Category: MIND STRETCH

INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE – STILL A PROBLEM

SOME SAY AT LEAST ONE-THIRD OF ALL WOMEN WILL BE INVOLVED IN SOME FORM OF DOMESTIC PARTNER VIOLENT BEHAVIOR IN THEIR LIFETIME.

AN ESTIMATED 5 MILLION INCIDENCES OCCUR ANNUALLY.

AN ESTIMATED 1500 WOMEN DIE YEARLY FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

EMPLOYEES MAY REPRESENT 20-25% OF VICTIMS OF THIS TYPE OF LIFESTYLE.

http://lucfr.co.uk/fundraising/supporting-donors/wesleyan/ IMPACT ZONE:  INTERVENE WITH A FELLOW EMPLOYEE, ASSOCIATE, FRIEND IF YOU THINK THE QUESTION IS APPROPRIATE.   "ARE YOU SAFE?"  "CAN WE HELP?"  "HOW CAN WE HELP?"

MEDICAL RESEARCH AND PRISONERS – HELL REVISITED

FROM YEARS AGO, TO THE 50'S-70'S, MEDICAL RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED ON PRISONERS BY VARIOUS RESEARCHERS AND MEDICAL-PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES.  INMATES IN THE RESEARCH WERE EXPOSED TO CARCINOGENS, RADIOACTIVES, HALLUCINOGENS.  EASY TARGETS FOR SUCH WITH LIMITED RIGHTS, NEED FOR MONEY, AND THE GREED OF EXPANSIVE BIG PHARMA BUSINESS.  NOW IT APPEARS, AN EXPANDING REVISIT OF THE PROCESS IS OCCURRING. 

THE INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE ADVISORY PANEL HAS PROPOSED NEW GUIDELINES FOR SUCH ONGOING AND ACTIVE RESEARCH, NOW IN THE 21ST CENTURY.

IS THE BENEFIT WORTH THE RISK OF REVISITING THE HELL OF YESTERYEAR…………….

THE HOLMESBURG PRISON IS A CLASSIC CASE OF SUCH RESEARCH POLICIES…WHAT IS THE NEXT AND CURRENT CLASSIC CASE OF EXPLOITATION FOR THE "PUBLIC GOOD?"

EMERGENCY ROOM VISITS – DRUG ADVERSE EVENTS

US Consumer Product Safety Commission and the CDC in a new compiled database show:

insulin, warfarin, amoxicillin, aspirin, trimeth-sulfa are the top five drugs of adverse reactions.

Not so surprisingly, about 54% of the total adverse events were UN-intentional, about 31% were adverse effects, and about 11% were allergic type reactions.  Only about 1/2 % were vaccine related.

An estimated 700,000 persons head to the ER for such problems.  Urgent cares not included.

CDC estimates that of the now 300 million Americans, about 130 million use medicines monthly.

http://midequalitygroup.co.uk/events/2025-02-04/ BE INFORMED AND HELP YOUR DOCTOR HELP YOU:

KNOW THE DRUG AND WHAT IT'S PURPOSE IS FOR

KNOW THE DOSE AND FOR HOW LONG

RIGHT DRUG, RIGHT DOSE, RIGHT ROUTE, RIGHT TIME, RIGHT REASON, RIGHT EFFECT

***When in doubt, call your doctor or pharmacist to double check.  Communication is key !Tongue out

AUTISM AND TV – FACT OR FICTION

The following is from the actual researcher's paper: 

 "As a final point, although as discussed our results do not definitively prove that early childhood television watching is an important trigger for autism, we believe our results provide sufficient support for the possibility that until further research can be conducted it might be prudent to act as if it were. In other words, maybe there should be additional emphasis placed on the recommendation of the American Academy of Pediatricians that early childhood television watching should be eliminated or at the very least quite limited (as discussed in footnote 3, the current recommendation is that there should be no television watching before the age of two and no more than one to two hours per day for older children). We see little downside in taking this step and a very large upside if it turns out that television indeed causes autism.

FACT OR FICTION:

This is what I saw and read on the internet:

TV Really Might Cause Autism Slate exclusive: findings from a new Cornell study.

By Gregg Easterbrook

Last month, I speculated in Slate that the mounting incidence of childhood autism may be related to increased television viewing among the very young. The autism rise began around 1980, about the same time cable television and VCRs became common, allowing children to watch television aimed at them any time. Since the brain is organizing during the first years of life and since human beings evolved responding to three-dimensional stimuli, I wondered if exposing toddlers to lots of colorful two-dimensional stimulation could be harmful to brain development. This was sheer speculation, since I knew of no researchers pursuing the question.


Today, Cornell University researchers are reporting what appears to be a statistically significant relationship between autism rates and television watching by children under the age of 3. The researchers studied autism incidence in California, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington state. They found that as cable television became common in California and Pennsylvania beginning around 1980, childhood autism rose more in the counties that had cable than in the counties that did not. They further found that in all the Western states, the more time toddlers spent in front of the television, the more likely they were to exhibit symptoms of autism disorders.

The Cornell study represents a potential bombshell in the autism debate. "We are not saying we have found the cause of autism, we are saying we have found a critical piece of evidence," Cornell researcher Michael Waldman told me. Because autism rates are increasing broadly across the country and across income and ethnic groups, it seems logical that the trigger is something to which children are broadly exposed. Vaccines were a leading suspect, but numerous studies have failed to show any definitive link between autism and vaccines, while the autism rise has continued since worrisome compounds in vaccines were banned. What if the malefactor is not a chemical?

Tag is tagged again…More comments on this school children’s issue.

The news is once again on this playground issue of tag.  More schools relieving the children of active playful games known to many.  With the rising epidemic of childhood obesity, diabetes, allergies, ADD, ADHD, depression, anxiety and with the great usage of psychostimulants and psychopharma-modifiers in children, one might think that fresh air, exercise, and playground interaction would be a positive routine.  But, again, my belief is that an accidental injury is another's financial gain through the limitless tort actions, and attempts to obtain financial gain from such incidents.  This type of thinking is harming our children.  What can you do today to infuse some commonsense into the role models of the schools regarding these issues.  Be active.  Help the kids. These ideas, though politically correct and possibly legally proper, are toxins and poisons to our children's minds, bodies, and spirts.

 

 

Recently I heard a report that one school in Washington state eliminated "tag" from the school playground…other schools have done so also, I understand and….meanwhile maybe played with supervision…who? Teachers, parents, playground monitors…adults…all the eyes watching the children gain weight, offer judgement on kid issues, and seeing increasing unhealthy children in the Nation……….tag you're it…..walk johnny, don't run…walk johnny, take this drug for your hyperactivity, walk johnny and we'll get some fast food…..walk johnny….johnny can only walk….tag the disease

meth abuse: stuff, pack, or parachute

 

Methamphetamine, the illegal and illicit drug, as well as cocaine, heroin, and others drugs have been tried in many deadly ways:

Body Stuffer:  eats a wrapped amount of drug quickly, usually to evade law authorities

Body Packer:  eats carefully wrapped amounts of drugs in multiple packets to carry or be the "mule" – items such as aluminum foil packets, baggies, condoms – all loaded with drugs.  Packers may eat these, surgically embed packets, or place them rectally to transport, known as "keistered."

The "parachute" technique involves ingesting an amount of illicit drug in a wrapper, that with time, slowly unwraps, or unravels to release its poison in a "slower" or "controlled" fashion.

OF COURSE, BODYPACKERS, BODYSTUFFERS, AND BODYPARACHUTERS ALL HAVE SIGNIFICANT RISK FOR SUDDEN BURSTS OF DRUG OR POISON BEING RELEASED, THEREBY CAUSING SIGNIFICANT TOXICITY AND DEATH. 

 

Image from Narconon site but I learned it was originally from the great enigmatic and before its time,  Erowid group, and with special email communique', I was granted use on my blog from Erowid.  Thanks Fire and Earth Erowid!

Please visit the unique site of psychoactive libraries.  www.erowid.org

 

 

METH ABUSE – PREVENTION – ADOLESCENTS *mighty meth mites or mighty mites*

In a recent study, sixth and seventh graders that were allowed to participate in a family program of life skills showed significant reductions in use of methamphetamine.  The participants were followed for over 4 and 5 years; in two different controlled prevention studies.  Certainly, as with the D.A.R.E. Program put on by Police Departments and schools nationwide, these type of studies do provide hope in the prevention of meth abuse at early ages.  Moreso, the discussion of drug abuse in the young school aged child with families and with experts can only help nationwide.  The epidemic of meth abuse leads to broken families, broken humans, broken finances, and broken minds in our young children.  Certainly more work must be done in these areas of poisonous and toxic destruction of the human spirit and can only benefit the condition of our human enigma.

(adapted from:  Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med/Vol160, Sep 2006)

SPINACH – e coli outbreak 0157:H7 – news

NATIONWIDE OVER 50 CASES HAVE BEEN REPORTED OF THE POTENTIAL DEADLY DISEASE

DATES APPROXIMATELY 08-24-06 TO 09-01-06 WITH MANY STATES INVOLVED IN U.S.A.

PRE-PACKAGED SPINACH SEEMS TO BE REPORTED AND SOME PACKAGED SALAD MIXES

DIARRHEA WITH POSSIBLE FEVER AND HISTORY OF EATING THESE ITEMS ARE SUSPICIOUS

CALL YOUR DOCTOR OR SEE YOUR DOCTOR IMMEDIATELY

A STOOL CULTURE CAN BE OBTAINED TO CHECK FOR THE TOXIN

DO NOT TAKE ANTI-DIARRHEAL OVER THE COUNTER MEDICINES

ANTIBIOTICS ARE USUALLY NOT USED UNLESS WORSEN OR KIDNEY COMPLICATIONS

HYDRATION IS A MUST !

SMOKIN’ GRASS

Smokin’ Grass ©


In the sixties, the news show ran,
the worries of the five leaf ban.

Continued offensives against those drugs,
new czars against those dealin’ thugs.

Through the decades this fight continues,
when the use of grass heard less boos.

Medical use of the grass yelled loud,
but legislation remained so fouled.

Years later with new direction,
comment on grass, a new connection.

Disease, illness, and lack of caring,
for the abusive rack of financial snaring.

Burn the grass, smoke in air,
financial reward with no care.

Patients suffer, kids in house,
asthma, bronchitis, like caged mouse.

Cough, cough, cough …go inside,
play later, no recess, red flag day beside.

Gramma the mail is here,
but it’s old, with field burning so near.

School shut down,
fairground without clown.

Grass fields burn with disease aglow,
airways stiff, mucus choked airflow.

Smokin’ grass – will it help the pain,
remember smokin’ grass – and who’s dollar gain.

 

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SMOKE SMOKE SMOKE – IDAHO LIVING 2006 – CDA – poisoning opinion

Recent reading verified local doctors are seeing greatly more patients with lung ailments, breathing disorders, and exaccerbations of their stable breathing diseases.  Lung specialists, allergists, and other doctors are busy with these suffering patients.

Many acreas, in the thousands, are burned by the grassfarmers and owners of leased land.  Many more acreas of forest lands are burning.

Why should the practice continue of grass-field burning?   It remains an toxic enigma and the politicians should be ashamed of themselves to allow such abuse of clean air, clean breathing, and should apologize to all the patients that have been harmed, suffered, and felt their financial burdens grow because so few are protected by unbalanced laws.

Which politician will lead those patients to a safer right to breath?   Isn't it time for change?