When I noticed a pattern of what used to be considered "club drugs", getting into therapy
clinics (beginning with ecstasy in the 1970s, prescribed to married couples;
and now ketamine), I said something about it. This caused me to be seen as “old-fashioned” and "irrationally worried".
When I discovered that trans and gay icons Michael Alig and Ernie Glam had likely used rohypnol ("roofies") to drug celebrity "drag kid" “Desmond is Amazing” Napoles, so that they could rape him - around the same time that Napoles was seen mimicking
snorting ketamine, while seated on a couch with another transvestite - I said
something about it.. This got me called a “transphobe”.
Well, I don't care what they call me, I’m not going to shut up.
I'm not going to stay silent about ketamine often being administered via
injection.
Despite the fact that ketamine is taken in powder form when used as a street drug, but comes in the form of pills in a clinical setting, prescription ketamine pills can be crushed, and snorted, and the drug can then be consumed just like how it is consumed on the street.
Between excessive vaccination shortly after birth, repeated
booster shots for Covid, and the push for ketamine usage in clinical settings,
people are getting way too accustomed to getting shot-up all the time;
and for no good, medically necessary reason.
When did we decide that we're fine with receiving injections from Walgreen's
employees? When did we decide that we're fine with receiving vaccine injections
in an open-air parking lot? This is not an exaggeration; I actually witnessed
this, in Waukegan, Illinois, in 2020. Walgreen’s was vaccinating people
outdoors in order to observe “social” distancing regulations (which would
probably be more accurately termed “physical distancing” regulations). Don't we have standards for our own health?
What the hell could be going wrong with your life, that you need to be shot-up
with something which both sedates you and makes you trip
at the same time? You can't even choose between sedation and hallucination? For
God’s sake, pace yourself. If you're going to do drugs, try not to do more than one or two drugs at the same time.
I guess the needle holes are supposed have a therapeutic benefit too? The puncture wounds are there to make
you feel better? If it hurts and feels good at the same time, and isn’t medically
necessary, then it's a maladaptive behavior. It doesn’t need to be promoted.
You know what I do when I feel stressed (aside from smoke weed, which is both a
mild stimulant and a mild depressant)? I massage my hands.
Try it. Once your
hands feel better, it's easier to massage other parts of your body. Start with your
elbows and shoulders and joints. Then massage your feet, so that you can walk
more comfortably, and avoid allowing the muscles in your feet to become tense during long drives or long periods wearing shoes and tight-fitting socks with elastic bands, which reduce circulation). Then
massage your head and neck, until your neck can turn freely and move back and
forth easily and quickly.
Do some push-ups; not to get buff, nor to instill
self-discipline; just to correct your posture. If you don't like push-ups, do yoga. Do some shoulder stretches that
expand your range-of-motion. I don't have time to go on walks, but if that's
your thing, do it. Put on some calming music and burn some incense. Cuddle up with a loved one or a pet.
Do whatever you need to do. Just don't shoot yourself up with hallucinogens
that also sedate you. This is not therapy. It is drug use, disguised as
medicine.
We need to pay attention to what our bodies are telling us, and respond in-kind. Sedatives block pain signals which are essential to our survival. The fact that narcotics help us avoid going into shock when we are experiencing extreme levels of pain, does not mean that we should adopt an understanding of comfort which values pain suppression above feeling and confronting the pain for just long enough as is necessary to diagnose the actual problem and its cause.
Opioids and narcotics do have
a medical benefit; they are sedatives. That's why narcotic pain relievers are used in controlled manners in hospitals. But this class of drugs also includes heroin. Heroin provides the medical benefit of pain relief, but that fact alone does not make it an acceptable drug, or the best drug, to use in a clinical setting.
The fact that some sedatives are generally regarded as "safe", and have helped certain people who are strong enough to survive using them, certainly merits making them legal for use by adults. But these are not excuses for recommending and prescribing sedatives as freely as they are being recommended and prescribed; and especially not when the patient is a minor.
Not everything that relieves pain is a medicine. People who cut themselves often report feeling euphoria,
and a sense of release, when they self-harm. This is due to the release of
endorphins, and also to a decrease in blood pressure. The fact that the
behavior reduces pain, doesn’t mean that it’s medically beneficial overall, since it only masks the pain. And, like a syringe, it creates new pain somewhere else (that is, at
the site of injection or cutting, which then becomes an easy place for pathogens to enter the bloodstream, and cause infection, resulting in more pain).
These vicious cycles must be avoided.
Ketamine therapy is experimental, and it is still in its early stages. Just ten years ago, this was exclusively a recreational drug (known as "Special K", and causing a reaction that users described as feeling stuck in a "K-hole").
Even if ketamine has helped some people, that does not mean that it should be advertised on Facebook and YouTube (by companies such as Mindbloom and Joyous) anywhere near as much as it has been. And, judging by how rarely the word ketamine comes up in discussion threads underneath these companies' posts, the companies and patients are not too eager to admit exactly which "therapy" these companies are promoting.
We are not asking ourselves about the long-term side effects; for example, what will happen to the thought processes (and addiction patterns) of people who are
told that all of their problems will be solved, if and only if they submit to
intravenous administration of a sedative hallucinogen.
We are teaching
depressed people that the solutions are at the bottom of a syringe. This,
coupled with the ongoing existing opioid epidemic, threatens to create the
perfect conditions for a new generation of heroin addicts (and of people
addicted to other I.V. drugs).
In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley described "baby hatcheries", in which all modern babies would be birthed out of test-tubes, instead of born out of their mothers' wombs (the only people left doing so, being described by the moderns as "savages").
In these hatcheries, different classes of workers (still
embryos in-vitro) are subjected to various levels of alcohol poisoning. This
causes the babies to be “born” with different levels of brain damage, and
different levels of limits upon their mental capacities. This dooms them to a
lifetime of social and economic immobility, lack of freedom, and inability to
produce or innovate anything that they have not been directly ordered to
produce.
We can see – judging by the problems experienced by adult children of
alcoholics, and the reduction in crime which followed the removal of lead from
gasoline – that Huxley’s “warning” about the future, might have actually been
intended as a prediction.
Sedation is not a solution. Medically unnecessary sedation is the problem.
Sedation makes us blind to our problems.
Sedation makes it harder to remember
what happened to us. Sedation makes it harder to move our mouths to explain
what we remember. “Atypical antipsychotics”, prescribed to treat depression and
other illnesses, often contain neuro-tranquilizing sedatives (Abilify is one
such example). [Note: I have written about this topic previously, in my March 2021 article "Abilify and Other [']Atypical Antipsychotics['] Are Overprescribed, Dangerous, and Increase Some Psychotic Symptoms". That article can be read at the following link:
http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/03/abilify-and-other-atypical.html]
When a depressed person is suffering from memory loss / amnesia,
or is concerned that they might have forgotten a past abusive or traumatic
event, should under no circumstances be given any sedatives that might
hinder their ability to recall and describe such events. To sedate a person who
is in such a situation, should really be considered suppressing evidence of a
crime (or even interfering with a criminal investigation), if there’s any
chance that the trauma they suffered was caused by an abuser intentionally.
Sedation is not good for you (unless you are prone to bouts of violence which cannot be explained by a previous intentional assault, in which case there are
many milder forms of sedation available, and criminal action would be more therapeutic than sedation).
There are ways to drink alcohol without becoming dependent upon it, and without
using too much. You can find Kombuchas that contain just one proof of naturally-occurring fermented alcohol.
Do you think you would want to drink as much alcohol as you do, if you were to
eat more fruit, drink more smoothies, and/or eat foods that have cooking sherry
or brandy in them? I bet you wouldn’t.
Similarly, would you drink or use drugs as much as you do, if nobody had ever
mistreated you or beaten you up or abused you? I doubt it. Would you abuse drugs - or gamble, or whatever your vice is - as much, if the person who hurt you the most, were in prison? Hell no.
So, then, why are we routinely distracting people from their original problems, and demanding that they get sedated?
Some people suspect that thimerosal and mercury in vaccines could be a major
contributing cause to autism. I don’t know if that’s the case. But I do think
we should be asking ourselves whether repeated injection could be a
cause of autism.
American children are given many more injections at young ages, compared to
American children fifty years ago, and children abroad. I remember taking an
allergy test at age eight; they pricked my back eighty times to test me
for eighty different things. My reaction gradually shifted from an honest “Ow!”
to an emotionally dead, robotic repetition of “Ow. …Ow. …Ow. …Ow.”, all
expected, and laden with inevitability and futility. I could feel my sensitivity to pain, and my positive regard for the people who allowed this to happen to me, leaving my body.
Forget about the chemicals for a second; we are desensitizing people to pain through
repeated needle penetration. Common characteristics associated with autism
include aversion to touch and self-stimulating behaviors. What better way to
cause fear of being touched by others, than stabbing someone with a needle
eighty times? What better way to cause a need to stimulate oneself, than
to expose someone to painful and unwanted contact with others? Maybe
some autistic symptoms are just natural reactions to exposing someone to repeated
painful unwanted unnecessary interactions with others.
Now let's think about what autism might have to do with sedation.
There are currently class action lawsuits underway, over whether acetaminophen (the active ingredient in Tylenol) could have a causal relationship to autism.
Those who defend acetaminophen say that it is not toxic, and that it is the night-time pain reliever which is most often prescribed to pregnant women. This, they say, suggests that acetaminophen is not harmful to the developing fetus.
Well I say "So what if Tylenol is the pain reliever most often prescribed to pregnant women? That fact alone doesn't make it harmless. We might as well be asking which intravenous narcotic street drug is considered the least harmful to pregnant women." Just because something is the least harmful in its class, doesn't mean it's harmless, and doesn't mean it's good for babies.
We should notice that a lot of the same people working for the federal health programs, who say that acetaminophen is safe - I'm talking about the Department of Health and Human Services under the Biden Administration - are the same people who consider Tylenol (and drugs similar to it) as so dangerous, that they were willing (in the 1980s and 1990s) to implement laws against drug possession in schools, which eventually enabled them to
strip-search teenage school girls if they suspected possession of drugs, whether it was hard drugs or ibuprofen. [Source:
http://www.aclu.org/press-releases/us-supreme-court-review-unconstitutional-strip-search-13-year-old-student-ibuprofen]
Now, ordering minors to remove clothing is an invasion of privacy which is impossible to justify, and it is an obvious example of legislative overreach. But that fact does not mean that minors' access to pain relievers should not be regulated or limited by
trustworthy adults. If Tylenol and acetaminophen are so safe, then why have teenagers chugged Tylenol in order to commit suicide? [Source:
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Suicidal-teens-turn-to-Tylenol-4712700.php]
Acetaminophen is dangerous. It suppresses the symptoms of cold and flu, but it does not actually cure those things. Colds and influenza are caused by different viruses, but the fact that they are viral diseases does not mean that they can't result in infections that will need to be treated with antibiotics. Severe colds and flus can result in infections of the ear, nose, throat, and lungs, which would be more effectively treated with the mucus thinner guaifenesin, antibiotics like Azithromycin, and/or injection of saline to relieve extreme dehydration, rather than with acetaminophen.
Acetaminophen sedates the body, providing it with adequate rest, which is therapeutic. I'm not disputing that rest helps the body, and is essential to recovery from colds and flus, buying the body time to recognize the virus and muster a defense against it. But rest can be achieved without sedation. Taking acetaminophen is unnecessary whenever the patient is able to get to sleep on his own.
Why sedate when you can medicate?
Sure, acetaminophen suppresses the inflammatory response. But isn't the inflammatory response part of the immune response? And isn't the immune response necessary for survival? Why are we suppressing the immune response? Are we trying to cause an immune deficiency? Why use acetaminophen to reduce inflammation, if more natural anti-inflammatories (such as ice, ginger, tomatoes, olive oil, leafy greens, fish, nuts, and fruits) might solve the problem by themselves? [Note: I am not talking about acute inflammation here, nor about burns by fire or chemicals; some cases of inflammation are extreme, and should be limited. But inflammation should not be stopped altogether.]
It would be great if we got to the bottom of this issue; whether acetaminophen causes autism. But we should also be asking whether acetaminophen can act as a sedative, contributing to short-circuiting of the nervous system, producing the same sorts of unpredictable bodily movements which, in the autistic person, are always described as "nervous tics" (or "flapping"). The same nervous tics or flapping, seen in a patient who has A.D.H.D. (Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder) will be described as symptoms of A.D.H.D..
That's why, when we observe symptoms commonly thought to be characteristic of autism or A.D.H.D., we should be very careful to consider whether some other illness (aside from autism, and bearing some degree of overlap in symptoms) might be the actual culprit instead.
There are alternatives to sedation, injection, ketamine, alcohol, heroin, antipsychotic neuro-tranquilizers, and acetaminophen.
The fact that our doctors want to end our suffering as quickly as possible, shouldn't have to mean that we allow them to kill us slowly, by administering sedatives that compromise our nervous systems' abilities to feel which of our organs are damaged and need repair. We don’t have to stay life-long drug addicts just because the medical-industrial
complex, Big Pharma and the violent administrative state have decided that being a drug addict is fine as long as a doctor gives you permission to be one.
If we are not careful to make sure that this trend does not continue, then someday soon, we will find that sedatives are the only officially endorsed “cures”
for what we are told ails us. Then, we will be forced to take “medications”
that are actually harming us, and the fact that we are laying down in one
particular hospital bed will be used to prevent us from seeking a second
opinion somewhere else.
We will be led to believe that the sedative is the only
thing that we need in order to survive. And we will die in our hospital beds,
our so-called "need" for sedation prioritized over our actual needs for water, food, exercise, vitamins,
sunlight, love, and human interaction.
Soon, refusing to allow harmful “medications” to be administered to our
children, will merit losing custody. You might think it’s unethical to refuse
to allow a child who has been diagnosed with cancer, to be treated with
radiation therapy. But think about this: What if they don’t have cancer?
What if a second opinion needs to be sought? What if they have a non-cancerous
disease that is commonly mistaken for cancer? Well, in that case, radiation
might not be good for them at all. Radiation might actually increase
their likelihood of developing cancer, if they did not already have it.
We are already seeing this in the transsexual community. For one, people who
receive genital surgeries are being given sedatives. Not that sedatives don’t
knock people out so that they don’t wake up from surgery. Not that sedatives
don’t help reduce the pain of surgery. We should be asking “are sedatives and
surgery really necessary, if a person can change their gender just by
changing their mind?”. And secondly, the state legislatures of Washington,
California, and Maryland have introduced bills which would allow the government
to take custody away from parents whom refuse to call their “transgender kids”
by their preferred pronouns or refuse to give permission that they receive “gender-affirming
care”.
They sedate us because they don't want us to be able to feel what they are doing to us.
You cannot solve old problems with new problems. New problems can only distract from the old ones. Solving problems requires
solutions; not more problems.
You have options.
Written and published on July 4th, 2023.
Edited and expanded on July 5th and 25th, 2023.
Originally published under the title "Against Sedation, Unnecessary Injections, and the Therapeutic Use of Ketamine"