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Drugs Watch - Human Rights Alert
December 1999

Focus on Novartis:

The UK Government is set to introduce Community Treatment Orders and also to bring forced mental health treatment into UK prisons for the first time - even for people who have committed no crime whatsoever.
    Neuroleptic drugs (in addition to Electro-shock) will be forced on people living in their own homes and on those eking out an existence in prison cells.   As a consequence some of us will die.   Others will suffer the most horrible side effects, such as massive weight gain, disfigurement, intractable depression, restlessness and loss of imagination and cognitive functioning.     For some, this will be murder; and when the State kills us it is extrajudicial capital punishment which is not only evil but contrary to that most basic of human rights - the right to life.

Write to your MP demanding that s/he votes against any law which may murder you.

   But there is perhaps a little more driving this than the unsurprising if worrying fact that 8% of UK homicides are committed by those with mental distress (1998 - Zito Trust). There is a section of the medical profession backed by one of the most powerful commercial interest that exists today - International and Multi-national pharmaceuticals. In Britain this industry is only outstripped by Defence in power and importance.   And one or two companies make both drugs and bombs.
   Novartis AG the Swiss-based colossus is, equal to Bayer Corp (US) and Glaxo Wellcome plc (UK), the biggest drugs company in the world. It is strange that so few people appear to have heard of it. But it does not stop there - it is also the largest agri-chemical company making insecticides, fungicides and other crop-protection chemicals.   And, bigger even than the world-famous Monsanto, it is the most significant manufacturer of genetically-modified seeds and foods.    Of course the commercial idea is to ensure that edible plant life fits nicely with the crop-protection systems.
   Novartis are also pioneers of what they call the science of "xeno-transplantation".   They are putting human genetic "material" into animals such as pigs.   Then the organs "harvested" from pigs are put into monkeys for now. The next stage of course is to put the organs into humans.   Novartis is also believed to be keen on copyrighting human genetic "material" i.e. to possess the very foundation of humanity.    So let Novartis try to assure us that the commercial strategy is not to perform the following.   That they will not do with human beings what they have done with "their" seeds (i.e. to modify them so as to fit their chemicals). That they will not biologically engineer us humans in order to fit their drugs! Let them inform us that this is not so, and let us just see if we will believe them.
   Find out if and how Novartis exerts influence over individual MP's via lobbying companies, directorships, junkets and donations and sponsorship to political parties.   All information will be gratefully received.

  THE DRUGS - What do Novartis make? None other than the killer neuroleptic Clozaril/Clozapine.   They say it is now safe even if they admitted once it was not! But survivors know different quite simply because so many of us personally have known individuals who have died after being given this stuff.   Sure the post-mortems usually say something else, but pm's are usually conducted by the same Trusts which have prescribed Clozaril. (So no lawsuits there).   Remember that the marketing used to say that this manufacturer had "cured" so-called schizophrenia, because it worked where other neuroleptics did not.   In truth Clozapine has probably been superseded by other seemingly safer neuroleptics.   However Novartis has at least two antipsychotic preparations in development.    Neuroleptics can be a wonderful money-spinner - especially if given by force, for they are often for life!
   And also Novartis makes that wonderful drug of childhood Ritalin which Dr Peter Breggin has done so much to expose in the USA.   This drug has hardly begun to make inroads in the UK market yet - but it is coming inexorably to Europe.   If your kids are a bit active because they want something to do, then why not give them Ritalin and then they won't need anything to do! Up to 1000 children in the US under the age of three are on Ritalin.

Novartis is truly a before-the-cradle-to-an-early-grave company.

   Novartis operates from over a dozen sites in the UK alone. It has 87,000 employees. It was formed by a merger of Ciba-Geigy (no 9 in the world) and the highly aggressive Sandoz (no 13 in the world) and they are presently quietly swallowing up Smith Klein French Beecham, no questions asked. Would the UK Monopolies and Mergers Commission do anything about it?   Don't make us laugh!
   Quite what the value of this giant is is difficult to assess, but one estimate which well might be conservative is around $25Bn which is greater than the GDP of some small countries.

   NEXT DRUGS WATCH - factsheet is on the Danish-based Lundbeck. They are makers of Depixol and Clopixol and specialists in total pharmacological social control.   Their market value increased fourfold over a five-year period recently so that edition will truly be essential reading for investors.

Reclaim Bedlam is a campaigning wing of the UK survivor movement.   It operates a "cell system". Try as we might to find out, we do not have their current address and can only assume that is the way they like it. Sorry.



Link to Novartis pharmaceuticals http://www.pharma.novartis.com/