The FDA recently cautioned that those taking anti depressant drugs should be closely monitored for signs of worsening depression and suicidal thoughts.
Doctors prescribe anti depressants more widely than ever before, the modern equivalent of aspirin. The side effects of not following instructions with these drugs could be devastating for the patient. Playing with the chemicals involved in feeling okay like serotonin means that fluctuations in the absorbtion rate (due to patient vomiting, for example) could cause chemically induced bouts of more severe depression. It is also a feature of extreme depression that panic attacks and other forms of "unconscious behaviour" may interrupt the physical state of the individual. There may be an addiction factor involved, and management of children or teenagers on these drugs may prove difficult. It may explain the increase in youth suicide rates. As we treat the cause directly, it becomes essential that it be done correctly. When it is not, acute disturbances may result in an increase in suicide episodes. Our children were not prepared for this. We need to support and care for them.Monday, March 22, 2004
Sunday, March 21, 2004
New Zealand News - NZ - Child helpline desperate for funds
Youth Line in Trouble
A Child helpline which gets an average of 448 calls each day from worried children will be forced to close if it can't find new sponsorship within three weeks. It's annula costs were covered by corporate sponsors who pulled out last year. The service costs $850,000 per year to run. Prominent Auckland criminal lawyer Marie Dyhrberg, a member of the fundraising committee, said it would be a tragedy to lose such a valuable service. "We have got to keep it afloat because when it's lost, it's lost."Wednesday, March 10, 2004
New Zealand News - - Zaoui's lawyers to quiz SIS watchdog
Zaoui - Second significant victory
Zaoui's lawyers struck with a second key victory with High Court permission granted to interrorgate the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Justice Laurie Grieg.
A Ritual Gone Fatally Wrong Puts Light on Masonic Secrecy
Suitable Defence for a Masonic Ritual Slaughter?
It reads like a grand case of secret society ritual gone awry but in fact it is a simple tragedy. It was indeed a sad moment in the passing of moments in the long life of accused guntotting Southside Masonic lodge member, 76 year old Albert Eid who "accidentally" shot and killed fellow lodger the 47 year old William James.
Weird spooky initiation rites and rituals the ultimate in secrecy seem all that is left for the public in any attempt to understand modern masonic organizations. Too much secrecy and soon even the more etablished membership are trying out new undocumented secret rituals, secret even from the rest of the entire membership, but perhaps writtein by a lowly scribe seven hundreds of years ago and privy only to a handful of senior initiates.
The man had a loaded gun in his trouser pocket most of the time, so was at any time a threat to anybody in his vicinity. The man was not accused of reckless behaviour, but second-degree manslaughter. Carrying a loaded gun in one's trouser is socially acceptable, in America, of course.
Monday, March 08, 2004
New Zealand News - NZ - Police optimistic in war against P
P Police Optimism
Figures on crime statistics reveal slowed growth ie P related drug crime, increasing just 1%, compared to a growth factor of nearly 30% the previous year.
This reflects sustained campaigns by police to close over two hundred methamphetamine laboritories - 53 more than the previous year.
See New Zealand News - NZ - Police optimistic in war against P
Sunday, February 22, 2004
STUFF : NATIONAL NEWS - STORY : New Zealand's leading news and information website
Speculation and the Crazies
A book claims that Ahmed Zaoui was a terrorist who plotted to kill soccer star David Beckham and others at the 1998 World Cup has drawn a sceptical response from a British expert, Professor Emile George Joffe who is a specialist on North African affairs.
However Joffe, who teaches at Cambridge University's Centre for International Studies, says there was "no evidence" to say Zaoui was in the GIA, let alone its leadership.
Zaoui was under house arrest in Switzerland leading up to the World Cup – and he was not among those arrested before the tournament.
Joffe believes Zaoui's alleged involvement was probably fabricated and fed to the book's author.
New Zealand News - Dialogue - Audrey Young: PM had to act to regain credibility
Immigration Minister Resigns
The Immigration Minister Lianne Dalziel resigned because she lost her credibility. She presided over an Immigration dept that drugged and deported a clearly victimised 16 year old girl and the heavy hand was seen as that of the Government's own. The polls are showing poor support for Helen Clark's handling of this, until now her efforts to deal to the flailing Minister for Immigration with her panic button values at the constant ready should a news of a terrorist leak onto our foreshores.
There is a credibility gap because it is not relevant. Ahmed Zaoui has been in prison for over a year and we wonder at the quality of the Government's decision making process in regards to protection of our national security. That is the leak in the boat, Helen Clark. It is good that Lianne Dalziel has gone, as she has been seen to go for the expedient course that does not fit with the human rights aspects of her job.
It would have been more character forming for this Government that is fast losing its grip on the meaning of power.
See New Zealand News - Dialogue - Audrey Young: PM had to act to regain credibility
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