http://www.nbc.com/Law_and_Order_Special_Victims_Unit/video/clips/svu-two-minute-replay-users/1172744/
What do we do?
Send him to rehab. It's methadone now or it's heroin later.
There is one other option: Ibogaine Hydrochlorite.
Within 24 hours he would loose his craving for heroin.
Clinics around the world use it to treat heroin addiction.
Let's do it.
I can't. The drug is illegal here. Because the patent expired and no drug company can make a profit of it.
What you are doing is illegal.
One dose of Ibogaine and he is clean- we are leaving.
It's kidnapping.
I am a doctor; I have a moral obligation to treat him.
Even it means loss of your license?
http://www.entheogen.com/forum/showthread.php?p=274970This mention of big pharm is but the tip of the iceberg, as provided by the following helpful comment:
Law and Order SVU -Ibogaine - 7th November 2009, 12:42 AM
Did anyone see the Wed nite episode of L&O SVU? Finally a somewhat good message. Wong, the psychiatrist put his job on the line by healing a heroin addict with ibogaine. He knew it was illegal. He and Elliot were talking how dumb it was to be illegal but that the pharm companies don't want people to have access except for the inferior big pharma drugs. I'd imagine they were talking about suboxen. So Wong took the kid to an ibogaine clinic and administered 800 mgs of ibogaine hydrochloride.
Now the silly part was they were saying it "cures" addiction in 48 hours. They also made it sound like the "trip" part was a side effect of the ibogaine instead of one of the main reasons. Also once the kid was healed they needed him to testify against a cult/minister drug dealer. Wong reported himself and had a 30 day suspension of his license for using ibogaine. He was adamant about the positive properties.
I just thought the mention of greedy big pharma on primetime due to an illegal helpful psychedelic was interesting. The message was put forth even with all the silliness surrounding the episode.
1."drug" scam;2."therapists";3.$cigtaxquidproquo;4.Big pHARMa
Comment posted by maxwood on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 3:33pm1. To paraphrase the previous comment, many defendants plead guilty in order to pass for "easy" and avoid the hard time that "hard cases" get. ("Admission" to the drug court program is a better deal than prison-- you are better protected against gang-rape, persecution etc.) That in turn enables prohibitionists to "prove" marijuana is a problem-causing "drug" by pointing to the large statistical number of marijuana "offenders" admitted to the drug court program.
2. Both in prison and in "drug programs" are to be found well-paid bureaucrat "therapists" punitively pretending to "treat" the marijuana "drug offenders" on the premise that cannabis must be classified as a "drug" rather than as an "herb" or "nutritional supplement" which would place it in a non-punitive category.
3. Police, prosecutors, judges, bailiffs, guards are all benefiting from their share of over $30-bil./yr/US nicotine $igarette tax money, and for that they reward the big tobackgo corporations by suppressing cannabis as an illegal "drug" and thereby suppressing the anti-overdose smoking and vaporizing equipment (which, if cannabis were legal, could become readily available to tobacco users and replace the now entrenched profitable hot burning overdose $igarette marketing format), on the premise that such equipment is related to illegal cannabis and thus also illegal or "evidence". (How would you like your $600 Volcano vaporizer to be confiscated, or used as evidence to convict you of a crime?)
4. Big pHARMa doesn't want unprofitable homegrown cannabis to get a chance to (a) outclass their currently profitable proprietary Stop Smoking remedies at $20, $40, $60 a box and a 10% success rate, and (b) cause an abrupt decline in cigarette smoking, leading to a consequent decline in sales of profitable Statins and other drugs now used to manage chronic tobacco-related degenerative diseases.
This influence plausibly extend to the drug policy reform movement in the form of legal advice via an important and well-connected food, drug, pharmaceutical and cigarette industry law firm:
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-policy-foundation-legal-connection.html
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-policy-foundation-advised-by-c.html
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue: Covington & Burling building
How about better employing such legal resources for Ibogaine -- note that the legal adviser herself is a food, drug and insurance attorney: should not the insurance industry be interested in ways of reducing health care costs? -- as suggested for Coca and alternatively with Marijuana more generally as a public health measure, at the following links, as part of a general drive to reduce health care costs?
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2009/02/coca-come-back.htmlhttp://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2009/10/dana-beal-on-public-health-marijuana.html
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ReplyDelete....is all I see when I try to see the video whose address is at the top of your message:
http://www.nbc.com/Law_and_Order_Special_Victims_Unit/video/clips/svu-two-minute-replay-users/1172744/
I tried with other two/three videos, but also for them it values the above sentence!
Another case of soft cyber-persecution of Freedom of Speech???
Trieste is famouse cause the Venetian psychiatrist Basaglia. The man was among the fews in the world to realize materially the destruction of mental health hospitals:
ReplyDeletehttp://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Basaglia
I think he was in good faith but he was used as a battering ram to destroy the old social, cultural and antropological order consisting in the destruction of the family and hence of the basis of the Western society. Basaglia was the hero of great part of radical left wing movements since the '70ies. All that has to do also with the theme "drugs". After he returned from a travel in Brasil, he died cause a cancer in the BRAIN.
All smells of a sort of symbolism or allusion,as well his Venetian origin. A part his good work, but the allusion to VENICE (his city of origin) which destroys another very important realization of the old Hapsburg EMPIRE is too much evident to be leaved ignored.
The mental health facility of the SLOVENIAN village near Trieste (S. John/S. Giovanni) was a very modern and enlightened realization of the Hapsburg administration. That mental health facilities permitted for the first time a sort of freedom for the mental hill guests. Now the former Hapsburg mental hiealth facility S. John is the symbol of the freedom from any kind of captivity imposed to heal the ill person and is a centre to rehabilitate drug and alcohol addicted persons......
As you can see the Vatican and Jisuits can play very 'fine' with the drugs, the psychiatry, their struggle to annihilate the last rests of secular supremacy (think to the bishops appointed by the emperor and you'll imagine how they get WWI!!!), the history of North Adriatic etc.
I should write a message about that and put in AGKH as your blog about medicne and drug is very provocative and it found in Trieste a good field of application, but in this period of time i am busy, I have tens of writings and ideas in the box that will never see the light, cause time lacks!!!!!!!!