Widespread Zombification
in the 21st Century
and the
Wars of the Zombie Masters
DRUGS
For Kids - and the Occasional Interested Parent
Brian Johnson, M.D.
Published by Gegensatz Press at Smashwords
ISBN
978-1-933237-57-2
Copyright © 2009 by Brian D. Johnson
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2009
Table of Contents
PART ONE - WIDESPREAD ZOMBIFICATION IN THE 21st CENTURY
Chapter 1 - The Upper Zombie Drug Group
The Slow Sickness of the Cigarette Zombies
Summary of the Upper Zombie Drug Group
Chapter 2 - Techniques of Zombification
Gateway Drugs and Garbage Pail Addiction
Drug Administration Routes for Zombies
Chapter 3 - The Downer Zombie Drug Group
Medical Treatment Without Addiction Treatment
Chapter 5 - Relating to Zombies
PART TWO - THE WARS OF THE ZOMBIE MASTERS
Chapter 6 - The History of the Zombie Master Wars
The American National Government's Work on Behalf of the Cigarette Masters in the 20th Century
Local American Wars in the 20th Century
Chapter 7 - Current Wars of the Masters, Their Killing, and Their Terror
Illegal Drugs in the United States
Illegal Drugs in Other Countries
Chapter 8 - An Obvious Solution That No One Will Use
State Addictive Drug Centers - SAD Centers
Chapter 9 - What Should You Do?
Introduction
Hey kids! Zombie Masters will be hunting your brain over the next few years. You should know how to protect yourself. Parents tend to be ignorant on this topic, or shy about talking about it. You can bring this up with them or not - your call. It depends on what kind of luck you had getting parents. Some kids did OK, but many of you are saddled with some version of dismal. For a lot of kids, your parents are zombies. Mine were. Figuring your way out of that is major.
Now, how do you know what a Zombie is? A lot of the time you can't tell. You have to be shrewd. The facts in this book will help you notice things that you have been unaware of. You will find that in your school, over time, more and more of the kids there get converted. The essence of Zombiehood is that their wills have been taken over by a Master. The technology of making Zombies is improving all the time. The Masters have scientists, doctors, and engineers working to improve their evil techniques. You won't be able to tell if someone has become a Zombie by just looking. You will have to learn how to observe behavior.
This book is written for kids 12 to 17 because you are the exact group that the Masters are targeting. I want to help you know how the Masters will approach you, so you are ready when they come. A lot of the things in this book are awful to think about, and will make you uncomfortable. But if I don't tell you about the territory you will be fighting on, the Zombie Masters may get you. You will see that they count on surprise, on the ignorance of their prey, and on the mistake many kids make by trusting people who invite them to do sketchy things. I will start by giving you a list of some of the kinds of Zombies that you will be encountering over the next few years.
But first I have to ask if you believe in evil. If you believe that the world is full of well-meaning, if sometimes misguided people, you can stop reading right now. This book is not for you. Read on only if you believe that while some people can love, others are full of hate. They want to hurt you. They want money any way they can get it - even if it means ruining your brain or killing you. They are hunting you because some of their old Zombies are giving out. After a few decades Zombies get dysfunctional. Old Zombies die or get too sick to give money to their Masters. The Masters kick the body aside and hunt for fresh meat, mostly in junior and senior high schools.
PART ONE
WIDESPREAD ZOMBIFICATION IN THE 21st CENTURY
You have probably seen horror movies or that old Michael Jackson "Thriller" music video. They show strange-looking humanoids lurching around. OK, some Zombies look like that. You mostly see that kind when they are in the hospital having some part chopped off or having some weird infection treated. And the original Haitian Zombies looked like that. Wade Davis, a Harvard specialist in the use of plants by native peoples, explained that form of Zombification in a book called The Serpent and the Rainbow. The original technique of making Zombies comes from Africa back in the distant mists of time.
The Master had to find a way to get drugs into the person's brain. Centuries ago the technique was to sneak the chemicals into the person's food. A living person was turned into a Zombie by application of plant powders that paralyzed the will. The victim's will was turned over to the Bokor (the Haitian word for Zombie Master) by the application of 2 chemicals. One was a substance refined from organs of the local pufferfish. That stuff made the dosed person appear dead. Other stuff from a plant, datura, made the person detached, as if in a dreamlike state where the mind could be controlled.
21st century mind control is more elegant than that. What Wade Davis did was to define the nature of Zombification. The Master needs to get chemicals into a person's brain to take over the will. The way that current Zombifying drugs work is that the Zombie has the experience of wanting to do one thing, but urgently has to do something completely different - carry out the will of the Master.
Sneaking chemicals into food is never going to make modern Zombie Masters billions of dollars. In the 21st century, Masters use techniques of buzz and beautification to get their victims to use the chemicals that allow them to take over the will. Kids volunteer to become Zombies.
How does a vampire bat suck the blood of a chicken? Does it fly up and grab the chicken by the neck? No. To a chicken a vampire bat looks like a little chick. It waddles up to the chicken, who must be dumb and not wearing her glasses. The vampire bat nuzzles the chicken in just the right way and the motherly chicken takes it under her wing. The bat cozies up to the chicken's breast. It cuts the breast open with its razor-sharp teeth, so sharp that the chicken doesn't feel the cut. Then the bat licks the blood as it drips out of the wound.
This is the style of approach the Masters use to make their Zombies today. They will invite you to try their mind-control drugs. They will let you know that only if you use their drugs will you be a sexy, popular girl or boy. This may actually happen; drug use may make some Zombies cool for a few years. Then the drugs take over the brain. Then the Masters suck out everything that the Zombies live for until they die or become too sick to buy their drugs any more. The Zombies look back in regret that they ever tried the drugs. But it is too late. They have been turned. Their brains will never be the same. They will always urgently want the chemical that the Master possesses.
Zombie Masters are the people who sell the drugs that paralyze the will. They may be gang members. They may be men who go to work in a shirt and tie every day. They may live next door to you. You think this is a fiction book? No. You live with Zombies and their Masters, but you may not be aware of their existence. I will list some of the types of Zombies that you will encounter before you finish high school, and explain some of the developments in Zombie science that have enabled the Masters to convert so many of the kids in your classes. Look around you. The Zombies are there.
Chapter 1
Upper Zombies
The first group of Zombies use drugs that stimulate them: nicotine, cocaine, methamphetamine, and ecstasy. This is a group of drugs that Zombify as they stimulate the brain. I will tell you a little about this group, and then explain how these drugs take over the brain.
Nicotine is the addictive drug in cigarettes. You may be thinking, "How could cigarettes be in the same group as cocaine? Isn't cocaine an evil drug that the government outlaws, while cigarettes can be bought everywhere?" If you think this, then you are not really believing that there is evil in the world. Either you have to stop reading, or you have to think, "Well of course, the Zombie Masters buy the government leaders, and the leaders make it possible for the Masters to make Cigarette Zombies." If you really think hard, you may realize that, because nicotine comes from tobacco plants grown in the U.S., the American government will work hard on behalf of the Zombie Masters here, and help the Zombie Masters transport this drug to other countries.
What is in it for the government? Money. The Masters pay individuals from the government, and they give the government a kickback on their sales, a "tax." Then everybody is happy. The money comes from the Zombies, is collected by the Masters, and then spread to all the people whom the Masters need to buy off in order to stay in business. The Masters make deals with people in government, from police to the President of the United States.
Nicotine kills 19% of all Americans. Cocaine kills too, but not many. The difference is in the buzz, the hype, the advertising, the beautification of the drug.
Since cocaine comes from coca plants that are grown outside the U.S., the government will outlaw that kind of Zombie drug here. When we look at the wars of the Masters, you will see that the Zombie Masters in each country want to convert as many people as possible into Zombies with their own drugs, while limiting the sales made by other Zombie Masters with other drugs. Some of their wars are about market share. They use governments to help build market share so that the Zombies will buy the local Master's drug, and not what the foreign competitor is selling.
Cigarette Zombies
Nicotine comes from the tobacco plant. Before 1492, American locals used tobacco for fun. But as far as we know, tobacco was not used by Native Americans to make Zombies. Conquering Europeans recognized the ability of the drug to turn people into Zombies and by 1670 half of all men in England used their drug every day.
Then the market reached a limit, due to the lack of effective methods of drug delivery, and to the difficulty the Masters had in recruiting woman Zombies. Part of the system of beautification back then said that tobacco was a high-status drug, and that women did not have the status to use it. The Masters' lack of awareness of how to use psychological tricks on girls was not repaired for 200 years.
Back then Zombies used ineffective means of getting the drug into their brains, such as chewing the tobacco, smoking pipes and cigars, or sniffing it (snuff). But around 1900, nicotine technology got going. The Masters learned how to use machines to make cigarettes. Before 1900 the Masters had already made huge fortunes. Much of the American institution of slavery was built on the tobacco growers in the American South who needed slaves to grow tobacco to make Zombies. But Zombies were not as widespread or as well controlled as they are now. This was because the drug delivery systems didn't do a good job of getting nicotine into the brain.
The Masters realized that the best way to get nicotine into the brain was to have their Zombies inhale it. Inhaling smoke brings nicotine through finer and finer pipes in your lungs until the drug hits an exchange surface. This exchange surface is where us animals need to have oxygen from the air go into our blood and carbon dioxide from our muscles go out from the blood into the air. The Masters realized that if oxygen can go into the blood through the lungs, then nicotine can go in this way too.
Back around 1900 a lot of people worried that this route of administration would harm the Zombies, physically or mentally. So the Cigarette Masters went on a giant advertising campaign to convince people that those worriers were trying to curtail the freedom of Zombies.
Pretty amazing, huh? The Masters were enslaving Zombies by convincing kids that the anti-nicotine activists were trying to curtail their freedom. The solution suggested by the Masters was for young boys to defy this control by trying cigarettes.
You have to watch out for this trick. The Masters use it over and over. Think of the chicken that snuggles with the vampire bat. The vampire bat asks the chicken to do something noble, to take care of what the chicken thinks is her child, and then the vampire bat strikes. The Masters know that the best way to enslave Zombies is to present themselves as champions of freedom, and to convince girls and boys that the way to live free is to use drugs that enslave.
Since women can give the Masters money just like men, and since women have been put in a lower social position than men, the Masters have gone on a giant advertising campaign suggesting that women can be just as good as men by smoking cigarettes. In the early 1900s, as boys began smoking cigarettes to show their "freedom" from adults who worried about the effects of smoking, the Masters began a huge effort to get girls to use nicotine. There was no effort to make women leaders in the tobacco industry. Almost all Masters are men. The Masters wanted girls with low-level jobs to give their money to the Masters. The idea was that a tough, independent girl could smoke cigarettes just like the tough, independent boys who went off to World War I.
Here is a poster from the 1920s advertising cigarettes specifically to women:
I hope you are getting this. The boys and the girls who smoked the cigarettes had become Zombies. They lost their will. They began to urgently want to smoke the cigarettes, no matter what else they were doing. The Masters always want to get their drugs into your brain. This is the only way to make a Zombie. But the Masters advertised cigarettes to kids as a way to be free.
So what happened to the activists who opposed the Masters in the 1890s and the early 1900s? The Masters were way ahead of the activists. The Masters know what they are doing, and they do it in secret. The Cigarette Masters said, "What could be wrong with smoking cigarettes?" The activists couldn't answer because they didn't know how Zombification works. They didn't recognize a central secret of the Masters: The Masters' best drugs are the ones that make Zombies slowly sick over years and years.
Nicotine is the best Zombifying drug ever invented, and cigarettes are the best drug delivery system ever invented. The ideal cigarette advertisement features a young Zombie looking healthy, as if this # 1 cause of disease and death helps them. Think about all the movies where you see the woman or man lead actor take a deep lungful of nicotine and blow out the smoke as if it was sexy. Now think about the chicken taking the vampire bat under her wing as if it were her little chick. Presenting their drug as noble and sexy is the way Masters turn people into Zombies.
The Slow Sickness of the Cigarette Zombies
Zombification works the same way that HIV works. HIV, the virus that makes AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), kills slowly. If you are thinking of having sex with someone who may have HIV, that person won't look sick. You won't know. People with HIV will look perfectly healthy until it blossoms into AIDS. If they share their virus with you, only years later will both of you look sick. It takes years for someone with HIV to start to look ill.
It also takes years for someone who smokes cigarettes to look ill. If a young Zombie who looks perfectly healthy, maybe even cool, shares her or his cigarettes with other kids, only years later do all of them get sick and die. It takes years for someone who smokes cigarettes to look ill.
Through the first half of the 20th century, from 1900 until 1950, more and more Americans became Cigarette Zombies. It took years for the sickness caused by this route of drug administration to become obvious to everyone. Since smoking a cigarette requires you to suck dirt into the fine pipes that lead down to the exchange surface in your lungs, the dirt starts to plug up the pipes. Anyone knows this. But the sickness this causes isn't easy to see at first. The activists said, "Look at all the dirt people are sucking in." The Masters replied, "Those people look fine to us." The Masters won this argument for a while.
Think about how you take in a breath. Your lungs get bigger as the air comes in. The breathing pipes open up.
Think about how you blow out a breath. Your lungs collapse a bit. When a lung collapses around the dirt that is caught in the pipes, the air can't get out. Cigarette Zombie lungs blow up like balloons.
Some of the old Cigarette Zombies look like they have big chests, as if they are strong. They have deep, resonant voices, like they are radio announcers. However, when we doctors have them take off their shirts for a physical examination, we see that they have teeny muscles on those big chests. They are weak and sick. Cigarette Zombies have been inhaling dirt so long that many of their pipes are effectively closed. No air can get out. It is as if they have taken a deep breath, but can't blow the air back out. Their voices are deep because their lungs are full of trapped air. It is like how the sound of blowing over a big bottle is deeper than the sound of blowing over a small bottle. Their muscles are teeny because they can't exercise much. Their lungs don't work well enough for them to run.
The exchange surfaces in your lungs are like thin pieces of the plastic wrap that people put over food they want to keep in the refrigerator. The blood runs on one side, the air is inhaled into little pockets on the other side. The oxygen slips through the membranes into the blood. The carbon dioxide slips through the membranes from the blood into the air and you blow it out. Now imagine what happens if you suck dirt into your lungs for years and years, dirt from thousands of cigarettes. Some of the dirt sticks on the membranes. The membranes get so coated with dirt that the oxygen can't go in any more.
Some Zombies actually start to turn blue because they can't get enough oxygen to turn their blood red. When the Zombies turn blue, they go to the hospital. We doctors see blue Zombies. Most people don't see blue Zombies.
This whole process of clogging up the pipes in the lungs, and ruining the exchange surfaces, is called emphysema. It is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. You can imagine why. Cigarette Zombies smoke until their lungs don't work. When blue Zombies show up in the hospital, we doctors give them green oxygen tanks so that they can breathe air with more oxygen in it than ordinary air.
You may not get to see blue Zombies. They leave the hospital having turned back to their normal color, dragging their oxygen tanks with them. But sometimes you will see the Zombies that we saw when they were blue out on the street with their green oxygen tanks and those little plastic nose nozzles hung around their heads - smoking a cigarette. Then it gets worse and they suffocate.
You don't watch them suffocate, we doctors do. Cigarette Zombies are not polite when it comes to getting high on their drug. They will do it right in front of you. But you don't find their bodies on the street. They politely go to the hospital and die in front of their doctors.
This is one of the problems about drugs. The Zombies who are using them look OK, or sort of OK. The Zombies who get really sick go to the hospital where we doctors see them. Or they tell about what is going on with them in private. This helps the Masters make their drugs look OK, because we doctors hide the casualties.
I am not blaming any doctors here. You have a right to privacy when you see a doctor. But this means that when the drug dealers come to see you, you won't have seen what their drugs do to people.
You have probably noticed that some of the Cigarette Zombies you know have a certain kind of a cough, a cigarette cough. They have dirt caught in their lungs all the time, and they can't get it out. Their lungs are making them cough to try to keep them alive.
Their poor lungs try to secrete mucus to get the dirt out. It doesn't work. The mix of dirt and mucus is constantly getting infected. Bacteria love this dirt/mucus mix. It is warm and wet and full of things that bacteria like to eat. It can't come out, despite all the coughing. Cigarette Zombies are constantly having viruses and bacteria making them even sicker. Then they go to the doctor.
The Masters wish they could make a cigarette that didn't do this, so their Zombies could live longer and buy more cigarettes. But since they can't, well - who cares about the Zombies anyway? Doctors do. But doctors are not very good at freeing Zombies.
Tobacco dirt is also irritating. When you have irritating dirt caught in your lungs for years, the irritation sometimes turns the tissue into cancer. If you know people who smoke, ask to see their tongues. You will see, at the back of the tongue, a carpet of yellow tar that you just know runs all the way down into the lungs.
All the places the tar rests, cancer forms. Therefore you see cancer all over the breathing system, starting at the mouth. Since we have vocal cords (voice box) that we blow air over to speak, the Zombies blow tar over their vocal cords. Sometimes you hear a raspy voice on a Zombie. This is the sound of the vocal cords being terribly irritated. Then cancer comes, we doctors chop out the vocal cords, and we see if the Zombie can live a few more years.
Some irritants in the cigarette smoke also travel through the blood, are filtered by the kidney, and irritate the bladder. Imagine having your bladder chopped out after cancer came. How would you urinate then? Don't ask. But doctors have to look and smell.
Those irritants flowing through the blood combine with cholesterol to create obstructions. Cigarette Zombies are always getting heart attacks because the arteries that give oxygen to the heart are clogged. Since cigarettes are full of carbon monoxide, Zombie red cells don't carry oxygen well to begin with.
Another repulsive place that this process takes place is the brain. There are no pain receptors in the brain, so Zombies get demented slowly as one after another of the little brain arteries clog up and close off, killing the brain tissue behind the block. They don't feel it - no pain receptors. They just get slowly stupider until they go to nursing homes where they are fed, bathed, and looked after.
Another site of blockage is the blood supply to the penis. You probably see those silly ads on TV about "erectile dysfunction." Next time you see one of those ads, think about how the ads are really for old Cigarette Zombies who have clogged arteries. Don't worry, boys. If you never smoke cigarettes, you won't need that junk for erectile dysfunction.
If you are a smart kid, you must be asking yourself, "Hmmm - 19% of Americans die from cigarettes; they cause emphysema, infections, cancer, heart attacks, brain damage, erectile dysfunction - who pays for all this medical care?" Well, girls and boys, soon it will be you. The Masters create the Zombies, they harvest the money, and they dump the bodies on us.
You may already have seen that Zombies will have heart attacks, cancer - and then go right back to cigarettes after they leave the hospital. Maybe you have seen Zombies with their vocal cords cut out, holding cigarettes up to the holes in their throats. The Masters will make a few more dollars before those ones die, and we will pay for all the damage.
Beautification and Denial
Why do 20% of Americans smoke? It is because the Masters strike early. The average age that a person in the U.S. starts smoking is 13. Think of the chicken and the vampire bat. The Masters have to trick kids into taking their drug into their brain. The younger the kids, the less information they have. The Zombie Masters want to slip past thinking and attack using a kid's fantasies of greatness. We all want to be superheroes. The Masters rely on the processes of beautification and denial.
How can the Masters expect 13 or 10-year-old kids to smoke their cigarettes? 16-year-old Zombies are not sick yet. The Masters target kids by suggesting to potential Zombies that they could be great by using the drug. By the time you are a 16-year-old Cigarette Zombie you still don't look sick. All Masters use young Zombies to recruit younger Zombies. So the Masters want 16-year-old Zombies, who don't yet look sick, to get some 13-year-olds for them. 13-year-olds want to be like 16-year-olds. No 13-year-old identifies with a sick 50-year-old Zombie. The 16-year-old Zombies walk around beautifying their smoking and inviting younger kids to get trapped.
Beautification comes along with Zombification. By the time Cigarette Zombies are 16, they know they are trapped. They want to stop, but they can't. Do they go for help? They do not. Instead they imagine that cigarettes make them special, sexy, confident, attractive. They have fantasies of greatness. They beautify their addiction.
You know how sometimes people start laughing, and you can't help it, you laugh too? Beautification works the same way. When Zombies beautify their addictions, they invite you to do it too. Doesn't it look cool when they stand outside and suck dirt mixed with nicotine into their lungs? Yes, because they are beautifying what they are doing, and they invite you to do it too. A lot of kids join them. They want to be special, beautiful, grown up.
That is a trap, like the vampire bat and the chicken. You must be very smart, if you don't want to fall into it. In fact, smoking cigarettes is a marker of low functioning and being unprotected. The Masters don't need to enslave the entire population. They pick off the weak and the defeated, like wolves running down a crippled deer. Smart kids see young Cigarette Zombies sucking dirt into their lungs and don't do it.
The more wounded kids are, the more likely they are to be vulnerable to beautification. A lot of kids at 8 or 12 or 16 feel that no one is there for them. Maybe their parents are Zombies, and are worrying about their own drugs, not their children. Maybe the potential victims are depressed, or can't do well in school. Maybe they can't pay attention and everyone laughs at them all the time. These are the kids the Zombie Masters are looking for.
The Masters need young Zombies who have decided that the Master's drug is extra special, who are beautifying the Master's drug. The young Zombies explain to the wounded kids that this stuff is really cool. The wounded kids try the drug. Something happens.
Cigarettes make first-time users dizzy and nauseous. The smoke hurts their lungs. First-time users probably won't suck the smoke all the way down, like the Zombies can. The Zombies laugh at the young users, who are not yet Zombies. Some kids stop here.
The kids who get Zombified need beautification. They need to catch this system of thinking from the young Zombies. They need to think, "When I learn to smoke cigarettes, I will be really cool." As they smoke more, the kids' brains begin to change. As they become Zombified, their trouble tolerating the cigarettes goes away. Their first thought is, "I've done it! I am a cool kid who smokes cigarettes!" The first thing that changes in Zombies' thinking is that the initial beautification, the idea that they caught from young Zombies, gets stronger because they are afraid of what they are doing. But they resist the fear by imagining that this frightening situation is impressive. It takes them a while to realize fully that they have been turned.
For the first few months or years, they deal with their fear by deciding that what they are doing is beautiful in a way that non-Zombies can't understand. They are right. The beautification is a product of alterations that the drug has produced in their brains. From outside Zombie thinking, sticking a smelly butt in your face just looks weird. When you see the actor in the movie suck on a butt, does it look cool or weird? Have you caught the beautification?
Denial is a product of enslavement. It is impossible for 16-year-olds to admit that they have been picked off and enslaved. They come up with strange thinking to justify what they are doing. "I'll quit tomorrow," is a famous version of denial. By putting off doing something, they are doing nothing. They are not quitting today. But they have inner explanations about why smoking cigarettes is the right thing to do today.
"Everyone has to die sometime" is a thought about denial that I hear all the time. Of course, it is true. But the Zombies use it as a reason to suck poison. The problem isn't that they will die, but that they will be killed by the drug. The average Cigarette Zombie dies 14 years before someone who escaped Zombification. Think about it. 14 x 6 = 84, an average lifespan. The Masters kill Zombies with about 1/6 of their natural life left. Death is inevitable, but why meet it partway?
Why is the old Zombie smoking while wearing the plastic tubes connected to the oxygen tank? "It is too late," that Zombie will say to me when I ask. Denial is flexible. It sounds insane to anyone outside the Zombie. This Zombie is about to suffocate! But Zombies buy their own weird thinking in a way that no one else would, because of the changes in their brain.
Denial is not saying that one doesn't have an addiction. Denial is anything that the Zombies say to themselves so that they can still use their drug. "I am addicted to cigarettes but it is too late to quit," is not denying addiction. It is just saying to oneself that smoking a cigarette today is the right thing. Denial is one sign that the Masters have taken over the Zombie's will.
Zombies are desperate, but they stay alone. Cigarette Zombies smoke and think about dying. But they don't tell anybody. They know that as soon as they talk to someone about their smoking, they will be starting the process of leaving their Masters. Zombified people want their drugs more than they want their lives. This is not normal thinking. This is a sign that the Masters have taken over their wills.
Why are kids so vulnerable to the Masters? The Masters know that their prey has to be taken early, before they are defended by adult thinking. The Masters also know they can count on young Zombies nestling in to beautification and denial the way the chicken nestles in to the vampire bat. It is cozy. When the razor sharp teeth bite, the Zombie doesn't feel them. Initially Zombies actually feel happy about what the drugs are doing to them - just like the chicken feels happy to be cuddling the vampire bat that she thinks is her dear chick.
Quitting and Progression
What happens after the Zombie starts smoking the cigarettes? I will explain later exactly how the brain changes. But what the Zombie feels is an automatic urge to smoke. It is no longer a decision. Craving sets in. The Zombie Master's will has taken over. My patients cry to me that they would like to quit, but can't.
Once a Zombie, you always have a hook built right into your brain, whether you use the drug or not. I was once sitting with an 85-year-old relative in a bar waiting for a table to open up at a restaurant. I smelled someone smoking and I said, "Pee-yoo, someone in here is smoking."
She said, "Oh, it still gives me a sexual feeling!" (Pee-yoo!)
Decades after smoking the last cigarette, her brain was still shifted in function so that smoke smelled good to her.
Why can about half of all people who have this brain change, who get Zombified, leave their Masters by stopping the cigarettes, while the rest of the Zombies do weird things like smoke through the holes in their throats that the doctors made to cut out cancers? It has to do with the intactness of the victim, and the kind of help they get.
Some patients I see as an addiction doctor have been so hurt that there is no coming back. Your # 1 group of impossibly addicted Zombies have schizophrenia. Since their schizophrenia makes them think that things like satellites from outer space are controlling their brains, the poor Zombies with schizophrenia are unlikely ever to stop. In fact, about half of all cigarettes sold in the U.S. go to mentally ill people. Retarded people, uneducated people, depressed people, people who are addicted to other drugs that we will discuss later - the most reliably turned Zombies already have a lot wrong with them. Of course, if the drug has caused brain damage, there is less fight left in the Zombie. Brain-damaged Zombies will always be Zombies.
What about the other half: the Zombified who are no longer smoking? That is the good news. Even the Zombified can escape. Some people just quit cigarettes. They will crave them forever, like my 85-year-old relative, but just because you were once turned into a Zombie, it doesn't mean that you will be controlled for the rest of your life. The key item here is whether you can admit that you have been turned into a Zombie and ask others for help. "Depend on people, not drugs," is the answer.
The half of Cigarette Zombies who can't escape get progressively ill. Some Zombies escape, but it is too late. The cigarettes have already caused fatal illness.
The diseases that old Cigarette Zombies get are not limited to heart attacks, cancer, and emphysema. To see the progression, look at Cigarette Zombies at various ages. The 15, 20, 30-year-old Zombies look sort of OK, although you wouldn't want to smell them. The 40-year-old Zombies look 50. Their skins are all wrinkled.
Even if the arteries to the penis remain open, both women and men Zombies have to give up being sexy people because they start to look awful. A lot of them get fat, even though the nicotine, being a stimulant like amphetamines, makes their appetites less than they would be without the drug. Ask a former Zombie. They all gain weight when they stop their cigarettes. Exercising gets harder and harder as the lungs fill up with dirt.
Then they start to die. Maybe you know someone whose parent died from drugs, maybe from nicotine. That person was fine, but then suddenly had a heart attack and was dead.
Everyone has a story about someone who lived until 90 while smoking cigarettes. That's an odds thing. Zombies who smoke cigarettes at 60 have a 1/20 chance of making it to 90. Ordinary people have a 1/4 chance. So yeah, you will see the occasional 90-year-old Cigarette Zombie - looking ugly as hell. Check the math. From age 60 to 90, 4/5 of Cigarette Zombies are picked off by this drug, the other 1/5 live on to pay a few more pennies to their Masters.
Cocaine Zombies
Isn't coke a cool drug? No. That is the beautification of cocaine. Cocaine kills a lot of Zombies, and causes a lot of damage that doctors see but you may not.
The Zombies get busy with this drug. They do, do, do. Think of your average action movie. The hero spends almost the whole movie shooting, escaping, driving, fighting. We all love action and we all love to be on the edge of disaster - especially if we get to sit there while our favorite movie star is doing the work. It is only in the last few minutes of an action movie that the hero relaxes and enjoys the love thing. Nicotine is an action drug, but cocaine takes it to a higher level.
Like nicotine, cocaine is a "natural" drug. Tobacco grows in plants. So does cocaine. Why would a "natural" drug be bad for you? Uh - because it is a natural insecticide?
Coca plants make cocaine so that bugs don't eat their leaves. Cocaine destroys the brains of the insects. If you put a box full of leaves, including coca leaves, in front of the local bugs, all the leaves get eaten except the coca leaves. The bugs know that the coca leaves are poison. So don't believe all that "natural" drug hype.
Like with tobacco, the Native Americans used cocaine all the time in a way that didn't make them sick. They chewed the leaves. It was like having a cup of coffee.
When the Spaniards arrived in Peru they killed off most of the people there with swords and guns. Then some of the Spanish immigrants became Cocaine Zombie Masters, starting around 1900. As their command of technology improved, especially when they invented crack, a few descendents of the Spanish killers became Cocaine Masters. The Native Americans who once used cocaine in a safe way have been attacked with crack and many more of them have been killed.
When Zombies do coke, the cocaine paralyzes the natural recycling system in their nerves that sucks the transmitter chemicals back into nerves that had let the transmitter chemicals out. Instead of boing!, the nerves are on, suck!, the nerves are off - the chemicals stay out between the nerves. The in-between transmitter chemicals keep irritating the receiving nerve, turning it on over and over. The nerves turn on and can't shut off again.
Cocaine Zombies love this, at least at the beginning, because they do, do, do; like they are action heroes - at least that is how it feels inside.
When you are watching a movie, do you care that you are sitting in some dumb chair eating popcorn? No. You are totally into the action. When the Cocaine Zombies are doing coke, do they care that they look ridiculous? No. They are totally into the coke. They could be sitting frozen by the way the coke turns on their muscles and makes them rigid. Inside, they feel like it is all action.
So, what could be bad? You have some super feeling, like an action movie! Whatever you look like, you feel like you are an action hero. Why not?
Uh, because that action can kill you? The Boston Celtics drafted a player named Len Bias once upon a time. He got a bazillion dollars as the number one pick. He bought some coke for the first time with a few of his bazillion dollars.
That is all he got to spend. He tried out the coke with some friends. It stopped his heart by turning on those little transmitter chemicals so much that his heart couldn't keep the beat any more. Instead of a super player, the Celtics had 7 years of bad luck.
When I did a group called "Medical Complications of Addiction" in Roxbury, Massachusetts with my Harvard psychiatry residents, one of the patients said that he had done a line of coke while driving his truck. Then he felt his heart stop. He put his hand up to his neck. No pulse. He opened the door of the truck and fell out.
When he woke up, the EMTs were all around him. Someone had seen him fall out and called for help. The EMTs got his heart restarted. He lived - and did coke again.
Because of denial, Zombies do things they know might kill them. Why? Uh - because they are Zombies. They are controlled by Masters. They do dangerous things with drugs because they are being mind-controlled. The "denial" is something the drug makes them think. Even though they could be injured or killed, doing the drug is what they want to do.
When potential Zombies do coke, they are getting the drug into their brain. The Masters know that these people will soon be helplessly controlled, even if they know that they might be killed by the drug that they now urgently want. Doing the coke is what turns the will over to the Master.
Of course, I have talked to Masters. Do you know what they say when I ask them, "How do you feel about selling drugs that kill your customers?"
The answer I always hear is, "They know that the drugs can kill them. If they die, it is their fault."
I hope you can hear that the Master gives the Zombie a drug that paralyzes the will, turns it over to the Master. Then the Master blames the Zombie for using the drug. This is how the Masters kill, kill again, and never care.
The Masters have a system of thinking that allows them to do anything. At the base, the Masters believe that it is their right to decide matters of life and death. If their drug kills, the person deserved to be dead. The Masters think their customers are stupid, like chickens who snuggle with vampire bats. They think of their customers as replaceable. When a Zombie dies they think, "I'll just get some new customers from school."
Cocaine damages the hearts of some Zombies. The little transmitter chemicals can cause the cardiac arteries to close down by stimulating the muscles that encircle arteries. You know how your hands stop their circulation when it is cold out, to preserve body heat? Those muscles surround arteries all over your body, including in your heart. When your hands are out in the cold, the muscles clamp down. You have no control over this. Your body does it with the little transmitter chemicals.
Sometimes the hearts of the Cocaine Zombies have little dots of scars all through them where the drug choked off the blood supply. The cocaine turned on the little transmitter chemicals for the small arteries. The blood was cut off. There was no oxygen flowing to some little piece of the beating heart muscle. The muscle suffocated. That kind of Cocaine Zombie heart gets big, floppy, and non-functional. The heart muscle has been injured so many times that the heart can't pump all the blood that comes to it. We doctors see the Cocaine Zombies on the cardiology service with heart failure.
When the cocaine chokes off the big arteries, we see the Zombies in the emergency room with heart attacks. About 1/3 of Cocaine Zombies who have huge damage to their heart muscles had completely clean coronary arteries. The cocaine caused a spasm in a big artery by turning on the little transmitter chemicals until a big part of the heart muscle suffocated from lack of oxygen.
When cocaine makes the big muscles in the Zombies' arms, legs, chests, etc., go into spasm, they lose skeletal muscle. When doctors look at their urine, we find that about half of the Zombies pee dead muscle. Do Cocaine Zombies look skinny because they don't eat and because they run around and do, do, do? Yeah, but they also look skinny because muscles all over their bodies are dying from the coke.
One difference between heart and brain is that there are pain-sensing nerves in the heart, but none in the brain. When Zombies have heart attacks, they feel them, and go to the hospital. When cocaine is damaging their brains, they don't feel a thing. They just notice that they are getting stupid and forgetful.