One of the main uses of megadoses of B3 that is mentioned in the article is for schizophrenia. Hoffer wrote a book entitled "How to Live With Schizophrenia" way back in the '50's, I believe. My sister in about June of 1975 flipped out and we took her to a hospital where she was diagnosed as schizophrenic, drugged and after a week or two released. She appeared zombie like and she was supposed to go see a psychiatrist, but eventually said they were crazier than her and stopped. She was 23 at the time. It took most of the year for the drugs to get out of her system.

She was going to nursing school and got pregnant and in March of 1976 had her baby and after a few days, flipped out again. When I say that...I mean exhibiting extremely unusual behavior that would be considered very abnormal. A doctor I knew prescribed us some Thorazine to give her to be able to control her until we could get her into a psych ward. She went to one hospital and was actually kicked out for running around naked. Also, in talking to the doctors, I heard them prescribing the Thorazine in extremely higher than recommended amounts (according to drug insert) and the doctor told me there was no hope for her. After she was kicked out, we had her committed to the state institution and I went to the library and got every book I could find on mental illness. I read every one of them.

That is when I came across the work of Abram Hoffer in Canada via his book "How to Live with Schizophrenia" where he described his experiments with B3 and the benefits he saw in multiple settings, including bringing people out of bad LSD trips. There were indications that schizophrenia was closely related to alcoholism and various other mental disorders. I found that there were people practicing Orthomolecular Psychiatry and we got my sister out of the institution and took her to an orthomolecular psychiatrist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he prescribed a protocol that had high doses of B3 and various other things, including C and a few other things. That reversed her behavior and from that day forward she never exhibited any signs of schizophrenia. Hoffer believes it was hereditary with 1% of the population worldwide being schizophrenic. She went on to have more children and if she ever felt herself slipping would just get back on the protocol. She died in 1992 of breast cancer but was able to lead a normal life up until her death.

I have the book, "Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone" written by Abram Hoffer and Andrew Saul. Hoffer opened a clinic in NY and continued for the rest of his life treating and utilizing the orthomolecular protocols to help people with all kinds of disorders. His work and writings are phenomenal, and he certainly saved my sister from a lifetime of drugs and being institutionalized. After Dr. Hoffer passed away, his work has continued, and I recently read some of the advancements made by researchers as it regards mental disorders, using the orthomolecular approach. The fact that advancements have been ongoing in this field is quite exciting and they have isolated some other contributing factors to schizophrenia, depression and other mental health issues. The benefit to the treatment of alcoholism is also significant as this article points out. I would just encourage anyone with mental disorders of ANY kind to do some research into this brilliant man's work and find some of the new studies and work that is being done. I guarantee the medical profession wants your loved ones drugged for life and rendered unable to function. But Hoffer was a brilliant humanitarian...a blessing to psychiatric patients everywhere.