Death And Ritalin

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Quoted message said:

http://www.prozactruth.com/paris2.htm

[slide #2: “ADHD” = no abnormality = no disease = NORMAL = “stigmatizing
and harmful”]

Buitelaar and Bergsma,19;2:

“‘ADHD is a manifestation of a ‘deficiency in family, school, society and
medicine’ [23]. These words show that there are serious doubts about the
diagnosis and treatment of ADHD...one should investigate if there is something
wrong with child psychiatry. The claim that children are harmed is serious
enough to investigate.”

Absent evidence of an abnormality/disease, DeGrandpre is entirely correct.
Claiming these are diseases, with no proof whatsoever, there is, undoubtedly,
something wrong with child psychiatry.

All who are “diagnosed” and “treated”—6 million previously normal
schoolchildren, in the US—are being harmed. Surely this is serious enough
to launch a criminal investigation.

The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA), MedWatch* program, a wholly voluntary
system for the reporting of post-marketing complications of drugs, reported the
following adverse reactions (AR) from methylphenidate (Ritalin and all
generic and proprietary forms), from 1990-1997:

160 deaths**

569 hospitalizations--36 life-threatening.

949 central or peripheral nervous system occurrences

126 cardiovascular occurrences:

6 cases of "cardiomyopathy"

12 of "arrhythmia"

7 of "bradycardia" (slow pulse)

5 of "bundle branch block" (impairment of heart’s conduction
apparatus)

4 of "EKG abnormality"

5 "extrasystole" (heart rhythm abnormalities)

3 "heart arrest"

2 heart failure, right"

10 "hypotension," (low BP)

1 "myocardial infarction"

15 "tachycardia" (rapid pulse).

*Figures from post-marketing, voluntary reporting systems, such as this, in
which the physicians having had bad luck with a drug are the one's deciding
whether to report or not, are estimated to report no more than 1 to10 percent
of actual adverse reactions. All of these are real, bona fide instances of
abnormality/disease, while, by comparison, no psychiatric condition/diagnosis
for which the drug treatment was undertaken, is.

**Between 1997 and 2000 there have been an additional 26 deaths attributed to
methylphenidate (all prescription forms of it) bringing the total reported to
FDA, MedWatch for the decade, 1990-2000, to 186.

The following children are no longer hyperactive or inattentive--they are dead.
Between 1994 and the present I have been consulted, medically or legally,
formally or informally, in the following death cases.

Stephanie Hall, 11 y.o., Canton, OH. “ADHD,” Ritalin, cardiac
arrhythmia.

Matthew Smith, 13 y.o., Clawson, MI. “ADHD,” Ritalin, cardiomyopathy.

Macauley Showalter, 7 y.o. Ritalin and 3 other psychiatric drugs. Cardiac
arrest.

Travis Neal 13 y.o., Chattanooga, TN. Ritalin, cardiomyopathy

Randy Steel, 9 y.o. San Antonio, TX. Dexedrine + several drugs, cardiac
arrest.

Cameron Pettus, 12 y.o, Austin, TX. Desipramine, hyper-eosinophilic syndrome.

In the Ventura County (California) Star, Friday, October 19, 2001, we learned
of another such death. The article read:

“California heart death of 17 year old Ritalin case…Ventura High teen's
death a mystery, tests pending. Many mourn popular senior found dead in bed by
stepbrother at Oxnard home…She functioned with attention deficit disorder
(ADD) all her life. From age 10, she was on Ritalin for three years before
she was taken off it because it caused severe heart problems.”

This is a high price to pay for the ‘treatment’ of a ‘disease’ that
does not exist. Much to the liking of the psycho-pharm cartel, we, in the US,
have no nation-wide data- gathering system that allows us to know the exact
number of Ritalin-induced deaths, or, of those induced by any other psychiatric
medications.

Buitelaar and Bergsma, 22;2:

“The first of the three core symptoms of ADHD is a developmentally
inappropriate level of attention and concentration.”

Saying “developmentally inappropriate” they mean
subnormal/abnormal/diseased, as they must to make ‘medical patients’ of
normal children. Addressing the subject: Is ADHD a Valid Disorder? at the
November 16-18, 1998, NIH, Consensus Conference on ADHD, Carey [24] concluded:

"…common assumptions about ADHD include that it is clearly

distinguishable from normal behavior, constitutes a neurodevelopmental

disability, is relatively uninfluenced by the environment… All of these

assumptions…must be challenged because of the weakness of empirical

(research) support and the strength of contrary evidence…What is now

most often described as ADHD in the United States appears to be a set of

normal behavioral variations… This discrepancy leaves the validity of

the construct (ADD/ADHD) in doubt…"

With no proof with which to counter Carey's assertions, the final statement of
the Consensus Conference Panel read (p.3, lines 10-13):

"…we do not have an independent, valid test for ADHD, and there are no data
to indicate that ADHD is due to a brain malfunction."

Remarkably, this wording appeared in the version of the final statement of the
Consensus Conference Panel distributed at the press conference, the final
session of the conference, November, 18, 1998. This ‘confession’ appeared
for an indeterminate few weeks on the NIH web site, but was subsequently
removed and replaced with wording claiming ‘validity’ for ADHD.

Buitelaar and Bergsma, 22;4-23;1:

“…ADHD can co-occur with various other child psychiatric disorders. This
is called comorbidity … forty percent may also meet the diagnostic criteria
for ‘oppositional defiant disorder’ (ODD)… twenty percent…have a
conduct disorder (CD)…Learning disorders, especially trouble with
reading…are more prevalent. To put it simply: when ADHD children are in
trouble they know only one way out: violence.”

They refer to each behavior pattern as a disease. None of them are. When
ADHD is comorbid with CD and ODD, violence--biologically determined--they would
have you believe--is inevitable. In 1972, Baughman and Mann [10], reported
that XYY was not a “criminal” genotype, as previously thought. Nor
have, “mean genes” or a criminal genotype otherwise, ever been validated
[25]. Writing: “ADHD children know only one way out: violence” could not
possibly be more demonizing/stigmatizing. And they do it with not a shred of
scientific evidence.

Buitelaar and Bergsma, 24;3:

“The evidence suggests that ADHD is caused by interplay between genetic and
environmental factors, with the genetic factors being most important
[18,19].”

Again, they refer to behavioral patterns--as separate diseases, each with
it’s own causal, genetic defect. None are abnormalities/diseases/abnormal
phenotypes due to a gene defect--an abnormal genotype. Normal women have a 46
XX genotype and a normal physique/phenotype. In psychiatry there is no
abnormality/no abnormal phenotype, begot by an abnormal genotype—not even
one!

[slide: no abnormality = no disease = normal phenotype = normal genotype =
NORMAL]

Buitelaar and Bergsma, 25;1:

“It has been shown that ADHD is associated with several abnormalities of the
brain. The frontal lobes of the brain…are about seven percent smaller than
average in children with ADHD.”