Posted by Lou Pilder on February 16, 2005, at 8:32:04
In reply to Re: Please list strategies for successful withdrawal: » dancingstar, posted by dancingstar on February 15, 2005, at 23:37:13
dancingstar,
You wrote,[...unanswerd questions...why should we have to go through this... why ...a board like this...why...doctors prescribe drugs that cause...damage...to... body mind and spirit?...].
You question as to the above is "why". The answere could be in some respects in the history of psychiatry and the use and the manufacturing of mind-altering drugs.
There is an historical record 5000 years ago in Sumaria where opium was used by the Sumarians. There is also Oriental historical records. The Sumarians were easily conquered. Then inhalants were used by the Greeks and other psychotropic drugs from plants and floweres were found to have a psychoactive or hallucinogenic effect. These drugs were used to alter the mind and there were people then called pharmakapiens (sp) that made the drugs and marketed them. Hirered killers used hemp resins, called hashheesh and they killed for a living. They were called hasheeshans, which later became the word,'assassins". The Greeks that used drugs for mind-altering were called "sorcerers" which in Greek is pharmicpians. Our word,"pharmacy" goes back to that.
more,
Lou
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