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Be My Friend - http://www.myspace.com/psychtruth
Gwen Olsen spent fifteen years as a pharmaceutical sales rep working for such health care giants as...
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Be My Friend - http://www.myspace.com/psychtruth
Gwen Olsen spent fifteen years as a pharmaceutical sales rep working for such health care giants as Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Abbott Laboratories. She enjoyed a successful, fast-paced career until several conscious-altering experiences began awakening her to the dangers lurking in every American medicine cabinet. Her most poignant lessons, however, came as both victim and survivor of life-threatening adverse drug reactions. After leaving pharmaceutical sales in 2000, Gwen worked in the natural foods industry first as an Account Manager for Nature's Way, and then as a Regional Sales Manager for Gaia Herbs. She is currently a writer, speaker, and natural health consultant.
In this video Gwen discusses anxiolytics (anti-anxiety medications). These medications are sometimes also called minor tranquilizers. These drugs include the benzodiazephines such as Valium, Xanax and Ativan. Buspar is also non-benzodiazephine anxiolytic.
These drugs are highly addictive and people experience severe withdrawal symptoms when coming off of these drugs.
Gwen specifically talks about her own Xanax addiction.
She also discusses "rebound syndrome" and "discontinuation syndrome", which are basically just withdrawal symptoms.
http://www.gwenolsen.com/
http://www.youtube.com/psychtruth
http://www.livevideo.com/psychetruth
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New York Post
DRINK SHRINK'S ATTACK ON MOM
By LAURA ITALIANO
July 25, 2007
Last summer, a bipolar Florida psychiatrist with a history of alcohol abuse ...
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New York Post
DRINK SHRINK'S ATTACK ON MOM
By LAURA ITALIANO
July 25, 2007
Last summer, a bipolar Florida psychiatrist with a history of alcohol abuse and violence went off his meds, got in his car and drove to New York City to better hide, among the crowds, from the evil "forces" pursuing him.
He peeled off the trans-dermal patch that dispensed medication directly into his skin, and threw it out his car window as he drove.
Once in the city, he parked on the West Side - leaving his wallet in his car - and walked to the New York Waterway terminal at 39th Street and 12th Avenue.
There, unprovoked on a sunny July afternoon, he admittedly grabbed a 2-year-old boy named Thorin who lived nearby and happened to be playing with his plastic bicycle.
Then, when Thorin's terrified mother tried to stop him, he threw her to the concrete and choked her into unconsciousness, stopping only when two bystanders hoisted him off her.
"I begged, I begged, I begged," the hero mom, Jil Novenski, testified in tears yesterday - recounting her horror to a Manhattan judge in hopes that the psychotic stranger may be locked up forever.
"I screamed, 'Oh, God! Please, no!' I thought for sure he was going to kill me in front of my son. I wanted to make sure that if I was going to die, he wasn't going to get [Thorin.]
"He squeezed harder and harder," Novenski remembered of the stranger's hands around her throat. "Then, everything went black."
Amazingly, the psychotic shrink - child psychiatrist Dr. William Johns III - remains licensed to practice medicine in Florida, West Virginia and Hawaii, according to online records.
This, despite his having been in jail for the full year since admittedly attacking the woman and her son.
Johns quickly told cops he was Jesus Christ, trying to save the boy from some vague "danger."
"I tightened my grip on her when the two guys came over because I thought they might try to pull me off of her," he admitted, according to court documents.
Johns, who has a history of severe alcohol dependence, drunken driving, violence and stopping his medications, is now fighting to be freed so he can attend an outpatient psychiatric program near his hometown, Vero Beach.
He pleaded not guilty by reason of mental illness in April. Yesterday's hearing, which continues today, will determine if his next move is out the door or - as prosecutors and Novenski hope - into a locked psych facility.
"Otherwise, what are we waiting for?" Novenski, 39, told The Post yesterday. "He's going to kill somebody."
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Channel 7 - WSVN-TV
Reported and Produced by: Patrick Fraser pfraser@wsvn.com
7 News Investigation
A Mother's Hope
Earlier this year a 7-year-old boy i...
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Channel 7 - WSVN-TV
Reported and Produced by: Patrick Fraser pfraser@wsvn.com
7 News Investigation
A Mother's Hope
Earlier this year a 7-year-old boy in state custody prescribed mind altering drugs threatened to kill himself, then he did. This summer another child on powerful drugs also threatened to kill himself, his mother called Help Me Howard, what happened after that? Tonight here is Patrick Fraser with a story we call a mothers hope.
WSVN -- When I first met Anthony he was not the child who had been described to me.
Hope Estrada, Anthony's Mother: "I've been told by some doctors in Key West that I'm raising the next Charles Manson, OK?"
One doctor said he was mentally retarded, another said he was bi-polar. He has been sent to psychiatric hospitals, slapped in straight jackets and given mind altering drugs. The affect of it all on an 8-year-old is not surprising.
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