How do we wean doctors (and the nation) off of drugs?

A PROFESSION ADDICTED TO DRUGS?

It should come as no surprise, as in every other walk of life, scientific research and its findings, can be influenced by factors other than what is good for the patient! Doctors are addicted to drugs: sometimes for themselves but mainly for their patients. The economic success and profitability of pharmaceutical companies depends not on the health of the nation but on an increase in ill-heath and a multiplicity of diseases, for which ever more 'miracle' drugs are required. 

We have to trust that prescribing is done in good faith and in the belief that it is in the best interests of the patient. In short, to use a phrase made popular in the Covid debacle, just "following the science". Unfortunately life is not quite that simple or straightforward. The financial performance of the pharmaceutical company may weigh more in the board room.

DRUG PUSHERS?

Doctors, and increasingly pharmacists, are the essential key to the chemical company profits. Many preparations can be obtained 'over the counter' but the more important and lucrative ones must be prescribed. This is why drug companies have historically paid great attention to GPs and other doctors, showering them with benefits in kind. 

GP's in particular are subject to a 'pincer movement' of pressure from the companies that make the drugs with their often exaggerated claims and from the patient himself, seeking a cure from whatever condition he or she is suffering from. This creates a triangulation of interests, expectations and financial benefits that may in fact be illusionary and harmful. 

PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPENDANCY?

The very idea of miracle pills and miracle medicine, blinds both patient and doctor to underlying causes, probably harder to address. In a situation where there is no cost implication to either prescriber or recipient - directly at least, because the cost is borne by the state and paid for out of general taxation -  no disincentive operates. 

This rather obviously, has both positive and negative consequences. Treatments are not circumscribed by the patient's ability to pay but nor is there any reason to question whether the drug is either cost-effective or even necessary.

GOVERNMENT RESERVATIONS

It would appear the government may be coming to the same opinion. England's most senior doctor, Prof. Sir Stephen Powis, NHS medical director, has recently stated that doctors must stop "doling out a pill for every ill, as it leaves millions of patients hooked on drugs they do not need."

He continued, "Figures suggest around 10% of prescriptions are not needed." This equates to nearly £1 billion to the national health!  Even this figure underestimates the real figure, as it excludes the cost to individuals, either as their statutory contribution or that spent on drugs not requiring a prescription. Nor does it include the huge saving that would flow from healthier life styles, particularly as it relates to diet, exercise and obesity.

DRUG INDUCED ILLNESS

During 2021, 1.14 billion prescription items were dispensed by pharmacists in England - a 3 per cent rise on the previous year!  More than eight million people take more than five pills per day. The total number taking chemical substances of one sort or another, either legal or illegal, is obviously much higher. Much of the NHS effort and budget is taken up dealing with the adverse effects of these with many thousands ending up in hospital as a direct result. Iatrogenic disease (i.e. conditions caused by medical interventions) constitute up to a fifth of hospital bed occupancy.

Among the European Union Member states, WHO concluded that the healthcare-related errors occur in 8% to 12% of hospitalizations. A report named “organisation of memory” estimated 850,000 adverse drug reactions (ADRs) occur in hospital each year.  This figure does not include hospitalisations that result from reactions to chemicals taken or prescribed in the community, so those figures must understate the problem. Over one in five hospital admissions for the over 65's, result from adverse effects of medications costing the NHS at least £2 billion. A third of over 80's take eight or more medicines daily!

A DRUG FOR EVERY ILL

Let us look at just some of the categories of over-use and over-prescription by category, taken from government sources:

Anti-biotics

"Overall prescribing rates were 659, 654 and 607 per 1000 registered patients for 2013, 2014 and 2015, respectively. 27 Feb 2018".

Discovered by Fleming just before World War II, anti-biotics have undoubtedly saved millions of lives. However the dangers of over-prescribing them for conditions against which they were ineffective, such as viral colds, are well known. Misuse of these wonder drugs both in animals (to off-set battery conditions and aid growth) and in humans has allowed germs to develop resistance to them. Increasingly common anti-biotics are ineffective against bacterial infections. This could be catastrophic in a real pandemic which clearly Covid was not. Doctors are eventually reacting to this fact and prescribing less but the damage has already been done.

Anti-depressants

"Between April to June 2021, 20.5 million anti-depressant drugs were prescribed. This is a 2% increase from 20.2 million items in the previous quarter, and a 7% increase from 19.2 million items for the same quarter in 2020/21."  

In other words over 80 million prescriptions in an adult population (over 18) of 54 million and on the increase year on year! Clearly a lot of people are diagnosed as suffering from depression. It points to a fundamental flaw in the nature of society, relationships and the human psyche. 

But leaving that aside there is a big question mark over whether the popular anti-depressants work or at least work as well as their manufacturers claim. They may even have the opposite effect and make both depression and suicide more likely. The disastrous long-term addictive consequences of Benzodiazepines such as 'Librium',  'Valium' and many other proprietary names, known sweetly as 'Mummy's little helpers', are well known but it seems lessons have not been learned. 

Practical measures to tackle the problem of depression which seems to be rife, such as changing life and work circumstances, talking therapies, friends, social activities, pets, exercise, diet and sleep, may be far more effective, but getting doctors to pursue these is still not generally applied. A pill seems to be a far more convenient option.

Dementia

"997,000 drugs for dementia prescribed, a 2% increase from 982,000 items in the previous quarter.  The total cost of care for people living with dementia is typically £100,000, but can cost as much as £500,000. The cost of dementia to the UK is currently £34.7 billion a year, which works out as an average annual cost of £32,250 per person with dementia."

Mental decline is a likely consequences of aging but is not inevitable.  Weakness of body does not necessarily entail weakness of mind. However the larger the proportion of older people in the population, the more prevalent it is likely to become. Once dementia sets in, the prospects are not good and it is understandable that doctors faced with it, will grasp at straws, as will the sufferers, as the above statistics prove. 

But no one is really sure whether the cholinesterase inhibitors used  (Donepezil (Aricept), Galantamine (Razadyne) and Rivastigmine (Exelon) are the most commonly used) are ultimately beneficial at slowing decline, improving memory or reducing associated psychosis. In large part they are still experimental. They certainly have significant adverse side effects across a range of psycho-motor areas. Sufferers are often persuaded ill advisedly, as to their efficacy, putting up with deterioration or pain in other areas as the necessary cost.

How much the misleading claims of drug companies raise unfounded expectations in doctors and patients is undetermined, but again no one really knows whether the huge cost to the NHS is really beneficial or effective.

Diabetes

"In 2020/21, there were 57.9 million drugs used in treating diabetes prescribed in England for a cost of £1.19 billion, 12.5% of the total spend on all prescription items prescribed in England. Some 7% of the UK population (4.9 million) are now living with diabetes; approximately one million people have undiagnosed type 2 diabetes, 40 000 children have diabetes and more than 3000 children are diagnosed every year."

The discovery of insulin and the role of the pancreas in the disease of diabetes  were life savers for the many struck with the condition. The effective treatment did not stop the trend of increasing in the numbers suffering from it. The pre-disposing features are well known. They include family and genetic factors, but obesity and diet are hugely significant. Britain has changed its eating habits over the last fifty years towards fast foods and an essentially American-style diet, which also has a distinctive disease pattern. The average body shape has changed as a consequence and lower socio-economic groups are proportionately worse affected. Now "63% of UK adults (aged 18+) are overweight or obese (2018/19). This equates to an estimated 35 million overweight or obese UK adults."  

It is clearly not in the interests of the fast food industry or the pharmaceutical industry to reduce diabetes, but it is in the interests of the public and government. The increase in diabetes has the potential to bankrupt the NHS and nation if not tackled. The question is whether doctors help or hinder that process?

Sleeping pills

"Last year, 15.3 million NHS prescriptions were made for sleep medication. Patients in England alone received 5.4m prescriptions for zopiclone and 2.8m for temazepam, the two most popular sleeping pills."

It is generally acknowledged that sleep, for all its biological mystery, is essential for both mental and physical health. It is a phenomenon common to virtually all species and so must be hard wired into the human biological make-up. The requirement for sleep varies between individuals (Mrs Thatcher was famously said to require only four hours a night) but the fact that so many prescriptions are required indicates a major problem of people not being able to get to sleep without chemical assistance.

What effort is made by doctors and patients to identify causes and try alternative remedies before resorting to drugs with potentially serious adverse health consequences?  I suspect very little.

Heart conditions

"On average, patients with heart failure take 6.8 prescription medications per day, resulting in 10.1 doses per day, not including over-the-counter (OTC) or complementary and alternative medications. (12 Apr 2017)   Around 920,000 people in the UK today have been diagnosed with heart failure. Both the incidence and prevalence of heart failure increase steeply with age, and the average age at diagnosis is 77.12 Sept 2018 Statins are one of the most commonly prescribed drugs in the UK: around 7-8 million adults in the UK take them, and over 71 million prescription items were dispensed in 2018."

We may conclude from the disparity between the number of people diagnosed with a heart condition and the number of Statin prescriptions, that these drugs are widely prescribed by doctors as a preventive measure as well as a treatment for high cholesterol and heart conditions. The problem is that the whole regime based on, and promoted by, drug companies, that saturated fat consumption leads to high cholesterol and that this in turn leads to ischaemic heart disease and strokes, is wholly misplaced and misguided. It has spawned huge profits for the manufactures but also created a whole range of medical disorders unnecessarily. 

As Dr David Diamond and others have conclusively demonstrated, the association is largely illusionary, as is the claimed benefit for Statins in the prevention of these conditions (around one percent not the forty or fifty per cent claimed) and is by far off-set by their adverse consequences. As he has shown, it is not saturated fats but excess carbohydrates and sugars that predominantly cause the problem, although of course other related factors are involved. 

Statins have made billions for drug companies around the world but particularly in Europe and North America, based it would seem on a convenient (for them) misnomer. Yet again doctors are the active participants and facilitators in a costly scam!

Pain relief

"PHE’s analysis shows that, in 2017 to 2018, 11.5 million adults in England (26% of the adult population) received, and had dispensed, one or more prescriptions for any of the medicines within the scope of the review. The totals for each medicine were:

antidepressants 7.3 million people (17% of the adult population)
opioid pain medicines 5.6 million (13%)
gabapentinoids 1.5 million (3%)
benzodiazepines 1.4 million (3%)
z-drugs 1.0 million (2%)

There are large variations in the standardised rates of prescribing across clinical commissioning groups (CCGs)."

It is over seventy years since George Orwell predicted the generalised application of 'Soma' to keep the general population placated and we are now well on our way to fulfilling it. The NHS has become an indispensable part of our 'Oceania' as became all too clear in the Covid debacle.

CONCLUSION

These statistics are truly startling.  It would seem, even leaving aside the recreational use of non prescription drugs and those not requiring a prescription, on average at least twenty prescriptions per person per year are made. Given the proportion not on medication of any kind, for those taking them, the figure must be much higher. The cost to the NHS and nation, both directly and in adverse effects, is truly staggering. 

For 2021 the figures were:

The cost of prescription items dispensed in the community in England was £9.61 billion, a 3.49% increase of £324 million from £9.28 billion in 2019/20.

The number of prescription items dispensed in the community in England was 1.11 billion, a 1.90% decrease of 21.5 million items from 1.13 billion in 2019/20.

Atorvastatin was the most dispensed drug in England in 2020/21 with 49.9 million items, while Apixaban was the drug with the highest cost of £356 million.

Sertraline 100mg tablets was the presentation with the largest absolute increase in cost between 2019/20 and 2020/21 of £78.9 million, from £21.0 million to £99.9 million. 

Government has been aware of the widespread, unnecessary and adverse effects of drugs for decades but has effectively promoted them with the active assistance of 'big pharma', the NHS and the medical profession. The situation is getting worse not better. Drastic action is required to reverse the trend. The survival of the NHS as well as the public's health depend on it.

WHAT IS THE ANSWER?

The question posed at the top of this article was, "How do we wean doctors and the nation off of drugs?  

First and foremost, both doctors currently prescribing them and patients demanding them must want to come off them. That is the psychological province of the will, of beliefs and attitudes conditioned by society at large and by the propaganda we call advertising. 

People must be properly and adequately educated about their bodies and how to keep them working healthily. It is a task that starts in the home, continues in school and hopefully continues thereafter. Much illness and disease is preventable but there will always be instances that are not and that will benefit from chemical interventions. A clear separation between the two is essential.

The relationship between drug companies, government, the NHS and the medical profession needs to be tightly controlled to prevent undue influence or conflict of interest. Better use of proprietary brands and control of prices is needed to cut the overall cost. 'Free at the point of use' should be limited to true need.

Prevention is obviously better than cure, but clearly far more needs to be done in this sphere where there is a proven link between life style habits and resultant illness. Alcohol, diet, smoking and stress are obvious areas.

There needs to be far more open debate and freedom of expression surrounding the claimed advantages of certain drugs and procedures, or of underlying medical givens.  The role of cholesterol in the incidence of  heart disease and the effectiveness of statins in their prevention is an obvious one. The necessity and effectiveness of vaccination regimes is another. The widespread use of drugs in mental decline is another. The prescription of pain killers in place of osteopathy (not available on the NHS) is another.

Sickness can be as much a social condition as a physical one. Financial and other incentives and disincentives need to be considered. The system should be so organised to be able to address causes rather than just treating the symptoms.

Covid highlighted the weaknesses in the GP service that have continued since. Patients have faced multiple barriers to seeing the doctor. This may have accounted for the reduction in prescriptions referenced above.  However the nature and purpose of the interaction needs to change, so that it is less of a drug prescribing service, to one that promotes natural and obvious remedies. These could be provided at a fraction of the cost for much greater savings long term. GP payments should be more closely tied to performance an outcomes rather than just numbers on a list.

Medicine likes to think of itself as a science. It also requires a high level of practical skill. But somewhere along the line the social and environmental inputs have been given less attention. Health after is largely a reflection of these. Drugs and vaccines have too long been regarded as 'magic bullets'. Somehow we need to break the spell if the problem of drug dependence and its multiplicity of adverse consequences is to be addressed.

CASE STUDIES

Only yesterday I sat on a bench with a woman in her late thirties I suppose (it is considered rude to ask a woman her age!) who said she had been very ill for a year with a range of symptoms including brain seizures. This she said had finally been put down to a drug wrongly prescribed and finally changed. She did not say what condition the drug was prescribed for, but claimed it had ruined her heart, for which she now had to take other medications. She did not 'look' well. A taxi arrived to take her and her shopping home. She said she spent most of her time in bed too poorly to do anything. Of course this is too unspecific to be much use but how representative is it of the general population and a much bigger problem?

A more reliable example is as follows. A seventy year old man suffered severe chest pains, diagnosed at the local hospital as a serious heart attack for which emergency admission and Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI), also known as angioplasty or coronary angioplasty was applied.  A blockage or clot  located in the left coronary artery was dispersed and two metal stents implanted to restore normal blood supply, notwithstanding the damaged caused to the heart muscle. Subsequently four days were spent recuperating in the cardiac unit. Further procedures were proposed but declined.

Now as to standard drug regime in such cases, the following drugs were prescribed, to be taken on a permanent daily basis thereafter:

 

Iatrogenesis: A review on nature, extent, and distribution of healthcare hazards Https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6060929/

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/medicines-used-mental-health-england/medicines-used-mental-health-england-quarterly-summary-statistics-april-june-2021#:~:text=Key%20findings&text=20.5%20million%20antidepressant%20drugs%20were,same%20quarter%20in%202020%2F21.

David Diamond on Deception in Cholesterol Research: Separating Truth From Profitable Fiction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inwfSkSGvQw&t=9s

The Murder of Jo Cox: Were Prescription Drugs a Significant Factor?

https://pixabay.com/en/capsule-pill-health-medicine-1079838/

The latest, well publicised outrage - the murder of the young attractive British MP., Jo Cox by (it is alleged) a 52 year old man with mental problems and on drug medication, has again raised the question, to what extent medical and psychological intervention might have caused or prevented the tragic outcome? It also poses the question why as a civilization we have become so dependant on drugs of all kinds?

The Telegraph reported, "Mr Mair, 52, visited an alternative therapy centre in Birstall on Wednesday evening, the night before Mrs Cox was killed, where he explained he wanted treatment for depression. He said he had been suffering from mental health problems for a long time, but said that reflex therapies and others he’d tried in the past hadn’t helped. “He appeared to be quite a troubled man, didn’t say very much to anyone while he was there. I asked him to come back on Thursday to discuss it all and have a drink, but he never came back."

Mr Mair had suffered from mental health problems and from epilepsy for some years. He had told a local newspaper in 2010 how volunteering at park near his home on the Fieldhouse estate in Birstall had helped his mental health. “It has done me more good than all the psychotherapy and medication in the world,” he said." (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/17/jo-cox-murder-thomas-mair-asked-for-mental-health-treatment-day/)

Leaving aside the obvious conflict of opinion here (i.e. that social therapy had he felt done him good or not) there is little information on what chemicals he was being prescribed or taken. Apparently the police are making enquiries but whether this information will ever be made public is another matter. However if he suffered from both epilepsy and depression it is reasonable to assume he was prescribed well-known drugs to control these conditions.

The actions ascribed to him in Birstall and subsequently in the Magistrates Court, certainly appear out of character and have surprised those who have known him. 

The Telegraph reports,  “If you had told me he had turned into Father Christmas I would have been more likely to believe you than him turning out to be a neo-Nazi,” said Diana Peters, 65, who had known Mr Mair for many years. She said he had taught migrants English at a college in Dewsbury. Other neighbours said they heard him practising with a pellet gun in his garden. They said he was a “calm and polite man” who only got angry when children played in the garden."

You have to question the underlying reason why a sizeable proportion of western adults are on 'anti-depressants' and other medications and its consequences. Even children are now being medicated in large numbers with 'Ritalin and other drugs - a phenomenum starting in America and now moving here. This without considering all the 'self-medication' that takes place with alcohol, nicotene and other substances, of which there is a thriving, largely black market.

We know the manufacturers of any product will push it, whether we need it or not. It is the sole purpose of advertising and advertisers, to condition the minds of the masses, so that they WANT the things that they are trying to sell, and it is no different with drugs of all kinds.

The medical profession has become the legal arm of the drugs trade, though no one labels them as 'drug pushers', a term retained by those the police chase and society locks up. 

Life has its emotional problems, and people experience psychological pain and depression for which some intervention is often necessary, but drugs, the so-called 'magic bullet' has become the reflex response, rather than the more difficult route of working through and addressing the issues and causes (if there are any)  The simple expedients of exercise, diet, sleep and someone to talk to are often ignored, unavailable or refused.

Of course the drug corporations have made a fortune out of promoting their products to doctors and doctors to their patients, whilst the taxpayer has largely, through the NHS in Britain at least, picked up the tab - currently about 15 BILLION pounds a year!

There is much evidence to suggest that many of these chemical interventions, rather than curing personality and life problems, may indeed make them worse, particularly as regards to self-harm and danger to others. By supressing mental processes, they may also reduce the natural inhibitions to anti-social, even violent behaviour. 

The mass medication of populations and particularly children is virtually left to the discretion of doctors and parents, unmolested by government. Given the way anti-biotics have been prescribed,raising very serious issues for the ineffective treatment of infection or the addictive characteristics of Valium prescribed like sweeties, or currently the pressure to prescribe Statins, does not inspire confidence. 

But whether, 1984-like, this is the materialisation of the 'Soma' prediction, is another matter. The French riots, largely unreported, illustrate the problems of 'revolting' people, that is inconvenient and dangerous to the elite, and needs to be avoided at all cost. What better way is there than a combination of sport, entertainment and drugs to keep them pacified -with of course the occasional 'terror event' to shock and make them more malliable?

BACKGROUND FACTS

NHS expenditure on prescribed medicines up by 7.6%, with 15.1% increase in hospital sector. prescribing costs increased to £14.4bn, with £5.8bn attributed to hospital use of medicines, data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre show.

http://www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/news-and-analysis/news/nhs-expenditure-on-prescribed-medicines-up-by-76-with-151-increase-in-hospital-sector/20067182.article

From a trading estate on the outskirts of Basildon in Essex two brothers have helped to build their fortunes by buying the rights to sell established medicinal drugs and racking up the prices. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brothers-cost-nhs-millions-by-exploiting-drug-price-loophole-fz90gsvxz

Number of Children & Adolescents Taking Psychiatric Drugs in the U.S. The following data was taken from IMS Health Vector One National database Year 2013, Extracted April 2014.
Grand Total 0-17 Years 8,389,034 kids on psychiatric drugs. https://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/children-on-psychiatric-drugs/

Documented risks of Antidepressants, ADHD drugs, Antipsychotics and Anti-anxiety drugs, taken from 286 drug regulatory warnings, 278 studies, and over 400,000 adverse reaction reports filed with the U.S. FDA. https://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/

Overdose Side Effects of 'Ritalin' (From: http://ritalinsideeffects.net/)

Methylphenidate drugs have been extensively abused. Extreme psychological dependence and severe social disability have resulted. Abuse of methylphenidate drugs may cause a sudden heart attack even in those with no signs of heart disease. Symptoms of overdose that require immediate medical assistance include:

• Restlessness
• Tremor
• Aggression
• Hallucinations
• Panic states
• Hyperreflexia (overactive reflexes, which can include twitching or spasms)
• Personality changes
• Symptoms of depression
• Seizures or abnormal EEGs
• High blood pressure
• Rapid heart beat
• Swelling of hands/feet/ankles (for example, numbing of the fingertips)
• Delusions
• Sweating
• Vomiting
• Dehydration
• Unexplained muscle pain
• Lower abdominal pain
• Rhabdomyolysis and kidney damage
• Chronic abuse can manifest itself as psychosis, often indistinguishable from schizophrenia

"The Modern Sin of Telling the Truth."

Vernon Coleman.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/cw7f7FCRES02/?fbclid=IwAR2g-S0yxIPvP5686Hu1tr3Qcor3mnNLqBAN2TiriImZwUxuY_j0Nq1Z0ow

https://vernoncoleman.org/

Like all qualified medical doctors who have told the truth about covid-19, Dr Vernon Coleman has been repeatedly lied about and libelled on the internet and in the mainstream media. In March 2020, after studying the covid death figures and comparing the death statistics in the UK to that of previous years, Dr Coleman said that the threat of covid-19 had been wildly exaggerated and that there was no pandemic. In that first video, he warned that the pandemic fraud (or hoax) would result in the deaths of many old people (which it did), the introduction of mandatory vaccinations (which appears to be happening) and the disappearance of cash (now a serious threat). As a result of his video, his Wikipedia page was deliberately and dramatically changed by government employees and used to 'monster' him. All his lifetime achievements were removed. Without any evidence or justification he was, among other things, labelled a 'conspiracy theorist' and said to be 'widely discredited'. Google, which works with Wikipedia, reproduced the lies in an attempt to discredit him, so that nobody would believe his warnings. Biographies on www.vernoncoleman.com include references.

Warnings, Forecasts and Predictions

Dr Vernon Coleman’s track record of spotting health dangers is second to none. Since the 1970s, when his first two ground breaking books (The Medicine Men and Paper Doctors) were published, Dr Coleman has been gaining friends among patients and enemies among doctors and drug companies.

In The Medicine Men (1975), Vernon Coleman drew attention to the dangerously close relationship between the medical establishment and the pharmaceutical industry. In Paper Doctors (1977) he argued that most medical research is done for the benefit of researchers (and drug companies) and that the money would be better spent on using the information we already have and encouraging the public to avoid known health hazards.

Vernon Coleman, a Sunday Times bestselling author, is one of the few medically qualified authors writing on medical matters without bias and without any professional or commercial commitments or allegiances. 

His honesty has made him many enemies among the medical establishment and the establishment’s commercial alliances. His predictions, forecasts and warnings have often been made years (and, in many cases, decades) before anyone else has unearthed and understood the evidence or had the courage to speak out. In addition, in many of his medical books and thousands of newspaper and magazine articles he has drawn attention to the dangers of using specific over the counter and prescription drugs.

There are hundreds of other articles on health, politics and animal issues on www.vernoncoleman.com

See also:  

How do we wean doctors (and the nation) off of drugs?  

https://veaterecosan.blogspot.com/search?q=doctors+drugs

Drug dependence?


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Somewhere along the line something has gone badly wrong with the NHS system in which drugs are prescribed and either subsidised or paid for. This runs in parallel with a subterranean and illegal drugs economy. The two run into BILLIONS of pounds and both positively PROMOTE greater use.

This may be good for the drug companies and drug dealers but it is definitely NOT good for the tax-payer, the country or to a great extent, the consumer of these chemicals.

The extent to which they are used gives the lie to a physically, psychologically and socially 'healthy' society. Both individuals seeking 'magic bullets' for much more complex issues and those that prescribe are at fault.

Patients want pills and doctors or pushers prescribe them for either financial gain or because it is the easiest course. At root it is and educational and philosophical problem.

We have been conditioned to believe and expect that pain can be removed and illness cured by medical intervention when clearly this is not the case: That environmentally and personally we can abuse the natural order, only to be cure later if the need arises.

It now transpires that one in six are prescribed anti-depressant drugs even if they have been proved to be ineffective. Even children are now medicated as the norm - no less than 70 000 in Britain alone!

Not only is this crazy, it also points to the underlying problem with the society we have created and seem unable to modify.

Despite being aware of many of the social and environmental causes of ill health we continue on the same path. Why then should we expect things to get better?

I have a number of acquaintances who use illness to avoid employment and who use their bi-weekly bag of pills as barter for beer. Valium, Prozac and Viagra (to name but three) have a ready street value apparently.

We definitely need to wean doctors off drugs. We need to rationalise and cash in on the cannabis and other illegal drugs market which could at least support our schools and hospitals.

We need to differentiate between true disease (such as the MS referred to) and psycho-somatic conditions and the drugs that are prescribed prophylactically without justification and in turn create other complications requiring yet more intervention.

Our whole approach to health, disease and treatment in fact requires radical overhaul if we are not to slip into a drug induced comatosed state, into which increasing numbers have already, it would seem, have slipped.

 HANCOCK'S HALF-HOUR.

(As I said at the time!  'The REAL cause of 'Covid' death peaks.' @ 

 https://veaterecosan.blogspot.com/search?q=midazolam )

Kevin Gage

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Matt Hancock is today giving evidence to the official Covid Enquiry & apparently is quoted as saying that he thinks he did a good job…

Read this & decide for yourself.

Personally, I think he should be charged with mass murder & subsequently jailed

MATT HANCOCK: whilst acting as Health Secretary for the U.K. government in March 2020, was responsible for introducing (in April 2020) and pushing through NICE guideline NG163 under the guise of a ‘Covid’ protocol. This was soon to be replaced with NG191.

There is documented information from the UK government, NICE and the NHS in relation to triage and medical interventions for dealing with Covid-19 in the community after March 2020. This evidence shows how the UK government, backed by senior members of the NHS, put in place Covid triage protocols that stopped elderly and disabled people gaining access to hospital treatment. Through its critical care guidance matrix and NICE’s Covid-19 rapid guidelines and the blanket use of DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) orders, the triage route was deliberately designed to lead to death. The instruction manuals sent out to Health Care Professionals gave specific details on medications that were to be used on Covid Positive vulnerable people. They specifically said the use of Midazolam would help Covid patients in the community that had breathing difficulties, anxiety, or people who were agitated or showed signs of delirium.

Midazolam is used in lots of different medical situations – primarily for severe epilepsy, seizures and for minor surgery – but in ICU it’s specifically used for sedating patients in order to get them onto ventilators. It’s commonly known that the chances of a patient surviving a stint on a ventilator is around 20%. The dosage levels of the drugs – Midazolam and morphine – recommended in both NG163 and NG191 – are the critical issue: just as taking one paracetamol is safe, taking 500 will have very serious consequences. At the dosage recommended in the NICE guidelines, patients need constant monitoring. Midazolam comes with this warning: ‘Midazolam injection may cause serious or life-threatening breathing problems such as shallow, slowed, or stopped breathing that may lead to permanent brain injury or death’.

Respiratory depression caused by these medications allows fluid to accumulate in the lungs and presents symptoms very similar to symptoms of what was then labelled ‘Covid Pneumonia’.

Health care staff who followed these procedures and guidelines were told that once a patient was seen to have breathing difficulties to administer Midazolam and morphine – either via injection or via a syringe driver and, if they felt it necessary, to increase the dosage of both.

Hancock knew this would create a self-fulfilling prophecy – what some would call this a “medical intervention paradox” – and would result in the deaths of people put on these ‘treatments’. It was reported in the Telegraph in 2020 that 11 out of 12 doctors on a government-appointed panel were in disagreement with this protocol. Hancock chose to ignore their protests and implemented the protocol regardless. He knew what he was doing. This is why we hate him.

Health Care Professionals were informed that Covid in the frail or disabled would probably end with the rapid onset of breathing difficulties, leading to Covid Pneumonia and ending in death. They were told that administering these drugs would ease the pain and help the patients pass comfortably. It’s clear now that, paradoxically, the drugs administered created the problems and caused the deaths.

The most damning part of the information available and given to medics is the dosage levels of the drugs used. Midazolam – a sedative – doses for minor operations and pre-ventilation appeared to be at reduced levels compared to the dosage recommended for people in care homes who were elderly, disabled (mentally and/or physically) and/or anxious. Who wouldn’t be anxious if suddenly removed from hospital, dumped into a care home, told they had a killer virus and weren’t permitted to see friends or family? This is exactly what happened to thousands of mostly elderly hospital patients back in the spring of 2020. It was all authorised by Hancock. This is why we hate him.

On further investigation, it can be observed that the recommended doses of these breath-depressing drugs are exactly the same as the doses suggested in the step-by-step instruction manual of how to end someone’s life as described in the Covid End of Life document developed by a senior member of an NHS Trust in Birmingham. The methods suggested are almost identical to the methods used in the Liverpool Care Pathway protocol, a barbaric end of life pathway which was banned in 2014 because it was deemed inhumane. This pathway blatantly reappeared in 2020 under the guise of a Covid protocol. Many question whether it ever went away.

One of many questions that must now be asked is this: why would an elderly, disabled, anxious or ‘Covid postive’ individual be placed on the same Midazolam and morphine dosage levels as those prescribed for end of life ‘care’? According to pharmaceutical recommendations, Midazolam (a benzodiazepine) and morphine (an opioid) should NEVER be used concomitantly as, used together over a prolonged period, results in certain death. (Both drugs are used in some states in the US in executions on Death Row prisoners.) But, thanks to Matt Hancock, they were. His decisions, policy-making, words and actions resulted in the deaths of thousands. He’s a Malthusian eugenicist, set on reducing the population, saving the government money and wielding his power in the most evil of ways.

No one could care less about his rule-breaking or disgusting disloyalty to his family. No one could care less about his crocodile tears and pleas for people to be more understanding. None of that matters. What matters is the murders he’s responsible for. What matters is that, in his own psychopathic way, he feels no responsibility whatsoever for the destruction, devastation and death he’s caused. He will never come clean, never own up to what he’s done. And this, more than anything, is why he’s hated.