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Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD is an adult and child neurologist who has made "disease" (brain tumor, multiple sclerosis, etc.) vs. "no disease" (emotional, psychiatric) diagnoses daily and has discovered and described real diseases. Herein he describes the difference between psychiatry/psychology, on the one hand, and neurology and all organic medicine, on the other, and why ADHD and all of psychiatry's "chemical imbalances" are not diseases at all--but fraud. Referring to psychiatry, he states: "They made a list of the most common symptoms of emotional discomfiture of children and in a stroke that could not be more devoid of science or Hippocratic motive-termed them " diseases"/ "chemical imbalances" each needing/requiring a "chemical balancer"- a pill." In 1970, when "hyperactivity"/"minimal brain damage" (forerunners of ADHD) was first represented to Congress to be a brain disease, only 150,000 had it. Today, not by science or truth, but the "big lie" -saying it is a disease often enough, 6 million have it! Nor is ADHD the only "chemical imbalance." They give us conduct disorder (CD), oppositional-defiant disorder (ODD), major depressive disorder (MDD), OCD, PTSD, GAD, SAD, etc., a total of 374 psychiatric disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV-TR) of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), said to be "chemical imbalances" needing "chemical balancers" --pills! In 2003 Congressional hearings it was said that 17% of the nation's school children, 8.8 million, were labeled and drugged by psychiatry. Today it is 20%; one in five; over 10 million! How better to sew the seeds of our own destruction? As if this were not enough, the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health is set to foist compulsory, government-mandated, mental health screening on all 52 million US schoolchildren. When normal people are lied to, told they have a "disease" to make "patients" of them, their right to informed consent has been abrogated and they no longer live in a democracy. When, pursuant to that lie, they are drugged, what we have is not "treatment" but poisoning. This is the greatest health care fraud in modern medical history.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #834361 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-20
• Released on: 2006-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

About the Author
Fred A. Baughman, Jr. M.D., is an adult and child neurologist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology. He has discovered and described real diseases. He has testified before Congress, the European Union, and the Parliament of Western Australia that ADHD and all claims that psychiatric diagnoses are diseases, are fraudulent. He has testified in legal cases regarding psychiatry's false claims of "chemical imbalances" and "diseases." He has appeared on national radio and television shows, and has authored over a hundred articles in medical journals and the lay press. He resides in San Diego, California with Annette, his wife of 45 years. He is the author/producer of the video ADHD--Total, 100% Fraud (1998), and is featured in The Drugging of our Children (a Gary Null Production, 2005--a dvd).

Customer Reviews

The eye-opener book
I agree with Dr. Baughman. His book highlights an enormous problem our current society is facing: the intentional drugging of future generations. Here what the science tells us: (from Science 26 January 2001: Vol. 291. no. 5504, p. 595, author Peter R. Breggin, Director of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology):

"First, stimulant drugs are dangerous. One prospective study indicated that the use of prescription stimulants in childhood predisposes children to abuse cocaine in young adulthood (2). Another study found that children diagnosed with ADHD had a 9% risk of developing psychotic symptoms when treated with stimulants (the control group had no such symptoms) (3). In my own reviews of controlled clinical trials, I found that stimulants can cause, for example, growth retardation, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (1). In addition, animal studies indicate that stimulants in short-term clinical doses permanently change the brain and even destroy neurons (4). In terms of developmental neurotoxicity, the potential effects of amphetamines on 4- to 6-year-old children should rule out performing clinical trials involving this age group, such as the Preschool ADHD Treatment Study discussed in Marshall's article.

Second, stimulants exert their "therapeutic" effect by suppressing autonomous and spontaneous behavior. They also enhance obsessive-compulsive behavior (1). This compulsive over-focusing is mistaken for improved attention. Meanwhile, there is no evidence that stimulants improve learning or academic performance, but rather that they tend to impair cognitive function.

Third, the collection of behaviors subsumed in the diagnosis ADHD, including squirming in a seat and talking out of turn, are not "symptoms" and do not reflect a syndrome. They are behaviors that disrupt classrooms and can be caused by anything from normal childhood energy to boring classrooms or overstressed parents and teachers. We should not suppress these behaviors with drugs; we should instead identify and meet the needs of our children in the school and the home. Children often improve in their behavior and school performance when parents and teachers find better approaches to disciplining them and to engaging their natural desire to get along with adults and to learn".

Please see the Science journal for mentioned above references.

Ignoring the science in the name of science
This book could have been written by the Church of Scientology, and is certainly devoid of the very scientific criteria that its author finds missing in Psychiatric ressearch. ADHD and other psychiatric conditions are overwhelmingly real neurological phenomena, and creative innovative science has helped us to undercover the mechanisms and develop treatments that radically improve the lives of those stricken. There are a number of people, some with advanced degrees, that advocate for the conspiracy theory that psychiatric illnesses are an invented category. Who would invent these things? Certainly not the people that have them! Despite the pseudo science and worn out arguments against the existence of ADHD, there is nothing new in this book, and it is certainly in stark contrast to a real physicians goal to "First do no harm": This book IS harmful, in that it presents patently false information as though it were true, and may lead to people not seeking effective treatment for themselves and their children based on the opinions of a rogue doctor with a chip on his shoulder. Read the real literature on ADHD, there is plenty of serious well designed research to back it up.

Any parent whose child has been diagnosed with ADHD needs a careful and complete reading
The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" Of Normal Children by Dr. Fred Baughman Jr. takes on the medical profession in general, and psychiatry in particular, to debunk commonly promoted beliefs about the diagnosis and treatment of children deemed to be hyperactive. Dr. Baughman presents his arguments, anecdotal illustrations, and painstaking research to bolster his case that the present and growing numbers of children diagnosed with ADHD arising from defective science, intellectual dishonesty, and drug company manipulation. The result is, quite literally, the poisoning of our children's brain chemistry. Any parent whose child has been diagnosed with ADHD needs a careful and complete reading of the iconoclastic information revealed within the pages of The ADHD Fraud.