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May
24, 2003 To:
Kodak spokesman Gerard Meuchner
Contact Sheila
Matthews Vice
President Parents for Label & Drug Free Education Patricia
Weathers President,
Parents for Label & Drug Free Education Parents
for Label & Drug Free Education www.ablechild.org Dear
Mr. Meuchner, Our
formal request as per our conversation Parents
for Label & Drug Free Education www.ablechild.org
is extremely concerned that Kodak, long portrayed as a family oriented
organization, is involved in promoting and forwarding misinformation to
parents regarding the validity of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(ADHD) according to Kodak’s press release to the Associated Press May
22, 2003. We feel
strongly that this would be a true disservice to families across the
nation. Our national parent organization, "Parents for Label
& Drug Free Education” has fought long and hard to enact safeguards
for parent’s rights on the issue of child drugging.
Frankly, we are astounded that Kodak would become involved in such
a controversial issue. We
have been featured in the New York Times, the New York Post, Time
Magazine, CNN, Good Morning America, the Today Show, Hannity & Colmes,
A&E Investigative Reports and a host of other media, exposing the fact
that injustice has been done to millions of American children who have
been unjustly placed on mind altering drugs.
We have twice testified before Congress on the need for federal
protections against coerced child drugging in our public schools. You
should be aware that the Child Medication Safety Act of 2003 has just
passed the House of Representatives with overwhelming support, by a vote
of 425 to 1. This bill
clearly states that parents cannot be forced to drug their children.
The need for such laws is evidenced by the fact that sixteen states
in 2003 alone, have introduced similar bills, reinforcing a parents’
right to refuse drug treatment.
Yet, the larger problem is the fundamental issue of
informed consent. Parents are never actually informed of the
complete subjective nature of the so-called mental disorder as referred to
as "ADHD." As
I am sure you are aware, there is absolutely no medical/scientific
evidence to support "ADHD" as a physical abnormality or brain
disorder. Unsuspecting parents frequently subject their children to
powerful and addictive stimulants that the United States Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA) classifies in the same highly addictive
category as cocaine and morphine. These
parents have never have been informed that no medical evidence of the
disorder exists. The
psychiatric child drugging industry is a billion dollar a year industry.
Many attempts have been made by pro mental health groups to forward
"ADHD" as a neurobiological disorder, for what our organization
believes is an attempt to maintain a highly profitable industry, even at
the sake of our children’s well being.
Such studies frequently use highly misleading tactics such as
taking brain images of patients who have been on psychiatric drugs for
long periods of time and then using these images to convince the public
that "ADHD” is a brain abnormality.
What is never disclosed is the fact that it is the long-term drug
use that caused the brain atrophy (shrinkage.)
No tests have been done on drug naïve patients that can prove an
abnormality. As you can see, this information would counter
the validity of the study. It
is the misleading information and marketing propaganda on parents across
the nation that have created our grassroots organization, comprising of
parents, doctors, and legislators across the nation.
Our organization is dedicated to ending the misinformation being
foisted off on unsuspecting parents.
After 15 years of attempting to validate ADHD as a neurobiological
disorder, and millions of dollars spent, why are we not looking at the
obvious? This disorder was
voted into existence by a show of hands at the American Psychiatric
Association's Annual Convention, and is nothing more than childhood
behaviors repackaged as a mental illness.
Our nation already faces a horrible crisis, in that we have over 6
million children on addictive and dangerous cocaine-like drugs, and the
numbers continue to grow. In
summary, our organization is fighting for the rights of children and their
families and we are extremely concerned that Kodak would be helping to
forward any type of misleading propaganda that could contribute to the
needless drugging of innocent children. Two of our four founding
members, Mrs. Vicky Dunkle and Mr. Larry Smith have had children who have
died from the very drugs prescribed for the misleading label
"ADHD." We
are asking that Kodak to withdraw from any and all support, directly or
indirectly, that will contribute to the incredible injustice being done to
our children. Sincerely,
Mrs.
Sheila Matthews State
of
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