
THE DRUG DELUSION
The truth is that medical and drug practice is malpractice from start to finish and all the legal sanc-tity in the world cannot make it true and right. Drug Delusion An Outgrowth Of Popular Bad Habits - The falsehood about the messianic qualitites of drugs is based squarely upon the idea that our life habits have absolutely nothing to do with the suffering we endure from the demons of dis-ease. The falsehood that we can do as we like and be "forgiven" or "repaired" if the results are bad is responsible for the currency of the drug delusion. The deceivers are the foremost supporters of the victims in their bad habits. "Come into my Parlor," said the Spider to the Fly." So long as the habits of the victims of such teachings are in accord with the teachings of the deceivers, no considerations that involve truth and the happy life begotten of embracing it can hope to prevail. The att-empt to convince such victims of the incorrectness of their ways is to throw away muchtime and greatly misspent talent.
They have only the capability of making chemical combinations that interfere with or destroy vital body processes. All the actions are those of the living organism. If drugs acted in the human body they would act in dead people as well as living ones! It is the bowel that expels its contents and with it the poisonous laxative, for this is the avenue of expulsion the body selects for medicines called "laxatives." It is the body that musters the resources to vomit, and NOT the emetic given. Thus, no matter what the standing of those who ad-minister drugs, be it even a physician of the highest professional esteem, the organism abhors the drugs and initiates the actions of protection and expulsion. The actions of the body are mistaken for the actions of the POISON itself. A whole so-called science - that of pharmacology - has been erected upon the drug delusion. By changing the general name of drug substances and calling them "medicines," ictims' qualms are allayed and the pharmacologic and treating professions imagine that they are scientific. Large tomes are published setting forth the alleged actions of an armamentarium of medicines.
Feeling Better Quickly a Basis of the Delusion - It does not matter that the person taking a poison called medicine may feel better for it. Opium and marijuana users among other drug takers feel better. The coffee drinker feels better after coffee; the nervous woman feels better after her tea; the headache sufferer feels better after aspirin, the disturbed individual feels better after a tranquilizer, the weak individual feels warm after a drink of alcohol. All of this feeling of improvement is tot-ally and COMPLETELY illusory. Both the subject and the observers are deluded by such fictional improvements. But the physician who has studied poisons for much of his life should not be so easily deluded! Either the physician is a total ignoramus or he is a FRAUD. The physician should be well aware that the excitement occasioned by the administration of tonics and stimulants does not spring from a fountain of energy possessed by the stiulant or tonics imparted instantly to the user.
Every physician should know that the strength and energy exhibited upon taking tonics and stimul-ants represent a draft upon the reserves of the body, that, rather than giving energy and strength, the substances cause the body to summon its few remaining resources to EXPEL the offenders. App-earances can be deceptive if they are not understood. Every physician should know that the stupor, comas, and unconsciousness that he induces by the administration of hypnotic drugs is not really sleep at all but destruction of the powers and capacity of the body. Every physician should know that sedation is not rest and that tranquilization is NOT poise. Physicians should know that anodynes do not free patients of suffering but only render them incapable of sensing it.