The Adhd Fraud or Who Killed Rebecca Riley?

Fred A. Baughman, Jr., MD, Neurologist, Child Neurologist ^ | 06/22/07 | Fred A. Baughman

[Lennyq]

WHO KILLED REBECCA RILEY?

By Fred A. Baughman, Jr., MD, Neurologist, Child Neurologist

Author: The ADHD Fraud—How Psychiatry Makes “Patients” of Normal Children

www.Trafford.com

June 21, 2007

Neurologists, such as myself, diagnose and treat real diseases of the brain. Psychiatrists do not. They only claim to. A disease is a physical abnormality evident macroscopically (lump on the head visible to the naked eye) , microscopically (cancer cells on a ‘Pap’ smear) or by chemical assay (high blood sugar in diabetes). If there is no such objective abnormality, the individual is normal, disease-free. It is fascinating to behold the charges brought by behavioral pediatrician-ADHD authority, Larry Diller in his attack upon child psychiatrist-bipolar disorder authority, Joseph Biederman of Harvard (Bipolar Madness, San Francisco Chronicle, June 18, 2007, p. D-5). Is ADHD any more legitimate than bipolar disorder or any other psychiatric disorder/disease? It is not.

The December 13, 2007 death of 4-year-old Rebecca Riley of Hull, MA, has triggered high nervousness throughout psychiatry, all mental health, and the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Diller tells us Rebecca was diagnosed “bipolar disorder” at 2 ½ years of age and begun on 3 psychiatric drugs--Seroquel, an antipsychotic, among them. Incredibly, Rebecca’s parents have been charged with murder while her brother and sister continue, court-ordered, on these same deadly poisons for these same bogus diagnoses. Diller writes of “bipolar disorder” as “a purported psychiatric illness,” impugning it’s legitimacy. Strangely, Diller neglected to mention that Rebecca was also diagnosed with ADHD—the “disease” he is an authority on. Writing of “bipolar disorder,” Diller asks: “Can or should children that young be diagnosed with a disorder that ostensibly lasts a lifetime?” Dr. Diller, are children with ADHD any less likely to be told that their “disease” will last a lifetime? Hardly! Is ADHD any more real and legitimate a disease than “bipolar,” “Asperger’s,” “conduct,” or “oppositional defiant disorder,” or any other contrivance from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association. For an idea of how real Dr. Diller thinks ADHD is see p. 7 of his book Running on Ritalin where he writes: “Before 1990 I needed perhaps one pad of a hundred forms every nine months; by 1997 I realized it was one every three months.” If he did not think ADHD was a real disease would he be writing 400 prescriptions a year for it? For all of Dr. Diller's objections to the “bipolar” diagnosis, Rebecca Riley, at 2 ½ was said by her psychiatrist to have ADHD as well—ADHD that was her first diagnosis! But make no mistake, both ADHD & bipolar disorder are dangerous, deadly diagnoses—dangerous and deadly not because they are real diseases/ physical abnormalities posing real physical risks (there are none) but because of the dangerous, deadly medications invariably prescribed for them and for every contrived, fraudulent psychiatric “disease”/ “disorder”/ “chemical imbalance.”

The Atlanta (GA) Journal-Constitution (January 11, 2007) has documented 364 deaths in Georgia’s state mental hospitals in the five years, January, 2002 through mid-December 2006. Two-thirds were said to have died of natural causes, 115 were deemed suspicious. The greatest number of these--36 –died from choking on food, vomit or foreign objects a side effect of antipsychotic/neuroleptic-induced bulbar palsy. Mind you, these are in-patient deaths only, in only one state. Between 1990 and 2000, 186 deaths related to the use of methylphenidate/Ritalin were reported FDA/MedWatch program. The actual numbers of drug-caused deaths can never be known because that is the way the pharmaceutical industry and their friends in government want it. It is estimated that the number of deaths and adverse drug reactions otherwise, voluntarily reported to FDA-MedWatch represents one to ten percent of the actual number. Dr. Diller has confessed to my colleague and friend, Sue Parry that there has never been validation of ADHD as an actual disease. If that is the case, is he any more scientific or moral than Dr. Biederman—prescribing addictive, dangerous, deadly amphetamines to upwards of 400 children per year who he knows to be medically/physically normal. Nor does this set him apart from all the rest in pediatrics, psychiatry, family practice and neurology who are happy to use the APA-DSM diagnostic scheme that allows them to make patients of normal children—children in whom the first and only abnormality is the intoxication/poisoning by their first and each subsequent drugs.

Rebecca Riley died at 4 years of age. Angel Trantham of Sheridan, Arkansas, whose records I have just finished reviewing was 14 when court-ordered into psychiatric care, and fifteen going on 16 when she died, not just a victim of ADHD and bipolar disorder but of the countless psychiatric drugs she ingested and was injected with over the final eight months of her short, tragic life. Like Rebecca, and like all psychiatric patients, Angel had no real disease when at “diagnosis.” Her first and only abnormalities/diseases were the drugs coursing throughout her body and brain. The disease labels in psychiatry are nothing more than a parody-sham to justify the for-profit drugging/poisoning.

Should you, the reader, doubt what I say, you owe it to yourself to read the letter I received from the former President, Bernard S. Alpert, MD of the Medical Board of California, the state agency created to protect Californians when they seek medical care.

On May 28, 2002, I wrote Dr.Alpert, MD, President of the Medical Board of California (MBC): “Every time parents or a patient is lead to believe that their child’s emotional/behavioral problem is a “disease” due to an abnormality within their body or brain, they have been lied to, their informed consent rights wholly violated…”

On June 14, 2002, Dr. Alpert, responded: "As you outline in your letter, there is tremendous professional support for categorizing emotional and psychological conditions as diseases of the brain. In published materials, some quoted in your letter, you will find that support from chairs of psychiatry departments, the American Psychiatric Association and professors of major medical schools. It is clear that the psychiatric community has set their standard, and while one might disagree with it, that standard becomes the legal standard upon which the Board (CMB) must base its actions."

Unbelievably, what Dr. Alpert, speaking for the Medical Board of the State of California, is saying here, is that whatever the majority do, even lie to every patient, knowingly violating their informed consent rights, that that becomes the unassailable, legal “standard of practice. ” And, so it goes with state medical boards across the country—part of the problem, not part of the solution.

It should be abundantly clear by this point that there is no such thing as a psychiatric disorder/disease/chemical imbalance of the brain—that this is a total, one hundred percent lie, meant, knowingly--by design--to make “patients” of normals of all ages then to poison them--for profit. It cannot be called “treatment”—the drug was their first and only abnormality. Unlike the rest of medicine, no psychiatric drug targets a diagnosed abnormality to make it normal or more nearly so. No! it is not just Dr. Biederman or just the child psychiatry department at Harvard-Massachusetts General Hospital that is doing this, it is the entire psychiatric profession lead by all of psychiatric academia—the APA and the NIMH. It is the entire medical profession--neurologists, pediatricians, GPs, FPs—it is psychologists and teachers, aided and abetted by the Congress, the White House and every last health care agent and agency of the federal government—all of them bought and paid for by the obscenely wealthy, all-controlling, world-wide pharmaceutical industry. No, Dr. Diller, it is not just Dr. Biederman.

[Teacher317]

It's all about the money for them, kids.

1. Schools want kids to be labelled as special needs, so they can get more government funding (they get more per special needs student than per "normal" student). Period. There is no other motivation for them. It is not exactly a secret in education circles.
2. Psych workers want more influence, patients, and relevance, so they're happy to diagnose as many urchins as possible for the schools. Very few people in the world fail to qualify for some disorder under the book: DSM IV.
and...
3. Parents are usually happy that their child will get extra time, attention, and help on all assignments and tests... as well as increased responsibility for the schools, rather than for themselves. (Let's try passing a law that increases parental contributions to their child's education, and see how many suddenly oppose... I'm not saying all parents of diagnosed kids are bad/lazy/whatever, I'm just saying you'd see many change their minds once some measure of increased responsibility falls on their shoulders.)
4. Students are often happy to go along with the scheme, because it is far easier to get better grades, there's less stigma (now that everyone is getting diagnosed with something), and you get far more free time if you're "high-functioning" in the special ed classes.

[cinives]

still on the “nah nah nah I can’t hear you” routine ?

Why don’t you simply respond to the facts, not your feeeeelings ?

[xsmommy]

i don’t just FEEL that scientologists are loony, it’s a fact.

[agrace]

One more time, then I'm done.

You don’t know what this man credentials are or what his research affiliations are; but you are willing to accept blindly someone’s assertions that he’s a Scientologist and dismiss everything he says or writes accordingly.

If.

I. said. if.

I don't know if the man has affiliations with scientology. I don't care. I have not dismissed ANYTHING he has said. He might very well do amazing, necessary and productive work.

You are reading much, much more into my posts than is actually there.

I simply said that IF the man has connections to scientology, then his credibility is diminished no matter WHO he is.

I am making a general statement about scientology, not about anything else BUT scientology. Not neurology, not psychiatry, nor the disputes or agreements between the two. I am making a general statement about SCIENTOLOGY and its utter and complete lack of merit. Nothing else.

[Clam Digger]

What a lovely personal attack, when you don’t even know which side of the issue i stand on. You really are a jerk of the first class for that totally uncalled for attack. What a plain ass. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a jerky thing. You are a lowlife scumbag maggot. Piss off.

[cinives]

I have not dismissed ANYTHING he has said

No you haven't dismissed it; you've ignored it.

Go reread your posts and show me where you've even considered anything the man wrote. Everything you have posted has been about Scientology; I've been trying to direct your attention back to the article and the ideas contained therein.

[cinives]

OK, clarify your post, then. Your first post on this thread was to call some posters idiots.

You want to start again ?

[cinives]

sure ... now get let’s back to the contents of the article ...

[Clam Digger]

I don’t care a rats ass about the scientolgists and their mental problems, it’s the ignorant fools who deny the existence of ADD, ADHD and bipolar and claim all meds for treating it are bad.

[xsmommy]

not interested. you clearly are desperate to cling to the quackery upon which you rely. i have seen it and don’t buy it. peace out.

[cinives]

So why are you gracing this thread with your presence, then, since a discussion of the article is not of interest to you ?

[xsmommy]

i was pinged.

[half-cajun]

Wow. A sane person is on this thread.

[Clam Digger]

Thanks. The thread is prety well poisoned by some psycho who is off his meds, though.

[Lennyq]

Thanks for your contribution. The only problem with the scheme you describe is that the drugs they are prescibing to these children are no joke! Ritlan, Adderal and the like are all dangerous stimulants on par with cocaine and other illegal drugs. They all have serious side effects that I do not think anyone takes into account. In addition the children themselves may be having real problems that are not being addressed. I think this situation will go on for the time being but eventually the chickens will come home to roost!

[achilles2000]

A very nice summary of how it works...oo bad others can’t get the “dear old Mr. Chips” image of school administration out of their heads. And then there is the current generation of parents...

[agrace]

No you haven't dismissed it; you've ignored it.

Yes, that is correct, because my point is not about the doctor, as I keep saying. He could be a nuclear physicist, a cabaret singer or my neighbor with the cool new Mustang.

If any of the above are Scientologists, I cannot help but treat them prejudicially based on their willingness to embrace such an unmitigated farce.

Go reread your posts and show me where you've even considered anything the man wrote. Everything you have posted has been about Scientology; I've been trying to direct your attention back to the article and the ideas contained therein.

THANK YOU. You're RIGHT! My point has ALWAYS been about scientology.

Have a great afternoon, cinives. :)

[TASMANIANRED]

Bipolar is definitely real...but I don’t think it can be diagnosed as young as 2....

The age of 2 has been described as “the terrible 2’s” for a reason....