and started a new business dedicated to helping drug companies get f.d.a. approval for their drugs but he was not alone at the intersection of public service and personal profit i do not find from the evidence today that there is credible evidence to support a conclusion that an ide to present drugs cause the emergence and or the intensification of suicidality and or other violent behaviors when dr daniel casey resurfaced nine years after the one thousand nine hundred. eighty did so as a paid expert witness for pfizer attorney andy victory conducted the deposition you were the chairman of that committee for several years right yes the chairman of that committee who is moderating it in a public building in a public place was wearing a bulletproof vest dr casey did you wear a bulletproof vest to that meeting yes. i do ever wore one part of that no have you ever worn one set no because either one of the family members of the people men or

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busy signal to say that. in a remote town in western canada the stephan family was facing a life and death struggle in the shadow of the rocky mountains two of debbie stephens children were exhibiting the same symptoms that had ultimately claimed her life joseph was becoming frighteningly violent and his sister autumn was succumbing to severe bipolar with its mecurio mood swings their father tony stuff and was desperate and searching for any way to save his children when drug after drug failed the answer came from what seemed the unlikeliest of places micronutrients mainly minerals i remember the earlier days of you know doing the the testing with nutrients and and different things i think they were trying to reduce some liquid

mineral thing too you know so it's not like you to drink or cup of something it could be an ounce and i don't think it worked very good and it smelled funny i remember the smell and i can still taste in the back of my throat i think they'd burned it i'm not sure we put him on a cocktail that contain vitamins minerals and he oxidants an amino acids i was absolutely livid when i found out that he had taken just off of his medication and i said some terrible things to him i told him that it was on his head the next suicide in this family was going to be has fought i remember about six weeks into this program that we sat together on the couch in here to where was or. what happened to me why was i so angry all the time so don't go there you don't have to live the day you're here in the present it was like one day waking up and

a fog had completely left it and that was amazing it was it were very real turning point in my life with joseph on the mend tony steph and then turned his attention to his daughter autumn who had been in and out of sight wards. i won't say that i forced her to do it because it doesn't some politically correct but i constrained her to do it you know and she she just didn't believe that this was going to work at all first it was just just keep taking your medications i don't care you know i'll take your meds take this weather just keep taking it so they waited until i had a little med breakthrough and i went rummaging for a knife and there was some screaming involved and he and this friend of his who happened to be a psychiatric nurse. stuffed me with a bunch about a van and put me to bed and then while i was still really nicely sedated again force feeding me the concoctions back in one thousand nine hundred six when i

first met autumn string him it was the first day i also met her father tony stephan and she was sitting there in front of us completely normal very bright very articulate very charming young woman. doing very well on vitamins and minerals but she had lived through this horrible horrible period and could remember it so vividly it was very impressive you knew that you were hearing a true story and i think that that has come through consistently with autumn these were just three people from southern alberta who believed that they had fixed two children in tony's family and they did it with vitamins and minerals off the shelf and they just desperately wanted a scientist somewhere to take them seriously and do some research when stefan untrue who approached dr caplan in one thousand nine hundred six she was the director of behavioral research for the university of calgary as

a scientist she was highly skeptical and sort the notion of utilising minerals for mental illness was simply proposed for us i thought well that's impossible you can't do that there's no way it would have that effect but i think that line of thought. is reflective of our lack of education about nutrition and the fact that blood is bathing the neurons in our brain every minute of every day bringing oxygen and what micronutrients to make those brain cells work stephan and his co-founder created a nonprofit called true hoop and after years of experimentation they developed a mineral based formula called m. power plus intrigued by autumn and joseph successful transformations dr kaplan and others continued studying the formula for bipolar disorder a.d.h. d. and depression he wasn't trying to build an empire when he set out to save me and joe it was was not a deliberate act the way he's not of formulator it was

a conversation that led to an idea that led to an answer and that's all he was ever in it for and he's faced so much opposition for doing the right thing he's faced a lot of opposition for that and i think it's changed the course of his whole life as it has with dr caplan when she first presented her findings about the true hope mineral vitamin combination to the canadian psychiatric association's annual meeting in two thousand and one she and the company were immediately under attack when i went to graduate school they did not prepare me to be personally attacked for just doing objective research that was a little shocking when you try. to get a new paradigm. the resistance is incredible i watched dr caplan go through this we had major resistance from health care the shutting down trials i mean here the over the government had provided five hundred fifty four thousand dollars so that she

could continue the work health care that came in and swofford the trial they destroyed health canada not only shut down dr kaplan scientific investigation into micronutrients and mental health they ordered true hope to stop manufacturing in power plus when the company refused they seized the product to the us canadian border and banned it for sale in canada why we're talking about vitamins and minerals here when true hope fought back through the courts and won it wasn't long thereafter that health canada mobilized the royal canadian mounted police to conduct a gun was drawn raid at the true hope offices in alberta despite farmers falsified science and billion dollar fines for fraudulent marketing and in spite of millions who were harmed by psychiatric drugs health canada decided that it was this tiny nonprofit that needed to be shown the full might of the canadian government there has been

a huge bias against nutrition research cruise triggering that who what what is the political agenda that is continually. bombarding us with the message that taking vitamins and minerals might not be a good thing i don't get that but the result is that the there is a lot of bias against people who say not only should we take them we should be studying it more and we should see whether or not there is treatment benefit from vitamins and minerals after nearly two decades of wrangling with health canada and three quarter of a million dollars in court costs and legal fees for true hope bonnie caplan judea rutledge and others continue to investigate the use of nutrients as a primary treatment for mental health yet the road has been anything but easy. i was very aware of how many people were incredibly skeptical about this work i was trained as a scientist and we need to evaluate the evidence and what has astounded me

is the obstacles that we've faced in order to try to answer what's a i think a very important question for our community i happen to think that medications are very important especially in acute crises but to me they're the supplement in the ideal world i believe that it would be more beneficial to a lot of people especially developing children to be treated first with everything psychosocial family therapy etc and nutritional which is not going to cause any long term harm and that should be primary intervention there or they're going to keep people who want to say that you know i'm just trying to make a lot of money off of a big made up story but my mother is dead in the ground her dad stead. and we all know how that happened. she had a prescription and and i'm not dead. and i've got four healthy kids and a great marriage and that's something i didn't expect would ever happen with me.

the lesson of a generation's worth of psychiatric experiments is that regulators didn't protect the public doctors didn't protect patients journalists refused to us the tough questions the pharmaceutical companies played the system and profited handsomely and millions suffered died became addicts or were otherwise harmed. these are the stories of those who have fallen and of those who have somehow survived many lost sons and daughters brothers and sisters and their tragedies forced these private people out of the shadows they wanted answers and were not interested in the politics of medicine if the truth had been afforded us decades ago millions would have been spared similar fates perhaps changes coming albeit too slowly but until

it occurs we should take nothing for granted not our lives nor our lives or the gift of our families and friends as these letters from generation our ex have taught us there is peril in the conventional wisdom of treating so many people so indiscriminately with such powerful life changing drugs. as they move on every birthday every holiday every anniversary of a loved one's death. their only prayer is to stop this from happening to anyone else.

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military offensive in syria to the ton of risking a potential confrontation with u.s. forces. also it's our top us democrats claim russian faults are responsible for a social media campaign to release a potentially explosive congressional memo. the exclusion of a number of russian after leaks from the upcoming winter olympics triggers an eye on the sporting. fresh updates developing stories on news around the clock mrs arty international welcome to the program our top story the turkish president has announced

a plan to extend his country's military operation against kurdish forces in syria turkish troops are currently fighting the white p.g. enough and will now advance to an area controlled by us by kurdish fighters. the operation we've launched mend all of branch to cleanse africa of terrorists successfully underway starting from members we will continue for when the games which are being played along our borders and we will cleanse our region completely of the struggle. for more of the conflict bring in our middle east correspondent paula sleeper and i hope this seems like quite an escalation for turkey in syria tell us more on what has been their international reaction to are the ones annoyed sprint. well it certainly is an escalation but not one that is unsurprising what we're hearing from the turkish president is that he will now

extend his military operation in northern syria to include the town of man bridge which is around one hundred kilometers to the east of afrin which is where for the past few days the turkish military has been backing has been battling it out with syrian kurds who are backed by the united states now once the turkish military moves into man bridge this could potentially put the turkish army in direct conflict with the forces belonging to a major turkish nato ally namely the united states washington is known to have some two thousand special forces on the ground in syria and while none of them are thought to be in the afrin area they are deployed amongst various kurdish enclaves that include the town of man bridge now man bridge is controlled by us that kurdish syrian fighters at the same time we are hearing from the turkish president that

more than two hundred and fifty syrian kurds as well as islamic state fighters have been killed by the turkish army and allied forces in the past few days these figures are being disputed by the kurdish side was also accusing and career of civilian casualties this despite the fact that we are. hearing from two key that they are trying to avoid civilian deaths as far as possible now the american president donald trump has called for and is urging a deescalation and a limit in the military operation that and create is conducting in northern syria all of this came to a head over the past few days after the united states announced that it was training and establishing a border security force that would comply as some thirty thousand personnel most of them could be deployed along the tookie so in the iraqi border and from what we're hearing on the ground we do expect the military operation to grow and no doubt the

casualty count too will intensify here painting a picture of turkey's further incursion into syria mideast correspondent paula sleeker thank you. where major pro kurdish rally has taken place in the syrian city of karbala against the turkish offensive in a free hundreds of people took to the streets carrying the flag of kurdistan people are gathering also voiced their concerns over the u.s. role in syria. look i mean you american stance in the region it's unclear unfortunately u.s. is using the kind of islamic states i saw in syria and iraq kurdistan was the largest terrorist organization in the world and we did that for the sake of global security when we got rid of i saw the war started supporting those who fight in the kurdish people so it's a shameful stance by the americans. i mean do you think there will be support from u.s. forces to the west of ukraine particularly in the aftermath i don't think that.

international relations professor hussein bunchy give us his views on turkey's growing military presence in syria. the expectation was that turkey in a very short period and controlled the area in affluent and. stop and clean up turkish decision to extend their operational command which probably will last a little bit longer tonight president grant talked to the president. donald trump the american side was insisting on it that turkey is not going to stand the operation and what is more important. causality it should not be the case this is somehow a warning by the americans to the turkish president i think the confrontation between turkey and the united states of america is getting more and more likely.

that the turkish soldiers move frees the american soldiers supported. probably. the turkish government. into account but first of all the operation in african should be finished and should be completed i do not expect at the moment that turkey is undertaking operation direction which. with just weeks to go until the winter olympic games in south korea more russian athletes are now expecting their dreams of competing to be dashed the international olympic committee has sent a list of eligible participants to russia and among those missing are athletes who have never failed the doping test in their entire career. tensions in the sports world are hitting another high as the i.o.c. has confirmed that the number of russian athletes that are eligible to compete in the upcoming winter olympics is to be reduced now unexpectedly and without

explanation now the full list of who is eligible has not yet been released but the russian olympic committee has disclosed a number of names that are thought to be who will be disqualified and that decision is ruffling feathers not only in russia but abroad as well a french sports outlet has published a article online condemning the disqualification of two athletes in particular we will not be embarrassed to speak about a denial of justice. and are banned from the olympics because they participated in the sochi games both have undergone hundreds of anti doping controls since two thousand and fourteen and dozens more in recent months control is carried out abroad controls carried out by independent bodies by federations and analyzed throughout europe never in russia the result over the last four years a biathlete has never tested positive. in the is a by athlete who brought a gold home from sochi and he and his team mates. or leaders of team russia and

were both two main hopefuls for winning medals and south korea as well they're both world champions and in all of their years competing neither has ever tested positive for doping and that's one of the reason the the decision as an injustice the tone of this editorial will not please everyone that's obvious but there are still questions about the integrity of the decision makers since when can we condemn innocent sportsmen to punish the guilty is obvious to ban the russians that don't for the rest know the i.o.c. has promised to publish the full list of eligible athletes on sunday just under two weeks before the start of the games leaving an appeal unlikely and that means the number of russian athletes who are still reeling from the fact that they will not be able to compete under their own flag will now be hit with another blow others said to be excluded from the list are prominent. players and figure skaters again all of whom have never tested positive for doping and yet they will not be forced to watch the games from the sidelines with forty three other other teammates who

have been hit by a band earlier and another gold medalist who is also thought to be excluded speed skater victor on that he thought korean by birth which means that his dreams of competing in his home country are looking rather dim at this point and while condemnation of the decision has continued to flow in but unlikely to change the i.o.c. is mind. well a number of international athletes as well as heads of committees have condemned the bombing of a police who have never tested positive for bombs substances this is the head of the bulgarian olympic committee who sees everyone who broke the rules must be punished but that the measures taken against russia nothing beats being politically motivated one french biathletes has also said he believes the finger is being on fairly pointed at the entire nation and the international union head has claimed the organization has not been involved in the decision making process where russian athletes from seven different disciplines are said to be missing from the list of

eligible competitors including five prominent russian short track speed skaters three biathlon champions i'm a two time world champion cross country skier none have ever tested positive for doping a number of russian ice hockey players bobsledders figure skaters who didn't even participate in the twenty fourteen olympic games are also missing from the list of those eligible to go some sports unions and federations i've already demanded that the i.o.c. clarify its position the i.o.c. head has claimed it wants to give way to a quote new clean generation. the i.o.c. wanted to give clean russian athletes the opportunity to participate and give a young and new generation of clean russian athletes the opportunity to be at the olympic games and be ambassadors for a new clean russian sport. or we asked former sweden ice hockey.