tv Documentary RT May 20, 2013 12:29pm-1:01pm EDT
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right the guinea pig zero direct you know explain the title i write about the history of human experiments and news stories about sometimes abuses and things that go wrong in experiments or not only did you do the experiment but you're the investigative journalist as well within the industry you could say that a keeping them honest keeping them honest because they have to because the guinea pigs themselves can't do it anonymously that's all doped up. you know bill. there are all. going to have to sort of. if. there's a person who gets more work done with it they can further means. the scientific definition.
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this is a humane animal trap this is for a fairly small animal like a possum. or a cat a stray cat and i got it so that i could catch animals on the idea that i might eat them and i wanted to be ready to know how to get food get meat on the table because i had no money. over the age of forty five and that's the cutoff date for drug experiments when there's no money there's no money so you have to do something that doesn't cost anything. in my little world part of the complexity that i take a drug to help me continue my writing and research and i also have a lot of problems with the way the drug manufacturers go about their business and
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make from testing profits. my work helps to address some of the contradictions in my life it has a hailing effect on the world i think and some modest the greedy and they are all of how they produce my writing. the relationship is not complicated to me it just works this is the educated trial all the doctors that i was seeing do not stand out of my drugs and it's a good thing that i. am my own case manager. it's true. keeps me on me to this i can see all right now she would feel really strongly
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that she's doing the right thing because a lot of the medicines she takes have the side of what's. always mitigating sometimes but not dealing really directly with the problem the system. so it seems to me a lot of. i did get hospitalized for poly pharmacy all kinds of weird drugs for prescribe and i got very sick and had to be asked flies but that two weeks to detox and then they started me on a whole different part of the drugs i was watching it happen and sang to myself this doesn't seem right especially when one of her doctors refused to see her and yet he was still giving her psychotropic drugs but not monitoring arm with loop to which i was in the person that was that was wrong. that's funny pharmacy in that she. couldn't tolerate we're
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not hearing or maybe what do you think about. what i did on air actually this is not what i imagined i'd be doing when i was in the army. my first impression about prison was this looks like a concentration camp i don't know who i should be watching when i should be doing i should be conducting myself i don't know how i made it there very overwhelming for a nineteen and twenty year old kid or. to be. in charge of whether somebody that lives or dies. i would never. acts like i did i would read prison and normal life never ever the
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way it were using medicine there was to get out the prisoners and rate them down the side of treating people it was almost like we're punishing them for seeking treatment from us i mean when i'm ordered to give some a fourteen gauge needle. especially if they're not in a mass of trauma i know that that's not needed and i know that that's purely to inflict and and that was explicitly explained to me by the officer in charge as give these guys fourteen gauge needle so they won't want to be is in the morgue search so huge and they're so painful. years of the prisoners are crying and wailing and screaming that you and you know in the us. there's nothing to feel good about stick in fourteen years have been somebody for no good reason. like. take the one that's those people who are i'm sure there was other people who also felt same way as i did but. ghraib prison was not
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a place you spoke out against. i guess inside the practices there was or. when dan dad he didn't leave much of a suicide note he simply wrote i leave his experience smiling that's all he wrote you know doing it all over again i you know i don't know what i could've done differently i mean for heaven's sakes i didn't want him in the study it was not important at all how dan was chilling if it were important how he was doing that would have contacted me after we contacted them on good friday and said do we have to wait for him to kill himself and we did we had to wait for that
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i called the corner of the monday after he died i said i wanted to see him and i remember her kind of yelling at me and saying. don't you know how he died. and i his head well evidently i had to hope. and i didn't you know who. or when you find out your son kills himself you don't say what good do i know i didn't know. but it wasn't a normal suicide. he slit his throat so badly that the car nurse office said young mr capitated himself. and then she said probably because he wasn't dying fast enough that he.
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people in power. and the people with money. this includes these people who are on the margins including. human guinea pigs. and this is the history of that hasn't been told for that enough and there are a lot of stories that are important that haven't been brought to light and that haven't been explored. i think. i.
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mean the people that are in psychiatric distress can especially benefit from the acute use of psychiatric medications i don't think we need to question that but you also have this whole other part of society that is using slash abusing psychiatric medication and you can put the medical field in there too because they're the enablers in the ninety's if you told a family practice doctor in ten years you will write a ton of prescriptions every month for atypical antipsychotics he might laugh at you now primary care writing a typical for and on therapy for depression anger management old d d anxiety disorders they're just being used for everything the market is being saturated with them but most important by primary care that. i think that's the most important thing that pharma has figured out. i'm tracking a case about a psychiatrist who claims that a major part of her job now is detox she has patients who come in
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a cocktail of medications from one primary care doctor who thinks he's an expert on bipolar disorder she gets the patients she says they're on all the wrong medications they're not bipolar they're depressed and then her job is to titrate the patient off these medications and get him on perhaps one medication for depression this is a future of psychiatry you could think about which is psychiatry is detox psychiatry more and more they're dealing with the poly pharmacy generated by primary care and in this case they asked the question their primary care doctor is writing all these atypical anti-psychotics we have millions of people that are being prescribed psychiatric medications sometimes appropriate use but a large part of that population is being prescribed psychiatric medication where it may not be warranted or indicated. but it's and to me it.
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i think how the v.a. system is set up right now you don't have to be going to therapy to get the drugs prescribed the medication if you want therapy they filmed the entire session which is extremely uncomfortable and they have a set program for p.t.s.d. that just simply doesn't work there's really no continuity to your care because a lot of these guys are residents and you might see him once or twice and so they don't know what you've even been on half the time so they try to give you the same drugs that have already failed for you p.t.s.d. is not a new thing it's been around forever and i think they should be a little slower to just hear drugs say i hope these work for you send you out the door and then pursue even like alternate treatments that could work for people.
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my car. lot of people who do start is saying that right again. i mean i'm playing for that one chance that i might hit it big. just a money issue or i don't have the money or i. don't have enough. i . had a past that had no issues gambling or would not pay my bills that i shouldn't. but i didn't have any support from my parents and i wouldn't have any support from
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anywhere else basically dropped out there and to a world that. made a lot of mistakes when i lost the really good job was a bus driver for a while. had a snowball to not. make car payments. so eventually i ended up this news not a good time of my life. it's like one of those very things like once i. once you've experience homelessness you just never really get over it. that has been an issue you know us had rather go to vegas this way somebody just knowing that i can survive to the next mystery.
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have a sections of him some in here. just. part . of the what i. mean said he and. i mean. homes where it was a. name experience you know i was lost and that's where i first found this and i. saved my life that the cleveland just recently passed away guy reza so if he can't because all the corrupt things he does on help if he has been given is coming to me is want to get it you know this is that's it that's the
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way forgiveness is a law is the one you've got to get you know. i mean i feel hurt that he called her status to believe that those tears as was safe you see i feel hurt that he did it for the sake of money. a lot heals moves like you know. i do pray for kelly. i do pray over the medicine and so the kids doing its job. and i can get a brain with less and less. head
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some of these traditional chili lines they've been bred and developed and passed down from generation to. the total destruction of the culture of mexico by telling them i mean this this is not going to impact the swelling in mexico whatever happens here throughout the whole world i'll worry not about in the in the rope a in all boarding of so are. genetically engineered carbs why do you think this country is full of obese and sick people because we have a crappy food system. is
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