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 what’s 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:

Painkiller Abuse Can Predispose Adolescents to Lifelong Addiction
Released: 9/10/2008 9:00 AM EDT
Source: Rockefeller University

Newswise — No child aspires to a lifetime of addiction. But their brains might. In new research to appear
online in the journal 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 the drug'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 directly compare 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 rewarding effects. These adolescent mice, when re-exposed to a
low dose of the drug as adults, also had significantly higher dopamine 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 a lifelong battle with opiate addiction if they re-exposed themselves to the drug as adults," says
Kreek. " The neurobiological changes 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 production of 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 those receptors than it really needs. If these receptors stick
around and the adolescent is re-exposed to the drug as an adult, the rush 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 and Vicodin 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 Services Administration 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 brains undergoing developmental change," says Kreek.
"These findings gives us a new perspective from which to develop better strategies 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 less
expensive 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:

OxyContin A Gateway For Young Users In Eastie


 By David Boeri
 Apr 12, 2010, 8:05 AM  UP

From OxyContin to Heroin

Wouldn’t do it,(heroin) that is, until their addiction to Oxyies became too expensive — which it
soon does when you’re running up a $500-a-day drug tab.

And said the young trafficker: “And, you know, who the hell can afford that? So that’s why
people turn to the cheaper alternative: heroin.”

And here’s where the gateway typically opens from OxyContin to heroin. It’s what happened for
Katelyn.

“I could buy a bag of heroin for $50 and it would last me two days. So, it was just economically
the 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 price
of Oxy-80s, it’s like hitting a clearance sale. The initial stigma of doing heroin is so much road
dust in the rear view mirror.

At first, Katelyn was just sniffing heroin, like she’d sniffed the crushed up OxyContins.

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

The athletic trafficker remembers the moment vividly.

“I said I’m trying it,” he said. “My friends were like, ‘Wow, man, I don’t know. We said we’d
never do that.’ And I’m like, ‘I’ll 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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