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[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.”