364 DEATHS IN GEORGIA PSYCH HOSPITALS

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.

2. Baughman F. There Is No Such Thing as a Psychiatric Disorder/Disease/Chemical Imbalance. PLoS Medicine, vol 3, issue 7, July, 2006

Brain, brain, what is brain [Monty Python, I think]

Now you are nearing the point. The point is, we have no idea what specific chemicals, brain parts, or so on are responsible for any idea, delusion, behavior, and so on.

Psychiatry claims they know what is normal, and what is abnormal. Fred Baughman cries bulls#!t on that notion.

I have asked every person, show me a study that can be replicated that when researchers see chemicals at x level, y ratio, this part of the brain, the person always performs behavior z. Schizophrenia studies are instructive. Psychiatrists touted that it has a genetic marker - right up until tests of siblings with the same genetic marker didn’t have schizophrenia.

If there is no such study pinpointing the biology responsible for a behavior, then no one understands the precise cause of behavior, and thus any drug used to affect behavior does not target any known mechanism. And indeed that is the case - psych drugs affect the entire mind and body, which is why they have such severe side effects.

OK. I think I understand your position.

It is your contention that no studies have been carried out and replicated that show specifically the biology behind mental illness. That being the case, all of the medications used are just glorified guess work that target the behavior we want stopped, not the underlying biological condition (since we don’t know what it is), if one exists at all.

http://www.neurotransmitter.net/bipolar.html

I’m not a scientist, discussing that aspect of it is certainly outside of my abilities, but the link above has some intersting stuff contained therein. I do believe, based on what I’ve seen and read, that you are shortchanging the science behind the medications associated with mental illness. JMO.

I have no expectation of psychiatry being an exact science. I, being the broken record that I am, can really only point to my personal and direct experience with a bipolar parent. Yes, it is behavior that is the indicator of a problem. Yes, the meds seem to target the behavior. Yes, the meds work (again my scientific sample contains only 1 subject). No, the side effects are not worse than the disease itself.

You have nailed it.

If psychiatry were honest and upfront about its capabilities and what it was actually doing, then fine, you have informed consumers of services who are cognizant of and know what the treatment can and can’t do, what short and long term effects it has, and so on.

The problem is, they lie about what they know and don’t know, they are in cahoots with the drug companies to use drugs which are largely untested in the long term, have known short-term dangerous side effects about which neither drug company nor psychiatrist are especially forthcoming, and they are not informing the patient or their family about any of this.

And that is my entire beef with psychiatry.

If a medical doctor said he wanted to give you chemotherapy to correct your heartburn, you’d sue for malpractice once you found out that it’s used only for cancer treatments.

Psychiatrists say they’ll give you “this” drug to help with bipolar, but not inform you that while on it you may experience manic episodes that may well be violent towards yourself and others, if you take it long term you will likely suffer from tardive diskinesia, if you stop taking it you may be more inclined to commit suicide, and so on. Depakote has been implicated in causing Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). Zyprexa has been implicated in causing diabetes. Anyone who wants to argue that point will have to explain the man in the recent Depakote vs. Zyprexa trial who started with a blood sugar of 84 and died during the trial, on Zyprexa, with a blood sugar of 843. I don’t know any doctors who, when starting patients on any of these drugs, do a full workup of blood and other tests and keep testing over the duration of time the patient is on the drug(s).

Tell me, why do you suppose every school shooter was recently on or was still on psychiatric drugs at the time they committed their crimes, and why is that hushed up ?

IMO the profession of psychiatry has a lot of blood and wrecked lives on its hands for which it refuses to take responsibility.

I don’t know any doctors who, when starting patients on any of these drugs, do a full workup of blood and other tests and keep testing over the duration of time the patient is on the drug(s).
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Is this your personal experience or from the basis of your research? Over the last 12 years, my mom has had 3 psychiatrists. The full blood workup was the first thing each one of them did, and each one of them, without prompting, made themselves available to us, the patient’s family. Once a year, or at the onset of a manic episode (everyone of which was the result of her stopping the meds), bloodwork was done. We were kept fully informed at each change in the cocktail, what we could expect, what could happen, so forth and so on.

I am no cheerleader for psychiatrists. I don’t doubt for a minute that some are engaging in research on their patients. But the ones with whom I’ve had actual, first hand contact with, are nothing like the people you describe.

Anyway, the civil discussion back and forth has been appreciated.

the civil discussion back and forth has been appreciated.

Likewise.

My post was from both research and from personal experience in my family and among my friends and acquaintances. I got involved in the topic based on some experiences by me and mine during the course of a long and very messy custody battle during which my ex tried to take full custody after disappearing and not seeing the kids for 4 years, and he tried to prove that a kid needed psychiatric care (adhd and depression) because many of his family were doing it because of similar behaviors. I objected because common sense told me the fact that life was suddenly chaotic and the kids didn't know from one day to the next where they'd sleep that night because of their father's threats, and that was the cause of the problems in school since there were none of those problems before the lawyers and family court stepped in.

Incidentally he tried to force us all into therapy in order to prevent homeschooling, and the judge, once we got before one, happily, stopped the threats and restored us to sanity in fairly short order. That was the worst several years of my life, and I felt like I was fighting for all our lives, literally.

During this time I contacted a lot of people, talked to a lot of doctors - naturopathic, psychiatric, medical - did a lot of reading, spoke with a lot of teachers, and stumbled on Peter Breggin's book "Reclaiming Our Children", which led to a lot of other reading of other books and studies mentioned in those books.

So while I am certainly not formally trained and have no medical credentials, I do have a strong science background and have a strong network of friends who can interpret medically what I might miss. Altho the threat passed about 6 years ago, I have never forgotten the power the courts have to turn anyone over to involuntary treatment, and will be forever grateful for the judge I had. And remembering all that, to this day I shudder when I think of what might have been. I have happy, healthy, successful, never-medicated kids who know that adversity happens but good family and friends are better than any other tonic in such a situation.

Sorry for the personal story, but it explains the intensity I feel around this subject.

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