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The FDA Making
Treatment Safe for “Chemical Imbalances” That Don’t
Exist
By Fred A.
Baughman Jr., MD
Fellow,
American Academy of Neurology
June 28,
2005
Expressing concern about “psychiatric
risks”, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) intends to change the
warnings for drugs used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(ADHD). The drugs they refer to are
amphetamine-like, Schedule II products: Concerta, Ritalin, Adderall (an
amphetamine banned in Canada but not the US) and Strattera. The psychiatric side effects mentioned
in the FDA’s release, “FDA: Concerned With Psychiatric Risks With ADHD Drugs,”
are “visual hallucinations, suicidal ideation, psychotic behavior, as well as
aggression or violent behavior.”
But these are not psychiatric side effects at all—they are signs of
intoxication, poisoning and brain abnormality because they appear following the
administration of a drug, in subjects who were medically normal prior to taking
the drug.
How can I say they were medically normal
prior to taking the drug? They had
ADHD, didn’t they? Psychiatry tells
everyone that ADHD is a “disease” and a “chemical imbalance” of the brain, don’t
they?
This brings us to the Tom Cruise-Matt
Lauer debate on the Today Show, Friday, June 24, 2005, in which Mr.
Cruise charged, most importantly, that, “psychiatry is a
pseudoscience.”
In a follow-up Today Show on
Monday, June 27, 2005, Harvard psychiatrist, Dr. Joseph Glenmullen—one of their own—made
clear that psychiatric disorders are not something abnormal within the
brain. While pharmaceutical ads and
psychiatrist/physician disclosures to patients for purposes of informed consent,
routinely portray psychiatric disorders as chemical imbalances/diseases, they
are not—not a single one! Not
schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, ADHD,
post-traumatic stress disorder, oppositional-defiant disorder (ODD), conduct
disorder (CD), nor any kind of depression.
Knowing these were the indisputable facts of
the matter, psychiatrist Steven Sharfstein of the American Psychiatric
Association had no rebuttal. Their
“disease” lie was out of the bag.
He lamely stated that insurance doesn’t pay for anything but drugs as
though this is justification for drugging 20% of the nation’s entirely normal
schoolchildren.
Mr. Cruise has done incalculable good for
the American people, who are drugged to the gills in the name of “treatment” for
invented, fictitious “chemical imbalances.” He has shed the light of day on a fraud.
This brings us back to the FDA and their
professed efforts to learn the true “risk vs. benefit balance” for the drugs
listed above when used for the fictitious “chemical imbalance” ADHD. This is no light matter considering that
6-7 million U.S. children have been diagnosed/branded with this disorder.
Virtually all of them are taking one or more of these drugs which concern the
FDA and which will be the subject of a pediatric advisory committee meeting this
Wednesday and Thursday.
Now we know the child diagnosed with ADHD
is a normal child, and that the only potential for physical harm to them comes
from the drugs/chemicals/compounds/poisons, the FDA states are safe, effective
and necessary. When did the FDA
cease to be a protector of the people?
When did they become a part of the industry they were to help
regulate?
Through the years of the invented ADD and
ADHD epidemics, the FDA has joined psychiatry in speaking of these and all
psychiatric “disorders” as if they were actual physical abnormalities/diseases,
and drugging children with these addictive, dangerous, deadly drugs, as if they
were. But thanks now to Mr. Cruise
and to Dr. Glenmullen, we have had our eyes and minds opened to the reality that
psychiatry is a pseudoscience, a fraud and a “pusher” of drugs and that there is
no such thing as a “chemical imbalance.”
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