Hallucinogens are a type of drug that can produce hallucinations, such as LSD. Hallucinogen addiction and Hallucinogen Rehabilitation is an essential part of treatment for this type of drug abuse. Hallucinogens are also known as hallucinogenic drugs and psychedelics. Hallucinations caused by these drugs alter your perception of the world around you, often causing intense visual distortions or feelings like you’re in another reality.

The effects vary depending on the substance taken, but common side-effects include vivid flashbacks to past experiences whilst high; depression; social isolation; anxiety; paranoia about being watched or followed (paranoia); confusion about one’s surroundings (delirium) which may lead to panic attacks; and an inability to differentiate what’s real from what’s not (psychosis). Hallucinogens can also lead to long-term psychological damage such as flashbacks, psychosis, or depression.

The symptoms of hallucinogen addiction

Hallucinogen addiction is a type of drug abuse disorder, and Hallucinogen Rehab refers to the process of treating this condition. What are the symptoms? The most common symptom that someone addicted to hallucinogens may experience is a lack of control over how much they use these drugs. This means that an individual will continue taking them even if they know it’s not healthy for them or that it causes problems with their personal life. Other signs include cravings, getting high in risky situations like driving while intoxicated; continued usage despite negative consequences such as being fired from work because they missed too many days due to using or withdrawing from drugs; feeling guilty about one’s behavior when under the influence (or after), and a sense of being “out of control” in general with one’s life.

Most people will notice these warning signs at some point, but an addict who is actively abusing hallucinogens may not be aware they have a problem until it becomes severe. Hallucinogen addiction can lead to serious health problems like psychosis or violence against self or others such as family members if the person experiencing them doesn’t get help soon enough. Hallucinogen rehabilitation should come sooner rather than later if the individual wants to avoid long-term consequences that are difficult to manage on their own while under the influence; however, even after treatment, there may still be triggers that cause cravings for drugs so support groups would also need to become part of this.

How to get help for hallucinations 

You might be wondering how to get help for hallucinations or what Hallucinogen addiction and Hallucinogen rehabilitation centers are. The first step is admitting you have a problem, which can be difficult if you’re not sure that’s true. If the person who has been using Hallucinogens consistently for six months or more needs professional care, they need to go through withdrawal before they start treatment because Hallucinogens cause changes in neurotransmitters in the brain like serotonin and dopamine, which affect mood and behavior. After detoxification from Hallucins users will want to talk about their current relationships with family members, friends, and co-workers as well as any thoughts of suicide (especially among teenagers). Treatment typically lasts at least six months and Hallucinogens don’t work in the same way as other drugs.

What you can expect from rehabilitation and treatment programs

Hallucinogen addiction and Hallucinogen rehabilitation can be scary things. But you don’t need to go through it alone. Hallucinogen Rehabilitation is available, and they have the resources necessary for your recovery from Hallucinogens to live healthy lives again. A Hallucinogen Treatment Program can help you overcome any feelings of shame or guilt that may still linger after quitting Hallucinogens because they’re built on an open-minded philosophy with personalized care plans tailored just for you. With their encouragement and support as well as treatment options (depending on how long ago use began) all geared towards helping get over Hallucinogens.

Why it’s important to seek help

Hallucinogen addiction treatment is important because hallucinogens are generally addictive substances that can lead to several long-term consequences. Hallucinogen addicts, their families, and friends should not wait until the problem worsens before seeking help for them.

The sooner you seek Hallucinogen Rehabilitation Center assistance, the better your chances of recovery will be. Hallucinations are incredibly powerful; they produce intense emotions in those who experience them which often results in an increased desire to use again after experiencing one or more episodes of hallucinations. Hallucination also causes cognitive function issues such as trouble paying attention, concentrating, and making decisions due to excessive dopamine release by certain parts of the brain during periods where users have been under the influence. Hallucinations and the resulting cognitive dysfunction can have a major, negative impact on relationships with those close to you as well as employment or school performance if Hallucinogen use continues unabated.

How to find the best rehab center for your needs 

It can be hard to find the best Hallucinogen Rehab center, especially if you are not sure what your needs are. It is important at this point that you get some professional help to guide and direct you in deciding on where would be the most appropriate place for Hallucinogen treatment. The right hallucinogens addiction treatment center will have people who specialize in helping those with Hallucinogen addiction problems such as substance abuse counselors, psychologists, medical doctors, nurses, etc. Once they know more about your specific situation, they will come up with an individualized plan of Hallucinogens rehab which may include things like different types of therapy sessions or medications that may work better for someone dealing with Hallucinogens addiction.

Hallucinogens treatment centers usually have Hallucinogen addiction specialists who are knowledgeable in providing Hallucinogens rehab which will be tailored to your needs and situation so you can get the best Hallucinogenic drug help possible. They may recommend individual counseling sessions, group therapy, family intervention, or a combination of these types of Hallucinogenic drug treatments during Hallucinogen Rehab Treatment Centers. The right Hallucinogen Addiction Treatment Center should also provide education about hallucinogen abuse as well as different forms of alternative therapies for those with Hallucinogens addiction problems such as substance use disorder counselors, psychologists, medical doctors, etc.

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The recording of the sum of human knowledge for the betterment of humankind was not a high priority in the Ages of Faith in Christian Europe, or for most of the history of the Muslim East. It was never considered that humanity could be improved — the idea of human progress was a secular humanist achievement. It is therefore dishonest to crow about the great libraries of the Middle Ages (which includes the Dark Ages), and the romantic fiction of the monks preserving the classics, without telling us just how many volumes these so-called great Christian libraries comprised.

We have archeological evidence of great libraries in Assyria — an ancient kingdom centered in Iraq but encompassing most of the modern Middle East — and libraries in Egypt, dating to about 1300 BCE. The Library at Alexandria, founded in the 3rd century BCE, collected manuscripts from the entire ancient world, and was a world-class center for teaching and study, copying of documents, and a collection of over 400,000 scrolls. The collection ebbed over the years, possibly due to fire and deliberate depredation, until the whole library had vanished sometime after the murder of Hypatia by a Christian mob in 415 CE.

But look at the solidly Christian period of 500 to 1300: not a library can be found in all of Europe with more that 2,000 volumes, many of them copies of the same title. The well-worn 19th century myth that the monks of the Middle Ages preserved the classics for posterity is doubly false. Not only had there been a great Christian holocaust of books from the old Empire, but only one or two abbots, out of thousands in Europe in any century, ever set their abbots to copying anything but religious works: that was the Benedictine Rule, after all. It wasn’t entirely the monks’ fault: in the greatest abbey of the 13th century, the Abbey of St. Gall, not a single monk could read!

That largely illiterate, cloistered monks would copy and preserve Latin classics infused with an abhorrent paganism beggars belief. What modest copying that did occur in Christendom was centered in Ostrogoth lands where they hated the popes. The only library of the Middle Ages that even approached the depth and breadth of the Alexandrian was the Caliph’s library of the skeptical 10th century of Muslim Spain — at the very time Greek learning had died out in Christian Europe and the Latin classics were denounced as “Devil-inspired.”

The 18th century Enlightenment, which Immanuel Kant aptly described as “man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity,” brought real scholarship and dissemination of knowledge to large numbers of people. It is also what made all great libraries possible — including the one nurtured with a gift from freethinker Thomas Jefferson of more books than any library of the Middle Ages — the Library of Congress, founded on this date in 1800.

Wealth and Democracy What has wealth to do with democracy, anyway? Everything and nothing, as political and economic commentator Kevin Phillips points out in his incisive and devastating Wealth and Democracy. As the author says in his Preface, this would have been a very different book if it had been written in 1999, before the tech stock collapse and 9/11, rather than in 2002. In ten data-stuffed chapters plus an Afterword, Phillips supports his thesis, poetically summarized by the Goldsmith quote above, that in the modern U.S., laissez-faire “is a pretense. Government power and preferment have been used by the rich, not shunned. As wealth concentration grows, especially near the crest of a drawn-out boom, so has upper-bracket control of politics and its ability to shape its own preferment.” In the next 474 pages, Phillips goes on to cover the “political and economic history of U.S. wealth, the U.S. record of speculative finance, the Anglo-Saxon proclivity for technology manias, the overlap between watershed technological innovation and economic inequality, and the connections between wealth concentration and the corruption of politics, government, and public policy.”

A Gilded Age Ball
The party before the hangover:
The financial élites of Spain, Holland and England “partied like it’s 1999” on the eve of their declines. Phillips lists the symptoms before the slides, all of which infect the U.S. today.Wealth and Democracy is not a Socialist critique of Capitalism, but rather a Capitalist critique of excess. Phillips seems more in love with democracy than he is in awe of the invisible hand of the marketplace. As he pointed out in a November 13 interview, unregulated Capitalism inevitably leads to abuse of the system. What he takes pains to point out in his book, however, is that this fact is not only not new, the world has seen its pattern followed at least three times before.

The tilting of the US economy from production to finance as a source of wealth will spell the end of our economic dominance — just as it spelled the end of the Spanish (1530-1588), Dutch (1600-1702), and British (1815-1914) economic dominance. We’re already the world’s largest debtor nation. We’ve had a good run from 1945 to the tech bubble bust in 2001. What happens when our creditors call in their loans?

My particular favorites in Wealth and Democracy are Chapter 4, from which I drew for the symptoms of decline, and Part III, about how “American wealth nourished itself on government influence and power — and vice versa.” In the four chapters comprising Part II, Phillips explains that corporate socialism has been popular since, oh, 1787. That’s when the first Constitutional Convention went on record encouraging industry and “mechanics,” promoting fisheries, forges, factories and new technologies. Why do you think patent protection was written into the Constitution?

Kevin Phillips
Kevin Philips
A 30-year veteran of political and economic commentary, Phillips is the author of The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990) and a commentator on National Public Radio. Federal land grants and tariff suspensions on iron subsidized several private fortunes for railroad entrepreneurs: Vanderbilt, Gould, Sage, Harriman, Hill and Astor (who bribed his way to a fur fortune and profited from the state-financed Erie Canal). That of course required steel, which Carnegie, Frick and Phipps supplied. And oil, which JD Rockefeller (the first billionaire), W Rockefeller, Payne, Rogers, Flagler and Harkness supplied. Of course, financing all this speculation and industrial expansion were the moneylenders: JP Morgan, A Mellon, R Mellon, Green, Baker, Stillman and Schiff. And government granting of exclusive franchises only cemented the relationship between state power and private fortune.

Eli Whitney was one of the first federal contractors. Samuel Colt profited out of gunmaking during the Civil War. And industry still has their hands out for those fat government contracts. That’s how the major fortunes were made in this country. War is always good for business, and for war profiteers, dating back to the Revolution and the Civil War, but continuing through WW I and WW II, on through Korea and Vietnam (technically, the last two were “police actions”). Hey, maybe it’s not too late for me to invest in the US-Iraq War?

Government subsidy of pharmaceutical research (from penicillin in WW II to 2/3 of all government biomed spending by 1965, with nothing for the public in return), telecommunications ($90 billion spectrum giveaways, with nothing for the public in return), and the development of the Internet (a Defense Department project) are only the most recent fortune-builders… for the private sector. And that doesn’t even count the state and local governments subsidizing public works through private contractors — especially stadiums for millionaires, like the ones in my hometown of Baltimore.

If there is a cautionary tale in Wealth and Democracy, it is that a U.S. government “concerned with protecting wealth may do so at the expense of democratic procedures and may try to blame terrorism rather than flawed policy for hard times.” As we enter the second dip of a W-dip recession, Wealth and Democracy sounds like a book for our time.
Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich by Kevin Phillips, 2002. 474pp, index, bibliography, notes. New York: Broadway Books (Random House). ISBN 0-7679-0533-4

“Congress shall make no law… abridging…
the right of the people peaceably to assemble….”and

“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right…
to be confronted with the witnesses against him.”

THE DESIGN OBJECTION

Camera cops do nothing to reduce the underlying problem of why people feel the need to run red lights. Red lights are a poor substitute for better highway design. Traffic lights must be coordinated to expedite traffic flow rather than slow it to gridlock. A driver who passes through intersections with ill-timed lights naturally speeds up to catch the next light. Why needlessly frustrate drivers? A smooth traffic flow will maintain calm drivers and orderly intersections, thus markedly reducing the incentive to run red lights. If the purpose of camera cops is safety, isn’t this a better way to achieve it than the punitive one?

A small price to pay, you say? Perhaps so. OK, so privacy is already invaded in everyday life: just look at all the cameras that watch us in banks, in stores, and in a lot of corporate buildings in our business centers. I’ve seen them, but I’ve also seen what they have in common: they’re in private hands; they are not part of a government-controlled bureaucracy and their controllers don’t have the power of arrest and trial at their disposal. I don’t like having cameras watch me, but I understand theft-reduction concerns in private business. And I have a choice about which businesses I will patronize. However the road system is a government monopoly so I have no choice in what roads I use. But let’s look at my next objection.

THE RIGHTS OBJECTION

A camera is not human; a camera is a machine. That is obvious, you might say, but here is the real problem with that: camera cops are being used in lieu of a human witness — a witness who can be called to testify and be cross-examined. You can’t cross examine a machine. A machine has no rights; a human must. If we elevate a machine to the level of a human, by instilling in it the capacity convict, you are debasing the humanity of the human. Human beings have a Sixth Amendment right to face an accuser. Just who is doing the accusing when the only witness is a contraption of metal and glass? Is convenience a sufficient reason to discard a constitutional right?

In fact, opportunistic contractors and politicians are promoting exactly that: the convenience of red-light cameras. The more cameras we have watching dangerous intersections, the more cops we free up to pursue other crimes. You just can’t have a cop at every intersection, they say, because it isn’t cost-effective. While this is true, it is also true that most municipalities already know which intersections are the most dangerous ones. It is, indeed, part of the police department’s job to allocate resources judiciously. In fact, camera cops are not installed at only the most dangerous intersections: they are installed at the intersections with the highest volume of traffic. Why do you think that is? The reason brings me to my final issue with camera cops.

THE PROFIT OBJECTION

Tickets issued on the basis of camera cop “evidence” are usually paid without demur, as I mentioned above. How can you argue with a machine? Here’s how: by pointing out that traffic enforcement should not be a profit center. Camera cops are marketed to eager municipalities by hungry contractors who argue that it’s a win-win situation. The contractor makes about 30%-50% of each ticket paid; the municipality gets the ticket revenue — and people become a little more careful in high-volume intersections. And don’t think for a minute that there isn’t a profit motive for insurance companies: they can charge a higher rate if you have tickets on your driving record! I think it’s wonderful that people are encouraged to be better behaved behind the wheel, but isn’t it just a little unseemly for law enforcement to be contracted out?

Given my four reasons — the design objection, the privacy objection, the rights objection, and the profit objection — there is ample cause to consider camera cops a vice, whatever their safety virtues. I don’t think I would even object to a police officer taking pictures at notoriously dangerous intersections (as opposed to the merely profitable ones), as long as he or she remains a human witness who can be subpoenaed to testify in support of what was witnessed. That way, the camera is a servant, not a master. No one wants lawbreakers to get away with traffic violations, especially if their misbehavior results in injury or death. But isn’t that why we have living, breathing police officers on the public payroll?

Camera cops, or red-light cameras, or radar cameras, are a cop-out. They will not prevent anyone from being killed at an intersection. Their only effect is after the fact. What we really need are red lights. In a few rear-view mirrors. Flashing from police cars.
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