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America's fucking "answer" 2 every ~thing ...drugs,drugs & fucking more drugs & hows that going ? huh !
One of his duties was to retrieve fragments of mutilated human bodies in the battle zone. He was haunted by the images of dead and bodies and dying humans for the rest of his life so there was no question that he had what was later to be understood as combat-induced posttraumatic stress disorder, with depression and insomnia. Hemingway himself had been severely wounded by shrapnel. Like many victims of combat-induced PTSD, he drank a lot of alcoholic beverages and had had a series of failed marriages, with financial problems related to the alimony payments to his ex-wives. He understood that his psychiatric ECT “treatment” had erased his memory, and he knew that his writing career, his reason for living, was over.
Almost exactly 53 years after Hemingway’s suicide,
another American icon, Robin Williams, entered a psychiatric facility in
Minnesota (July 1, 2014). He had been given an as yet unknown cocktail
of prescription drugs that resulted in his losing weight and withdrawing
from his loved ones, sleeping, after his discharge later that month, in
his darkened bedroom up to 20 hours a day, in an apparent drug-induced
stupor.
Williams was said to have developed Parkinson’s Disease
(and had been given some new drugs for it), which can commonly be caused
by antipsychotic drugs, now often prescribed, off label (i.e.,
unapproved for such indications by the FDA), for insomnia, especially
psychostimulant drug-induced insomnia (which Williams suffered from). It
should be mentioned that antipsychotic drugs (like Abilify, Seroquel,
Geodon, etc) also commonly cause diabetes, obesity and hyperlipidemia,
in addition to the neurological movement disorders that mimic
Parkinson’s Disease. It is also important to note that when a patient
suddenly quits antipsychotic drugs (even if first used for non-psychotic
indications like insomnia) withdrawal symptoms can occur, such as acute
psychoses, hallucinations, insomnia and mania any of which can lead a
physician to falsely diagnose schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
Within weeks after Williams’ discharge from Hazelden’s
Rehabilitation facility in Lindstrom, MN, he hung himself in the bedroom
of his San Francisco home where he was certainly suffering multiple
side effects from his cocktail of drugs. He left no suicide note, but
certainly his psychiatrists, psychologists and other staff members at
Hazelden know exactly what Williams could have written on such a note.
So far Hazelden is mum on what happened to Williams during July’s rehab
stay.
Some of Williams’s closest friends are claiming that the
newly prescribed drugs were what killed him, but the media that is
swarming all over the tragic event are avoiding those logical and
obvious conclusions; for anybody who is aware of the well-known
connections between psychiatric prescription drugs and violence,
suidicality, dementia, and irrational thoughts and actions (whether
while taking the drugs or withdrawing from them) has already asked him
or herself the question: “I wonder what psych drugs Robin was on?”
Knowing that Williams had been under the care of
psychiatrists for the last six weeks of his life, certain taboo
questions need to be asked and answered.
But don’t hold your breath. There will be no answers
unless we get them in the secret details of what happened at Hazelden,
including what brain-altering drugs he was on..
Shouldn’t There be Penalties for Pushers of Legal Brain-altering Drugs?
There are penalties for bartenders who serve underage
drinkers who go on to have auto accidents while under the influence.
There are penalties for street corner drug pushers who supply their
junkies with dangerous illicit drugs, and there are penalties for the
drug lords who are at the top of the drug supply chain.
But shouldn’t there also be penalties for legal drug
pushers who are supplying medications to their addictive and addicted
clients without first obtaining from them fully informed consent after
understanding what are the dangers of the drugs? Shouldn’t there be
penalties for legal drug pushers who are prescribing dangerous
brain-altering psychiatric drugs in combinations that have never even
been tested for safety in the animal labs?
The heretofore respected – and very profitable –
industries of Big Pharma, Big Psychiatry, Big Medicine and drug
rehabilitation are all very interested in keeping any and all unwelcome
truths about the lethality of their products from being aired out in the
mainstream press. Thus the rapid disappearance of interest in the
celebrity suicides or lethal psych drug overdoses by the time the
belated coroner report reveals what drugs were in the victim’s blood and
gastric contents. (Note that many coroners are not aware that many
psych drugs are detectable in brain tissue long after the time that they
disappear from the blood; therefore many coroners don’t bother to test
for drugs in brain tissue samples).
If blood tests are negative for drugs, it is often
erroneously assumed by the uninformed public (and even by medical
professionals) that drugs aren’t a factor in the aberrant behavior or
death of drug-taking patients. Drug withdrawal commonly causes patients
to become irrational, violent or suicidal – realities that can occur at
any time, even after the drug has disappeared from the blood.
The Taboo Reality: Psych Drugs Can Cause Suicidalit
There have been millions of words written about how much
everybody was shocked by Williams’ suicide. There have been thousands
of flowers placed at any number of temporary shrines. There have been
hundreds of comments on the internet from amateur arm-chair
psychologists spouting obsolete clichés about suicide, mental illness,
drug abuse, alcoholism, cocaine addiction, and how wonderful
prescription drugs have been. for depression.
And there have been dozens of dis-informational essays
and website commentaries written by professional psychiatrists who have
financial or career connections to Big Pharma, Big Psychiatry, Big
Medicine and the rehab industries. Most of those commentaries distract
readers from making the connections between suicidality and psych drugs.
Some of the comments I have read have preemptively tried to discredit
those who are publicly making those connections.
Whenever unexpected suicides or accidental drug
overdoses occur among heavily drugged-up military veterans, active duty
soldiers, celebrities or other groups of individuals, I search – often
in vain – for information in the print media and on TV, radio and the
internet that will identify the drugs that are often involved. There
seems to be a taboo on revealing the drug names, dosages, length of
usage or who prescribed them. One has to read between the lines or wait
until the information might possibly be revealed at www.ssristories.org (which, by the way should be mandatory reading for everybody, especially those who prescribe or consume psychiatric drugs)..
Rarely can I find information about the crazy-making
drugs involved, the prescribing physicians or the institutions that were
treating the individual before the unexpected death. Patient
confidentiality is usually the reason given for the cover-ups – and
which is the reason why important teachable moments about these
tragedies are lost every day.
There is a lot of fluff to wade through on those mostly
futile searches for the truth about the drugs. The useful information
that could clinch the suspected real diagnosis (i.e., psychiatric
drug-induced suicidality or psychiatric drug withdrawal syndrome rather
than the usual “mental illness” [of unknown cause]) seems to be cleverly
concealed – probably with the intent to misinform the public and
perpetuate the ever-present, cunningly-implanted myths of mental
illness.
Calling for an Inquest into the Suicide of Robin Williams
What the Robin Williams’ case needs, especially in view
of the American epidemic of prescription psychiatric drug deaths and
suicides (tens of thousands every year), is an unbiased judicial inquest
to determine the real root causes of his suddens and only partially
explained death.
Autopsies can determine the immediate cause of death but
inquests can reveal the underlying motivational or contributing factors
involved. And the results of an inquest could be the beginning of a
rational discourse about drug-induced violence and drug-induced mental
ill health. So far the corporate media’s rush to judgment about
celebrity suicides and the violence epidemic has been subverting
teachable moments that could save tens of thousands of lives in America.
The disinformation so vigorously forced upon us from the four special
interest groups mentioned above has guaranteed the dumbing-down of most
of the potential consumers of psychiatric drugs, so that most Americans
have become true believers in what they are repeatedly told about drugs
in the prime time commercials on TV.
The Marin County coroner has established the preliminary
cause of death in Williams’ case: suicide by asphyxiation/hanging. No
surprises there. The coroner has also told the press that the toxicology
findings on the blood and gastric fluids won’t be ready for 6 weeks
(even though the tests could actually be completed in hours or days).
The confidence of the American public in Big Pharma’s
highly profitable drugs and vaccines must not be shaken. Wall Street’s
rigged stock market does not easily allow anything that could destroy
investor confidence in their major publicly-traded corporation’s
products, even if the product is bogus or destructive.
The beauty of an unbiased public inquest, which should
have been done in the case of Adam Lanza and every other school shooter
murder-suicide, would be the subpoena power of a grand jury to open up
the previously secretive medical records and force testimony from
Williams’ treatment team. The public could finally hear information that
could make comprehensible the mysterious death of yet another high
profile suicide victim and start the process of actually positively
America’s suicide and violence epidemics.
An inquest would likely reveal that Robin Williams did
not have a “mental illness of unknown cause” or “bipolar disorder of
unknown cause” or “depression of unknown cause” or “suicidality of
unknown cause”. An inquest would obtain testimony from medical,
psychiatric and psychopharmaceutical experts such as Peter Breggin, MD,
Joseph Glenmullen, MD, Grace Jackson, MD, David Healey, MD, Russell
Blaylock, MD, Fred Baughmann, MD and other well-informed medical
specialists who don’t own stock in Big Pharma and who know well how
dangerous their drugs can be.
Robin Williams not have a Mental Illness of Unknown Etiology
Just knowing a little about the life and times of Robin
Williams (as would also be the case for that long list of drugged-up
Hollywood celebrities that “died too soon”) easily disproves most of the
amateur or professional theories about his death that have appeared
online. The proposed inquest would reveal what happened inside the
locked doors of the rehab facility.
What is the major reason that many psych drug sceptics,
medical professionals and psychiatric survivors want an inquest in the
Williams’ suicide? We want to know the names of the ingredients in the
cocktail of drugs that had been tried on him (and the dosages and length
of time they were taken). We want to know what side effects he had from
the drugs and what his responses were. We want to know what was the
reasoning behind the decision to prescribe unproven drug cocktails on
someone whose brain was already adversely affected by the past use of
potentially brain damaging drugs.
And we want to know, for the sake of past and future
victims of these neurotoxic drugs, if the prescribing practitioners
fully informed Williams about the dangers of his treatments,
particularly the black box warning that is at the top of every product
information packet of every SSRI drug: that the risk of suicide is doubled in those who take them. And
we want to know if Williams knew that the drug cocktails that were
prescribed for him had never actually been tested for either short or
long-term safety on lab animals or humans?
(It is important to remind ourselves here that no
psychiatric multi-drug combinations have ever been approved by the FDA
for use on human subjects, with the outrageous exception being the
approval for marketing that the FDA gave for the use of the
anti-psychotic drug Abilify in combination with SSRI antidepressants [a
combination apparently found to be modestly safe and modestly effective
in short-term trials] in cases where the SSRI drug alone had failed to
relieve the sadness in some subjects.)
Stress-induced and Drug-induced Mental Ill Health Doesn’t Mean One Has a Mental Illness (of Unknown Etiology)
Robin Williams gained fame and fortune as a comic actor,
starting with what was to become his trade mark manic acting style
(stimulant drug-induced mania?) on “Mork and Mindy”. As have many other
famous persons that attained sudden wealth, Williams spent his millions
of dollars lavishly and – in retrospect – often foolishly. After his
third marriage he found that he could no longer afford the Hollywood
lifestyle.
But long before his two divorces and his subsequent
serious financial difficulties caused him to crack and fall of the
sobriety wagon for the final time, Robin Williams had lived in the fast
lane, working long exhausting days and partying long exhausting nights
with the help of stimulant drugs like the dependency-inducing drug
cocaine (that overcomes sleepiness and fatigue) and tranquilizers like
the equally dependency-inducing alcohol (that can counteract the
drug-induced mania and drug-induced insomnia that often results from
psycho-stimulants like cocaine, nicotine, caffeine, Ritalin, Prozac,
Paxil, Wellbutrin, amphetamines, etc).
Williams had acknowledged that he was addicted to both
cocaine and alcohol when his famous comedian friend John Belushi died of
an accidental drug overdose shortly after they had snorted some cocaine
together (March 4, 1962). (BELUSHI DIED MARCH 5 1982 ) Williams quit
both drugs cold turkey, and he remained sober and cocaine-free for the
next 20 years. There is no public information about the possible use of
addictive prescription drugs, but it is well-known that many Hollywood
personalities have close relationships with both prescription-writing
physicians and illicit drug pushers.
However, Williams did relapse in 2006 and started
abusing drugs and alcohol again, eventually being admitted to a Hazelden
drug rehab facility in Oregon. After “taking the cure” he continued his
exhausting career making movies, doing comedy tours and engaging in
personal appearances in order to “pay the bills and support my family”.
After two expensive divorces, huge indebtedness and an
impending bankruptcy, Williams was forced, in September of 2013, to sell
both his $35,000,000 home and his ranch in Napa Valley. He moved into a
more modest, more affordable home in the San Francisco area, where he
lived until his suicide.
But despite solving his near-bankruptcy situation (which
would make any sane person temporarily depressed), Williams continued
having a hard time paying the bills and making the alimony payments; and
he was forced to go back to making movies (which he despised doing
because of the rigorous schedule, working long days and being away from
his family for extended periods of time. He hated the fact that he was
being financially forced to sign a contract to do a “Mrs. Doubtfire”
sequel later in 2014.
For regular income, he took a job doing a TV comedy
series called “The Crazy Ones”, but the pressures of working so hard got
him drinking again, even using alcohol on the set, which he had never
done before. He was making $165,000 per episode and was counting on
continuing the series beyond the first season in order to have a steady
income.
So when CBS cancelled the show in May 2014, humiliation,
sadness, nervousness and insomnia naturally set in, and he decided to
go for professional help at a Hazelden facility in my home state of
Minnesota, spending most of July 2014 as an inpatient there. In
retrospect, that decision had fatal consequences. The public deserves to
know what really happened inside that facility.
Robin Williams ended his life shortly after being
prescribed a cocktail of unproven drugs that had never been certified by
the FDA as either safe or effective.
There are no reports about any electroshock treatments
ever having been given to Williams, but an inquest to bring to light
important details such as that would certainly go a long ways to
de-mystify his untimely death. It is the least that could be done to
honor the man, give some additional meaning to his life and perhaps make
something good come out of the bad that has so unnecessarily confused
us survivors.
Robin Williams’ fans certainly deserve to know what
really happened to him. There are many painful lessons to be learned,
and we should be mature enough by now to learn them.
The psychiatric drug-taking public deserves to know what
were the offending drugs that might have contributed to his anguish,
sadness, nervousness, insomnia, sleep deprivation, hopelessness and
irrational, very likely drug-induced, suicide.
And the family and friends of Robin Williams certainly
deserve to understand the essential facts of the case which, without an
inquest, will otherwise just result in a continuation of America’s
“mysterious” suicide and violence epidemics, and the continuation of Big
Pharma’s unjust gravy train that has been deceiving – and destroying –
so many for so long.
For more information on the above very serious issues, check out these websites:
www.ssristories.com, www.mindfreedom.org, www.breggin.com, www.cchrint.org, www.drugawareness.org, www.psychrights.org,www.quitpaxil.org, www.endofshock.com, www.madinamerica.com.
Dr Kohls is a family physician
who, until his retirement in 2008, practiced holistic (non-drug) mental
health care. Dr Kohls warns against the abrupt discontinuation of any
psychiatric drug because of the common, often serious withdrawal
symptoms that can occur in patients who have been taking any
dependency-inducing psychoactive drug, whether legal or illicit. He
recommends close consultation with an aware, informed physician who is
familiar with drug withdrawal syndromes, the dangers of psychiatric drug
use and the nutritional needs of the drug-toxified and
nutritionally-depleted brain.
