Your link doesn’t go to anything but a vanity press site.
Web search shows Dr. Baughman to be a Scientology cultist.
Ah, another “smear by association, because fact is irrefutable” poster.
I have never met Dr Baughman and do not know if he is a scientolgist. I posted this article because I think the doctor has a valid point. If he does happen to be a scientologist as you say it may cast a cloud over him but it doesn’t change the validity of what he has to say.
This article, and its author, does nothing more than muddy the water. This child’s death was a failure on a number of different fronts. Certainly, a bi-polar diagnosis on 4 year old child and the unsupervised prescription of heavy duty meds are controversial. However, the parents were under DSS investigation. The father was on parole for assaulting another child. There were allegations of abuse in the home. Rebecca’s medical care was being paid for by the state. Her parents medicated her to keep her quiet. Pharmacists notified the doctor that the prescriptions were being re-filled far too often (these warnings were sloughed off). The circumstances of her death were just too disturbing to recount. This was a total Nanny State meltdown, not just an issue of medication and psychiatry. This child was failed by a long list of adults, and to make her some kind of poster child for an anti-pharmacology campaign by Scientologists is an outrage.
I am sorry I posted the wrong link. The correct link is http://www.adhdfraud.org/frameit.asp?src=commentary.htm
Are you a psycharitist? We wonder, How was your ox gored?
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.