The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children [Paperback]

Fred A. Baughman Jr. MD (Author), Craig Hovey (Contributor)

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Publication Date: June 30, 2006

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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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).

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• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing (June 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1412064589
• ISBN-13: 978-1412064583
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A review and response to critics of "The ADHD Fraud", March 6, 2010

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This review is from: The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Paperback)

Some believe that many children in this society suffer from disorders, that is, behavioral disorders. They believe our children have diseases, deficiencies, and to correct these deficiencies, they primarily prescribe synthetic cocaine or a mix of methamphetamines, and if not those, then a variety of other uppers and downers.

The advocates of these disorder theories are on constant patrol, looking for chances to insist that they have found real diseases. Interesting, if true, for as the authors of "The ADHD Fraud" meticulously illustrate, that would mean a verified pathology addressed by the medication. A verifiable pathology would be something like adding a hormone to compensate for a missing gland.

Odd, don't you think, that speed and coke should be considered in a class with insulin, something found in healthy children and not in those considered disordered?

However, if you don't see this as strange, if synthetic cocaine being equated to insulin seems logical to you, then you do not need the information in "The ADHD Fraud."

On the other hand, if you have trouble accepting that normal children are flooded with cocaine and meth, and that "disordered" children are deficient in these dopes, then you may have some reading to do.

Bluntly, "The ADHD Fraud" shines light into one of the darkest and foulest cesspools in this society. It is a book not just for parents but for everyone. While it is one of the many exposés of psychiatry's corruption, it is one of the best. It describes in great detail the lack of real science in psychiatry and society's mob mentality that allows the current practice.

The authors' focus is on the ADHD scam. They spend little time on the history of psychiatry, mentioning only a few parts of the continuous saga of psychiatry's evolution of one bizarre theory followed by another. However even a brief examination of that history shows that each mad approach has been hailed as wondrous by some in that generation of medical professionals, and the current fad of phony diagnosis of ADHD is no different. From as weird as professing that an excess of blood caused insanity on through physically undetectable "brain conditions," each psychiatrically proposed theory is accompanied by sham treatments: a very, very small sample includes simple beatings-which is still a favorite, ice-water coffins, cauterizing genitalia, sterilization, coring brains as if they were apples, concentration camps and gas chambers, insulin shock, the ever popular electric shock, ice picks through the eyes, insecticide-the last four, especially the last three, also still with us, and now we have some of the most addictive and dangerous drugs known to man shoved down the throats of children.

Each and every step taken by psychiatry is driven by the underlying philosophy that torture may not cure, but it surely shuts people up. How the torture is delivered depends on what society will accept. As each succeeding generation sickens with whatever is the current psychiatric abuse, the psychiatrists trot out a new treatment, always touted as the real answer, and always just another way to silence and restrain the people that they don't like. Terrifying people from difference or destroying their ability to be different is the core of psychiatry. Even the most deranged individual never receives help, just enough physical and mental pain so that they stop bothering the doctors.

To psychiatry, the answer is very simple. Quiet is the cure. Timid is the cure. Knowing who's the boss, that's the cure.

As is well covered in "The ADHD Fraud," to many in public education, this is exactly the cure that they have wanted.

When you examine psychiatry with that understanding, it makes sense. A horrific, nightmare version of sense, but horror, sadly, is the reality. The same profession employing the same class of sociopaths and antisocials as developed Hitler's final solution is busy today practicing and defending their latest final solution on our children.

The authors document how ADHD, ADD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and all the rest are excuses to put children into chemical straitjackets, to turn childhood into a disease, to turn children's normal behavior into symptoms, and to keep the psycho-drug industry wealthy. That children are robbed of their childhood, left with a drug haze instead of memories, left with an addiction instead of a future is not a problem to psychiatry. Once a child has been totally screwed up, totally hooked, the psycho-drug industry has a customer for life, however short that life may be.

This book will force you to consider: what will the children do, when school is over, if the parents manage to get them off drugs? The childhood that should have been spent in learning how to focus, how to drive to a goal and how to achieve has been spent in a drug-induced fixation, what we used to call "zoned." These children, and they are still children for they have not been allowed to freely mature, are confronted with life-and have fewer or no skills learned to face that life. Of course, the doctors are willing to step in to diagnose the child they have destroyed-and to make money feeding the continuing addiction.

Don't let that child be yours. As the book points out and further research would show, schools exist in this country where no child is drugged, where children graduate years ahead of their equals trapped in public schools. If it can be done anywhere, it can be done everywhere. There is no excuse.

Yet, in Congress today, winter of 2009-2010, are several bills designed to drive in business for psycho-drug industry, including one requiring psychiatric screening for every school child and one requiring that psychiatric screening be offered to every new mother. This is nothing new. The Federal government is as guilty as the psycho-drug industry for this current madness.

The goal of reviewers such as Gina Pera and the like is to prevent us from examining Baughman's work. They fear our ability to recognize truth. Only by keeping us from thinking for ourselves, from searching and finding truth, can the liars prosper. Pera in particular has the brass to imply that Baughman does not understand neurochemistry. This is, in fact, her own failing, not Baughman's, for he practices verifiable medicine. Typical of psychiatry's adherents, the harsh critics of "The ADHD Fraud" accuse others with the crimes they know best, the crimes psychiatry knows from looking in the mirror.

Another yapping critic insists that ADHD is one of the most researched "medical" conditions. With tens of billions made drugging children, the criminal drug companies can afford, and need to keep producing, a constant avalanche of lies. Only touched on in "The ADHD Fraud," this crush of fraudulent research is covered in depth in "Mad In America," a book I also recommend.

Finally, psycho-drug proponents attack Scientology. What is Scientology's crime? It is the same as that of the Quakers one hundred and fifty years ago. The Quakers then, as the Scientologists now, insist that brutality, maiming, poisoning, torture and other "treatments" have no place in society. Psychiatry attacks as this strikes at the core of mainstream psychiatric practice. Without the "right" to name your behavior as insane and the "right" to punish you or debilitate you into silence and stillness, the typical psychiatrist has nothing.

As covered elsewhere, such as in "Mad In America," Psychiatry denies this truth. Yet practice has shown time and again that decency and respect provide the best and most effective help for the troubled, this from the Quaker hospitals of the early 1800's to the Soteria project of a few years ago, and this truth is still evident in every country fortunate enough to be too poor to be ravaged by psychiatry.

Of course, even psychiatry is not a cloth of a single color. However unusual, it is possible to be a psychiatrist and not be criminal. But those decent psychiatrists have failed to organize, have failed to rally around the bravest of them, those courageous few who publicly decry the psycho-drug, psychosurgery madness. This failure to clean their profession has stained the vast majority of them with guilt and left that profession a haven for the foulest, darkest, most demented creatures, that criminal known as the typical psychiatrist.

All this said, don't take my word for it. Read "The ADHD Fraud." Read also "Mad in America." And from there read any of the many, many other exposés. So many exposés that even in this long note, there is not the room to give their names. But they are easy enough to find. Simply follow the links on Amazon. Then buy a few and follow the footnotes inside those volumes. Be prepared to fill your library to overflowing.

Compare what you find to your own experience and observations. Determine the truth for yourself. Take a chance on protecting your children. Take a chance on protecting all your loved ones.

Those trapped by psychiatry will also have experiences and observations: Sometimes the victim initially likes the drug buzz, but that wears thin. Eventually they join the rest, those who've been living lives of confused despair, at a loss as to why the psychiatric "help" hasn't helped, where whatever was the original problem has been compounded and multiplied by the drug's side effects. Those side effects, of course, are a great reason to feed the poor fools more drugs.

If they're going to get out, if they are going to get away from the drugs, it's somewhere around here, usually early than later. There will be internal damage from the poisons-heart, brain,... Read more ›

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5.0 out of 5 stars ADHD Fraud?, August 19, 2011

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Dr. Baughman has written an excellent book. The information that he presents is very detailed and indicates that the ADHD issue is not confined to the U.S. It is a MUST READ for every parent who has been exposed to the harassment of a school system, or any other institution, "claiming" to have your child's best interest in mind. The footnotes and references offer a detailed insight to the unpublished/undistributed information concerning the long term effects of this rampantly overused and abused catch-all misdiagnosis of our children. The book illustrates the power that special interst groups can and do have on our society.

17 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The eye-opener book, June 10, 2008

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I agree with Dr. Baughman. His book highlights an enormous problem our modern society is facing: the uncontrolled drugging of the future generations. Here is what Science journal 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 journal for the mentioned above references.