Neurology &
Child Neurology
- Dear Chairwomen Ortiz &
All Members,
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- It appears that the California
legislature, like all parents everywhere, and the entire
rest of the country have been deceived as to the true nature
of ADHD and all "mental illnesses."
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- Yes, I did tell you that no
such disease/abnormality as ADHD (or any childhood
psychiatric condition/diagnosis) has been validated within
the medical/scientific literature of the world medicine, as
an actual disease, having a confirmatory abnormality within
the child/person. In medicine a disease is an abnormality;
no abnormality-normal--no disease. The abnormality may be
gross, i.e. visible to the macroscopic, microscopic, or
molecular-chemical (a with to much sugar in diabetes, to
much phenylalanine in PKU), but, unless some abnormality has
been objectively demonstrated, disease cannot be said to be
present in that individual; that individual is normal.
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- Throughout the testimony taken
by your committee, 2/13/02, you were told "there are no
diagnostic tests." This statement itself is deceiving.
The reason there are no diagnostic or "biological"
tests is that there are no abnormalities to test for-and all
in medicine and psychiatry who practice and orchestrate the
practice of "mental health," know it.
- At the March, 5-8, 1998
meeting of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry,
James M. Swanson, of the University of California, Irvine,
acknowledged (tape recording): " I would like to have
an objective diagnosis for the disorder (ADHD). Right now
psychiatric diagnosis is completely subjective.We would like
to have biological tests--a dream of psychiatry for many
years." Nor is the situation different today, nor will
it be tomorrow--the reason being that true diseases are
natural occurrences, in plant, animal and human life,
described by observant professionals in those fields as they
are encountered, not in-committee, contrivances/inventions
as in psychiatry with their Diagnostic and Statistical
Manuals, each with more labels with which to victimize.
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- In other words, all ADHD
children and all children with psychiatric/mental health
diagnoses, are medically/physically normal children-normal
until the drugging/intoxication/poisoning (knowingly
drugging a normal individual) begins.
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- Throughout the ADHD industry
and all of children's mental health parents/guardians are
fraudulently induced to see their children as
diseased/abnormal-as "patients" to get them accept
psychiatric/mental health treatments (usually psychiatric
drugs; in ADHD, usually Schedule II, addictive, controlled
substances).
- Not all such parents are
explicitly told ADHD (or "bipolar" or OCD) is a
"disease" but all of them, one way or another, are
lead to believe that the entity diagnosed in their child is
a disease, which means, an abnormality within the
child--their child. Regardless of the specific language,
when parents are lead to believe their normal child is
somehow abnormal/diseased, with this belief leading to the
acceptance of medical treatment (usually drugging) their has
been (1) violation of informed consent, which, in most
jurisdictions is tantamount to (2) medical malpractice (3)
medical fraud as defined in California, SB-836, Figueroa,
under which: "It is unlawful for any person . to
disseminate or cause to be disseminated any form of public
communication. containing a false, fraudulent, misleading,
or deceptive statement or claim." (4) violation of the
California Uniform Controlled Substances Act, which states
[page 36, Article 2, 11190. Prescriber's Record for Schedule
II Substance]: "The prescriber's record shall show the
pathology (pathology equals abnormality equals disease, and
in ADHD there are none of the above) and purpose for which
the prescription is issued, or the controlled substance
administered, prescribed, or dispensed," (5) having
lead normal persons to believe that they are
abnormal/diseased, to gain their consent to treat, all
subsequent medical or surgical treatment constitutes assault
and battery pursuant to Penal Code sections 242/243.
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- On the absence of bona fide
diseases in psychiatry, Valenstein [1], writes, "There
are no tests available for assessing the chemical status of
a living person's brain."[i] Nor has any
"biochemical, anatomical, or functional signs have been
found that reliably distinguish the brains of mental
patients."[ii] van Praag [2] tells how researchers
thought they had discovered a deficiency in a chemical
cousin to serotonin in the cerebrospinal fluid of some
depressed patients. "In the end, the deficiency proved
neither diagnostic nor specific for any psychiatric
condition. Glenmullen [3] writes: ".not one (disease,
chemical imbalance) has been proven. In every instance where
such an imbalance was thought to have been found, it was
later proven false."[iii]
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- As to why patients throughout
mental health are lied to, Valenstein [1], makes clear:
"The theories are held on to.because they are useful in
promoting drug treatment."[iv]
- Healy [4], observes: "The
advent of the psychotropic drugs has also given rise to a
new biological language in psychiatry. The extent to which
this has come to be part of popular culture is in many ways
astonishing. It can reasonably be asked whether biological
language offers more in the line of marketing copy than it
offers in terms of clinical meaning." In Mad in
America, Whitaker [5] writes: "At the top of this wish
list, though, would be a simple plea for honesty. Stop
telling those diagnosed .that they suffer from too much
dopamine or serotonin activity and that the drugs put these
brain chemicals back into 'balance.' That whole spiel is a
form of medical fraud, and it is impossible to imagine any
other group of patients-ill say, with cancer or
cardiovascular disease-being deceived in this way."
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- The American Medical
Association, the California Medical Association, the
American Psychiatric Association, the California Psychiatric
Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the
American Academy of Family Practice, the American Academy of
Neurology, the American Society of Adolescent Psychiatry,
the Child Neurology Society, CHADD, NAMI, the NIH, the NIMH,
the FDA, the DEA, the US Congress, the world-wide
pharmaceutical industry, and others, know there are no bona
fide diseases within psychiatry/mental health but continue
as a matter of market-place strategy to portray them as such
to their patients and to the public-all of them potential
"mental health" patients-consumers of
pharmaceuticals.
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- I have corresponded with the
California Medical Board [6,7] on this issue on two
occasions. As physicians, the members of the board know the
truth of what I speak, but hesitate to act because-if I read
them correctly, and I believe I do, the fraud of calling
normal children "diseased" to make
"patients" of them has become the standard of
practice in the state, making it alright.
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- While I testified as to the
deficiencies of information parents routinely get regarding
the drugs used to treat ADHD (and all psychiatric
"diseases"), it should be apparent that having
lead them to believe their normal children are
diseased/abnormal to make "patients" of them, in
and of itself, dooms that family's right to informed
consent. In fact, the "disease" lie in present-day
psychiatry/mental health, is the crux of what is the
greatest US health care fraud in history (and, increasingly,
around the world).
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- Sincerely yours,
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- Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD
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- REFERENCES:
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- 1.. Elliot S. Valenstein,
Ph.D., Blaming the Brain (The Free Press, New York, 1998)
- 2.. van Praag[1] Hermann.
"Make-Believes" in Psychiatry. 1993.
- 3.. Joseph Glenmullen,
M.D., Prozac Backlash, (Simon & Schuster, NY, 2000)
- 4. David Healy, The
Anti-Depressant Era, (Harvard University Press, 1999)
- 5. Robert Whitaker, Mad in
America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring
Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill, (Perseus Publishing, 2002)
- 6.. Letter to California
Medical Board, November 3, 2001.
- 7.. Letter to the
California Medical Board, January 4, 2001.
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- [i], p.4.
- [ii]Elliot S. Valenstein,
Ph.D., Blaming the Brain (The Free Press, New York, 1998),
p. 125.
- [iii]Joseph Glenmullen,
M.D., Prozac Backlash, (Simon & Schuster, NY, 2000), p.
196.
- [iv]Elliot S. Valenstein,
Ph.D., Blaming the Brain (The Free Press, New York, 1998),
p.4.
- [v]), Intro p 5
- [v] Robert Whitaker, Mad in
America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring
Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill, (Perseus Publishing,
2002), p. 290.
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