"Daily" use of Marijuana shown to increase Liver Fibrosis 7 Fold

Hepatitis C Sufferers ***Note: "Daily" use of Marijuana is being shown to increase Liver Fibrosis 7 Fold. With study leaders calling for additional like-studies, they do point to current, proven results. As always, Debbullan Inc. calls for Personally Informed Decisions. Be Strong, Stay Aware.

Most recently found study was published in 2008. Access full study info here: http://www.debbullan.org/ishida_cannabis_paper_2008%5B1%5D.pdf

Only one other study with this focus by a French research group could be located. Similar results were found: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18242211

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Botox Injection Alert ! Hepatitis, HIV Testing Called For All Past / Present Users

In one contribution for this year’s Worldwide Hepatitis Awareness day of Wednesday, May 19, 2010, we would like to remind everyone to be aware to add BOTOX injections to the list of activities that result in High Risk of infection for Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B and HIV.

In promised follow up to an announcement made by Debbullan Inc. in November of 2009, the lawsuit between Ivan Goldsmith and Allergan Inc. (which was made public by many media reporting agencies) remains ongoing*. Find one such article here: http://www.lef.org/news/LefDailyNews.htm?NewsID=8910.

In this article, Dr. Ihsan Azzam, state epidemiologist for the Nevada State Health Division (2009) is quoted as saying: "I think we need to include use of Botox as a risk factor when we talk about hepatitis,"

Ignoring the red herring of the defendant in the law suit, at this time the mass public must focus on the practice of reusing vials, needles or syringes when receiving Botox or any other injection. The below illustration explains the difference between vials, needles and syringes as well as how, though you see a brand new needle, the syringe and vial can still be infected with a virus such as Hepatitis or HIV.

Source / Larger View: http://67.228.183.132/~hardtime/HONOR/outbreaks.html

Medical offices, clinics and hospitals are on the list of where vigilance must be maintained. From 1998 through 2008 over 98,000 people were placed in danger of being infected with Hepatitis by well respected medical facilities and clinics, nursing homes and more. Using Botox applications as one current example is proof this malpractice has not abated, but seems to be more prevalent than what is being widely reported. "We're not talking about 40,000 or 50,000 people. We're talking about hundreds of thousands of injections" This statement made by a Las Vegas plastic surgeon, Dr. Julio Garcia.

Accept these calls for action:

• Anyone that has had a Botox injection should test for Hepatitis and HIV immediately.
• We also urge you to make well-known this danger to everyone you speak or socially correspond with.
• Be Aware of and ask to see the “sealed” vial, syringe and needle when receiving injections from any medical facility or clinic.

Questions, comments and suggestions are always welcome! At Debbullan Inc. you will receive a response to your emails: Debbullan@Debbullan.org. Title your email responsibly to avoid spam protection software.

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*Court documents made available to Debbullan Inc. via a supporter’s use of Public Access to Court Electronic Records show the earliest resolution is to be expected in September of 2010, with a final disposition expected on May 13, 2011 (Coincidentally during Worldwide Hepatitis Awareness Month, 2011).

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On September 11, 2009, Debbullan attended what was advertised as The National Summit on Viral Hepatitis in Washington, DC. The official name given the meeting was “The Dawn of a New Era: Transforming Our Domestic Response to Hepatitis B & C”

Debbullan made a live audio recording of the speakers in attendance on September 11. Artists 4 Charity’s founder, Juergen Kempel, has been editing each segment of the recording in order to enhance the audio for your listening ease. We are grateful to Mr. Kempel, who has made it possible for you to listen to the beginning segments of the Summit through Podcasts now offered through this link: http://debbullan.podOmatic.com.

In order to be ensured of notification that each new segment has become available, be sure to subscribe.

Further Mr. Kempel has created music for the podcasts. Sections of the song “A New Dawning” are played at the opening and ending of each Podcast segment. To listen to the song in its entirety, visit www.myspace.com/artists4charity and find the TUNEWIDGET that includes Debbullan’s awareness campaign, Sign 4 C image. You are also welcome to download the song.

BOTOX Application has Become a Cause of Hepatitis and HIV. Mass Public Testing Needed

Quote: "We're not talking about 40,000 or 50,000 people. We're talking about hundreds of thousands of injections" BOTOX vials come with enough product to treat 2 to 5 people or more, however the vial is only sterile for ONE use. The problem stems from the fact that medical professionals administering the drug cannot charge as much as the vial cost them. The result is that they feel forced to contaminate the vial to treat the next person in line for a dose. The risk for Hep C, Hep B and HIV is massive.

How BOTOX application facilities adjust:

Action: Take up to five syringes, pull one treatment into each syringe and treat multiple people from one vial.

Problem: This is an illegal practice. This is not a controlled or approved medical practice and mistakes can easily be made.

Action: One syringe is used to draw from the same vial more than once on one patient. The contents of that vial are now fully contaminated. The next patient comes in. A new needle is used to draw from the contaminated vial. This has become almost a common malpractice among medical facilities (source: http://67.228.183.132/~hardtime/HONOR/occurrences.html)

Problem: The danger not easily seen is because a new syringe is being used yet the VIAL is contaminated.

Action: The same syringe is used on each patient.

Problem: The syringe is contaminated the moment it is used the first time.

The most proactive action you, as the consumer or patient, can do is to insist on seeing the syringe removed from its packaging and also to insist to see the seal broken on the vial…any vial.

Here, again is the link to the article this blog was born from: http://www.lvrj.com/news/botox-lawsuit-raises-issues-on-injections-64690212.html

What you will further read in this article is that there has been a federal lawsuit filed in California. It is accused that the sales people for the makers of BOTOX routinely urge medical professionals to make the single use vial a multi-use vial. This accusation is widely supported by application facilities.

We will be monitoring the outcome. In the interim the call for infectious testing stands. Do not wait to be tested.

Why is this practice such a massive issue to the greater public health? Because the largest ways the HCV, HBV and HIV blood born viruses are passed along is through multiple syringe use and through infected blood products. We have both being discussed here (contaminated vial and used syringe possibilities)

Three tests (HCV, HBV, HIV) for infection are needed due to this malpractice by Medical professionals. Why is the risk higher for HCV than for HIV or HBV? Here are some reasons:

**Because in one drop of blood you may find 5 particles of the HIVirus while in one drop of HCV infected blood you can find upwards past 100,000 (one hundred thousand) particles of this virus. Yale is just one confirming source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNLVp1tVECM

**As well the HCV virus is very determined in its bid to infect human cells. Same source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNLVp1tVECM

**HCV has no symptoms. 80% of the time the victim does not know they have become infected (for up to 20 years), therefore does not know not they are infecting others. People from ALL walks of life have Hep C and do not know it.

**60% (3 million people) have Hep C and do not know they carry the virus in the US

**People infected with HCV outnumber people infected with HIV in the US by over 5 to 1 (5 million HCV infected / 1 million HIV infected) HBV infects 1.4 million here in the US.

In closing, the article states that Medical professionals seem to be flaunting their illegal actions saying with conviction they understand how to keep the public safe by ignoring safety practices. This serious infectious practice requires your action.

1) Be tested
2) Pass this information along.

Talk with your children now about self piercing and tatting

With school back in session, there is no better time to have a talk with your child about home piercing and tattooing.


Explain the dangers of "reusing" needles and puncture tools as well as using "not sterilized" needles and puncture tools. Explain holding tools over a flame or boiling is just not enough.

Use these additions during your talk to help make the explanation more personal to your child, giving them a stake in working to achieve a sanitary avenue.

Have pictures of infected piercing spots available

Good Search "images of infected piercing" and you will be given a plethora of choices and helpful explanations. They will also help educate you with signs of piercing caused infection.

Explain what events your child will miss in the near future while in hospital for weeks being treated for infection.

If you already planned to allow piercing after levels of maturity appear perhaps you can offer an alternative to your child's joining in a unauthorized piercing party? Perhaps a reward proposition where you control the piercing occurrence after certain goals are met? Create a chart that helps your child see the progress they are making toward the goal. Dismiss shouts of "dorky" or make your chart sick enough to dodge the shout out.

Talk with other parents in your child's friend base. Plan a gathering to talk about a group plan to allow or not allow piercings and tatting. Help give parents that are not ready for either of these options ammunition to fight the peer pressure.


At the end of the day, do whatever you have to do to work together to be sure your children understand that home piercing and tatting is NOT an option.

'TWEETS' from the National Summit on Viral Hepatitis of September 11 in Washington, D.C.

Find a copy of the itinerary at this url:
http://www.debbullan.org/HepatitisSummitAgenda8_27_09.pdf

Debbullan Director Dawn Webb attended today, Friday September 11, 2009

Taking time to remember the victims of 9/11

Welcome to Debbullan's live audit of the National Summit on Viral Hepatitis in Washington DC. For live updates...

About 300 people are in attendance of National Summit on Viral Hepatitis in Washington DC.

First Speaker John G. Bartlett, MD, a man of a passion for bringing positive awareness of Hep C to the mass public


What Have We Learned from HIV and how do we apply it to HCV? HCV must become general medicine to gain increased funding


consensus: the need for improved therapy is enormous.

Therapy must be Radicated without Ribavirin

More quotes from Summit: Vast room for improvement on current treatment

One goal is to transform treatment response. To improve Sustained Viral Response in order to reduce HCV related morbidity

Dr. Jacobson acknowledges Ribavirin is a horrible treatment

Risk stratification is key to future treatment outcomes

HCV = accelerated mortality. After SVR is HCV related cancer possible? Yes

Comorbidity host factors may affect hcv progression and treatment outcomes


Bring HCV facts to light. HCV causes other diseases, heart disease, liver disease and more. More Public knowledge needed

WE MUST "ALL SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE. WE CANNOT AFFORD TO FAIL"

The microbe is nothing the terrain is everything

HCV + Alcohol = DEATH. Everything must be done to drive this point home.

Peg IFN + Ribavirin does not cure most with HIV + HCV

Diff HIV = W/out treatment infected will die. HCV = a percentage of infected will die of a reason other than HCV

Push for HCV specific technical research center.

NIH rep, Dr. Doo cannot separate current spending percentages of HIV vs HCV

Discussions at the National Hepatitis Summit in Washington DC turns toward people below the poverty line

Hep C also named "the disease of the disenfranchised" Cycle of invisibility cause inadequate surveillance/screening

Focus needed on Prevention, Intervention, Outreach, Testing, Counseling, Needle Access and Substance use treatment

Under poverty level population: 37.3 mill (13.3 mill = children) Ths population shows 9.1 fold increase of HCV infection

Discussions continue at the National Hepatitis Summit in Washington DC segments focus on people below the poverty line

68 million now on Medicaid. Est of 74 million in 2019. There is no pathway for coverage for HCV victims except by waiver

Medicaid an avenue of primary drive of future federal spending. Early coverage [treatment] reduces transplants and death

Question raised: Why not treat HCV incarcerated? Population largely infected not treated & released to main population

National Hepatitis Summit in Washington DC call for better surveillance of hidden populations ie homeless & incarcerated

Call to expand Ryan White Care Act to include people with Hepatitis C

In conclusion focus must be given to preparing each Community for prevention.

Launch a public awareness campaign

Effective/Proven intervention methods = Build local organizations/ Engage diverse communities/ Build prevent expertise

Medical Professionals National Summit on Viral Hepatitis in Washington DC. also calls for expanded testing for Hepatitis

Final official comment from Nat'l Summit on Viral Hepatitis in Washington DC. Health REFORM must happen

Info will be repeated on a one / sheet at Debbullan's Facebook Page Come by become a Fan for updates of all focus topics

Debbullan has launched an awareness campaign that is now active on 4 world continents visit www.SIGN4C.INFO join in its easy.

Great thanks to all participants of National Summit on Viral Hepatitis in Washington DC. & to all of you too for caring

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BONUS info for friends and Fans of Facebook and visitors to our blog page

Topic from the Summit:
Barriers to HCV care:

Provider Barriers: Knowledge / Skill / Attitudes

Systems Barriers: Capacity Across Interdisciplinary Team / Funding / Access to Biopsy

Patient Barrier: Knowledge / Access / Comorbidity / Fear

Therapy Barrier: Side Effects / Cure Rate


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Check back for additional announcement for a special Sign 4 C moment. We are very grateful attendees at the Summit participated.

Debbullan Representative to Attend the National Summit on Viral Hepatitis to be Held September [10] -11 in Washington, D.C.

A representative of Debbullan Inc. is traveling Friday, to the National Summit on Viral Hepatitis to be Held September 10-11 in Washington, D.C. Internet info link

The goal of Debbullan Inc. in attending this Summit is to share with our supporters and constituency our representative’s personal impression of how each item on the agenda is attended to by the impressive list of speakers and panel participants scheduled to appear. For anyone that wishes to receive it, we intend to report, as a media representative would, real time updates of the various events scheduled for Friday, September 11. Simply sign up to follow Debbullan Inc. on Twitter No twitter account? Debbullan’s Facebook page will be updated that evening. Or return right back here to our blog site which will also be updated with a repeat of the live Twitter update posts. Lastly, our website will be updated as the timing of our volunteer webmaster will allow (www.debbullan.org)

We are grateful to Debbullan’s Director, Dawn Webb and her good friend, Charles Stanley for making massive alterations to their personal schedule in order to attend this Summit on it’s second day in session, Friday September 11.

About DAWN WEBB:

A retired Model, now living in the great state of Virginia, Dawn is a mother of four, grandmother of a granddaughter and a grandson with another grandson on the way. Dawn Webb has been on the Board of Directors of Debbullan Inc. since June of 2007.

In Dawn’s own words: “As a victim of Hep C, Stage 1 Grade 2, my symptoms are at times, more mental then physical. I feel very fortunate to have remained a Stage 1 Grade 2 with few symptoms, for so many years and I thank Debbullan who has continually helped me to face my own challenges to stay positive in hopes for a cure in the near future. I have not forgotten those less fortunate then I, and my thoughts and prayers are with them, their families, and those friends who are hanging in there not giving up...
I would like to give a hollar to my peeps in the Hepatitis Neighborhood. "YAY! We're in Washington. Keep hope in your hearts"
I love You all,”
Dawn Webb aka Desa