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The ADHD Fraud
How Psychiatry Makes
“Patients” Out of Normal Children
Is your child taking
Ritalin?
Is there a plague of
psychiatric diagnosis of diseases in children?
This is a true story.
On March 21, 2000,
fourteen-year old Matthew Smith was having a good time skateboarding with two
of his cousins. Suddenly, he collapsed to the floor and started turning
blue. His cousins called 911 but the
paramedics couldn’t revive him.. At the hospital he was pronounced dead from a
heart attack – a heart attack caused by Ritalin.
Matthews parents had been
giving him Ritalin since he was six years old.
Ritalin is classified as a Schedule II drug, which the DEA reserves for
the most dangerous and addictive drugs that can be prescribed legally.
But to the educators at
Matthews school, Ritalin was simply a magic pill that made troublesome students
easier to manage.
Prior to being diagnosed
as having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (or ADHD or ADD for short),
Matthew was an energetic, boisterous highly social child who did not focus on
his school work quite the way his teachers wanted him to.
Was he in dire need of medication?
The push to label Matthew
occurred when he was in the first grade.
School officials said that he was fidgety in his seat and would
sometimes disrupt the class, and that he often had trouble staying focused on
his work.
The school social worker
called Matthews parents and said that Matthew needed to take medication saying,
“He’s got ants in his pants”.
This unqualified social
worker made the diagnosis and recommendation for medication and handed them a
list of physicians who would provide them with a prescription.
Even though technically
this constitutes practicing medicine without a license, this same process
has been occurring in school districts all across the nation by
thousands of teachers, administrators, counselors, psychologists and social
workers for years now.
According to Dr. Fred
Baughman, there is an epidemic taking place all across America. This is happening everywhere.
Parents are told to place
their children on Ritalin or Adderall or else the student will be placed in special
education programs or refused attendance at school.
“Parents are succumbing to
the threats from school officials without any idea of the possible side effects
or negative consequences.”
In San Diego at just one
school, 65 percent of the fifth graders had been diagnosed with ADD and were on
medication.
There are over 6 million
children in the United State who have been diagnosed with ADHD and drugged for
ADHD.
“We are drugging normal
children so that they act less like normal children and forcing them to act
like the docile adults who are supposed to be teaching them”.
Dr. Baughman is one of
numerous medical professionals who recently testified in front of the FDA and
Congress.
“ADHD is not a disorder or
disease or a syndrome or chemical imbalance of the brain. It is not over-diagnosed, under-diagnosed,
or mis-diagnosed. It doesn’t exist in
3%, or 5%, or 10 % of the population.
In fact, it doesn’t exist at all.
It’s is 100% Fraud.”
Dr. Baughman and many
others believe that there is no medical basis for the diagnosis.
“It is a manufactured
disease-an invented disease that results in huge profits for psychiatrists and
pharmaceutical companies.”
We have allowed school and
health care professionals to blanket classify behavior and establish bounds for
student conduct in the school environment.
We hand out drugs to kids as freely as we give them Flintstone vitamins.
In spite of schools with
posted signs everywhere that say “drug free zones” it turns out that nearly
everywhere, the most effective drug pushers are the legal ones.
Dr. Baughman, author of
the new book, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes
“Patients” Out of Normal Children says that parents and educators have
to stop thinking that the use of drugs is necessary.
“We’ve gone on a
diagnostic frenzy and sought out a chemical means for achieving peace and quiet
in the classroom. Ritalin may solve
problems for schools but it’s not helping the children.”
“Right now, the diagnosis
of children is subjective and behavioral and is not biological. We’ve got to change that.”
Once children are labeled
as ADHD they are no longer treated as normal.
And once a child is viewed as abnormal
The rigorous medical research shows that ADD and ADHD simply do not
exist.
“The real question is how
we go about destroying the monster we’ve created. We’ve been conned into believing that evil forces reside within
our children. We’ve been lulled into
believing there is a collective madness.
The real evil forces
reside in our schools and physicians offices.
Our children act in ways
that bother adults. We’ve got to now
teach the adults that the solution is up to them. We know that there are sane people who are horrified at the thought
of participating in a massive abuse of children.
It’s horrifying. There are over half a million children
between the ages of 2 and 5 now being treated with powerful drugs for
ADHD. Nobody has any idea of the
effects these drugs will have on children so young.
We have got to stop
putting children on drugs.
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The ADHD Fraud How Psychiatry Makes “Patients” Out of Normal ChildrenBy Fred A. Baughman Jr.,
MD With Craig Hovey ISBN 1-4120-6458-9 US$24.95, C$28.69, EUR20.49, £14.35 Published by Trafford Publishing Soon to be translated into Spanish |
Dr. Baughman’s book is
filled with real life case studies of children who have been harmed as a result
of a diagnosis of ADHD. He also
describes the evolution of the epidemic, and how Ritalin created and it’s history
as a drug in search of a disease.
Dr. Baughman presents the
14 symptoms that appear in the 1987 Diagnostic and Statistical manual that for
the basis for most diagnosis of ADHD and shows that most of them really amount
to a list of the things that normal children do that irritate adults who do not
have the patience compassion or interest to tolerate them.
Dr. Baughman urges parents, teachers, and physicians to recognize the basic truth of the medical proof. For a disease to be present there must be a macroscopic (gross, naked eye, palpable lump, audible heart murmur), microscopic or chemical abnormality in life, or at autopsy.
With ADHD – there is NO
physical disease evidence at all. No
psychiatric disorder/chemical imbalance/disease is real...not one.
These are normal child behaviors. That is all.
It is a problem of adults
who cannot deal with these children.
The ADHD Fraud How Psychiatry Makes “Patients” Out of Normal
Children is available in
bookstores and online.
For more information visit
www.adhdfraud.org or visit the website of the publisher www.trafford.com
Dr. Baughman can offer insights and comments and reports on the latest ADHD facts:
Where did ADHD come from?
"They made a list of
the most common symptoms of emotional discomfiture of children and in a stroke
that could not be more devoid of science or Hippocratic motive-termed them
" diseases"/ "chemical imbalances" each needing/requiring a
"chemical balancer"- a pill." Thirty-five years of research in
"biological" psychiatry's "chemical
imbalances"/"diseases" as actual diseases. In 1970, when
"hyperactivity"/ ADHD was first represented to Congress to be a brain
disease, only 150,000 had it. Today, not by science, but by the "big
lie" -saying it is a disease often enough, 6-7 million have it! Nor is
ADHD the only "chemical imbalance"/"disease" of the brain.
They give us conduct disorder (CD), oppositional-defiant disorder (ODD), major
depressive disorder (MDD), OCD, PTSD, GAD, SAD, etc., a total of 374
psychiatric disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV-TR) of
the American Psychiatric Association (APA), said to be "chemical
balancers" --pills--thanks, once again, not to science, but to the "big
lie."
How many people are affected?
In 2003 Congressional
hearings it was said that 17% of the nation's school children, 8.8 million,
were labeled and drugged by psychiatry. Toady it is 20%; one in five; 10.4
million! As if this were not enough the President's New Freedom Commission on
Mental Health is set to foist upon us the compulsory, government-mandated
mental health screening of all 52 million US schoolchildren. Clearly, it is a
psycho-pharm-government cartel. When normal people are told they have a disease
to make "patients" of them, for profit, we have "violation of
informed consent - malpractice." When, next, normals - lie to, made
"patients" are drugged --again, for profit-- we have a "battery
- poisoning." This is the greatest health care fraud in US history.
Media review copies and interviews available on request.
About the Authors
Fred A Baughman Jr., MD,
is an adult and child neurologist certified by the American Board of Psychiatry
and Neurology and a Fellow of the Academy of Neurology. He has discovered and described real
diseases. He has testified before the
US Congress, the European Union, and innumerable other national and
international government bodies. He is
an expert witness in lawsuits and legal cases regarding psychiatry and invented
diseases.
Dr. Baughman is an
experienced media guest and has appeared on many national radio and television
shows. He has authored over a hundred
articles in medical journals and the national press. He resides in San Diego with his wife Annette.
Craig Hovey is an educator who teaches economics at Nazareth
College in Rochester, NY. He is a
writer whose interest in the book's subject was sparked when told by school
personnel that his oldest son suffered from ADHD and had top take Ritalin.
Read about the March 22 Congressional Hearings:
ADHD Experts Head To
Washington - Is the FDA Up To The Task?
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http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_evelyn_p_060314_adhd_experts_head_to.htm
Feel Free to request a copy the Testimony of Fred A.
Baughman Jr., MD, to the March 22, 2006, meeting of the FDA-Pediatric Advisory
Committee.
What People Are Saying
Read this book before someone you love is labeled and drugged.
Nicholas A. Cummings, Former President, American Psychiatric Association
All parents with a child in school need to read Fred Baughman’s
book to learn the reasons to be skeptical when informed that their child has
“Attention Deficit Disorder” and must be treated with psychotropic drugs.
Representative Ron Paul, 14th District (Texas), U.S.
House of Representatives
This book documents (how) the charlatan psychiatric profession abuses normal, healthy children with brain destructive drugs for the unconscionable purpose of creating so-called ‘mental illnesses’ such as ADHD for financial gain.
Dr. Robert L. Simonds, Chair, National Association of Evangelicals
I wept as I read this book. As a retired teacher, school trustee, and grandmother of a Ritalin/SSRI/Risperdal damaged grandson, I know that Dr. Baughman and Mr. Hovey speak the truth.
Sharon Steele Kientz, 1995, National Right to Read Foundation, Teacher of the Year
Dr. Baughman has written a powerful expose of psychiatry and its hydra-headed influence with the FDA, drug companies, and public school personnel who pressure parents into unwittingly poisoning their children with dangerous drugs for the non-disease-ADHD. A must read for every parent of a school aged child.
Dr. Robert Sweet, Former President & Founder of the National
Right to Read Foundation, Professional Staff, Committee on Education and the
Workforce, U.S. Congress
The ADHD Fraud provides much needed, detailed, and practical
advice as to how to prevent children from being earmarked as victims of
ADHD. This book deserves the attention
of every parent… all educators and policy makers.
Dr. Patrick Groff, Professor of Education Emeritus, San Diego State University
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