By Rashed Mian on August 11th, 2011

Sharon Sieckouski paused several times to compose herself while telling the story of how she lost her son Jonathan to a heroin overdose nearly three years ago.

“He started in high school, experimenting with drugs and before we knew it, it was so out of control,” said the 52-year-old Massapequa woman. He went to rehab but relapsed a year later.

“Heroin took his life away,” she said. He would have been 25 next Tuesday.

She and three other parents shared similar stories Wednesday during an emotional press conference at South Oaks Hospital in Amityville where a local lawmaker announced they would form a new Heroin and Prescription Drug Abuse Relief Task Force.

Assemb. Joseph Saladino (R-Massapequa) said the panel will include parents, law enforcement and health professionals who will work together to help come up with solutions to stem the drug epidemic that has gripped Long Island.

“We need the help of parents,” Saladino said, “with the guidance of the counseling and rehabilitation community to make sure that are kids get this very important message.”

Saladino—who recently introduced a bill that would require parents of high school students to give their children an annual drug test—said he wants to empower parents, and not “intrude upon” children.

“We must have that conversation,” he said, “to let them know how incredibly dangerous experimenting with heroin and prescription drugs can be.”

Holding a picture of her son Timothy in a graduation cap and gown was Teri Kroll of Copiague, who lost her son two years ago this month.

“I was with him when he took his last breath,” she said, “I was with him when he took his first breath. I miss him like hell.”

Timothy became chemically dependent upon prescription painkillers that were first prescribed to him by Dr. Saji Francis, who was jailed for six months last year after being convicted of illegally selling prescriptions.

Teri Kroll holding a picture of her son Timothy

In four months her son was “totally addicted,” she said. He switched to heroin after prescription drugs were no longer available to him.

Joining the two mothers was Bob LaGrega of Melville, whose daughter Brittany died eight months ago after an overdose.

“We just couldn’t stop it,” he said.

LaGrega said his daughter was a “happy go lucky” girl who loved the water. Sitting at a table adjacent to the podium, LaGrega clenched a photograph of his daughter, who was wearing her Cold Spring Harbor high school Crew team uniform, smiling and holding a red, white and blue paddle.

“She was unbelievable,” he said, of Brittany who started playing at 16, and died six years later.

Experts said the best way parents can combat substance abuse is by talking to children about the dangerous effects of drugs—especially this time of year, before school starts.

A “protective factor can be something as simple as having dinner together every night,” said Dr. Kristie Golden, vice president of Ambulatory Services at South Oaks Hospital.

Jeffrey Reynolds, executive director of Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, said he hopes the panel helps find answer as to why there isn’t enough detox and rehab beds on LI, as well as difficulties dealing with insurance companies.

“We’re not the first parents to lose our children to drug addiction,” said Kroll. “But we really, really would like to be among the last.”

I cannot articulate in words… how your child’s future is intentionally being destroyed. I mean really? How easy is it to control a bunch of people that can’t control themselves. The question isn’t whether or not government agencies like the CIA are transporting heroin and other drugs into the United States. Then overseeing and supervising  the distribution into our neighborhoods. The question is… “Why?” Well parents… Here is your answer.

Fast Forward to 5:40

“We simply brought the drugs out of the contra camps, into designated areas in Honduras. They were then transferred into military and civilian aircraft and brought into the United States, dispersed to our children around the United States.”

- Chip Tatum (Former CIA Black Ops Agent)
*His body was later found off the coast of Panama, he had been tortured and murdered. His entire face removed.

For more information on what’s really going on with the “Drug War” Watch these Documentaries.

American Drug War: The Last White Hope

Invisible Empire A New World Order Defined

Other:
Top Mexican Drug Lord: I Trafficked Cocaine For The U.S. Government

A child recieving a vaccination.

A storm is coming… and parents everywhere are being suckered in once again. You probably haven’t heard about the new vaccines the establishment is pushing. Vaccines for stress and vaccines for addiction! If you haven’t heard about them you soon will. And your children are the intentional cause and effect.

Addiction is a disease, and society seems to be moving towards a better understanding of how addiction works. Public opinion has a big role to play in dictating the way addiction is treated. For example in 2008 Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a move to make permanent the country’s program to give addicts government-authorized heroin. It has been credited with reducing crime and improving the health and daily lives of addicts since it began in 1994. It is the ultimate harm reduction approach,  I don’t totally agree with the fundamentals of it as it eliminates most of the incentives for an addict to get clean. Nevertheless finding a solution to the problem is a process and society should be open for anything… except in believing that a total and instant “cure” for addiction is possible. Even more so through the use of dangerous and unknown vaccines.

To some of you reading, these types of skeptical views may be considered a “conspiracy theory” of sorts. But vaccines which alter brain chemistry and induce states of “focused calm” could be abused by governments to create lobotomized, servile populations. And on top of that major mental health professionals are already pushing for lithium to be introduced into water supplies as a means of mass medicating against “mood disorders”. New vaccines designed to reduce stress and neutralize people’s anger could lead to a nightmare THX 1138 scenario, in which the population is controlled and subjugated through the use of special drugs to suppress emotion. Say what you will about that, I encourage you all to have your own opinions. Always! Always!, be skeptical and think for yourself. When I post a story on here I always add my own personal opinions to the article, and the line is clear which parts of my posts are fact and which parts are more opinion.

But at the end of the day, would you really give a child or even an adult a vaccine that permanently alters their brain chemistry!? And the goal in giving this to children is to prevent an addiction that they MAY OR MAY NOT have when they get older! I mean what are we talking about here. I wish what I was saying was some random myth that was going around the internet. But as you’ll see from the video below and the links in this article, this agenda is very much real and the media, government, and other organizations are selling it to the American People.

In the video, Jones makes the point that vaccines being proposed by people like Robert Sapolsky to impose a state of “focused calm” by altering brain chemistry, as well as shots aimed at curbing drug and cigarette addictions, fit the very definition of being “brain eating” because they fundamentally rewire the brain and shut down innate processes that naturally produce stress, anxiety and aggression – which are all necessary human traits vital to survival and healthy mental functioning.

Now I know from my own personal experience the effect that addiction has on families. And I know a lot of you out there would do just about anything for it to be over and done with. But unfortunately as you well know this is a life long battle for not only the addict, but family and friends as well. That is why this type of “solution” is so dangerous. Is it worth the risk? There are a lot of people out there that have lost everything… they have nothing to lose. Those will be the first guinea pigs to line up and take this vaccine, I just hope my concerns are unfounded.

Many vaccines today contain the preservative thimerosol, a compound derived from mercury. Mercury is a well known potent neurotoxin and causes neurodegeneration, altering the very structure of the brain. The U.S. government has been forced to admit that childhood vaccines preserved with thimerosol have contributed to the explosion in autism cases in the United States.

And before they can even fix that problem they want to introduce new vaccines for addiction? Thankfully and increasingly more and more people are becoming skeptical towards these types of ideas. This clip from the movie “Equilibrium” (2002) is an example of what kind of society we would have if the population was subjected to this kind of tyranny.

The Basketball Diaries

The other day I watched, for the first time “The Basketball Diaries” (1995). The movie is based off the autobiographical book of the same name by Jim Carroll. It stars a young Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg. The movie is very intense, and after finishing the movie I realized something… It’s the same story over and over again since the beginning of time when the poppy was first cultivated. Generation after generation. Although the civilizations of the past have had many different cultures, we share the same effects of substance abuse. The movie takes place in the 90’s although the true story took place in the 60’s.

The things Jim Carrol wrote about when he was using are the exact same things that go through the head of every addict as their disease progresses. When this movie came out I was 6 years old, and when the true story happened I wasn’t going to be born for another 25 years or so.

Opiate addiction is like a virus, it spreads from one person to another and destroys everything it comes in contact with. It leaves it’s victims in the shadows where nobody can see them, only the effect it has on the community can be seen. It enters your brain and changes it’s delicate chemistry into mush. I remember when we were younger, we would learn about the dangerous effects of drugs in school, and there’s always a kid in the class that asks. “Why do people start doing them in the first place?” and the teacher would always say something like “It’s complicated” or “We don’t really know”. Almost like drug addicts were foreign men from an alien planet that come and visit once and awhile. Now I know why… it really can be summed up with, coping issues and curiosity. Even if nobody knows exactly who I am, I don’t like being the guy who did drugs and blogs about it now. But at least I’m not that other guy that “visits once and awhile”.

Basketball Diaries Quotes:

“First, it’s a Saturday night thing, you feel cool like a gangster or a rockstar- just something to kill the boredom, you know? They call it a chippie, a small habit. It feels so good, you start doing it on Tuesdays… then Thursdays… then it’s got you. Every wise a** punk on the block says it won’t happen to them, but it does.”

“And you want to stop.. you really do.. but its like a dream.. and you cant stop dreams..”

“Your nose is running.. your legs are cramped… but there’s always a voice in the back of your head saying just one more time and then I’ll quit.”

“Know this: there’s different types of users of junk. You got your rich, dilettante square a** who dabbles now and then, but always has enough money to run off to the Riviera if he feels he’s f****’ around to the danger point. Street junkies hate these p****. But they’re always suckers and their money makes them tolerable. Then you got your upper-middle class Westchester preppies. Same as the others basically, but what they’re good for is opening their mommy and daddy’s eyes to the social virus, and putting pressure on the government to do something about it. Then there’s us street kids. Start f****’ around very young…13 or so. Think we all got it under control…won’t get strung out. This rarely works. I’m living proof. But in the end, you’ve just gotta see the junk as another 9-5 gig, the hours are just a bit more inclined to shadows. “

Here we have a clip from the movie. Does this look familiar?

Troops assisted in over 2,000 arrests last year alone as America sinks into total martial law.

It has emerged that the New York National Guard is assisting in the arrests of thousands of American citizens as part of the “drug war,” while at the same time the U.S. government itself orders troops in Afghanistan to guard the poppy fields as heroin floods American streets, in yet another shining example of how the United States is under a state of de facto martial law.

Yesterday the New York National Guard worked with local law enforcement authorities to perform sophisticated scans on vehicles entering the New York area looking for guns and drugs, a program celebrated by local new station Fox 23, who today ran a part two on the Guard’s activities in the region.

“The New York National Guard assisted in more than 2,000 arrests last year, and had almost $150 million in drug, property, and weapon seizures,” states the report.

The entire justification behind the use of National Guard units in scanning vehicles, making arrests, and going into schools to brainwash kids into thinking its normal to have men in military fatigues toting machine guns walking around American streets providing “security” is that they are keeping drugs off the streets.

But while military assets are being used to track down pot-smoking teenagers in New York, the U.S. government itself is ordering troops in Afghanistan to guard the poppy fields, allowing tons of heroin to flood onto American streets. Opium production has exploded since the invasion of Afghanistan, as the CIA regains control of a much cherished source for its global narcotics trafficking operations.

Gary Webb’s Dark Alliance and other revelations from the Iran-Contra Affair, Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia and beyond all point to the sad fact that those in power in the United States, including the CIA, have driven the drug trade, not slowed or stopped it.

Indeed, in September 2008 it emerged that a Gulfstream II private jet that crash-landed in eastern Mexico carrying 3.3 tons of cocaine had previously been used for CIA “rendition” flights.

The use of National Guard units in arresting American citizens and patrolling the streets is part of the acclimation process to make Americans accept the sight of military assets engaging in domestic law enforcement as a routine occurrence. In rolling out this program under the pretext of the war on drugs, authorities are attempting to perform a slick end run around Posse Comitatus, which would normally make it illegal for the military to conduct such operations.

In the past, scenes of troops ordering citizens around were widely denounced as being characteristic of an authoritarian, backward, dictatorial country under a state of martial law. America was seen as the leading light of the world because its people were free from this tyranny. Now that American is under a de facto state of martial law, such scenes are becoming commonplace.

The fact that many of these Guard troops are returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, where they are part of an occupying force trained to round up and detain the host population in prison camps for the most minor of infractions is also a shocking facet to this story.

If we accept the seamless integration of troops into law enforcement then America as the “land of the free” will cease to exist for good, to be replaced by an oppressive Sovietized police state with an overlay of 21st century technology designed to monitor and control our every movement. This is only made more alarming by the fact that the National Guard are now training with foreign troops to take on American “terrorists” as part of this integration process.

Kayla Gerdes is brought out of Nassau County police headquarters to be arraigned on Wednesday in Mineola.

The Aftermath. (WCBS)

The Suburban teen accused of jumping a curb and running down a 69-year-old women in her front yard last month would have been in rehab had her insurance company not kicked her out. According to police, Kayla Gerdes was high on oxycontin while driving the van, on her way to court. She was due in court to face a grand larceny charge. the 18-year-old from Freeport, N.Y. was kicked out of her mother’s home after stealing her jewelry to support a drug habit.  Don’t get me wrong… The girl needs to be held accountable for her actions, but I can say from my own experiences with the insurance giants, they are not innocent in this. Of course they couldn’t foresee this disaster… but they are constantly giving people the short end of the stick and this time an innocent women was killed. Kayla Gerdes was obviously very sick and in need of help, as much as I can’t stand spoiled, out-of-control, narcissistic, teenage girls. I can’t help but feel bad for her when shes pleading to be left alone.

Eighteen-year-old Kayla Gerdes became emotional when she was held on $200,000 dollars bail after pleading not guilty to the vehicular homicide of a 69-year-old woman.

The Victim: Rebecca Twine, 69

Police say 18-year-old Kayla Gerdes has no driver’s license and was speeding when she lost control of the van on Cathedral Avenue and killed 69-year-old Rebecca Twine Wright. And what happened as Gerdes was taken from court Wednesday left seasoned members of the working press at a loss for words. Gerdes offered a dramatic confession and apology.

Police claim the teen was in a hurry and her boyfriend was driving too slowly, so she took matters into her own hands. Gerdes leapt behind the wheel of her boyfriend’s construction van without a license, and careened out of control, killing respected zoologist Rebecca Twine-Wright, ultimately slamming the vehicle onto the front porch and into the living room, reports WCBS.

THE kids weren’t all right. They lived in the same comfortable Long Island town and were barely in their teens when they took their first hit of marijuana or sip of alcohol, propelling them on dark journeys they couldn’t seem to escape. Within a couple of years, they were in heroin’s grip.

A 19-year-old former heroin addict on Long Island. | Photo: Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times

“My parents had no idea,” said one of them, a 17-year-old girl who, like other formerly addicted youths interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of her past drug use. “My mom thought I was smoking a lot of weed and taking diet pills, because who would’ve thought that such a bad drug could be so easily accessible to me?”

The girl grew up in western Suffolk County, in a town where, she said, “everything is perfect,” with white picket fences and two cars in each driveway; for her birthday last October, she received a black Jeep, and she went to a wealthy, high-performing public school. “Growing up, everything is pushed on you,” she said. “You’re trying to be the smartest, trying to compete with everyone.”

Heroin, she said, was an escape. The girl said that she had not used drugs since entering rehabilitation in January, but that many of her former friends were still hooked on heroin, and at least two had fatally overdosed.

They are part of a new wave of heroin abuse that officials across the New York region are grappling to understand. During the first six months of 2009, 25 people in Nassau County died of heroin overdoses — more than from homicide and drunken driving combined; in 2008, 46 people fatally overdosed on heroin, up from 27 in 2007, according to Nassau officials.

In New York City, recent drug raids of so-called heroin mills have yielded hundreds of thousands of bags at a time, up from several hundred bags a year ago, according to Bridget G. Brennan, the city’s special narcotics prosecutor. What is especially worrisome to law enforcement officials and treatment experts is the fact that many of heroin’s newest addicts are in their teens or early 20s; many also come from middle- or upper-middle-class suburban families.

At Blue Hills Substance Abuse Services, a treatment center at Cedarcrest Regional Hospital in Hartford, about 10 percent of young adults had cited heroin addiction during admission in recent years; this year, it’s closer to 30 percent. At the Mendham site of Daytop New Jersey, an adolescent substance abuse center, the portion of teenagers entering treatment for heroin addiction has doubled to 40 percent in the past year.

“The problem is the kids are using younger and younger,” said Howard Riesel, coordinator of the adolescent-services unit at Glen Cove Hospital on Long Island. “It’s cheap. It’s accessible.”

Experts trace the spike in heroin use to its widespread availability and low cost. A bag of heroin can sell for $5 to $25 and induce a six- to eight-hour high, according to officials and former users. Cocaine, by comparison, can cost $40 to $60 for a 30-minute high, while prescription painkillers like Vicodin or OxyContin sell for upward of $40 a pill on the street.

“It’s becoming cooler,” said Dr. Carlos Hernandez-Avila, a medical director at Blue Hills.

Long Island residents were brutally awakened to the heroin problem in June 2008, when Natalie Ciappa, 18, an honors student from Massapequa, fatally overdosed. Suffolk and Nassau Counties passed laws in her name to build Web sites tracking heroin arrests. The Nassau County executive, Thomas R. Suozzi, put together heroin summits to raise awareness, and last week police in Suffolk county began making anti-heroin presentations to eighth graders, an initiative that will soon extend to other grades.

Still, in the past eight years, the number of young people entering the county’s detoxification centers and withdrawal programs has mushroomed. In 2000, 59 people ages 19 to 25 entered Nassau’s detoxification and rehabilitation centers for heroin abuse, according to Arlene Sanchez, the county’s commissioner of mental health, chemical dependency and developmental disabilities services. In 2008, 458 did.

Jonathan, 19, a former addict who attended Mr. Riesel’s program on Long Island, said he took his first puff of marijuana at 13, and it made him feel gloriously liberated from the awkward, chunky boy he had been. Within two months, he was popping Vicodin pills, dextromethorphan (a cough medicine that can have psychedelic effects) and, eventually, Xanax and OxyContin. He made much older friends, began selling drugs and prided himself on his high drug intake.

“People almost gave me praise for it,” Jonathan said. He said he tried heroin shortly after he turned 15, while high on Ecstasy and cocaine. It blew him away.

“It hits you so hard, but it’s so smooth and enticing at the same time,” he said. “It hits you like a train of false love.”

The heroin available in the Northeast these days is purer than the kind that ravaged New York City in the 1970s, experts say, and almost certainly as lethal, if not more. Dealers often mark the bags with words like “Red Bull,” “Lexus,” “Kiss of Death” and “R.I.P.,” or a skull and crossbones.

“It’s part of the attraction of the drug, to get so close to dying but come back,” Ms. Brennan said. “The results can be tragic.”

One of Jonathan’s friends, a 21-year-old former addict from Long Island named Brian, said heroin was cheaper, and often more available, than marijuana or ecstasy.

“Believe it or not, as a high school teenager, it was easier for us to get than alcohol,” he said. “It’s cheaper than anything out there.”

The 17-year-old girl from western Suffolk said she moved to heroin after she could no longer support her two-pill-a-day OxyContin habit, which she had financed by stealing from her parents. Her first drive in her new black Jeep was to a heroin dealer. She grew thin and listless, stopped showering and began sleeping at all hours, but said that her parents did not suspect the worst.

“Parents are working hard out here and giving their kids all this stuff, and still kids are getting hooked,” she said. “I think parents put a blinder over their faces.”

Another friend of Jonathan’s, a high-achieving student named Alex, passed under the radar until he was arrested for possession at 16. “I had a 98 percent average,” he said. “I was in honor societies. I was a peer mediator.” Now 20 and in college, Alex said he had been drug- and alcohol-free for two and a half years.

For all four former addicts, it took being arrested, often several times and nearly always for drug-related offenses like stealing or possession, before their addictions came to light.

All four said they also witnessed friends overdosing, sometimes fatally, or had overdosed themselves. Brian knew young people who gave unconscious friends CPR until the ambulance arrived. Last October, Jonathan overdosed and was shocked back to life by defibrillator paddles in a hospital emergency room. The first thing he did after waking up, he said, was reach into his pants’ pocket to locate his drugs.

He eventually got clean, earlier this year, after spending time at St. Christopher’s Inn, a friary, rehabilitation center and homeless shelter in Garrison, N.Y. He is healthy now and stands tall in his 6-foot-1 frame.

When local officials began focusing on heroin last year, Jonathan said his friends all had the same thought.

“This has been a problem for a while,” he said. “We all wondered, ‘Where have you been?’ ”

Roxane Pharmaceuticals has just released a new generic for Subutex, It is a much cheaper alternative to the expensive brand name. It comes in 8mg and 2mg like the brand name. Despite the rumors and fears it DOES NOT contain talc as an inactive filler, actually the formula is almost identical to the brand name, The possibility of it containing Talc like it’s UK counterpart caused quite a stir on the internet and with doctors everywhere.

New Generic Subutex from Roxane Pharmaceuticals (2 8mg pills)

To catch you up on what happened with the Talc scare, before the generic was even approved by the FDA, doctors got together and petitioned it because “Talc” could be used as a filler. Reckitt Benkiser (Brand Name) also sent the FDA a citizen petition in hopes of holding up approval, in the petition the main concern they held as reason to hold up the generic was:

“The concern is the presents of talc, a binding agent used instead of the more expensive cornstarch process used by the branded product. Their concern is that when misused by injection or inhalation the talc which is a mineral and not biodegradable, like cornstarch, can cause severe complications and in some cases death.”  .. Read the Full Petition Here

The FDA denied this petition:

Here’s some of the FDA’s response to the petition.

“Subutex and Suboxone have combined labeling, as they are intended to be used in sequence by patients. The labeling of Subutex and Suboxone instructs prescribers to initiate treatment with supervised administration . The labeling makes clear that Subutex, which does not contain naloxone, should be limited to supervised use wherever possible As patients progress, Suboxone is intended to be prescribed for take-home use in appropriately limited quantities .” ..Read the Full Response Here

Unfortunately this is not true, many people are prescribed a months supply of Subutex to take home. If this pill contained Talc and someone decided to abuse it, or any other prescription drug containing talc, by crushing it up and then “snorting”, “shooting”, or “smoking” it, they are at risk of getting “Pulmonary Talcosis”. Which is an incurable disease that will destroy that persons quality of life. Talcosis usually occurs when small Talc particles enter the bloodstream at a much greater particle diameter then would be from regular inhalation. Only particles lower than 10um will actually make it to the lungs when inhaled through the air during our everyday lives. Short-term exposure to talc in the air is not as dangerous for this reason. But when these big particles enter the blood from an IV, they get trapped in the lungs. Talc particles are very similar to asbestos and cause a very similar diseases. Which is why it is unsafe to use Talc in prescription drugs, even more so for drugs that are made for people with substance abuse history. If the intent is to discourage people from abusing the pharmaceutical, i got 3 words for you… “Harm Reduction Approach”. Nobody should have to suffer for the rest of their life because they snorted a pill. Not to mention the majority of people that abuse these drugs wouldn’t be the wiser of it’s inactive ingredients. They wouldn’t even know what talc is. Reckitt Benkiser, the manufacturer or the brand name Suboxone/Subutex had a simple solution… Nalaxone. Which discourages everyone from abusing Suboxone due to it’s ability to precipitate instant withdrawals.  I don’t understand how mainly the drugs that are classified as narcotics, and have the potential to be abused… are the ones with Talc. I could understand if it was in a hormone pill or in birth control or antihistamine’s … who would want to snort/IV those? The reason Talc is usually used in generics is because it is much cheaper than the safer, biodegradable, cornstarch alternative. At what cost? Sometimes I really think they are just trying to kill us off.

So as you might imagine this revelation caused a big uproar on drug addict forums everywhere. Then posts started appearing claiming that there was a mistake:

“You’re right about the Roxane product not containing talc. According to their information it contains cornstarch as the binder just like the branded medication. I think when the doctors objected to the use of talc in their FDA petition, they referenced a generic formulation used overseas and not knowing the Roxane formulation at that time, feared it might be used here as well, but so far that’s not the case.”

“Even though the FDA did not mandate the “no talc” clause for generic Subutex, they knew that either way their medication will be abused. So Roxane chose not to put it in their preparation of Subutex; it is being socially responsible. Just like when Purdue took the 160mg OC off of the market. Too many opiate nieve folks were dying because they took something they did not have the tolerance to take.”

So now we know that Roxane Laboratories took it upon themselves to play it safe at potentially, the cost of profit. This surely will be rewarded by the consumers and community.

More Information about the Subutex Generic:

Roxane Subutex Info

Bioequiclancy

FDA Info

More Information about Talcosis in drug addicts:

Occupational Health guideline for Talc (Non-Asbestos Form)

Successful lung transplantation for talcosis secondary to intravenous abuse of oral drug

Talcosis of Unusually Rapid Development

Talcosis in HIV-positive Drug Addict

A 44-yr-old male with progressive dyspnoea and dry cough

Foreign body granulomatosis in intravenous drug addicts in Hong Kong

Talc: Understanding it’s Manifestations in the Chest

More on Talc:

Talc, is a mineral composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, it is used in many industries such as paper making, plastic, paint and coatings, rubber, food, electric cable, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, ceramics, etc. It is known to be used in some forms of Ridilin, Methedone and various other pharmaceuticals and is VERY dangerous. Talc Processing eliminates a number of trace minerals from the talc, but does not separate minute fibers which are very similar to asbestos. Talc particles have been shown to cause tumors in the ovaries and lungs of cancer victims. For the last 30 years, scientists have closely scrutinized talc particles and found dangerous similarities to asbestos. Responding to this evidence in 1973, the FDA drafted a resolution that would limit the amount of asbestos-like fibers in cosmetic grade talc. However, no ruling has ever been made and today, cosmetic grade talc remains non-regulated by the federal government. This inaction ignores a 1993 National Toxicology Program report which found that cosmetic grade talc, without any asbestos-like fibers, caused tumors in animal subjects. Clearly with or without asbestos-like fibers, cosmetic grade talcum powder is a carcinogen.

Talc particles cause tumors in human ovaries and lungs. Numerous studies have shown a strong link between frequent use of talc in the female genital area and ovarian cancer. Talc particles are able to move through the reproductive system and become imbedded in the lining of the ovary. Researchers have found talc particles in ovarian tumors and have found that women with ovarian cancer have used talcum powder in their genital area more frequently than healthy women.

Talc poses a health risk when exposed to the lungs. Talc miners have shown higher rates of lung cancer and other respiratory illnesses from exposure to industrial grade talc, which contains dangerous silica and asbestos. The common household hazard posed by talc is inhalation of baby powder by infants. Since the early 1980s, records show that several thousand infants each year have died or become seriously ill following accidental inhalation of baby powder.

Several studies have established preliminary links between talc and pulmonary issues, lung cancer, skin cancer and ovarian cancer. This is a major concern considering talc’s widespread commercial and household use. In 1993, a US National Toxicology Program report found that cosmetic grade talc caused tumours in rats (animal testing) forced to inhale talc for 6 hours a day, five days a week over at least 113 weeks, even though it contained no asbestos-like fibres. Scientists have been aware of the toxicity of talc since the late 1960s, and in 1971 researchers found particles of talc embedded in 75% of the ovarian tumors studied. However, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers non-asbestiform talc, that is, talc which does not contain potentially carcinogenic asbestiform amphibole fibers, to be generally recognized as safe (GRAS) for use in cosmetics.

ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE:

1. Do not buy or use products containing talc. It is especially important that women not apply talc to underwear or sanitary pads.

2. Contact your pediatrician and/or local hospital and find out if they have a policy regarding talc use and infants.

3. Write to the FDA and express your concern that a proven carcinogen has remained unregulated while millions of people are unknowingly exposed.

Just got done watching GenerationRX, an amazing documentary that affirmed my lifelong beliefs and brought tears to my eyes. And we wonder why an entire generation of leaders are addicted to drugs.

“Everyone should see this Movie!”

Watch the trailer here:

What the F*!% are we doing to our children! They don’t have a chance.