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The dnig-AIDS hypothesis *
the mothers, and that “up to 60% at 18 months” of
HlV-posities were on AZT. By 18 months 40% of the
HlV-positive babies had apparently completely recov-
ered from maternal drugs, despite HIV, because they
were nor treated with AZT nor were any deaths report-
ed. However, up to 60% apparently had suffered inter-
mittent diseases from AZT and residual damage of
maternal drug use. Thus the normal performance of
40% of the HlV-positive group, 18 rnonths after with-
drawal from maternal drugs, was hidden by the subnor-
mal performance of the HlV-group that was an average
ofAZT recipients and untreated babies (see 7.7.).
It follows that discontinuation of recreational and
antiretroviral drugs before a critical threshold is reac-
hed prevents or even cures AIDS in HlV-positives.
In sum, this chapter documents that the drug-AIDS
hypothesis correctly predicts all facts of
American/European AIDS, while the HlV-hypothesis
predicts none.
7. HOWTHE HIV/AIDS 0RTH0D0XY
DIVORCES DRUGS FROM AIDS
Despite abundant evidence for drug pathogenicity,
the orthodox medical literature almost unanimously
disregards diseases from recreational drugs. Wearing
their HIV/AIDS blinkers, AIDS researchers even fail to
make the drug connection when matched groups of
drug users, differing only in HIV, have the same dis-
eases and high motrtality. Whereas, the diseases and
high mortality of HlV-positive drug users are credited
to HIV, those of HlV-negatives are credited to other
microbes and even to contaminants of street drugs
rather than to the psychoactive drugs themselves 35'‘10’8|S'
301324 (see 3. and below).
But even when drug use is recognized as a direct
AIDS risk, the role of drugs is divorced from AIDS by
unscientific manipulations including misrepresenta-
tions, double-standards, omissions of facts and controls
and outright censorship. The following examples sub-
stantiate these assertions:
7.1. Disregarding drugs. Although 3.6 million
Americans are regular users of cocaine and at least 0.6
million are addicted to heroin (see3.) and a third of the
500,000 American AIDS patients are confirmed long-
term intravenous drug users 3’ “•26, the pathogenic
effects of long-term cocaine and heroin use are not
studied anywhere in the US and Europe n'16’26,121. But
at least 100,000 American PhDs and MDs are study-
ing the hypothetical pathogen HIV ",121.
A tendentious article in Science described the mood
perfectly in 1994 with the quote from a distinguished
HIV/AIDS toxicologist, “heroin is a blessedly untoxic
drug” ’6. But unbeknown to Science and its readers,
growing numbers of American entertainment stars and
junkies are dying from heroin. In the same year in
which Science described the “blessedly untoxic” heroin,
the US Dept. of HHS recorded 2910 male and 601
female heroin “decedents” (see 3.1 and Table 4) 61. The
stories of some were just described in the San Francisco
Chronicle under the title “Heroin is in fashion - and
death statistics prove it” 325.
Uninformed or even misinformed (see below) by the
trusted medical orthodoxy, the general public and even
those who have a direct interest or mandate to warn
against drug use are unaware of drug diseases. For
example, the Bureau of Justice Stastistics, the Drug
Strategies foundation and drug control officials from
the White House who publish The National Drug
Control Strategy: 1996 never warn about the medical
consequences of drug use, except that they might lower
vigilance against infection by HIV and other microbes
28,52,53,55.74 feg 3J),
Although the National Drug Control Study: 1996 is
concerned about the safety of “Americas [non-drug
using] citizens” because “Hardcore drug users fre-
quently are ‘vectors’ for the spread of infectious diseases
such as hepatitis, tuberculosis, and HIV.” 5:l, the Study
misses the point that drugs cause the immunodeficien-
cy necessary for these microbes to be pathogenic. It is
for this reason that hardcore drug users are virtually the
only “American citizens” who are victims of these
microbes.
Although inhaling nitrites has been illegal in the US
since 1988, because of an “AIDS link” (see 3.), inhaling
has been practised by at least 4.2 million Americans in
1992, according to a survey of the National Institute of
Drug Abuse 31. In spite of this, nitrites are not listed as
an illegal drug category of their own by the Bureau of
Justice Statistics 52, Drug Strategies 51, the Drug Abuse
Warning Network (DAWN) of the US Department of
HHS 61,85, or the President’s National Drug Control
Study: 1996 53.
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