 ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: C*************
  To: fredbaughmanmd@cox.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 4:13 AM
  Subject: RITALIN

  Hi Doc,

  I am a practicing psychologist in South Africa and am also certainly
  anti-Ritalin - but what do you use for hyperactivity and concentration
  problems?  I am trying natural products for my patients - what do
  you recommend please Doc.

  Regards,
  Chris

  Human Development: Consulting Psychologists

  PO Box ****, 
  *************
  South Africa

[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD: FB: hyperactivity and concentration problems are not medical problems; diseases. It is a total fraud of psychiatry and the pharm industry to say, imply that they are--chemical imbalances needing chemical balancers--pill. Saying you try "natural products" (alternative medicine) suggests you too buy into the medicalization of such things. Teaching, training, education, will-power, these are the means by which, in time, hyperactivity and concentration problems can be overcome or controlled. There are an infinite variety of books, techniques, on how to overcome, behaviorally. As long as the patient, parent, therapist believes in the disease, chemical imbalance model they cannot believe in behavioral/willpower approaches to their problem which is just the way the psycho-pharm cartel wants it. ]