Accommodating Chemically Injured Persons

Accommodating Chemically Injured Persons

Beitragvon Lawrence Plumlee » Dienstag 6. September 2011, 18:53

Accommodating Chemically Injured Persons

Abstract: The chemical industry, which includes drug manufacturers, minimizes the extent of chronic chemical injury in order to avoid liability for its damages. While asserting that mental illness is a biological disorder, they also assert that chemical, medication, electromagnetic, and food sensitivities make up a psychological disorder unrelated to chemical injury.

Medical schools downplay the considerable evidence that toxic injury, including that from drugs, causes or exacerbates many "psychiatric" problems, neurological conditions like Parkinsonism, autoimmune disorders like thyroid disease, diabetes, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, immune suppression that leads to chronic viral, bacterial and parasitic diseases (i.e. Lyme Disease), cancer, morbid obesity and digestive disorders, the predictable dyskinesias and dystonias referred to as "side effects."

By identifying these problems as diseases of "unknown" etiology, industries' liability is externalized and the taxpayers are made responsible for helping the sick through welfare, medicaid, and social security.

But these public resources are rarely sufficient to enable victims to afford the expenses of avoiding chemical and other incitants, and of detoxification using methods we have seen work time after time. These include pesticide-free diets, relocation out of polluted areas into safely accessible housing, readily available affordable transportation, nutritional supplementation, and effective rehabilitation programs.

The goal of this workshop is to introduce the premise that for certain individuals, exposure to environmental incitants, i.e., drugs, foods, electromagnetic fields, artificial lighting, mold, and airborne toxins, trigger or exacerbate behavioral symptoms and alterations in perception, and/or result in other common illnesses and all too often, destruction of independent lives.

Workshop Leaders: Lawrence A. Plumlee, M.D., and Susan Molloy, M.A.
National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy, Philadelphia, PA, Saturday, September 10, 2011, 9 a.m.

Biographies:

Larry Plumlee is a graduate of Princeton University and the Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine. After an internship in
internal medicine and a fellowship in physiology at Johns Hopkins, he
was a research investigator in the Dept. of Neuropsychiatry at the
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Subsequently, he became
medical science adviser in the office of research of the U.S. Public
Health Service's Consumer Protection and Environmental Health
Service, and later at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Part
time, he was Assistant Professor of Behavioral Biology in the Dept.
of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. For the past 7 years, he has been
editor of "The Environmental Physician", the newsletter of the
American Academy of Environmental Medicine. He has been President
of the Chemical Sensitivity Disorders Association for the past 16
years. http://www.chemsense.com He is on the steering committee of the
Maryland Pesticide Network, and the boards of the International
Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry, and of the New Hope Foundation.

Larry was awarded The First Theron Randolph Award for Courage in
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Activism by Chemical Injury Information
Network in 2001. In 2007, he was recognized for outstanding
contributions to the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry
and Psychology. In 2010, he was awarded the Carleton Lee Award by
the American Academy of Environmental Medicine in recognition of
exemplary efforts in furthering the principles of Environmental Medicine.

Susan Molloy received a Masters Degree in Disability Policy through the Department of Public Administration at San Francisco State University in 1992. She has worked within the Disability Rights movement for years, has been employed by several independent living centers in Arizona and California and consults with numerous others, chaired Arizona's Statewide Independent Living Council, and now co-chairs the Environmental Health Barriers Task Force of the National Council on Independent Living ("NCIL").
She has long focused on developing and preserving housing accessible to low-income people whose disabilities include chemical, electrical, and other hypersensitivities.
She served on the team of architects, planners, medical and rehabilitation specialists, and people with disabilities on the Indoor Environmental Quality ("IEQ") report of the National Institute of Building Sciences, which was funded by the U.S. Access Board http://www.access-board.gov/research/ieq/ .

She is a consumer of behavioral health services and participates actively in peer counseling and support services.
Lawrence Plumlee
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