The last unanswered question about Alexei Navalny was answered this week in a Moscow courtroom by Navalny himself. For the first time he didn't have production back-up from his MI6 helper, Maria Pevchikh of London, or his CIA and BND teams in the Black Forest of Baden-Württemberg.
The question is a medico-psychiatric one. It was first made public by Navalny's treating doctors at the Charité clinic in Berlin.
These doctors, it was, who revealed that Navalny was a heavy user of lithium and benzodiazepine drugs. They published this in a set of four data tables they attached as appendices to their case
report on Navalny. Their data raised the question — what would happen if Navalny was forced to withdraw from his drugs quickly.
After eighteen days in remand prison in Moscow, Navalny answered this question himself in the Babushkinsky district court on February 5.
The disclosure that in his Tomsk hotel on August 19, hours before he collapsed and the Anglo-German OPERATION NOVI-NOVICHOK commenced,
Navalny had taken a large dose of lithium, diazepam, nordazepam, oxazepam, and temazepam, was first published on December 22 in
The Lancet. Read the report and the analysis
here.
The medico-psychiatric literature is clear on what happens to a habitual user of these drugs if rapid withdrawal is attempted: for lithium, read
this; for the benzodiazepines,
click to open.
Comment: What's next? 'Kamala Harris found eating food, just like a normal person'? Well, she does have a bit of work to do to hide the fact that she's an an unlikable, power-hungry opportunist with no character or decency.
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