Discussion Of Mass Drugging of Society with Lithium

[Fredkc]

Mods;
Please move to Health section if that would be a better place for this.

Disclaimer!!
To say that I am not a fan of Alex Jones, is a gross understatement. But I came across this story this morning, and so far, all links to this seem to lead there. If the posting there did not include the local FOX affiliate's video, I would have gone by this, but since it does...

http://www.prisonplanet.com/fox-news...h-lithium.html


Wednesday, December 16, 2009 In the remarkable Fox News report posted below, Dr. Archelle Georgiou, described as a well-recognized physician leader who “helps consumers make better health care decisions,” argues the case for adding lithium to the water supply. Georgiou is affiliated with the Center for Health Transformation, an organization founded by the notorious neocon Newt Gingrich.

Georgiou is also a “medical expert” for Fox News 9 in Minneapolis where she commented on a proposal to drug people during a segment on “Health Care Innovations 2009.”

“Lithium in the Water Supply: America has been adding fluoride to its public water supplies for decades to help prevent reduce tooth decay. Now researchers from Japan suggests expanding the list to lithium,” is how how Fox News 9 describes the segment.


[AT ORIGINAL LINK, THE LOCAL FOX AFFILIATE VIDEO IS HERE - Fred]




Georgiou does not explicitly call for adding the mood-stabilizing drug to the water system, as suggested by Japanese researchers, but she does not denounce the proposed practice. Instead, she says the draconian proposal is a “very interesting concept.”


Japanese researchers, according to Georgiou, are “investigating whether trace amounts of lithium can just change the mood in a community enough — in a really positive way without having the bad effects of lithium — to really affect the mood and decrease the suicide rate.”
Remarkably, Georgiou does not address the moral issue of forcibly drugging a population into submission.


On May 1, the BBC reported on the Japanese research. “Researchers examined levels of lithium in drinking water and suicide rates in the prefecture of Oita, which has a population of more than one million. The suicide rate was significantly lower in those areas with the highest levels of the element, they wrote in the British Journal of Psychiatry.”
Scientists are not certain how lithium works in the brain. “Lithium increases the amount of neurotransmitters such as serotonin, which can help stabilize both the manic and depressive sides of the disorder, but the exact method behind this is still under investigation,” notes Discovery News.


Apparently the unresolved scientific aspects of lithium were not a concern in the Japanese research. (Story continues...)

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Anyway...
I wonder if they'll even bother to tell the public they are all on "mood elevators", even though, "Scientists are not certain how lithium works in the brain."

Can anyone else find an alternate source for this?

Fred