Press Release for TrueHope Court Case - Mar 13, 2006 - Against Health Canada

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[sSRI-Research] Press Release for TrueHope Court Case - Mar

13, 2006 - Against Health Canada

 

 

In 2003, Health Canada seized personal shipments of vitamins and

minerals and destroyed them because people with mental illness were

using them instead of drugs for treatment. Under the Food and Drugs

Act no natural therapy could be used for their illness, so the vitamin

and mineral combination called EMPowerplus became an illegal drug.

 

Supplies dwindled and EMPowerplus users panicked. Hundreds of letters

and phone calls to government were ignored. A mental health crisis

line was scripted to tell healthy people to go back to using drug

treatments and hospitalization instead of the vitamins and minerals.

 

Desperate, nine women and one small boy went to Ottawa. For two days,

they stood outside telling of their plight. The story was exposed,

access was restored, and in October, 2003, Members of Parliament

wearing Red Umbrella pins voted for Bill C-420 saying that the Food

and Drugs Act must be rewritten to allow freedom of choice in health

for all Canadians.

The law has yet to change.

 

The Red Umbrella stands for our desire for freedom to choose health in

Canada.

 

www.TheRedUmbrellas.com

 

 

-----PRESS RELEASE-----

 

It's one man's dream to protect his family from mental illness. Ten

years later, it's a David vs. Goliath legal battle involving two

small-town Alberta entrepreneurs and Health Canada.

 

It was January 30th of 1994 when Tony Stephan of Magrath, Alberta

suffered a life changing loss. His young wife, only 40 years old

committed suicide after a lengthy battle with bipolar disorder, a

common mental illness affecting hundreds of thousands of Canadians.

After losing his wife, Stephan was determined not to lose his son

and daughter who had also been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

 

After discussing his fears with a local agricultural specialist, David

Hardy, Stephan was shocked to learn about

the nutritional impact on a common behavioural problem affecting pigs

called ear and tail biting syndrome as identified by agricultural

science. After developing a nutritional supplement protocol for both

his son and daughter, the 2 children had virtually no symptoms of

bipolar and Tony Stephan and David Hardy were determined to share

their story.

 

After introducing this discovery to a skeptical Bonnie Kaplan, the of the Behavioural Research Unit at the University of

Calgary, she agreed to launch a clinical trial of Stephan

and Hardy's nutrient supplement protocol. Shocked by her findings, Dr.

Kaplan presented a detailed report to the Canadian Psychiatric

Association's annual general meeting entitled " Successful Treatment of

Bipolar Disorder with a Nutritional Supplement: 10 Cases. " It was

shortly there after that Stephan and Hardy's peace of mind fell apart

in a nearly 5-year legal battle with Health Canada.

 

Upon seeing Doctor Kaplan's report on the nutritional treatment of

bipolar on CTV National news on October 4th

of 2000, Health Canada officials contacted the University of Calgary

within days, demanding that all testing and trials be stopped. Health

Canada was determined to make this discovery go away by shutting down

an Alberta government approved and funded study.

 

On March 13th, 2006, a noted expert in legal matters surrounding

nutritional supplements - Kamloops, B.C.

lawyer Shawn Buckley, will defend his clients - Truehope Nutritional

Support Ltd. and the Synergy Group of Canada Inc. against a charge of

violating Health Canada regulations for marketing their nutrient

supplement protocol to bipolar patients without a DIN number. A trial

is scheduled for three weeks at the Alberta Provincial Court in Calgary.

 

Contacts:

.. Shawn Buckley, Lawyer: 250-372-1404

.. Anthony Stephan, Co-founder, Truehope: 403-634-4840

.. David Hardy, Co-founder, Truehope: 403-752-3639

 

 

 

 

 

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