The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Paperback)

~ Fred A. Baughman Jr. (Author) "On the afternoon of March 21, 2000, fourteen-year-old Matthew Smith was having a good time in his aunt's basement, skateboarding with two of his cousins..." (more)
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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.

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).

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing (June 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1412064589
• ISBN-13: 978-1412064583
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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11 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Polina Lishko "Polina Lishko" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

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.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dr. Fred Baughman A Hero and Expert of Highest Order!, October 14, 2009

By	Human Advocate - See all my reviews

Dr. Fred Baughman is one of the few willing and qualified as a neurologist to expose the fraud of biomedical psychiatry. Despite the claims of other reviews, even the psychiatrists advocating their bogus biomedical psychiatry admit they have no medical or scientific evidence whatever for their fraud labels like ADHD, bipolar disorder (the latest fraud fad) and others. They claim such evidence exists, but any studies they cite are fraudulent (funded by BIG PHARMA and ghost written by drug company hacks) and/or have been exposed as having fatal flaws. Their own "bible," the DSM IV admits as has the Surgeon General that there is no medical evidence whatever behind their labels. No medical tests exist to prove these bogus stigmas either. Rather, these fraud labels are VOTED IN by a show of hands by the white, male old boy network in power for the most part based on politics, social control, etc. as Dr. Paula Caplan exposes in her great book, THEY SAY YOU'RE CRAZY.

Dr. Baughman has written excellent critques of why biomedical psychiatry is fraudulent with special emphasis on the ADHD fraud since it has destroyed so many children's lives while murdering many in the process. Dr. Baughman exposes the sad truth that psychiatry is in bed with BIG PHARMA and these labels are invented to push toxic drugs for mutual greed, profit, power and status. Dr. Baughman exposes the big lie of psychiatry's pretense that their bogus diagnoses equal those of real medicine as "real diseases" by discussing the disease he discovered based on scientific evidence and bona fide tests/lesions while psychiatry's diagnoses are based on lies, fraud, bogus studies funded by BIG PHARMA, and ill gotten power through the billions made by BIG PHARMA through psychiatry.

The fact that psychiatry has preyed on our most vulnerable citizens, children, toddlers and now babies in the womb no less as well as abused women, children and the elderly shows how evil this profession is and always has been when they invented the gas chambers ultimately used for the Holocaust to kill the so-called mentally ill as Hitler rose to power. See the book, THE NAZI DOCTORS, by Dr. Jay Lifton.

Dr. Baughman amply shows why this evil profession of biomedical psychiatry professing lies as exposed in this excellent book should be abolished. Of course, anyone exposing the truth like Dr. Baughman, Dr. Peter Breggin and other brave heroes can expect to be discredited by BIG PHARMA and all the shills on their dole including drug front organizations like NAMI, CHADD, psychiatry, etc.

Anyone, insane enough to visit a psychiatrist today, is guaranteed to come out with a life destroying bogus label and prescription for toxic drugs guaranteed to not only destroy your life, but also shorten it as is well known.

Dr. Baughman also exposes the fraud of the new fad bipolar disorder label. Dr. Joseph Biederman, former famous Harvard psyciatrist pushed this diagnosis for children along with the deadly antipsychotics to treat it, has been exposed as over a million from this fraud in many recent media articles. Due to his influence, thousands of children have been subjected to this fraud label to push more toxic drugs on them while in the past children were not so labelled and drugged.

It is all too clear why biomedical psychiatry must be abolished and why BIG PHARMA must answer to experts who are not in bed with it.

I am also saddened that other reviewers have tried to discredit Dr. Baughman by claiming he has ties with Scientology. I may not agree with Scientology as a way of life, but at least Ron Hubbard admitted he invented it to make money while psychiatry pretends to help people by destroying their lives with fraud labels and lethal drugs and using their money and power to force their toxic treatments on the most vulnerable in our society through the legal system. CCHR run by members of Scientology has done an excellent job of serving as a watchdog of psychiatry and exposing its many evils and massive fraud, so I certainly applaud this aspect of their work as a Christian. Sadly, too many people are either ignorant or indifferent to the many evils perpetrated by psychiatry, so I am very grateful for the courageous efforts of CCHR (Citizens Commission On Human Rights) and their very accurate, informative information about psychiatry just as I am for heroes like Dr. Baughman though I am not familiar with his religious or other personal beliefs either. Obviously, this attack is meant to strike below the belt, showing the attacker not only feels threatened, but lacks any credible evidence to dispute the facts exposed by Dr. Baughman, CCHR and many others.

Please visit Dr. Baughman's site and buy this book to support such heroes that fight to take back our freedom and democracy from BIG BROTHER psychiatry in bed with BIG PHARMA.

29 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Any parent whose child has been diagnosed with ADHD needs a careful and complete reading , August 11, 2006

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

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.