Posted on 08/09/2007 7:12:45 AM PDT by Lennyq
364 DEATHS IN GEORGIA PSYCH HOSPITALS—TIP OF ICEBERG by Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD, Neurologist Author: The ADHD Fraud—How Psychiatry Make “Patients” of Normal Children www.Trafford.com ; 1-888-232-4444
The Atlanta (GA) Journal-Constitution 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, or by aspirating those substances into their lungs. A like number died from questionable care; 12 committed suicide, and two died under physical restraint (a strikingly low number). Regarding the 36 who appear to have choked to death, were the Georgia psychiatrists not aware of the long-established causal role of antipsychotic drugs in causing bulbar palsy, choking and death? Seventy people studied who had choked to death were over 20 times more likely to have been treated previously for schizophrenia [1] Sarah Crider, 14, was one of the 115 patients from Georgia's state psychiatric hospitals who have died under suspicious circumstances during the past five years. Sarah was never sick said her grandmother, Joyce Dobson. She was a healthy, normal, child until 2003, when her first, wholly subjective, psychological/psychiatric/mental symptoms commenced—seeing spots on a wall.
In medicine it is essential to distinguish physical health from mental health for the simple reason that while medicine and surgery deal with actual diseases (a gross, microscopic or chemical abnormality = disease; no abnormality = normal = disease-free), in psychiatry/psychology/mental health, there are no physical abnormalities, only subjective emotional and behavioral problems.
If we go on believing the “big lie” ad campaign from the psychiatric-pharmaceutical cartel that psychiatric disorders/ and chemical imbalances are actual diseases, we will go on seeking treatment with their “chemical balancers”—drugs and dying from them. Quite simply, there is no such thing as a psychiatric disorder/disease/chemical imbalance. Any physical complications or adverse effects that develop in a psychiatric patient can only be due to the drugs they are on (or a previously undiagnosed true medical disease—not a rarity in psychiatric hospitals where additional drugs are prescribed for each new symptom but physical examinations and medical testing are rarely performed.
Having been normal until 2003, Sarah was labeled with “autism” and then “schizophrenia” (good enough for two or more prescription drugs) while having no apparent objective physical signs/abnormalities. Schizophrenia was referred to in the Journal-Constitution article as a brain disorder which means disease. There is no proof of a microscopic or chemical abnormality of the brain (during life or at autopsy) making it a brain disease or disorder. With never a first physical abnormality to make of it a disease, there can be no later, subsequent, physical consequences (abnormalities) due to that subjective psychiatric entity, especially not death (suicide is not a biological/physical consequence of any mental illness for he simple reason that no mental illness is a physical abnormality = disease).
In the medical course of this child, the only physical abnormalities were those induced by the drugs she was given and they were potent and multiple. Doses were not given in the article but it was said that “Doctors prescribed an assortment of medications: Ativan to reduce anxiety, Benadryl for sedation. Geodon, Risperdal and Seroquel to treat schizophrenia and psychosis. Thorazine to control hallucinations. Cogentin to counteract the Thorazine's side effects.” Geodon, Risperdal, Seroquel and Thorazine are all antipsychotic drugs with known, horrible side effects including death. The term autism is imprecise, sometimes applied to children with severe to profound retardation and, therefore, obvious brain damage, but had such been present, it would have been apparent from birth, or if due to acquired brain damage, as from head trauma, it would have been apparent prior to commencement of Sarah’s psychiatric course, in 2003.
The article also told of Larry Mansfield. Larry was a patient at the East Central Regional Hospital in Augusta who asked a technician to help him buy corn chips from a vending machine. Like many patients in the state hospitals, Mansfield, 53, had a history of choking, was restricted to a diet of ground food, and needed supervision while eating. The technician got Mansfield the chips anyway, then left to help subdue another patient. Alone with the chips, Mansfield choked to death. The many patients in psychiatric hospitals known to have trouble due to choking, likely have in common that they are on antipsychotic drugs such as the antipsychotic drugs Sarah was on-- Geodon, Risperdal Seroquel and Thorazine—all of which are known to cause bulbar paralysis, i.e., paralysis of the muscles of swallowing, and aspiration, with aspiration and choking being a not uncommon means of death, especially in in-patient psychiatric settings. No such death would occur from any mental illness/disease alone, with the mental illness not an illness/disease at all. And at that all of the physical side effects of the multiple drugs given are routinely said to be the worsening of the mental illnesses—none actual illnesses, sicknesses, diseases.
Eight years ago when I was in Minneapolis-St. Paul testifying on mental health matters to the Minnesota legislature, an investigative reporter from a local stations gave me an autopsy report to review.
Macaulay S. I must call him, was once a living, breathing, normal, little boy. Like Sarah Crider, he died, not from any psychiatric disease but from psychiatric drugs given for what are called with a single voice by the psychiatry-pharmaceutical cartel, “psychiatric disorders/diseases/chemical imbalances”—an abnormalities of the brain that can never be seen.
“Macaulay S: birth date: 9/29/92, death: 9/30/2000; age 8 yrs, 1 day.” His diagnoses in life were: anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, aggressive disorder, Aspergers’ disorder, headache, oppositional-defiant disorder, pervasive developmental disorder (PDD), pervasive developmental disorder--NOS (not otherwise specified), obsessive disorder, major panic attack, severely ‘impulsive’ and ‘hyperactive,’ and, finally, his one physical illness--sinusitis. While none of he psychiatric diagnoses represents an actual disorder/disease/chemical imbalance, each is psychiatric and medico-legal justification to prescribe one or more drugs. This, using the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) DSM, is psychiatry’s market plan.
As for McCauley’s medications, “treatments,” they were: Benadryl, 50 to 100 mg at bed time, Ritalin SR 40 mg. in the a.m., 20 mg at 3 p.m.; Cat après (coniine) 0.1 mg.; Cat après patch TSS-2, (0.2 mg/day/wk) Aleve (a non-steroid anti-inflammatory), Prozac (flextime), Ellaville (25 mg., 50 mg. and finally, 75 mg h.s.), Paxil (Paroxetine), Zoloft (Sertraline, another SSRI of the Prozac family), Buspar (Buspirone), and Trazodone (Desyrel) another heterocyclic antidepressant.
Macauley S, who was in his grandmother’s custody because his parents had drug problems, died September 30, 2000 at 9 years one day of age. He was found on the couch where he normally slept when he stayed at his grandmother’s, face first on the pillow. She rolled him over and saw foam coming out of his mouth. He was cool and quite stiff. She rolled him over on the floor and called the ambulance.
At autopsy Macaulay S. was described as an 8-year-old male who had not been feeling well. Remnants of all of his medications were found in the urine, blood, liver and gastric contents as follows (one can be sure they would have been found in each and every organ, the brain included, had such technology been applied. Psychiatric drugs which never target a known, proved, defined abnormality/disease, are, instead, whole-body, whole-brain toxins/poisons): Urine and blood: amitriptyline (Elavil) and amitriptyline metabolites present. Liver amitriptyline, 33 mg/kg; liver nortriptyline quantitation 34 mg/kg. Blood sertraline (Zoloft): .434 mg/l: desmethylsertraline, .666 mg/l. Serum clonidine (Catapres)13.9 ng/ml. Gastric amitriptyline (Elavil), 3.51 mg; gastric nortriptyline (a metabolite of amitriptyline (Elavil), 0.15 mg. Liver sertraline (Zoloft) <1000 ng/g. Liver desmethylsertraline, 398 ng/mg. Gastric sertaline (Zoloft), 15.5 mg/l (0.465 mg); gastric desmethylsertraline 2.0 mg/l; gastric clonidine (Catapres) quantitation, 190 ng/ml (.00057 mg). The pathologist doing the autopsy concluded: “The death could be classified as undetermined and attributed to prescribed amitrityline (Elavil) and sertraline (Zoloft) toxicity. ADD and Asperger’s syndrome could be listed as other significant conditions.”
With no proof that ADD, Asperger’s disorder or any single psychiatric entity invented by the DSM Committee of the American Psychiatric Association is an actual disease how could this pathologist say “ADD and Asperger’s syndrome could be listed as other significant conditions, related to the death of this once normal child…a death which, in fact was a murder, just as in the case of Sarah Crider and virtually all who die of their “chemical imbalances” of the brain.
While reporters ALAN JUDD and ANDY MILLER of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution have identified an epidemic of psychiatric deaths in Georgia’s psychiatric institutions, this is just the iceberg that is the morbidity and mortality of psychiatric treatment that follows, hand-in-glove, the utterly contrived, invented fraudulent psychiatric “diagnosing” using the labeling, drugging, billing formula provided for themselves from within the pages of the DSM of the American Psychiatric Association, now grown to 374 disorder, with no a single psychiatric diagnosis therein an actual disease. The drugs, each a toxin, a poison represent the first and only abnormality (found in the blood, urine, liver, brain) in the patient, always medically normal upon the occasion of diagnosis (psychiatric) a fiction, a parody—playing us all for fools, never an informed consent, ruining lives, maiming and killing us.
In 1996, Mr. Gary Bell, with his daughter court-ordered to be on Ritalin, did a freedom of information request of the FDA-MedWatch program and got back that between 1990 and October of 2007, there were 2993 adverse effects of Ritalin voluntarily reported, 160 of them deaths. This is 2993 physical injuries, including 160 deaths, from methylphenidate/Ritalin treatment for ADD/ADHD a disease/chemical imbalance that doesn’t exist, that is not an abnormality/disease at all, that is, in fact a normal child just like Macauley S. and just like Sarah Crider, and just like Stephanie Hall, 11, of Canton OH and just like Matthew Smith, 13, of Detroit, their parents, like Sarah’s grandmother, left to grieve and not know for the rest of their lives. But get this: Adverse events reported to the FDA through the voluntary MedWatch scheme ascertain no more than one percent of the actual figure. This means deaths from methylphenidate/Ritalin are, more likely in the vicinity of 16,000 for 1990=1997 than 160.
This is a monstrous, fraudulent epidemic and these death figures are, indeed, just the tip of the iceberg. Let this, an investigation launched by courageous reporters in Atlanta, GA be the start of looking and really seeing the hideous epidemic that is visited upon all of us by psychiatry, their controlling partner, Big Pharma, and those in government without whom they could not be victimizing millions upon millions.
References
1. Ruschena D, et.al. The British Journal of Psychiatry (2003) 183: 446-450].
2. Baughman F. There Is No Such Thing as a Psychiatric Disorder/Disease/Chemical Imbalance. PLoS Medicine, vol 3, issue 7, July, 2006
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I would like to see some numbers for another, similar sized state(s) before any rash conclusions..........
Huh? Don’t worry, I can’t debate scientology in this context, because I haven’t the slightest idea what you are talking about, or the point of this article. When I clicked on it, I thought it was an article about a possible homicide scandal in psych hospitals, but in reality it appeared to be some kind of rant against meds.
I’ve known some schizophrenics, and there is something truly wrong there.
But I haven’t met any schizo 8 year olds.
Do you have a link on this?
This is a must read!!!
I stopped reading right there.
This guy's an anti-psychiatry/psychology zealot and a nutbar.
Tom Cruise writing under an assumed name?......
The voices in my head say you are correct..........
And testing for chronic Lyme is very difficult, yet it exists and can cause neurological trouble, mimic schizophrenia and so on.
Go to www.ctlymedisease.org, and look for the video by a Dr Raxlen. He's a shrink, and has found that he has to test every patient first for Lymes. If they have it, and fix it, the neurological symptoms go away.
I read once the comment "The biggest advance in psychiatry was the invention of penicillin, it got all the syphilis sufferers out of the madhouse." Lyme is caused by a spirochete, just like syphilis, and can slowly cause madness. And there are a lot of other spirochetes out there.
Dr Paul Ewald has a article somewhere on the web about the "Evolution of Infectious Disease", or some similar title. From the evolutionary point of view, madness should breed out if it were genetic. It acts like it is infectious.
That said, only pushing valium and prozac is not exactly the Dr Welby or Dr House approach we've come to expect of the medical profession.
My voices are jealous of your voices.
Quite simply, there is no such thing as a psychiatric disorder/disease/chemical imbalance.
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So I guess I can tell my bipolar mother that she need not be on the meds that keep her out of the mental health facilities that we have had to twice commit her to when she went off those meds.
And I’m pretty sure that the act of posting a thread does not entitle you to limit what is and is not discussed on the thread. You don’t ‘own’ the thread, only folks whose delusions of grandeur are currently untreated by meds think so (just a weak attempt at topical humor).
"These positron emission tomography (PET) scans are computer-generated images that show how the brain is functioning. Compare the brain activity in a healthy person (left) to that in a person with schizophrenia (right). The red area in the brain on the right shows intense activity by tiny particles with a positive electric charge, called positrons. NIH, Science Source/Photo Researchers, Inc."
Looks like pathology to me.
:Where did you dig up this nut?
Why should I, since Scientology is exactly what you are pushing?
HAIL XENU
Macauley died because of the disintegration of his family and home life.
America hasn't even begun to address the damage caused by our modern, self-centered, acquisitive lives (not an exhaustive list), let alone lay out a course correction.
Yes, but, how would all those in the field get money if it was decided Psychiatry/Psychology were a hoax. I was always under the impression that it was not a science and thus just opinion. And I have always believe some of those patients are possessed, plain and simple. This is a field that will never go away—they have done a good job of bringing out the counselors for every ocassion. Just watch the daily news.
What would make you want to discuss the whacknut sceintologists on a thread like this? I see no reference to those losers in the article posted.
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