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
Granted, there are alot of fake disorders thought up to bring in more cash for the beast, but there are quite real monsters that do exist.
This is a 'must verify'.
I’ll have my voices contact your voices.......They can do group therapy!..........
The conclusions offered are an embarrassment.
They might collaborate.
That would be bad.
No, the guy is a stupid liar.
You are correct. The author is ignorant, and is using his false religion of scientology as a tool to lie to as many people as possible, and the poster of this thread appears to be one of his guppy minins trying to spread the word. Kooks.
I did a google - I see they speak favorably of him in the Scientology publications.
I have a friend that is bi-polar. She is extremely bright but when she was on no medication she could not find her way in the back door around a small table that was in front of the entrance. I observed he go on a manic phase. She took a bath at my house and tore up my towels because she could not find a washcloth. They were beside the towels. She attended a wedding reception and went to the hospital in one city and then used the ambulance for a taxi cab from that city hospital (about 20 miles away) to the next to get to her Dr. I don’t profess to know the answer to these peoples problems but I do believe there are way too many people diagnosed as bi-polar when in actuality they are just plain hyper people that have not learned to put to work in a constructive way their highs and take the rest when it comes. In other words, control over ones mind and actions. This is only my perception certainly not pretending any knowledge.
Trying for a pre-emptive innoculation :)
Let's hope it works. :)
Without intending to quarrel with you, your “they are simply hyper people” is a pretty gross oversimplification.
I could likely curl your hair with some of the stories I have collected over the last 10 years of dealing with my on the meds/off the meds bipolar mother.
Ripping up towels to make a washcloth is not the act of a hyper person.
For future reference, if you want to be taken seriously, it’s probably best not to cite the works of a psycho nutcase scientologist (sorry for being redundant).
Sorry, it doesn’t work that way. If don’t want flak about scientology, stop posting their tracts.
"Certainly there are chemical aspects to a panic attack, because we are literally made of chemicals; and the use of certain chemicals in medications can help some, though not all, people. But, in my opinion, panic attacks are not simply the product of a "chemical imbalance". Here's an exercise to help you see why not.
On a piece of paper, write down five situations in which you feel almost sure you would have a panic attack. Maybe this would include highway driving; flying; a crowded grocery store where the air conditioning has failed; and so on. Now write down five situations in which it would be practically impossible for you to have one.
Pause here and make your lists. When you're ready to continue, scroll down.
Did you make your lists? One with situations practically guaranteed to produce a panic attack, and one with situations that probably can't lead to panic at all? Okay. My question for you is this.
How do the chemicals find out where you are?
It’s not - try doing some research beyond the end of your nose. There are an amazing number of posters on this site who do no reading, no research, but post anyhow as tho they know something about the topic.
Read this site as just a starter:
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/
They say the same thing - and explicitly say they are not part of and want no connection with scientology or any of its organizations.
People who post threads want a discussion, not BS. If you have anything to add for or against the topic of this article then say so - don’t bring in irrelevancies.
They don’t “find out where you are”, silly. They are an element in the process of the body’s reaction to where it is, as discovered by way of the senses.
So what was your point again?
LOL - any politician. Some of the worst sit on zoning boards.
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