Posted on 08/06/2007 7:18:11 AM PDT by 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.
This thread was just fine until you arrived with your profanity ... they’re waiting for you over at DU; that’s more up your posting alley.
We try to use more substantive posts here.
Despite all the scientology discussion on this thread (of which I am a part!), I do agree with you. Kids are way over diagnosed and way over medicated and someday we may very well find out we did some serious harm to a lot of people with these psychotropic drugs applied to growing young bodies.
School shooters on Ritalin et al come to mind (is it underlying problems that get these kids to this point, or the drugs they were taking for them?)...oh, and hearing the side effects descriptors - there’s just something not right about taking an antidepressant that can make you suicidal. ;)
Iowa, thanks for confirming what I thought was the case. I have MS and I can tell you that I suffer very real depression as a part of my MS. The chemical changes that this author scoffs at have been documented and verified. If I remember right these have also been shown on PET scans.
There is no doubt that ADHD, BiPolar and other diseases/syndromes are overdiagnosed and misdiagnosed. Too many parents are persuaded that their child needs Ritalin or other drugs to function normally. And whoever prescibes such drugs to a 4 year old should be tarred and feathered.
We should not forget there is a legitimate reason to prescribe drugs that treat depression, anxiety and mania. This has already happened with pain relievers such as Oxycontin. The drug itself is seen as a overwhelming force of evil and anyone who takes it as the devil’s servant. Self indulgent, weak, addicted, a menance to Society. Trouble in River City. Must be time to start a marching band.
What is the sound of one hand quacking?
“... if this author doesn’t believe in biochemical brain diseases, what mechanism does he suggest for the behavior of people who have demonstrable mental illnesses? Bad spirits? Dementors? Karma?”
Why he tells them the wonders of auditing and the truth about XENU. We will not overcome these ills until we have freed or is it captured our Body Thetans. Didn’t you know that???. Please see www.xenu.net for insight into itisnotonebitscientificology.
You’re not fooling anybody.
HAIL XENU
I knew there was something wrong with my bipolar son by the time he was two. Nobody believed me (except my husband) until he was in kindergarten.
Get a life. Discuss the merits or not of the article, but I have no time or patience for the type of BS you are spewing.
http://www.breggin.com/Joemccarthylives.html
Do you work for Eli Lilly or have any other connection in that direction ? Affiliated with the Church of Psychiatry, are you ?
I was commenting on Clam Digger’s statement regarding the ignorance of those who deny the existence of ADD, ADHD and bipolar disorder. I don’t really care about the rest.
HAIL XENU
HAIL XENU
HAIL XENU
You just keep pouring out the profound ignorance, jerk. That’s not my blog.
Get a clue, dope, you look incredibly stupid and clearly have a serious psychological disorder.
hc, thanks for the compliment.
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