁹ as in


» Gwen Olsen, former Rx Drug Rep.
at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIm8fHxqUAM (Time: 7:18)
see also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4bYng7X7Kk (Time: 5:51)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIASdSFV8fI (Time: 8:52)



» Documentary: Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tse5TtcNZ8U (Time: 1.34.42)



» Dr. John Abramson (UCTV) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o8CIDuxCC0 (Time: 29:40);
author of Overdosed America

» Podcast: Robert Whitaker on Psychiatric Drugs at http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/features/2014/06/08/robert-whitaker-on-psychiatric-drugs/ (Time: 29.50); and author of Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

» Website: http://www.drugawareness.org/ 

Of course, some(?) percentage of patients may benefit (or believe they benefit) from chemical intervention, but the broad picture established by independent studies is that other non-prescription treatments achieve results (without the severe or dangerous side-effects) that psychotropic drugs do not and cannot achieve by the very nature of how they work and what they, in reality, do.

So, if we consider all the above (and more), perhaps we should add to the washout definitions:

Washout

5. (observed)

1. loss of life, hopes, and dreams of millions of mis-medicated

2. impunity for many drug companies for false and misleading

speech; for frauds and depraved indifference

3. mis-education (and/or apathy) of the prescribed and their

prescribers because of PR / propaganda, (& Rx perks)

4. loss of life, hopes, and dreams of many family, friends, and

victims¹⁰ of the mis-medicated

Interesting, is it not, how washout and whitewash seem twin strategies for this profit-driven Hydra?

So here are three questions:

•  How long this culture of denial?
•  How long, with the knowledge and unbiased studies that are out there, before the first question of every marriage & family therapist is: “What are the medications in this family?”¹¹ (Please read the footnote.)
•  How long before we utterly refuse to participate any more in WASHOUT and WHITEWASH?

Here are a couple of beginning answers:

•  Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs: A Harm Reduction Approach to Medication Withdrawal | Will Hall at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4bdG601k4k (Time 39:15)

•  Website: http://beyondmeds.com/

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1. Derived from various online readings & videos, plus “Washout” article at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3215520/
2. http://www.dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/05/a-plague-of-psychopaths.html ; The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan, et al. at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6zQO7JytzQ (Time: 2.25.18)
3. (Highly Paid Employees); http://www.dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/10/public-enemy-1.html ; http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2014/12/without-conscience.html
4. University of California TV:
•  Overview of Pharma Industry Marketing Practices (1) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHHC5AYAUVI (Time: 23:47)
•  Industry Sponsored Research and Marketing (Pt. 2) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoDdQ6foEtc (Time 27:46)
•  Industry Sponsored Education and Marketing (Pt. 3) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrcdKB6_I4w (Time: 27:40)
•  Direct-to-Consumer Pharma Marketing (Pt. 4) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrSoTvhIPzc (Time: 28:56)
•  Effects of Marketing on Prescribing: Does It Matter? (Pt.5) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AjwPZuivBY (Time: 28:49)
5. Off-Label Marketing & Free Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_3wrbuwum0
6. Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe ~ TED talk (Time 13:29) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKmxL8VYy0M
7. The Great Con: http://www.dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2012/03/great-con.html
8. “’Polypharmacy’ refers to the concurrent use of multiple medications in a single patient.” Quoted from a DovePress abstract titled, “Polypharmacy or medication washout: an old tool revisited” at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3215520/
9. Numerous additional witnesses can be found by searching “Big Pharma,” “SSRI,” “Prescription Suicide,” etc. Here are a few extras:
•  Risky Business: Reporting on Research in the Media (UCTV) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it5yyn_lIKg (Time 57:26)
•  The Truth About the Drug Companies - Dr. Marcia Angell at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDbQNBla6aU (Time 1:17:36)
•  Manipulation of Data: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/18775/do-washout-periods-in-drug-studies-lead-to-underestimates-of-side-effects
10. See http://www.drugawareness.org/ for the expanding list of tragic victims of the mis-medicated.
11. Please understand: This is not to say that all family problems arise from medication, but with the known problems, the listed (and expanding) side-effects, and massive over-prescribing, why do we not comprehend that medicines play a key role in understanding behaviors and solutions?