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Our Mission
- We won’t promote the use of any medicine in a form that can lead to dependence or addiction. We are opposed to treatments that result in short term gain followed by long term pain. We have and will continue to develop treatments that provide long term gain as well as the short term gain.
- We won’t promote the use of the commonly addictive benzodiazepines Flunitrazepam, Nitrazepam, Alprazolam, Clonazepam, Triazolam, Lorazepam, Clobazam and Bromazepam. We will only make available the less addictive Benzodiazepines Temazepam, Oxazepam and Diazepam combined with other non-addictive calming and sleeping agents such as SNRI medications or Major Tranquillizers. These medication combinations give patients the benefits of Benzodiazepines but stop them from taking large harmful and addictive amounts.
- We will continue to work on developing more effective combination medications containing already proven, safe, low cost medications for detoxification and relapse prevention.
- We Will make optimum use of modern technology to improve the speed, effectiveness, availability and affordability of assessments, diagnosis and treatments for people with NeuroPsychoSocial and Addiction Problems.
- We will concentrate on making it possible for sick and injured people and their families to be able to discover for themselves what their biopsychosocial problems are, to understand the nature of those problems, and to understand what the best treatments for those problems are.
- We will use websites and the internet, very effective on-line checklists, downloaded reports and information handouts, and free or low cost e-books.
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Modern technology has produced wonderful advances in many areas of medicine, yet mental health still largely works the way it did in the 1930’s. Technological innovation and progress in diagnostic and treatment methods has been tragically slow for people suffering with NeuroPsychoSocial and addiction problems. This has given rise to long waiting lists and frequent shortages of desperately needed services, and to lack of progress in effectiveness, except with medications. If it wasn’t for new medications Mental Health would not be much further advanced today than it was in our grandparents’ time. Mental Health should not be as dependent on pharmaceuticals as it is today.
In Mental Health old fashioned labour intensive methods necessitate the services of highly capable Psychiatrists and Psychologists who take 7 to 15 years to be trained and who are therefore scarce and costly. Highly trained, very expensive professionals are needed because the tools and systems they use are so primitive and unproductive. This has kept costs impossibly high, especially for the lower socioeconomic groups, where the vast majority of the people are who need Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Services.
There are many people graduating with 3 or 4 year degrees from our educational institutions and many people in our communities who are mature, wise and have a great deal of life experience who want to help with the Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol epidemic. We will give them ever increasingly effective tools and practical training that will empower them to help us get on top of the Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol problems that at present are on top of us, because of our archaic tools and methods.
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