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FRED A. BAUGHMAN, JR. M.D. NEUROLOGY
AND CHILD NEUROLOGY (Board Certified) FELLOW,
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY
1303
HIDDEN MOUNTAIN DRIVE EL
CAJON, CA 92019
Tele:(619)440-8236 Fax: (619) 442-1932
January 13, 2004
To: The Honorable Dario Frommer, Chair, &
Every Member Health
Committee
California
State Assembly State
Capitol - Room 6005, Sacramento,
CA 95814
Subject:
AB1424, Mountjoy
In 1948, ‘neuropsychiatry’ was divided into ‘neurology,’ dealing with physical/organic diseases of the brain, and ‘psychiatry,’ dealing with the emotional and behavioral problems of normal persons. However, with the advent of psychiatric drugs in the fifties, psychiatry and pharmaceutical industry conspired to call all psychiatric problems “brain diseases,” due to “chemical imbalances” needing “chemical balancers”—pills! In 1970, Minimal Brain Damage-MBD, became the first invented “disease” and Congress, authorizing millions for it’s “research,” launched, what, today, is the incredible, wholly fraudulent, ADHD epidemic.
In 1980, in-committee, devoid of science, they replaced MBD with ADD; in 1987, ADD with ADHD. The epidemic burgeoned from 0.5 million in 1985 to 6 million today. The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual grew from 112 mental disorders in 1952, to 374 in 1994—not one an actual disease. In 1986, Nasrallah, did brain scans in “treated” ADD males, discovered brain atrophy-shrinkage, and warned it might be due, not to their never-proved “disease,” ADD, but to the Ritalin-amphetamine treatment all were on.
In 1996, exemplifying the “disease” lie, Schiller, of the Department of Education, and Jensen and Swanson of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) & Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorders (CHADD) wrote: “Once parents and teachers…recognize that children with ADD are not lazy or ‘bad’, but have a biological disorder, they can stop blaming themselves…”
In 1996, Congressman Chris Shays, R-CN, observed: “In ADHD, we are trying to draw the line between personality and pathology, and we are placing millions of children and adults on either side of the social, medical and legal boundary that divides the healthy from the sick. We should do so only with the greatest care, and with particular reticence to make our children medical patients...”
In 1996, Diller wrote to victimized mother, Sue Parry: “The reason you have been unable to obtain any articles presenting clear … evidence of a physical or chemical abnormality… is…there are none… the search for a biological marker is doomed from the outset because of the contradictions and ambiguities of the diagnostic construct of ADHD… In other words, no matter, how long they research, or how sophisticated or expensive the technologies they employ, they will never prove a thing. What they will do is craft illusions of disease.
At the 1998 National Institutes of Health, Consensus Conference Carey reported: “What is…described as ADHD…appears to be a set of normal behavioral variations..." Next, Swanson and Castellanos, reviewed the MRI brain scanning literature of 1986-1998, found that ADHD subjects showed “on-average 10% brain atrophy” and concluded this was due to ADHD--the proof that ADHD was a brain disease. But I (also a presenter) challenged Swanson: “Dr. Swanson, why didn’t you tell the audience that all of the ADHD research subjects, 1986-1998, had been on long-term Ritalin-amphetamine treatment and that this, not the never-proved “disease” ADHD, was the likely cause of their brain atrophy!”
When Swanson confessed this was true, that they had plans to study drug-free subjects, the Consensus Conference Panel was forced to conclude: “ ...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.”
The NIMH has knowingly represented Ritalin-amphetamine-induced brain atrophy to be due to ADHD, citing this as confirmation that ADHD was a brain disease, obfuscating the causal role of the drugs, and refusing for 18 years to do trials with matched controls that would easily have clarified the issue. I know of no comparable criminal act of research malpractice.
Meanwhile, all in psychiatry and all who practice “mental health” persist in calling psychiatric disorders “diseases” to make patients of normals and to prescribe “chemical balancers” for “chemical imbalances.”
The pharmaceutical industry has bought and paid for it all. All of psychiatry, all of organized medicine, and all agents and agencies of the government are complicit. All legislation that assures the diagnosis and treatment of conditions, not real diseases, assures the victimization of NORMAL children.
Diagnosis of such “diseases” by a psychiatrist is no more valid than diagnosis by a teacher, counselor or parent. All of it is a perversion of science and medicine and must be stopped.
On May 28, 2002, I wrote to Bernard Alpert, MD, President of the Medical Board of California (MBC): “Every time parents or a patient is lead to believe that their child’s emotional/behavioral problem is a “disease” due to an abnormality within their body or brain, they have been lied to, their informed consent rights wholly violated…”
On June 14, 2002, Dr. Alpert, responded: "As you outline in your letter, there is tremendous professional support for categorizing emotional and psychological conditions as diseases of the brain. In published materials, some quoted in your letter, you will find that support from chairs of psychiatry departments, the American Psychiatric Association and professors of major medical schools. It is clear that the psychiatric community has set their standard, and while one might disagree with it, that standard becomes the legal standard upon which the Board (CMB) must base its actions."
Unbelievably, what Alpert, speaking for the Medical Board of the State of California is saying here, is that whatever the majority do, even lie, knowingly violating the informed consent rights of all patients, that that becomes the unassailable, legal “standard of practice. ” Consider, if you will that, conversely, to tell patients the truth—specifically, that ADHD and all psychiatric diseases are not diseases at all, or to fail to prescribe “chemical balancers”- drugs for each and every “chemical imbalance of the brain” would be contrary to the “standard of practice” putting the physician who is the purveyor of truth and science, in legal jeopardy.
Should you pass any law, in any way, “assuring,” or, sanctioning, the “diagnosis” and “treatment” of psychiatric “diseases”/ “chemical imbalances,” in NORMAL children (as is now done, California- and US-wide) or, should you fail to expunge such laws, already on the books—and you will have been a party to a fraud.
Sincerely yours, Fred
A. Baughman, Jr., MD
CC:
(1) Hazed Chehabi, MD, President, California Medical Board (1426
Howe Ave., #100, Sacramento, CA, 95825);
(2) Marcia Kraft Goin, President, American Psychiatric Association
(1400 K Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20005);
(3) Attorney General of California, William Lockyer (1300
I Street, Suite 1101, Sacramento, CA, 95814);
(4) Renee
Bender, MD, President, California Psychiatric Associaton (1400 K St.,
Suite 302, Sacramento, CA 95814);
(5) Chairperson & Members, State of California, Senate, Health
Committee.
(6) Sandra F. Olson,
MD, President, American Academy of Neurology
(1080 Montreal
Ave., St. Paul, MN, 55116)
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