A Question & Progress Report on Antidepressant Withdrawal and Recovery Center

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Sun, 04 Dec 2005 00:55:41 -0500

[drugawareness] A Question & Progress Report on

Antidepressant Withdrawal and Recovery Center

 

 

 

As most of you know we are currently putting together an

antidepressant withdrawal center in Carthage, IL on the old Carthage

College campus consisting of 13 buildings on 22 acres (approximately

one and a half city blocks). Carthage is a small very progressive

community located about two and a half hours from two major airports:

St Louis and Chicago. The Quad Cities consists of Rock Island and

Moline, IL and Davenport and Bettendorf, IA. Their airport is only one

and a half hours away from Carthage.

 

The community of Carthage has been very excited about having us come.

They are rolling out the red carpet for our center and offering every

type of help available to us. They have monitored the progress we have

made as a group over the past several years and very much like what

they see. I am overjoyed by their response and it warms my heart to

see the type of enthusiastic welcome we have received from them!

 

Not only will our center be a withdrawal center to provide safe

guidance off these deadly drugs, but I also envision it as a gathering

place for all who have been adversely affected by these drugs whether

they were the ones who took them or those who associated with those

who took them. Then each week we hope to focus on a different reaction

to these meds and have those who are most interested in those

reactions come to the center, for example: suicide, murder/suicide,

child suicide, divorce, diabetes, false accusations of abuse, sexual

abuse, alcoholism, fibromyalgia, cancer, violent acts, etc., etc., etc.

 

For years so many have begged and pleaded for a place to go to meet

with others who have basically " walked in their shoes " when it comes

to the nightmare these drugs can cause in one's life. There will be

opportunity to meet with others who have had to struggle through

similar issues due to these drugs. Educational seminars will be

offered to any who want to gather and share with others in a healing

situation. I envision many of the great teachers and healers of our

time coming to share knowledge with us in the 600 - 700 seat

auditorium at the center.

 

Bringing families together to share their experience has been one of

the most healing elements we have found through these horrific

antidepressant-induced nightmares. With every family in this country

having been adversely affected in some way by these drugs, I want this

center in Carthage, near the center of America, to be the place for

the healing to take place.

 

Individual practitioners of all types will have private offices on the

campus to make all of the healing modalities available that we have

found helpful in antidepressant withdrawal - acupunturists,

chiropractors, hyperbaric oxygen treatment, nutritionists,

herbologists, aroma therapists, etc. In this way patients will have

access to these practitioners in one local area along with access to

other patients going through similar things and the guidance of those

who have made it through coupled with educational helps. (If you are

an practioner who is interested in having an office at the center

please contact us. There will be huge price breaks on rent for

practioners.)

 

Besides a very large auditorium for educational seminars, we hope to

soon have facilities for television and radio broadcasts as well.

 

Room and board will be available on campus. All natural meals to help

in the recovery from the effects of the drugs will be served on

campus. Room and board for one room for one person will run from $85

per night to $500.00 per week. As more rooms are remodeled and become

available the cost may decrease.

 

We need to hear back from as many of you who are interested in staying

at the center for any length of time and for any reason. In order to

show that this is a viable project, our investors need to know how

many people are interested in coming. Please let us know ASAP if you

think you might want to come EVER to the center or know anyone else

who might so that they can see the interest that exists in having such

a center.

 

The withdrawal center in Carthage is also associated with a non-profit

foundation which will assist in funding both the center and the

International Coalition for Drug Awareness. So for those of you who

would like to help us with this project and would like a tax write off

for a charitable donation it can be taken care of in this way.

 

Thank you for your assistance,

 

Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, Executive Director,

International Coalition for Drug Awareness

www.drugawareness.org & author of Prozac: Panacea

or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare (800-280-0730)