PERCEPTIONS CHANGE ----

This is part of the weekly paper I got from
Novus Medical Detox Center Newsletter
10 April 2009
It is written by the director Steve Hayes. The Center helps people with medical drug addictions.


" Perceptions change. To most of us today, April 9th, is just another day or maybe someone's birthday. However, as a young person growing up in the South, April 9th was considered a day of mourning for some in my grandparent's town of Smackover, Arkansas. There was even a lady that hung black crepe (a symbol of mourning) over her front door.

Why? It was on April 9, 1865 that Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate army and effectively ended the Civil War-or War Between The States as it was known in the South. This one lady believed that reuniting the nation was actually a tragic event and it would have been far better had the South won its independence and become a separate country.

Perceptions change. Most of us were raised with the belief that our medical doctors were almost infallible. If they told us something it was accepted as the truth. We also believed that drug companies existed to do good and strived to make sure that the drugs they sold were safe. Now we know that many of the medical doctors have become paid mouthpieces for the drug companies who, discovery in lawsuits has revealed, care little about the harm caused by their products as long as they sell drugs.

At Novus Medical Detox Center we see evidence of this on a daily basis. We see the person who "trusted" her doctor and became dependent on narcotics that never addressed the cause of her pain but simply treated the symptoms. We see people who had easily-corrected thyroid or other hormonal problems but a psychiatrist, who apparently has forgotten his or her training as a medical doctor, never bothered to order even simple blood tests that would have allowed a resolution of the problem, but instead prescribed dangerous psychoactive drugs that allowed the actual problem to worsen and created unpleasant side effects."

So there are people inside of the mainstream who are dedicated to medicine and recognize that it has strayed into dangerous habits. It is these habits that include prescribing dangerous drugs and resisting other helpful methods of less invasive healing that we have to attend to. Our governments will then come to realize what a dangerous path our current health system is walking on. Change will happen if we ask loudly enough for it.