real risk of suicide and violence but in america the us f.d.a. remained unconvinced and demanded more studies for over twenty years thomas lacan was head of f.d.a. psychopharmacology division and had been in the sick of the s.s.r.i. controversy since well before the one nine hundred ninety one prozac hearings lawson left f.d.a. in two thousand and twelve 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 one prozac hearings he chad he 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 at that meeting yes. i do you ever wore one part of that well have you ever worn one set you know because either one of the family members of the people men or macros that would shoot him you certainly did not believe it was felt from the eli lilly side of the coin did you know no conflict of interest and yet that would not affect your objectivity so your testimony yes. it's. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be rich so.

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the gap this is the great american people. 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 things to 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 burned it i'm not sure we put him on a cocktail that contained vitamins minerals and he our students 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 the family was going to be has fought i remember about six weeks into this program that we sat together on the couch in his hood 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 a 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 you picking 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 pup 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 stringin 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 sixty 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 it 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 operator 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 are going to be 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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a new front opened by turkey against kurds in northern syria worsens already. both between ankara and washington and kurds in washington we take a look at the deepening divisions. donald trump attends the probe localization economic forum but instead of spoiling the party he launched a charm offensive to be a big business to america. throughout the week afghanistan has seen a wave of deadly terrorist attacks which you claimed more than one hundred lives. welcome you're watching the weekly here on r.t.

. to a little over a week since turkey sent its tanks and helicopters into northern syria. fighting against local kurdish militia which it considers to be terrorists who threaten border security. these are the latest pictures of the ground operation in syria turkish troops to seize control of a strategic point of mount barter that's according to government media in this video turkish soldiers are singing together with pro turkey syrian fighters in the

so-called free syrian army. the conflict which began in the afrin region has the potential to escalate further the turkish president says that the operation will be extended to other kurdish held regions and right up to the iraqi border washington on the kurds in the area that was to help them fight against islamic state where is turkey which has been america's longstanding nato ally is now demanding that those militias leave the region and it seems both of washington's allies are as friendly as they've been in the past but this year we see that the u.s. doesn't support saffron with thing that's double standards america has no tools to present circuit directly with demands of the u.s. or fills its promises and protects liberated areas including afrin with any of the weapons have been provided to the white p.g. by the united states the americans haven't kept their promise since man page lately trump statement saying that they won't give any weapons to the white p.g.a. any more have created a crisis of trust. not easily trying to take

a look now at how turkey and the u.s. have turned from friends to almost foes. unbelievable is this real a nato member telling daddy you know i mean i mean to come in behave yourself oral point a gun and am i exaggerating a bit mr aired on didn't say that these exact words but turkey's got a prime minister who pretty much did anyone who gives logistical support to the white is turkey's target for the record the y b g equals the kurdish army and for all these years who's been giving the kurds all kinds of support right. the kurds were extended in all of branch that's what ankara calls its military op the but where does that wipe e.g. get its guns. tapered on couldn't care less why washington's been helping the kurds to destroy eisel for this man the kurdish militias are no better than terrorists

that explains his latest messages to america because the us is in the process of creating a terror army on our border what we have to do is nip this terror army in the bud america do not encroach on our borders do not provoke us we will run out of patience does anyone from the us government have anything to say we urge turkey to exercise restraint and ensure that its military operations remain limited in scope and duration and scrupulous to avoid civilian casualties some very restrained counsel there to be restrained think about it mr aired on rants that america u.s. officials don't hit back turkey rolls up the tanks flies out the more play sends soldiers over the border washington basically keeps stop after all this isn't about kim who's sly this squeak makes donald trump for one war so perhaps the turks and

the kurds have succeeded in one thing together were juicing america to baffled silence. as a military operation in syria steadily expands so does the international condemnation the past twenty four hours and seen protests in a number of european cities throughout the week such antiwar rallies waved in a whole heap of trouble when in some places banned kurdish militia flags were brought in. i wish. i was. liberal will write for turkey launched its assault american military command announced

its plans to create a border force involving kurdish militia that's a move that infuriated ankara the white house later backtracked same that no border force would be created there wasn't enough to stop turkey's tanks and tearing syria let's go commentator out of darwish police situation risks spilling over into europe if washington doesn't make clear its policy in the region. kurds will find themselves powerless against the might of turkey as we have see the unfortunate scenes from frankfurt and probably other places it could actually spill over and affect europe figure people who think they are far away it's very very hard actually to read the american foreign policy at the moment first the americans have to explain to their allies of ours so the world what is the history of the g. and the policy on the. do the war actually to have a peaceful settlement in syria and keep the political integrity

of syria as a nation state as does. the annual world economic forum took place in davos this week and the star attraction this year was donald trump who became just the second u.s. president to attend the summit his visit was unexpected as trump's america first policy seems to be at odds with the forum's creating a shared future tagline u.s. leaders or rather was met with a protest two thousand people marched through zero denouncing both and the for several smaller protests took place elsewhere in the country including geneva didn't seem to put off the u.s. leadership qualities jacqueline kruger explains. feel very flattered that he has chosen this as a forum. for those that don't want to listen to him you can they can leave well probably to no one's surprise whatsoever trump speech did feature his signature

phrase of america first and his speech is actually rounding out the end of the forum i believe in america i will always put. the first when the united states grows so does the world america is roaring america is a cutting edge john and that's what we're doing in the. end the results. hold on mistake america's future has never been brighter i will always put america first i believe in america so come to america where you can innovate create and build now that pretty much wraps up his whole speech which centered on progress that's been made in the u.s. in the presence of the union since he came to the white house term speech was highly anticipated and according to reports lines were out the door hours before it even started and here at this economic forum trump in true businessman fashion used the opportunity to promote himself and his country european leaders were also at

the forum and just like trump europe first ideas went against the grain of the summits globalist stance it isn't gentlemen my my my first mysie each he said france is back france is back at the core of for europe because we will never have any friends to exist without a european success if between our twenty seven member states are not able to send a clear and united message to major powers such as china india and the united states if foreign policy is made on the national level then it will feel not. a number of central topics on this year's agenda had little to do with economics at all focusing instead on race privilege and harassment all the big it is a twenty seventeen but author in it is a general silent i think the shift in focus is simply a facade. davos speaks to the zero point one percent of the people they

have very little concern about or what the rest of the people are getting so it's one big club and it's a deal making club again all this other little things about you know gay rights equal pay oh that's just a lot of nonsense and it's for the media to write about when they don't want to write about the hard facts of how the so few own so much and how so many own so little. sun today a taliban suicide bomber killed one hundred three people and injured two hundred thirty five in the afghan capital kabul those are latest figures provided by the country's interior ministry. and. i have a stool near the site of the blasts when the confluence i fell to the ground my brother was injured i took him to hospital but it was already overwhelmed so i put a.