America the Ignorant- 2 the Chains of Bondage

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America the Ignorant The Fall of the

American Republic

How Big Media, Big Finance and Big Pharmaceutical Are Killing America

A Call to Arms by Philip Katz the Author of Imperator

Knowledge is Power. Contact Your Congressmen.

So whats the big deal?

The silence is deafening. Media outlets decry the folly of those not aligned with their own

dogmatic doctrine with annoying mouthpieces like; Glen Beck of Fox News and Al Franken (the

lame comedian turned inept US Senator) of Air America fame, spewing their myopic blather.

They fill the web and poison public discourse with noise and disinformation that diverts the

attention of a Great Nation from the most pressing issue of the day, The selling of America.

Part 1 Chemical Slavery Continued

The Chains of Bondage: The Science behind Addiction in Adolescents.

The closer at the problem one looks the worse it gets:


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Newswise No child aspires to a lifetime of addiction. But their brains might. In new research to appear online in thejournal Neuropsychopharmacology this week, Rockefeller University researchers reveal that adolescent brains exposed to

the painkiller Oxycontin can sustain lifelong and permanent changes in their reward system " changes that increase thedrug's euphoric properties and make such adolescents more vulnerable to the drug's effects later in adulthood.

The research, led by Mary Jeanne Kreek, head of the Laboratory of the Biology of Addictive Diseases, is the first to directlycompare levels of the chemical dopamine in adolescent and adult mice in response to increasing doses of the painkiller.Kreek, first author Yong Zhang, a research associate in the lab, and their colleagues found that adolescent mice self-administered Oxycontin less frequently than adults, suggesting that adolescents were more sensitive to its rewardingeffects. These adolescent mice, when re-exposed to a low dose of the drug as adults, also had significantly higherdopamine levels in the brain's reward center compared to adult mice newly exposed to the drug.

"Together, these results suggest that adolescents who abuse prescription pain killers may be tuning their brain to alifelong battle with opiate addiction if they re-exposed themselves to the drug as adults," says Kreek. " The neurobiologicalchanges seem to sensitize the brain to the drug's powerfully rewarding properties."

During adolescence, the brain undergoes marked changes. For example, the brain's reward pathway increases productionof dopamine receptors until mid-adolescence and then either production declines or numbers of receptors decline. By

abusing Oxycontin during this developmental period, adolescents may inadvertently trick the brain to keep more of thosereceptors than it really needs. If these receptors stick around and the adolescent is re-exposed to the drug as an adult, therush of euphoria may be more addictive than the feeling experienced by adults who had never before tried the drug.

In contrast to illicit drug use among adolescents, the problem of nonmedical use of painkillers such as Oxycontin andVicodin has escalated in recent years, with the onset of abuse occurring most frequently in adolescents and young adults.Recent studies by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health ServicesAdministration have shown that 11 percent of persons 12 years old or older have used a prescription opiate illicitly."Despite the early use of these drugs in young people, little is known about how they differentially affect adolescent brainsundergoing developmental change," says Kreek. "These findings gives us a new perspective from which to develop betterstrategies for prevention and therapy."

This research was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

In a nut shell, based on the science, the earlier the drug companies get their tentacles into your

kid, the more likely it is that your child will be hooked on opiates for life.

Oxycontin the Gateway Drug

There is a flood of anecdotal evidence indicating that exposure to the prescription drugs leads to

wider opiate abuse.

In addition to the 80 plus tons of Oxycodone dumped on Americans this year there are unknown

hundreds or thousands of tons of illicit heroin flooding our cities and small towns. This lessexpensive alternative becomes an option to an addict trying to support an Oxycontin habit of

hundreds of dollars per day when before their addiction they never would have considered using

heroin but found Prescription Drugs, such as Oxycontin and now Percocet 30, acceptable.

From an NPR report From Boston:


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OxyContin A Gateway For Young Users In Eastie

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From OxyContin to Heroin

Wouldnt do it,(heroin) that is, until their addiction to Oxyies became too expensive which itsoon does when youre running up a $500-a-day drug tab.

And said the young trafficker: And, you know, who the hell can afford that? So thats whypeople turn to the cheaper alternative: heroin.

And heres where the gateway typically opens from OxyContin to heroin. Its what happened forKatelyn.

I could buy a bag of heroin for $50 and it would last me two days. So, it was just economicallythe smarter thing to do, Katelyn said, with a laugh at how mad it all was.

When you can get heroin for about the about the price of a pack of cigarettes, after the high priceof Oxy-80s, its like hitting a clearance sale. The initial stigma of doing heroin is so much roaddust in the rear view mirror.

At first, Katelyn was just sniffing heroin, like shed sniffed the crushed up OxyContins.

In the typical pattern, users graduate from inhaling heroin to injecting it into their veins, wantingan even faster rush.

The athletic trafficker remembers the moment vividly.

I said Im trying it, he said. My friends were like, Wow, man, I dont know. We said wednever do that. And Im like, Ill go first, (expletive) it. And I loved it. It felt awesome.

But, you know, adds the athlete, it was the disease just sneaking up.

More to come.

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