Update on 29 Holistic doctors & practitioners poisoned at conference

“Career Ban After Drug Excess?

Naturopaths could lose their licenses after mass abuse.  Blood tests still without results. (keep reading ..don’t stop here)

The seminar hotel “Tanzheimat Inzmühlen” is situated on a painterly piece of earth, in the midst of a forest, surrounded by fields, flowers and trees.  The hotel calls the terrain a “place of power.”  Alternative therapists and naturopaths are welcome and frequent guests of the hotel, and prefer the seminar room with an elastic sports floor.

However the postcard idyll with a hippie attitude has been scarred, as last Friday 29 seminar attendees, among them naturopaths and homeopaths, were transported to local hospitals completely high after an alleged drug experiment.  Five patients required intensive care in Harburg, Altona, Walsrode, Winsen and Buchholz.  On Saturday afternoon a portion of the injured were able to leave the clinics; since then all patients have been released.

Regarding exactly what transpired most of the patients were silent when asked by doctors, even when they were again back to their right minds–with the exception of several high participants that were transported to the hospital in Winsen.  The “Abendblatt” was informed by circles in the clinic that the men and women initially could recall absolutely nothing, but a few reported flashbacks, wherein they took a compound during a communal relaxation exercise, designed to reach a meditative state of deepest relaxation.  Where the substance came from?  What they believed they consumed?  This they could not recall.

The affected have a good reason for their silence, as the police have cited all 29 seminar participants for violation of anesthesia laws.  Urine and blood samples ordered by police are being tested at the UKE Institute.  At this point the police are working under the assumption that the group messed around with a psychadelic named 2C-E, also known as “Aquarust” in the scene.  “We are expecting results in the upcoming days,” said Lars Nickelsen, spokesperson of the Harburg police department.  The accused could be giving statements to the police regarding the course of events.

If the suspicions prove themselves correct, the naturopaths won’t only be criminally liable but could be responsible for the costly emergency mission.  Their career futures could also be in danger; the higher administrative court of Saarbrücken has already revoked the licenses of naturopaths consuming marijuana (Az: 3 A 271/10).  Doctors that possibly were among the intoxicated particpants could face an even harder judgement:  “Educated doctors know exactly what they’re getting themselves into and how dangerous such substances are,” Kai Thomas Braes told the “Abendblatt,” spokesperson for the district attorney’s office in Stade.

The 29 men and woman that participated in the seminar in the “Tanzheimat” had come from all over Germany; five of them originated from Hamburg.  The seminar hotel is known as a meeting place for followers of the alternative therapy scene.  Sometimes they have “dance therapy” workshops, sometimes the topics are meditation, spiritual self awareness, yoga, holistic practices, and similar.  According to a managing team member of the “Tanzheimat” the seminar leader had already been a guest of the the center with three different groups.  Until now there had never been any problems.

As the paramedics arrived on Friday afternoon, they were presented with a curious, carefully formulated picture:  on the lawn in front of the historic half-timber building lay several people, some with cramps and tremors, as if someone had given them electric shock treatments.  Others “wandered disoriented through the garden” reported an eyewitness to the “Abendblatt.”  The 160 emergency workers, among them the fire department and paramedics assistants, had their hands full.

Even experienced doctors were stunned by the severity of the symptoms.  Cramps, hallucinations, racing hearts, dizziness, nausea and pain.  Doctors assume the poisoned men and women took a substance that led to a high typical of amphetamines, but that was also simultaneously similar to the hallucinations of LSD.  According to “Abendblatt” sources, the five patients delivered to AK Altona had extreme symptoms ranging from loss of control of the digestive system and uncontrollable aggression to total apathy by one older woman.  Two of the patients who rampaged through the emergency ward even had to be restrained.  And one young woman on a stretcher yelled “Now I understand it, now I understand it!””

END OF TRANSLATION. MY NOTES: Do I think the paper could be a bit biased? Sure. I would still take this with a grain of salt. They are local and probably don’t like what took place in their area and I don’t blame them. Do I think this means that the doctors and homeopaths knowingly took a dangerous drug that put some of them in what authorities called “life threatening conditions?”

Absolutely Not.