DR. CHANNING BOLICK: “THE ART IS TO FIND NATURAL ALTERNATIVES TO ALL HEALTH DISORDERS”

One of the problems we face today is the fact that the pharmaceutical industry often works via the medical doctors to get the patients onto psychiatric drugs. From there, the patient can become addicted for life, not only on one drug, but on several.
Dr. Channing Bolick knows what is really occurring with the patients who are being treated by the doctors for anxiety and depression. He gives us some interesting insight into the actual situation that is occurring in today’s society all the way from infant to the elderly. He has his own Chiropractic Clinic in Maitland, Florida and seeks to find the right natural remedy for each of his patients whether it be nutrition, chiropractic or acupuncture. Along with this, he works with the patient on a treatment that attends the coming off of addictive psych drugs and the return of health and a healthy life style for the patient.

“What is your educational background?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “I got my Bachelor’s Degree at the University of South Carolina with a double major in biology and chemistry, my Doctor of Chiropractic at Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa and then I received a degree in acupuncture from the International Academy of Medical Acupuncture. And I have a certification in radiology .”

“Have you given lectures?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “I have given hundreds of lectures.”

“How do you operate?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “I own my own clinic, the Bolick Clinic & Maitland Physical Therapy, and I work there together with other doctors, including Medical Doctors.”

“How many patients have you treated?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “I have treated thousands of patients.”

“What is your experience in relation to drugs in general?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “I see that a lot of people are taking unnecessary drugs and many are addicted to drugs who should never have had a drug in the first place. For example, someone gets prescribed a psychiatric drug for a headache – this kind of nonsense! The awful thing about it is the patient doesn’t know he’s taking a psychiatric drug. The medical doctor tells him it’s a headache pill. Or even a person has a pain in some part of the body and they end up giving him a cocktail of drugs. Before you know it, they can’t figure out why he is so sick, because he is taking 13 different kinds of medication and it isn’t really solving the problem.”

“Do you know how people become convinced they have to take psychiatric drugs? What is the marketing trick of the industry or the doctor in general?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “One of the tricks is they scare people into taking them. For example, someone goes to the doctor and they feel they have a mild depression and they are just not feeling quite right. So the doctor suggests that they take some Prozac. So they start taking Prozac. Then the person comes back six weeks later and says they feel wonderful and they want to get off the drug. But the doctor says ‘you can’t do that because if you stop taking the drug you might have a relapse and the relapse could be far worse than your original depression. So you need to stay on it until it becomes the right time and then we will put you on a maintenance dose’ – whatever nonsense that is. I can’t begin to tell you how many people come to me who are on a maintenance dose of Prozac or Zoloft or some other kind of psychiatric drug which should be deemed malpractice. No one has a deficiency of Prozac in the body. There is no such thing as a maintenance dose of those drugs. The doctors scare the patient into conforming to this maintenance dose thing.”

“Do you know of any other marketing tricks of the pharmaceutical industry?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “I saw one recently in a magazine which had cartoon characters shaped as eggs. There was this female egg talking to her doctor telling him she felt that needed Prozac because her daughter thought she wasn’t much fun to be around anymore. The doctor agreed that they definitely don’t want her little girl to grow up without having fun so he puts the mother on Prozac. Well, at the beginning of this cartoon it gives the beginning of the lady’s name and the city she lives in but as you read a bit further you see this small print at the bottom stating that the cartoon is not actually based on a real situation or a real person. What a clever way to pull on someone’s emotional heart strings leading them to believe that they need to take psychiatric drugs for their children’s benefit! It plays upon people’s fears is what it does.”

“How exactly do they do this?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “They find out what people are afraid of and then they exploit that fear to sell you this class of drugs. Are they afraid of depression; are they afraid of losing their job because they are depressed; are they afraid of being upset with their staffs or their children. They find out which one of the fear buttons it is and then they exploit it and say they have the chemical solution to their problem. This is how they get their foot in the door.”

“How many kinds of fears are there that they can exploit?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “There are literally an unlimited number of them because it is a personal perspective kind of thing. They just try to find out which one of these are the most common and those are the ones they exploit.”

“What are the most common kinds of psychiatric drugs you run into at your job?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “Antidepressants mostly and the other is anti-anxiety medication.”

“What is the favorite target-market of the pharmaceutical industry?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “They hit very hard on the elderly these days because they may live alone and might not have many friends anymore or their friends and family have died. They convince them they need to take psychiatric drugs because they are clinically depressed. It’s hard for the elderly to die a natural death in this country and not end up on a psychiatric drug before life is over because somewhere on the line the doctors assume that the person is depressed and he needs this drug. The elderly do not rebel against this.”

“Do all patients actually take the medicine prescribed by their doctors?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “No. A lot of my elderly patients have doctors who think their patients are taking psychiatric drugs when they are not. They take the prescription and wise up to it and throw it away. But the medical doctor harps on this so bad that they actually lie to their medical doctor and tell him that they are taking it when they are not, just so they don’t have to hear the rhetoric and suffer all the guilt and pressure all these MDs put on them to take these drugs.”

“What about patients taking other medications or drugs unknown to their doctors?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “People who are doing psychiatric drugs are often doing other forms of self medication as well that their doctor doesn’t know about. Maybe even doing alcohol, marijuana, cocaine. This makes the whole thing more dangerous. It doesn’t take long for the person to develop a very nasty drug abuse habit from where they started out with a psychiatric drug.”

“What drives the patient to do additional drugs and go to self prescribed medications?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “The idea is that if you don’t feel as well as you should, there is a chemical solution to this problem. So if the psychiatrist can’t find the right chemical for them, they start to create their own little pharmacy at home. The drug industry has never taken responsibility for any of this nor do they acknowledge what goes on.”

“Shouldn’t the doctors be keeping tabs on what their patients are taking?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “They don’t. It’s so reckless of the psychiatrists and medical doctors to not routinely and individually discuss with their patients what they are doing in their life style and what recreational drugs and alcohol they are doing on top of the psychiatric drugs or even take a blood test or urine specimen to see what kind of drugs are in the body; but it is never done. They just keep giving it to them over and over.”

“Are the pharmaceutical companies pushing this via the medical doctors for the sake of money?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “It’s definitely the money. There are billions and billions of dollars at stake here. Some of the psychiatric drugs are their biggest money makers. They try to figure a way to make it so every man, woman and child, no matter what their age, needs one of these drugs.”

“Why is the money at stake here?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “With other classes of drugs, a person needs them only for a short period of time. For example, if he has a bacterial infection he needs it for a few weeks and then he doesn’t need it any more. You also have female related drugs that are targeted for only a certain time in their lives. But with these psychiatric drugs they try to condition it so that every single person needs it for some purpose at some point in their life and they try to get them on it and then keep them on it for life.”

“How do they start out getting them on the drugs?”

Dr. Channing Bolick:“They start out by putting a child on it in their youth for this attention deficit fallacy, for example. And then, as teenagers, they say they are having problems coping and so they put them on anti-depressants. Then they give the young adult group who has social difficulties and problems in the work place, high anxiety pills.”

“What happens when they get to middle age and older?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “When they get to middle age, they experience depression so they keep them on antidepressants. Then there is menopause and andropause . They call that premenopausal dysphoric disorder PMDD and they re-market Prozac under a different name (Serafem) to target that group of women as well. They have found a way to position it where it’s an unlimited market sector of people that they can pass this garbage out to.
“You get to the elderly and you have people who have lost several of their friends and family members and they get lonely so they give them antidepressants for that. And that is what is so dangerous and alarming about it and that is why it is so profitable. It isn’t a market share that has to be so specialized. You can target everybody on it at one time or another.”

“Is it true that one of the reasons for this profitable market is that emotions and bad feelings have never been classified and really scientifically looked at?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “That’s true. The psychiatric manual, DSM , has never been scientifically researched or studied out. Some of these mental health disorders have been classified in this book by a simple show of hands at the annual psychiatric meetings. No real research or thought behind it at all. Government and private insurances don’t believe a whole lot down this line because the diagnosis’ that are out of that manual are things the insurance companies don’t like to pay for and psychiatric health benefits are very limited due to their ineffectiveness. That’s why they have their own separate classification book from other branches of medicine. Every other doctor and physician would get their diagnosis from the ICDE.9 book and find diagnosis for real disorders. But these other diseases are so made up and ridiculous that the psychiatrists actually have their own book that they themselves have invented and govern.”

“Could one talk about conspiracy here between psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical industry?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “Sure. One hand feeds the other. If the psychiatrist didn’t have drugs to pass out, he is limited to whatever medical procedure he can do such as electric shock therapy, lobotomy and radical brain surgery, and other similar quackeries that torture people’s brains – brutalize them. That’s all they have in their books, and the public has wizened up and seen the horror of shock therapy and lobotomy these days and aren’t supportive of them. Drugs, on the other hand, are something that is socially acceptable. So the psychiatrists are very dependent on the drug industry. If they don’t have a new drug to give to the patient they are out of business.”

“What keeps the patient hanging on to taking a drug when it isn’t providing them with a cure for their condition?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “Let’s say a person has attended a psychiatrist for a decade or more and he has been on the current medication for a couple of years. The patient starts to become apathetic or upset about this. They’re not getting any better and in fact they’re getting worse. So the only thing the psychiatrist can hope for is that some new drug might be released to solve their problem. One would think that the patient would get tired of it. But so many keep hanging in there in the hope that some other drug that they haven’t tried yet will help them.”

“So is it a never ending, money making story?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “That’s right and that’s what keeps people holding on to that line of therapy. If there were only a few drugs available to the psychiatrists and no other drugs being produced in this area it would almost completely ruin psychiatry as a profession. No one would stay in a therapy if the cures they prescribe do not produce results.”

“How do the psychiatrists convince the government these drugs are a good thing?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “The pharmaceutical industry has a lot of money and so they make a lot of campaign donations and people favorable to their causes get re-elected.”

“What are the side effects you personally have seen with the patients who were or on psychiatric drugs?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “The drugs make people worse. I have seen people on anti-anxiety medications who were far worse on them than off of them. These drugs can make these people experience the things they fear.”

“How do they do this?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “There are drug residuals that are stored in your fat cells that can be released at a later day into your blood stream whether you are taking the drug or not. This causes a re-experiencing of the effects of this drug – for example anxiety. Just exercising a bit can flush these residuals out into their blood stream. Then they have to take more of that very same drug to try to handle that horrific anxiety and depression that he is now experiencing. So the drug is actually producing the thing the patient is trying to get rid of.”

“What happens if these residuals remain in the body or if the person remains on the drugs?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “These drugs overtime will make the person more and more dependent on them for the treatment. Anyone who hasn’t had these residuals cleaned out of their body will re-experience the bad feelings for the rest of their existence. It creates an actual potential for further trouble in this area. “Just remember LSD was actually created by the psychiatrist anyway in the late 1950s and 1960s. Congress got all over the psychiatrist and they had to back down on it. Just because the more modern class of drugs don’t give as many bad effects as LSD did, it affects the person just as bad and they are every bit as dangerous. They are just a bit milder and coming from a different angle.
“Today most people wouldn’t put up with taking LSD for psychiatric disorder. Twenty years from now we may all look back on Prozac with the same hard eye that we look back on LSD now.”

“Can you give us more side effects you personally have seen?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “Sexual dysfunction is another side effect. I have patients tell me they have this from taking psychiatric drugs. Other things are anger management problems. They get angry with family members. The anger was after taking the psychiatric drug – not before. The person was normal, became depressed and got some psych drug. Then all of a sudden they started feeling angry.”

“Have you seen other side effects?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “Another dangerous one is when people take alcohol on top of psychiatric drugs and the anger can really manifest in a situation like that. Two of these things are commonly taken together.”

“Can you give us an example of this in your own experience with patients?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “I had a patient one time who was taking Prozac for mild depression. One day he went out on a Friday night and had a few beers, went home to his wife, had some minor domestic trouble there and it escalated to the point where he choked her and she called 911 and he was taken to the police station where he was arrested and actually had to go to court – all because of the Prozac he was taking. The alcohol had aggravated the situation. Someone on psychiatric drugs who takes alcohol is likely to experience intense misemotion and things are so unreal to them that they could hurt themselves or another person and not even realize what they’re doing. It happens all too frequently.”

“Can psychotropic drugs lower IQ?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “Yes, it can lower IQ. It changes the way a person thinks and it could change their emotion. Because the cells in the pathway of the brain are permanently altered, it’s unlimited to the things that could be damaged on someone.”

“What is the first thing you do to help people who come to you who are on psychiatric drugs?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “When someone has been on alcohol for a long time and quits cold turkey, he gets DTs from detoxing . Same thing happens with someone on psychiatric drugs. They are very deficient on the B vitamins, so they start feeling better once they are taking the B vitamins especially it is very important to take a high dose of B1 – anywhere from 500 to 2000 mgs a day to start with. Another great thing to do is to have them take calcium and magnesium which are mineral supplements. This calms the nerves of the person down and gets him into a better nutritional state. Repeated alcohol and drug abuse depletes the calcium and magnesium stores in the body. This is why alcoholics fall down and break their hips all the time. Calcium and magnesium do such a good job of handling anxiety and depression that they can often stop taking their psychiatric drugs.”

“How does a deficiency of B1 relate to anxiety or depression?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “We live in a toxic world and people can have unhealthy life styles, drink too much alcohol, take other classes of drugs and deplete their B vitamins especially B1. As a result, it creates anxiety and depression just because they don’t have enough B1 in their system. Any person who experiences anxiety should be put on B1 and calcium and magnesium and see if that doesn’t resolve their problem before ever taking psych drugs.”

“Do you also give nutritional advice as regards vitamins?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “Definitely, we suggest programs that are specific to what a person’s circumstances are and try to target him in that way. We don’t try to put people on a cookie cutter type of program though.”

“If you have people with anxiety or psychiatric problems, what other advices do you give them to handle the situation?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “The bottom line is they need to find a way to get themselves off of that stuff. We encourage them to talk to their doctor and usually we can give them nutritional advice that is helpful to them. The valerian root can be very helpful to help control anxiety. There are lots of natural things that can be done for a person. People don’t usually realize how badly these drugs are dragging them down, so once they are off of them they feel better.”

“What is your motto for your clinic?”

Dr. Channing Bolick: “The art is to find natural alternatives to all health disorders. Nutritional therapies, chiropractic treatments – whatever the person might need to actually handle their situation. We provide that.”

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