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Beta Blockers and the Materialist Tyranny of the War on Drugs

by Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher

November 6, 2024



I've been on beta blockers for anxiety for years now and I recently decided that I finally wanted to quit.

How naive of me.

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I found out that quitting may be impossible. Why? Because we have outlawed all alternatives to Big Pharma meds of this kind. Meanwhile, the daily use of a beta blocker has changed my body's biochemical baseline such that my body 'panics' when it no longer senses the drug in its system.

DOGMATICALLY BLIND PSYCHIATRISTS

In researching this issue online, I was surprised to find a lot of glib praise for anxiolytic beta blockers from psychiatrists... and almost no talk about the difficulty of withdrawal, except for the usual sanctimonious and self-serving spiel admonishing us to see one's doctor for help in getting off such meds. Yes, they want us to 'get help' from the same doctors who got us hooked on these drugs in the first place. This is 'all of a piece' with the psychiatrist's support for dependence-causing antidepressants 1. Psychiatrists see no problem with mucking about with a patient's biochemical baseline, provided that they can do so in a way that turns that patient into a client for life.

Such indiscriminate praise for beta blockers is not just bad science, it's bad philosophy: it conveys the idea that drugs should be used merely to make life livable and not to help a person thrive. In fact, both beta blockers and antidepressants seem designed to KEEP a patient from thriving.

A WAR ON CREATIVITY

I can't imagine Allen Ginsberg writing 'Howl!' while under the influence of mood-damping drugs like Inderal and Prozac -- but then maybe that's the point: the powers-that-be do not want poets writing poems like 'Howl!', which is a caustic lament against the unimaginative materialism 2 of Americans-- nor do they want authors like HP Lovecraft writing opium 3 -inspired stories like 'Celaphais,' in which the homeless protagonist wanders through 'the spectral summer of narcotic flowers and humid seas of foliage that bring wild and many-coloured dreams,' nor do they find any benefit whatsoever in the exquisite appreciation of nature provided by the use of drugs like morphine 4 , as described most particularly by Edgar Allan Poe in 'A Tale of the Ragged Mountains.'

So when materialist psychiatrists approve only of psychiatric drugs that neither elate nor inspire (in contradistinction to time-honored plant medicines, for instance, which often do both), they are not giving us some scientifically objective verdict about what actually works in this world: they are telling HOW they think we should go about curing ourselves: namely, in a seemly way that does not conduce to undue happiness or excitement on our part.

In short, 'Everything as it should be, just like good Christians,' as the phlegmatic old nanny wistfully remarks in 'Uncle Vanya' by Anton Chekov.

But such assumption-laden pharmacological beliefs can be philosophically gainsaid by ordinary people without a medical degree... unless, of course, we legally require Americans to approach the world from a materialist viewpoint. How? By outlawing all substances that would help us approach the world of spirituality, healing and medicine from an holistic point of view, the nature-friendly viewpoint that is both explicitly and implicitly adopted by indigenous credos around the world, as in the Cosmovision of the Andes.

ALLEN GINSBERG V MATERIALISM

Speaking of Allen Ginsberg, he was way ahead of his time in diagnosing the materialistic tyranny of the War on Drugs, as is demonstrated by the following citation from the beat poet as referenced by editor Oliver Harris in 'The Yage Letters Redux' by William Burroughs.

'A materialist consciousness is attempting to preserve itself from dissolution by restriction and persecution of experience of the transcendental. One day perhaps the earth will be dominated by the illusion of separate consciousness, the bureaucrats having triumphed in seizing control of all roads of communication with the divine and restricting traffic. But sleep and death cannot evade the great dream of being and the victory of the bureaucrats of illusion is only an illusion of their separate world of consciousness.' -- Allen Ginsberg 5


Unfortunately, almost all the 'movers and shakers' in the war against the Drug War are materialists and work in environments where the funding comes ultimately, directly or indirectly, from the pockets of chemically dependent Americans like myself. (Where else do you think that Big Pharma gets its enormous budget for studying psychiatric meds?) I'm talking about authors like Rick Strassman6, Rick Doblin7, DJ Nutt8 and Carl Hart9. They are dogmatically incapable of understanding the full injustice of the materialistic War on Drugs, at least to the extent that they are true to their materialistic bona fides and remember upon which side their toast is buttered. And why? Because as materialists, they are obliged to ignore all glaringly obvious and time-honored benefits of drugs (all uses that make sense merely because of common sense psychology) and to search instead for proof of efficacy under a microscope and/or in studies that attempt to meticulously ignore all the contextual psychological 'biases' that are crucial in making holistic drugs effective in the first place.

These are the kind of authors who talk about 'treatment-resistant depression,' thereby implying that SSRIs and SNRIs have 'sorted' depression,, as the Brits would say, but that there are a minority of folks whose finicky biochemistry does not accept these wonderful cures, in the same way that 30% of milk drinkers are lactose intolerant and cannot enjoy the blessings of milk.

But if materialists have 'sorted' depression, I never got the memo. Was I happy and did not know it? No. It's just that my definition of an effective antidepressant is one that allows me to live large, not one that merely makes my gloominess survivable, which is the low bar set by materialist science for such drugs.

Besides, the use of the term 'lactose intolerant' is just a linguistic exercise in blaming the victim: it is used by PR firms to whitewash the downsides of milk. This is a linguistic indulgence that we never dispense for demonized drugs. Far less than 30% of cocaine users are 'cocaine intolerant,' since the vast majority of drug users use responsibly, as Carl Hart reports in 'Drug Use for Grownups,' but we never blame users for their misuse of psychoactive substances but rather the substances that they misuse (bearing in mind that the term 'misuse' is often just a synonym for mere 'use' in the fanatically biased Christian Science lexicon of the Drug Warrior).

BLAMING DRUGS

This is the whole anti-scientific problem with substance prohibition: it blames drugs for problems that are caused by human beings and their bad social policies (including fearmongering, a refusal to educate, and a refusal to provide regulated product for desired substances). The Drug War is therefore superstitious and anti-scientific and just plain silly: it is as ignorant as outlawing fire because it can burn our fingers. And the worst part about it is: the Drug War is an eternal war. Agencies like the DEA do not want to end drug problems -- to do so would be to end their perceived relevance in the world and jeopardize their shamefully large multi-billion-dollar budget. They want to keep screaming 'drugs' (PCP 10, ICE, crack cocaine 11 12 , oxy, Fentanyl!) thereby promoting their use by rebellious young people whom we refuse to educate about safe use (and whom we refuse to supply with regulated product), with the hope that more young people will die and that the agency can then turn around and blame these new DEA-caused deaths on drugs themselves, thus 'justifying' still more obscene allocations of money on behalf of locking up American minorities and killing socially conscious protestors in Latin America (see, for instance, 'Drug War capitalism 13 ' by Dawn Paley14). What an enormous and seemingly never-ending scam!

In short, the Drug War kills far more Americans than would have ever died had the country not taking the unprecedented step of outlawing Mother Nature, a step which is so palpably anti-democratic and anti-Christian that the mind boggles, especially when so many of the defenders of this policy claim to be Christians themselves -- Christians whose ancestors came here to escape religious persecution, the same persecution that these 'Christians' now lavish upon those who find spiritual and emotional support in time-honored plant medicines and fungi, substances which the Judeo-Christian God himself told us were good.

THOMAS SZASZ WAS RIGHT

Thomas Szasz was right: Americans just need to grow up when it comes to drugs15. This means, first and foremost, that we need to stop holding drug use to safety standards that we do not apply to any other risky activity on planet Earth, no, not even to free-climbing or swimming with sharks -- or to driving a car, for that matter! If we had the same risk sensitivity for these latter activities, Americans would still be riding horses -- and even that activity would have been banned after the well-publicized death of Christopher Reeves, which would have scared us into renouncing horseback riding once and for all.

To repeat: the claim that antidepressants 'work' is a philosophical claim, not a scientific one, since the veracity of that claim depends entirely on how one defines the word 'work,' that is, on what one believes would or should constitute a 'cured' state for the depressed. For folks like myself, a cure for my depression would mean that I would be allowed to 'live large' and be the kind of person I want to be in life, but if antidepressants 'work,' they do not do so in that fashion. To the contrary, they hold me back from being all that I can be -- and the most that I can say for them after 40 years' worth of use is that they make depression livable, which is faint praise indeed, especially when we consider that outlawed drugs can exceed that stinting result by leaps and bounds.

PAUL STAMETS' CURE FOR STUTTERING

Paul Stamets16 cured his teenage stammering problem in one single afternoon with the help of a handful of psilocybin mushrooms, but the materialist does not consider such cures to be 'real.'17 Why not? Because the materialist expects to find proof of efficacy under a microscope or in studies so controlled as to ignore the potential for holistically inspired healing entirely. The best we can expect from them is for them to eventually schedule a clinical trial in which psilocybin is specifically studied for its power to end stuttering -- which will be decades from now, however, since the piecemeal approach of the materialist means that they must first study psilocybin for treating PTSD, then depression, then anxiety.... all under the absurd assumption that these conditions have nothing whatsoever to do with each other and are as causally unconnected as an ankle sprain and a headache. But again this is not objective science at work: it is dogmatic materialistic presumption which imposes separation where there is none in order to produce the shameless disease-mongering of the DSM manual.

CONCLUSION

It's no wonder that psychiatrists would be slow to jettison their materialist assumptions about drugs, however. They stand to lose a lot of money once they accept the proposition that drugs like psilocybin can be used holistically to achieve actual cures. Just think how much money the healthcare industry could have gotten out of Paul Stamets over the years had they gotten to him before he ingested those mushrooms. They could have diagnosed his problem as anxiety and put him on beta blockers for life. The money in psychiatry comes from TREATING the problems of patients, after all, not from curing them.



Author's Follow-up: January 4, 2025

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Note that I am not saying that beta blockers are bad. To the contrary, they may have some good uses and may, for aught I know, be the best thing that's available for certain heart patients. I am not a Drug Warrior, and so I do not believe that drugs are bad in and of themselves, no, not even beta blockers and antidepressants. I may believe that we have not yet found a sensible use for these drugs -- or that most uses are ultimately negative in that they unnecessarily turn the user into a patient for life -- unnecessarily, given that we have outlawed better options. We must, of course, also distinguish between symptomatic use and daily lifetime use in making such judgments. It is far easier to sign off on symptomatic use, whereas daily lifetime use requires a much stricter standard of evaluation.

The main point is this: While prohibition is in force and it outlaws so many potential alternatives to the modern psychoactive pharmacopoeia, our evaluation of such drugs is 'rigged.' We may find that beta blockers, for instance, are the best thing out there for conditions A, B, and C -- but this is a false statement in the age of prohibition -- or at least it is a conclusion that we have no right to draw in light of prohibition, which has outlawed so many potential alternatives and rendered them difficult to even study.

Meanwhile, we cannot help but be suspicious about the fact that the nostrums continually advanced by big pharma for our mind and mood always seem to require us to take them daily for life. The fact that psychiatrists do not even acknowledge this as a downside shows how little value they place on human independence and self-respect. In some ways, I would rather be dependent on a drug dealer than a psychiatrist, for the former does not require me to be a 'patient' but rather just a customer. The former does not consider me sick. The former does not ask me about the last time I considered suicide. The former just charges me for the drugs, not for the privilege of being catechized on my emotional condition.

And yet even lifetime dependency is not bad in and of itself. What is bad is UNWANTED lifetime dependency. And therein lies the problem of prohibition. One may say that they are happy with a lifetime dependency on big pharma meds, but this declaration can only be made in ignorance. Why? Because one just has to assume that the vast pharmacopoeia of outlawed substances has nothing better to offer one. That's all too easy to assume, however, in the age of prohibition since the Drug War has discouraged precisely the kind of research that might convince us otherwise. The media encourages this ignorance by refusing to publish movies 18 and articles that illustrate the positive use of demonized drugs.

And yet the Drug War focuses all talk about drugs on downsides, clearly demonstrating that the Drug Warrior is a hypochondriac by proxy when it comes to drugs. That is one particular world view, a neurotic one at that, not an objective view with which all rational minds must consent.

The answer is to re-legalize substances so that folks can self-prescribe for mood and mind medicine based on their own values and their own ideas about the meaning of life -- self-prescribe, that is, with the ever-available help of pharmacologically savvy empaths19 that can teach them drug use strategies that have been proven to be effective in helping a would-be user to achieve the psychosocial outcomes that they desire -- that THEY desire, mind, not their doctors nor the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.



Discussion Topics

June 02, 2025

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Attention Teachers and Professors: Brian is not writing these essays for his health. (Well, in a way he is, actually, but that's not important now.) His goal is to get the world thinking about the anti-democratic and anti-scientific idiocy of the War on Drugs. You can stimulate your students' brainwashed grey matter on this topic by having them read the above essay and then discuss the following questions as a group!

  1. List some of the many problems associated with "getting off" of SSRIs and SNRIs.

  2. What does Brian mean by "assumption-laden pharmacological beliefs?

  3. In what ways are drug dealers superior to 'mental health' doctors, generally speaking?

  4. Why do so many doctors fail to see the downsides of a lifetime dependency on Big Pharma 20 21 pills?













Notes:

1: Antidepressants and the War on Drugs (up)
2: How materialists lend a veneer of science to the lies of the drug warriors (up)
3: The Truth About Opium by William H. Brereton (up)
4: Three takeaway lessons from the use of morphine by William Halsted, co-founder of Johns Hopkins Medical School (up)
5: The Yage Letters Redux, edited by Oliver Harris (up)
6: Five problems with The Psychedelic Handbook by Rick Strassman (up)
7: Rick Doblin (up)
8: Drug Science (up)
9: What Carl Hart Missed (up)
10: Media Never Changed Its 1970s PCP Propaganda, Just Repurposed It (up)
11: Sigmund Freud's real breakthrough was not psychoanalysis (up)
12: On Cocaine (up)
13: What the drug war tells us about American capitalism (up)
14: Drug War Capitalism (up)
15: Ceremonial Chemistry: the ritual persecution of drugs, addicts, and pushers (up)
16: Paul Stamets (up)
17: Fantastic Fungi: The Big-Screen Revival Tour (up)
18: Glenn Close but no cigar (up)
19: Replacing Psychiatry with Pharmacologically Savvy Shamanism (up)
20: How Drug Company Money Is Undermining Science (up)
21: Why Is Biopharma Paying 75% of The FDA’s Drug Division Budget? (up)


Pharmacologically Savvy Empaths




In an ideal world, we would replace psychiatrists with what I call pharmacologically savvy empaths, compassionate healers with a vast knowledge of psychoactive substances from around the world and the creativity to suggest a wide variety of protocols for their safe use as based on psychological common sense. By so doing, we would get rid of the whole concept of 'patients' and 'treat' everybody for the same thing: namely, a desire to improve one's mind and mood. But the first step toward this change will be to renounce the idea that materialist scientists are the experts when it comes to mind and mood medicine in the first place. This is a category error. The experts on mind and mood are real people with real emotion, not physical doctors whose materialist bona fides dogmatically require them to ignore all the benefits of drugs under the belief that efficacy is to be determined by looking under a microscope.

This materialism blinds such doctors to common sense, so much so that it leads them to prefer the suicide of their patient to the use of feel-good medicines that could cheer that patient up in a trice. For the fact that a patient is happy means nothing to the materialist doctor: they want the patient to 'really' be happy -- which is just their way of saying that they want a "cure" that will work according to the behaviorist principles to which they are dedicated as modern-day materialists. Anybody could prescribe a drug that works, after all: only a big important doctor can prescribe something that works according to theory. Sure, the prescription has a worse track record then the real thing, but the doctor's primary job is to vindicate materialism, not to worry about the welfare of their patient. And so they place their hands to their ears as the voice of common sense cries out loudly and clearly: "You could cheer that patient up in a jiffy with a wide variety of medicines that you have chosen to demonize rather than to use in creative and safe ways for the benefit of humankind!" I am not saying that doctors are consciously aware of this evil --merely that they are complicit in it thanks to their blind allegiance to the inhumane doctrine of behaviorism.

This is the sick reality of our current approach. And yet everybody holds this mad belief, this idea that medical doctors should treat mind and mood conditions.

How do I know this?

Consider the many organizations that are out to prevent suicide. If they understood the evil consequences of having medical doctors handle our mind and mood problems, they would immediately call for the re-legalization of drugs and for psychiatrists to morph into empathizing, drug-savvy shamans. Why? Because the existing paradigm causes totally unnecessary suicides: it makes doctors evil by dogmatically requiring them to withhold substances that would obviously cheer one up and even inspire one (see the uplifting and non-addictive meds created by Alexander Shulgin, for instance). The anti-suicide movement should be all about the sane use of drugs that elate. The fact that it is not speaks volumes about America's addiction to the hateful materialist mindset of behaviorism.

More proof? What about the many groups that protest brain-damaging shock therapy? Good for them, right? but... why is shock therapy even necessary? Because we have outlawed all godsend medicines that could cheer up almost anybody "in a trice." And why do we do so? Because we actually prefer to damage the brain of the depressed rather than to have them use drugs. We prefer it! Is this not the most hateful of all possible fanaticisms: a belief about drugs that causes us to prefer suicide and brain damage to drug use? Is it really only myself who sees the madness here? Is there not one other philosopher on the planet who sees through the fog of drug war propaganda to the true evil that it causes?

This is totally unrecognized madness -- and it cries out for a complete change in America's attitude, not just toward drugs but toward our whole approach to mind and mood. We need to start learning from the compassionate holism of the shamanic world as manifested today in the cosmovision of the Andes. We need to start considering the human being as an unique individual and not as an interchangeable widget amenable to the one-size-fits-all cures of reductionism. The best way to fast-track such change is to implement the life-saving protocol of placing the above-mentioned pharmacologically savvy empaths in charge of mind and mood and putting the materialist scientists back where they belong: in jobs related to rocket chemistry and hadron colliders. We need to tell the Dr. Spocks of psychology that: "Thanks, but no thanks. We don't need your help when it comes to subjective matters, thank you very much indeed. Take your all-too-logical mind back to the physics lab where it belongs."

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    The government makes psychoactive drug approval as slow as possible by insisting that drugs be studied in relation to one single board-certified "illness." But the main benefits of such drugs are holistic in nature. Science should butt out if it can't recognize that fact.

    Prohibition turned habituation into addiction by creating a wide variety of problems for users, including potential arrest, tainted or absent drug supply, and extreme stigmatization.

    If we can go overseas to burn poppy plants, then Islamic countries should be free to come to the United States to burn our grape vines.

    Most substance withdrawal would be EASY if drugs were re-legalized and we could use any substance we wanted to mitigate negative psychological effects.

    We won't know how hard it is to get off drugs until we legalize all drugs that could help with the change. With knowledge and safety, there will be less unwanted use. And unwanted use can be combatted creatively with a wide variety of drugs.

    I'm looking for a United Healthcare doctor now that I'm 66 years old. When I searched my zip code and typed "alternative medicine," I got one single solitary return... for a chiropractor, no less. Some choice. Guess everyone else wants me to "keep taking my meds."

    Drug warriors have harnessed the perfect storm. Prohibition caters to the interests of law enforcement, psychotherapy, Big Pharma, demagogues, puritans, and materialist scientists, who believe that consciousness is no big "whoop" and that spiritual states are just flukes.

    To treat opioid use disorder (which is really prohibition disorder syndrome) we should normalize the peaceable smoking of opium at home as an alternative to drinking alcohol.

    It's amazing. Drug law is outlawing science -- and yet so few complain. Drug law tells us what mushrooms we can collect, for God's sake. Is that not straight-up insane? Or are Americans so used to being treated as children that they accept this corrupt status quo?

    There are endless drugs that could help with depression. Any drug that inspires and elates is an antidepressant, partly by the effect itself and partly by the mood-elevation caused by anticipation of use (facts which are far too obvious for drug warriors to understand).


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