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Drug czar says Jackson's death a wake-up call
Jul. 9, 2009, Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- The government's drug czar says that Michael Jackson's death is a wake-up call to the nation about prescription drug abuse.
Gil Kerlikowske, chief of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, says more people are dying in the United States from drug overdoses than from gunshot wounds.
Kerlikowske said Thursday on CBS' "The Early Show" that parents are the key to addressing the problem of misuse of prescription drugs.
Kerlikowske says he's unable to talk about Jackson's untimely death while an official inquiry is still under way. But the drug czar emphasized that Jackson's death should alert the country to the peril posed by powerful drugs that can save lives when they are used properly.
Investigators looking into the cause of Jackson's death have homed in on drugs that were administered to the musician to fight his insomnia.

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Kerlikowske doesn't mention the anti-depressents, but they are known to cause insomnia. Now, Michael Jackson lived the kind of life in which psychiatric drugs are almost mandatory. A life of whatever he wanted, where everything was about him, his whims, his obsessions and his feelings. But the fact is, every human being knows that they are just a human being, and when their conscious mind persuades itself that it's somehow super special and more important than othan mere humans, the subconscious moves in to correct it. Most very wealthy and powerful people suffer from various mental problems as a result of their wealth and power. Part of it is looking at people as objects to be used, which shows itself as pedophelia in some cases, like Jackson, or in wierd fetishes revolving around control games, sometimes involving guns like in the case of producer Phil Spector.
Prior to murdering Lana Clarkson, Spector had been taking anti-depressant medications prescribed for him by psychiatrists, including Prozac, Neurontin and Clonopin.
At his trial, it came out that he was not a very nice man when he wasn't depressed. He liked taking women home, psychologically torturing them at gun point and using his wealth and fame to intimidate them into silence. Think of it this way. If Phil Spector hadn't been arrested for murder and had just died, the media would have paraded one celebrity after another to tell us what a wonderful, loving, kind and generous man he was. Every celebrity he worked with would be talking him up just to have a part in the memorial and get precious air-time. If Lana Clarkson had survived that night, she would have been one of them, and neither her nor Spector's other "playmates" would have mentioned his gun fetish, not just out of propriety but also because anti-depressents help make things like that not matter.
With Jackson it's the same only a much more valuable pie than it would have been with Spector.
A life of narcissistic self-absorbsion is bad enough, one where this outlook is reinforced by the world around you has to be that much worse.
He could have dealt with his depression without the pills, but it would have involved an ego check nobody was willing to give him. So they have a happy pill so he can keep feeling good about himself despite his self-absorbed lifestyle, which is the cause of most "clinical" depression. Then, when the anti-depressents cause insomnia, which is one of their most common side effects, there's another pill waiting to help deal with that, and a bunch of other pills in between.

Maybe it would be dangerous having all these people addicted to happy pills go cold turkey all at once, but I still think we would be a far safer, better world if anti-depressents were simply removed from the market entirely.

Here's an article that should mandatory reading for everybody thinking they need psychiatric "help". It is a simple fact that psychiatric drugs are way overprescribed. A large part of the problem is that the "experts" who make their living as glorified drug dealers are the only ones who are considered "qualified" to examine the problem. All they offer as a solution is more new drugs, and because they are the "experts", they get to be wrong again and again at our expense.

homicides committed on anti-depressants