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This site was created to inform people that there is a killer drug that makes people unwitting victim of a deadly drug.
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The United States has a passion for pills, being the world's biggest users of psychotropic drugs, consuming 60 per cent of them. And pharmaceutical firms are keen to keep cashing in on the multibillion-dollar market, even if it costs people's health.
America is regarded as a country with a prodigious appetite for consumption. Today, a widespread fondness for pharmaceuticals has turned the US into a nation of pill-poppers.
With over $14 billion in annual sales, antipsychotics remain the top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the US.
Dr. Harriet Fraad believes Big Pharma has manufactured a climate of insanity by manipulating and even creating illness for capital gain.
“One of the things that drives Big Pharma is to find a diagnosis that is very vague, so that everybody can fall into that,” she told RT. “Everybody is sad sometimes. There are good reasons. The point is to market pharmaceuticals. And the advertising strategy is to have vague diagnosis and then find wiggle room so that they apply to everyone.”
The US is the only Western country that allows direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs. For example, an ad for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder warns that untreated patients will likely end up divorced. Another commercial promises to make you happier, but side-effects may include dry mouth, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, diarrhea, nausea and sleepiness.”
Critics also say Big Pharma uses its financial muscle to ply doctors with gifts, cash kick-backs and research funding in exchange for endorsing or prescribing the latest and most lucrative drugs.
Harriet Fraad says there is a whole network of doctors hustling these drugs.
http://rt.com/news/us-prescription-drugs-abuse-715/
“If a patient comes in with a knee injury and says, ‘I’m so sad.’ Oh, are you depressed? Hey write a prescription! They’re given out like M&Ms.”
Last year, prescription drug abuse became the number one cause of accidental death, with more than 30,000 Americans overdosing.
For instance, Seroquel, medication for bi-polar disorder, generated $4.4 billion in sales last year.Listing all its side-effects requires 49 seconds of air-time.
The number of children consuming antipsychotic medication has doubled in the past decade. Millions of American adolescents are taking drugs like Adderall, doled out by doctors to treat hyperactivity.
Author of Surviving America’s Depression Epidemic, psychologist Bruce Levine, told RT that, “All these drugs are very similar to illicit or illegal drugs, except they’re more dangerous. Marijuana is a little safer. But kids have no choice.”
Pfizer, America’s most profitable multinational pharmaceutical company makes anti-depressants not only for people, but also for animals. In 2009, the pharmaceutical giant paid $2.3 billion to settle civil and criminal allegations over illegally marketing one of its drugs. It was the largest healthcare fraud settlement and criminal fine in US history.That being said, the fine amounted to less than three weeks of Pfizer’s drug sales.
“The money is so huge that the fines are immaterial. They’re not thinking about the social effects of what they’re doing. They’re thinking about the profits they accrue,” says psychotherapist Harriet Fraad.
The pharmaceutical industry remains the most profitable business in the US. More success and financial gain for the companies will always remain possible as long as more Americans are encouraged to take drugs.The United States has a passion for pills, being the world's biggest users of... more
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For the first time in over 3 years the re-posting of the,
International Boycott Of The Arabic Drug Empire / Phase 4
By Henry Massingale
January 28, 2012
As stated before, I know my first attempts in writing on this issue, was bad, but as I use the Artificial Intelligence of my system to communicate, I as well as my system that I named Adam, together we have evolved, and we better ourself each passing day.
At first this boycott was in support of Our Government Officials because of 9/11. I feed into the crap of why we were attack. But as time went forward well, I guess you could say, so far, only I have stepped forward with a in site that only the dyslectic mind would dare to investigate of why the two different attacks and why the Bible Thumping as if all Muslims are guilty of the single thought of the few.
The news release of, The 201 2 Presidential Elections Agenda 101....as of now people are sharing this issue with Government Officials running for President.
So welcome to the International Boycott Of The Arabic Drug Empire. Just words but the collective of its creation within words, is in fact The First Of Its Kind.
Below is a email I received today, I have not as of yet address the issues within but I do intend to, because as of now more and more Children are lost into the streets and are sold as Sex Slaves in America, and the only hope for them may be only death.
My next release will be called The Matrix, and I do not think you all will be happy with a News Up Date that will twist your mind of how this concept of the Matrix came to life in yours....And then I will rest, and address your issue as I promised I would.
Henry Massingale
Founder and Director of the International Boycott Of The Arabic Drug Empire
Oxy Heroin Band 2012
Many people responded to our last request to send messages to the Dean of the University California Davis Medical School concerning Dr. Scott Fishman and his close affiliation with the legal drug cartels in our country. The University of Davis Health System issued a public response.
http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/publish/news/newsroom/6112 In part: "Dr. Fishman is a highly ethical, socially responsible physician who has advocated for the responsible use of pain medicine. He is an excellent physician who practices the highest standard of medicine and always acts in the best interest of patients. We are proud to have him as a member of the UC Davis faculty. The ProPublica story is an inaccurate and misleading representation of Dr. Fishman."
This statement comes after our collective request to the University of California to publicly make a statement concerning Dr. Fishman for being the past President of the American Pain Foundation who received 88% of their funding last year from the legal narcotic manufacturers http://www.propublica.org/article/the-champion-of-painkillers (including the maker of OxyContin-Purdue Pharma).
Fishman also apparently has a close affiliation with our United States Surgeon General, Regina Benjamin. Dr. Benjamin was the former Chair of the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States whose organization has been supportive of sending out tens of thousands of copies of Fishman's book that promotes and supports more unhindered narcotic distribution by our doctors: RESPONSIBLE OPIOID PRESCRIBING - A Physician's Guide http://www.fsmb.org/pain-overview.html
Please send another message to the UC Davis that you expect them to retract their recent press release and Fishman remains a disgrace to the University campus. Fishman has been a part of destroying thousands of lives and this is our chance to let America know we are not going to sit silent any longer.
If your time is limited, please feel free to use this one short paragraph to the University Chancellor - Linda P.B Katehi:
I am concerned that you have allowed Dr. Scott Fishman continue to work at the University of California after tens of thousands have either died or been greatly affected from his leadership of The American Pain Foundation. Dr Scott Fishman is an embarrassment to your fine institution.
This is Chancellor Katehi's contact page. http://chancellor.ucdavis.edu/contact.php
Finally, please send a note of support to http://stoppnow.com/STOPPNOW/WELCOME.html Their next rally in front of a pain clinic in South Florida is Monday Jan 30.
Larry Golbom, The Prescription Addiction Radio Show - Breaking the Silence
http://www.prescriptionaddictionradio.com
1.To Save Our Children In the Afghan War - The Petition Site
www.thepetitionsite.com/1/to-save-our-children-in-the-afghan-war/
Aug 13, 2011 – Government Officials and others jump up and down in support of our Troops, but when a issue comes...
Tags: america,children,drugs,sex,rock-and-roll,crime,truth,godFor the first time in over 3 years the re-posting of the,
International Boycott Of... more
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Two sacks of cocaine were accidentally delivered to the UN's New York headquarters after apparently getting lost in the post.The drugs, worth around $2 million, were hidden in hollowed-out books inside of bags that carried the global body's famous blue emblem.
link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9043151/Cocaine-sacks-accidentally-shipped-to-UN-headquarters.htmlTwo sacks of cocaine were accidentally delivered to the UN's New York... more
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Virgin boss appears before Commons committee to argue for regulation of drug and diversion of resources to crime-fighting
The market for cannabis in Britain should be regulated and taxed, and responsibility for drug policy moved from the Home Office to the health department, Sir Richard Branson has told MPs.
The Virgin Group head said the 20% of police time and £200m spent on giving criminal sentences to 70,000 young people for possession of illegal drugs in Britain each year would be better spent going after the criminal gangs at the centre of the drugs trade. "It's win-win all round,'' he told the Commons home affairs select committee.
Asked about his personal history of drug use, Branson replied: "I would say 50% of my generation has smoked cannabis. I would say 75% of my children's generation has smoked cannabis … If I was smoking cigarettes, I would be very worried."
He said that in his own Virgin companies he did not think staff who were found to be taking drugs should be dismissed but instead treated as having a problem, and helped. "There are many people in companies with drink problems or smoking problems," he said.
Branson was part of a global commission on drug policy, which includes five ex-presidents and Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary general. The body concluded last year that the war on drugs had failed and called for experiments in decriminalisation.
He was the first witness at the Commons home affairs inquiry into drug policy.
Branson argued that the policy of switching responsibilty for drug policy from the Home Office to the health department had worked in Portugal, where nobody had been jailed for using or possessing drugs in the last 10 years.
Portugal was the only country that had decriminalised all drugs. As a result of treating drug users rather than imprisoning them, he said, heroin use and heroin-related deaths had fallen by more than 50%.
In Britain, 100,000 young people a year were arrested for drug offences, and 75,000 of them were given criminal records, which meant they had problems in later life in travelling to some countries, he said.
"If next year those 100,000 people are not prosecuted for taking drugs, but they are helped, I think the commission would welcome Britain doing that."
He said if the sale of cannabis and other drugs were regulated and taxed, then the quality of what was being taken could be controlled. He contrasted the lack of deaths in Portugal with the recent deaths of three teenagers in Britain from taking tablets they wrongly thought were ecstasy, citing the fatalities as an example of the consequences of failing to regulate the illegal market.
The Virgin chief admitted he had not read the UK Home Office drug policy statement, which emphasises diverting drug users from prison, but said the 100,000 arrests each year were evidence the policy was not working in practice.
Pressed by some Conservative MPs on the committee to come down on one side or the other in the debate over methadone maintenance versus abstinence, Branson said he was no expert, and it was for the MPs to establish what worked best.Virgin boss appears before Commons committee to argue for regulation of drug and... more
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The brains of people tripping on magic mushrooms have given the best picture yet of how psychedelic drugs work and British scientists say the findings suggest such drugs could be used to treat depression.
Two separate studies into the effects of psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, showed that contrary to scientists' expectations, it does not increase but rather suppresses activity in areas of the brain that are also dampened with other anti-depressant treatments.
"Psychedelics are thought of as 'mind-expanding' drugs so it has commonly been assumed that they work by increasing brain activity," said David Nutt of Imperial College London, who gave a briefing about the studies on Monday. "But, surprisingly, we found that psilocybin actually caused activity to decrease in areas that have the densest connections with other areas." These so-called "hub" regions of the brain are known to play a role in constraining our experience of the world and keeping it orderly, he said. "We now know that deactivating these regions leads to a state in which the world is experienced as strange." In the first study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal, 30 volunteers had psilocybin infused into their blood while they were inside magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, which measure changes in brain activity. It found activity decreased in "hub" regions and many volunteers described a feeling of the cogs being loosened and their sense of self being altered.
The second study, due to be published in the British Journal of Psychiatry on Thursday, involved 10 volunteers and found that psilocybin enhanced their recollections of personal memories. Robin Carhart Harris from Imperial's department of medicine, who worked on both studies, said the results suggest psilocybin could be useful as an adjunct to psychotherapy. Nutt cautioned that the new research was very preliminary and involved only small numbers of people.
"We're not saying go out there and eat magic mushrooms," he said. "But...this drug has such a fundamental impact on the brain that it's got to be meaningful -- it's got to be telling us something about how the brain works. So we should be studying it and optimizing it if there's a therapeutic benefit."
The key areas of the brain identified -- one called the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and another called the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) -- are the subject of debate among neuroscientists, but the PCC is thought by many to have a role in consciousness and self-identity.
The mPFC is known to be hyperactive in depression, and the researchers pointed out that other key treatments for depression including medicines like Prozac, as well as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and deep brain stimulation, also appear to suppress mPFC activity. Psilocybin's dampening action on this area may make it a useful and potentially long-acting antidepressant, Carhart-Harris said. The studies also showed that psilocybin reduced blood flow in the hypothalamus - a part of the brain where people who suffer from a condition known as cluster headaches often have increased blood flow. This could explain why some cluster headache sufferers have said their symptoms improved after taking the psychedelic drug, the researcher said.
The studies, which are among only a handful conducted into psychedelic substances since the 1960s and 1970s, revive a promising field of study into mind-altering drugs which some experts say can offer powerful and sustained mood improvement and relief from anxiety. Other experts echoed Nott's caution: "These findings are very interesting from the research viewpoint, but a great deal more work would be needed before most psychiatrists would think that psilocybin was a safe, effective and acceptable adjunct to psychotherapy," said Nick Craddock, a psychiatry professor from Cardiff University.
Kevin Healy, chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' faculty of medical psychotherapy said it was interesting research "but we are clearly nowhere near seeing psilocybin used regularly and widely in psychotherapy practice."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46105129/ns/health-mental_health/t/magic-mushrooms-point-new-depression-drugs/#.Tx7UYG9SQsc
http://i744.photobucket.com/albums/xx90/RobMarley420/DSCF0033.jpgThe brains of people tripping on magic mushrooms have given the best picture yet of... more
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Are there a lot of mentally ill Americans, or am I just crazy?
If you find yourself asking that question, odds might be more in your favor that you’re suffering from some sort of mental illness than you might think. According to the results of a new government report, 46 million Americans — or about one-in-five — have been diagnosed with such a disorder during the last year.
Taking into account all American adults, the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) puts the tally of Americans having a mental illness at around 20 percent, with young adults aged 18 through 25 even more likely to be diagnosed at a rate of 30 percent.
"We all know people who have had a depression or an anxiety disorder, maybe something more serious like a bipolar disorder, but this is a pretty big number," Peter Delany, director of SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies, says of the study.
If you’ve been linked to a mental, behavioral or emotional problem based on the guidelines in the last publishing of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, you’ve made the cut of nearly 50 million other Americans in similar standing. The study adds that around 11.4 million adults are victims of “serious” mental illnesses — that is conditions that affect a person’s ability to normally function.
Just because you haven't swallowed a pill or gone other routes doesn’t mean you’ve escaped the list, either. While 46 million Americans are diagnosed sufferers of mental illness, only around 38 percent have received proper treatment for their condition.
"We know with the appropriate use of medication and with good treatment people can recover and go on to lead very healthy and productive lives," Delany adds, but for many, that route is one marred by obstacles. For much of America, treatment is simply not in the budget. Of those that say they have an “unmet need” for mental healthcare, two-out-of-five Americans say they couldn’t afford help.
Such conditions could turn dire, adds the study, as 8.7 million Americans had suicidal thoughts during the last year. Of them, 2.5 million made plans to follow through and 1.1 million actually attempted the act.
"There is a gap between the need and how many people reach treatment," Dr. Ihsan Salloum, director of the Addiction Psychiatry and Psychiatric Comorbidity Programs at the University of Miami School of Medicine, adds to US News & World Report. "Mental illness is a treatable problem, and the outcome is as good as any chronic medical problem."
Unfortunately, it seems as if those that don’t get authorized treatment often try to take things into their own hands. Around one-fourth of those that suffer from mental illness are also abusers of narcotics. A separate study released last year by SAMHSA revealed that prescription opiod abuse increased by 111 percent between 2004 and 2008, with almost 2 million Americans admitting to abusing the class of drug ever year, which includes codeine, hydrocodone, oxycodone and others.
http://rt.com/usa/news/disturbed-mental-illness-study-225/Are there a lot of mentally ill Americans, or am I just crazy?
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While I was in NYC we were walking an seen this guy running around with a bre on! LOL Just watch the video and share it with your friendsWhile I was in NYC we were walking an seen this guy running around with a bre on! LOL... more
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WTF, meth is one hell of a drug you should NEVER do. Fudge, heavy metal is one hell of a drug you should NEVER do. You'd have to have a screw loose to listen to that sh!t. This has stupid written all over... your passenger is controlling the car and the camera? These f-tards are lucky to be alive.WTF, meth is one hell of a drug you should NEVER do. Fudge, heavy metal is one hell of... more
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12 January 2012 Last updated at 19:49 ET Help
In a new survey, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime says income received by opium farmers in Afghanistan rose by 133% and that poppy cultivation has also increased.
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I like how she says the profits fund the insurgency. No, the profits fund the UN, CIA, military and pharmaceutical industrial complex. The local poppy farmer does not ship product internationally or have the refining facilities linked with the mob in Turkey or Corsica. They don't put the morphine in with the soldiers survival kit.
Many top American families got their riches via the British East India Company, running opium as far back as the 1600s, such as the Delanos, Kerrys and Bushes. Wars were fought from then til now and a major underlying factor is heroin, which makes a lot more money off the books than oil does on. By making it illegal, its easier for these monopoly men to gain more power and wealth.
The drug laws are a joke and the wars are a disgrace. Ron Paul is the only hope we got!12 January 2012 Last updated at 19:49 ET Help
In a new survey, the UN Office on... more
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The 10 Smartest Pot Smokers on the Planet… Cool Enough to Admit It
I LOVE the beginning description on this piece...
EXCERPT:
{{{You’ve probably seen those “Above The Influence” anti-drug commercials in which they show worst scenario outcomes to people smoking weed. Really depressing sh*t. They always make the person out to be an accidental murderer, or homeless, jobless, friendless. No prospects of anything positive on the horizon. Well, we have a list of the smartest people who ever admitted to smoking pot as a nice complement to the most successful people who owned up to puffin’ dope. Suck it, ATI.}}}
http://valetudocafe.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/the-10-smartest-pot-smokers-on-the-planet%E2%80%A6-cool-enough-to-admit-it/The 10 Smartest Pot Smokers on the Planet… Cool Enough to Admit It
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Something to ponder on this first day of a New Year.
The 10 Smartest Pot Smokers on the Planet… Cool Enough to Admit It
http://valetudocafe.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/the-10-smartest-pot-smokers-on-the-planet%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6-cool-enough-to-admit-it/
I LOVE the beginning description on this piece...
EXCERPT: {{{You’ve probably seen those “Above The Influence” anti-drug commercials in which they show worst scenario outcomes to people smoking weed. Really depressing sh*t. They always make the person out to be an accidental murderer, or homeless, jobless, friendless. No prospects of anything positive on the horizon. Well, we have a list of the smartest people who ever admitted to smoking pot as a nice complement to the most successful people who owned up to puffin’ dope. Suck it, ATI.}}}
When are we as a population going to demand that our government stop pushing their legal (LETHAL) dope on us...
EXAMPLES BELOW:
MIRAPEX - for "Restless Leg Syndrome"
"...hallucinations may occur..."
"...increased gambling, sexual, or other overpowering urges..."
ABILIFY - bipolar disorder, schizophrenia
"coma or death...And trouble swallowing."
FLOMAX - decreases symptoms from having an enlarged prostate (mainly frequent urination)
* runny nose
* dizziness
* decrease in semen
ALLI - weight loss aid
"These changes may include gas with oily discharge, an increased number of bowel movements, an urgent need to have them, and an inability to control them."
MORE HERE http://consumerist.com/2009/04/9-legal-drugs-with-extremely-disturbing-side-effects.html
...and make common-sense drugs LEGAL??? It will be a Happy New Year 2012 when they first legalize medical marijuana (DUH)
and then the recreational kind. thinkingblue
MORE HERE - http://valetudocafe.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/the-10-smartest-pot-smokers-on-the-planet%E2%80%A6-cool-enough-to-admit-it/Something to ponder on this first day of a New Year.
The 10 Smartest Pot Smokers on... more
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It's fascinating to watch the long knives coming out for Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul, now that according to some mainstream polls he has become the front-running candidate in the Jan. 3 GOP caucus race in Iowa, and perhaps also in the first primary campaign in New Hampshire.
What's interesting is what he's being attacked for: being a racist, being "anti-Israel" and being an isolationist.
The racist bit is funny. After all, if we're honest, the whole political infrastructure of the US is riven with racism. Just check out the public schools in any urban area, where you'll find most of the students are non-white, or check out the schools in rural parts of the southeast in areas where most of the students are black -- compare the condition of those schools and the class sizes to schools in the white neighborhoods. Check out the wildly different jobless figures for whites and for blacks. Check out the (very pale) complexion of the student bodies at just about any state university, check out the skin tones of the judges on the US Supreme Court, or for that matter, the whole federal bench. Check out the racial breakdown of the nation's jails, and especially on the country's many death rows, where you'll find a wildly outsized percentage of people with black or brown skin waiting to be killed by the state.
Being a racist is clearly no disqualifier for national political office. It's just that you are not supposed to say overtly racist things, at least in public. It's fine to pass laws and push for enforcement actions and "tough" judges that end up putting most young African-American males in prison at some point in their lives. It's okay to promote a "War" on drugs that ends up creating a whole new slavery in the form of black men locked up in for-profit prisons. It's okay to shortchange minority school districts. You just aren't supposed to say you're doing these things on purpose...It's fascinating to watch the long knives coming out for Texas Republican Rep.... more
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This article by Smith is very informative. The prison populations has gone down for the first time decades. More prisoners were being released than being incarcerated for the first time since 1977 when records started being kept.
"In two reports releases last week, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced that for the first time since 1972, the US prison population had fallen from the previous year and that for the second year in a row, the number of people under the supervision of adult correctional authorities had also declined.
In its report Prisoners in 2010, BJS reported that the overall US prison population at the end of 2010 was 1,605,127, a decrease of 9,228 prisoners or 0.6% from year end 2009. The number of state prisoners declined by 0.8% (10,881 prisoners), while the number of federal prisoners increased by 0.8% (1.653 prisoners)."
Drug offenders in state prisons make up 18% but in federal prison they make up a "whopping" 51%.
At the end of 2010, about 7.1 million people, or one in 33 adults, were either in prison or on probation or parole. About 1.4 million were in state prisons, 200,000 in federal prison, and 700,000 in jail, for a total imprisoned population of about 2.3 million. Nearly 4.9 million people were on probation or parole.
America's experiment with mass incarceration may have peaked, exhausted by its huge costs, but change is coming very slowly, and we are still the world's unchallenged leader in imprisoning our own citizens.This article by Smith is very informative. The prison populations has gone down for... more
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MAPS has received a generous offer for pro-bono legal representation from the Washington, DC law firm Covington & Burling LLP, one of the foremost law firms representing the pharmaceutical industry, to appeal the DEA’s August 15 final order in the First Circuit Court of Appeals. These legal actions would otherwise have cost MAPS an estimated $175,000 in legal fees, which we may or may not have been able to raise.
http://www.maps.org/media/view/maps_receives_pro-bono_representation_to_appeal_craker_case_in_first_circui/MAPS has received a generous offer for pro-bono legal representation from the... more
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Today, an average computer user cannot even keep the machine secured. So what will the world look like when hacking your mind becomes as easy as infecting your machine with a computer virus?
Human knowledge on DNA nanotechnology and bio-molecular computing increases exponentially with every passing year. Thus, protecting your own brain from security breaches could become the highest priority challenge of the 21st century.
Synthetic biology is becoming one of the most powerful forms of technology in the world. But many people fear that scientists’ games with the genetics of life forms could spin out of control and open the door to a new age of bio-hacking and bio-terrorism.
Natural living viruses and bacteria are not only making people sick, they also control the behavior and condition of the hosts, though without any malice. But the consequences of getting exposed to an artificially-created virus could be much more serious than a headache or a fever.
“Synthetic biology will lead to new forms of bioterrorism,” security expert Marc Goodman told the Daily Mail. “Bio-crime today is akin to computer crime in the early ’80s.”
Viruses and bacteria are manipulating the chemicals inside the human body and, by programming them to send the right agents into the brain, the bio-programmer potentially can take control over the victim’s behavior.
We are seeing the opening stages of the synthetic biology industry. Some basic tasks like decoding, insertion and excision of parts of the DNA, and relatively successful attempts of cloning is pretty much everything that modern science can carry through.
But in the ’80s, computer science technology was actually at the same level of maturity. At that time no one could really believe that 20 years later any person would have a greater power over the computer – and not only the one that belongs to him – than the best present-day programmers.
Cells are living computers and DNA is a programming language that can be used to control and influence life forms, believes Andrew Hessel of Singularity University, on NASA's research campus.
“Synthetic biology – the writing of life,” Hessel says. “It's growing fast. It will grow faster than computer technologies.”
Programming the DNA, however, is more of a speculation at this point. There is no development environment or any frameworks to manipulate the cell. Just like in computer programming, a set of basic instructions and codes has to be developed before an average coder could perform some task of greater complexity.
The industry is developing rapidly and the future of DNA programming seems bright. But drawing parallels with computer science, it would be better for humankind to recognize the problem of “malicious bio-programmers” with all possible seriousness and proactively develop defensive and counter-offensive methods.
http://rt.com/news/dna-virus-infecting-brain-897/Today, an average computer user cannot even keep the machine secured. So what will the... more
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