Patricia Cori's interview with Dr. Fred Baughman, MD, neurologist and
fighter against the fraud being perpetrated against us and our children
â€" the invention of mental diseases that don't exist to line the
pockets of government and Big Pharma! The author of ADHD Fraud, Dr.
Baughman exposes it all on BEYOND THE MATRIX â€"


He explains the connection between Foster Care and the forced drugging
of children.

Listen in!!



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High on life: the biggest health care fraud in history?

[ADHD: fact or fiction? (Image © AP Photo/The Cincinnati Enquirer,
Gary Landers)]

As a new study suggests treating attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder with drugs can do more harm than good, one lifelong 'sufferer'
questions whether the condition even exists.

It was probably nailing my teacher’s coat to the desk while he
was still wearing it that did it. That and glueing his packet of peanuts
to the classroom ceiling, at a precisely-calculated five millimetres
beyond his furthest reach.

It was the climax of what I â€" and most of my pre-teen classmates
â€" considered a sustained comedy campaign, a bit of light-hearted
high-jinx designed to redress the teacher-student balance of power. It
wasn’t my first and nor would it be my last, even though this
particular incident triggered a catastrophic sense of humour failure in
said faculty member, who mysteriously vanished overnight.

Had I been born a decade or so later, I doubt I’d be writing this
today. Rather than spending almost 20 years inventing new ways to
terrorize a succession of teachers, lecturers and employers â€"
fuelling other forms of creativity, including writing, in the process
â€" I’d have been given a massive dose of Ritalin and left
in a corner to rot.

Ancient roots

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), described by
Hippocrates as early as 493BC, is billed by the modern medical
fraternity as a neurological disorder usually characterized â€"
especially in children â€" by inattentiveness, restlessness,
forgetfulness and hyperactivity. Genetic in nature, it affects around
five per cent of the world’s population and is often treated with
a combination of medications, behaviour modification, lifestyle changes
and counseling.

In 1999, a study in the US concluded that, after a period of 12 months,
medication was more effective in the treatment of ADHD than behavioural
therapy. In the years since, prescriptions in the UK have tripled.
Around 500,000 children in Britain are currently believed to have ADHD.
Of those, 55,000 are on medication, at an annual cost to the NHS of
roughly ÂŁ28m.

Recent revelation

But new research â€" by the authors of the original study â€"
suggests drugs don’t work in the long-term and, alarmingly, their
impact may actually be negative. Take 14-year-old Craig Buxton, whose
family kept a video diary of his behaviour. The footage, which was
screened on Panorama, shows in shocking detail his night terrors,
explosive tantrums and relentless acts of aggression. At one point,
Craig breaks down and cries: “Why am I like this, mum? I
don’t want to feel like this, I don’t want to be like
this. Help me.” He has been taking ADHD medication for a decade.

Critics are now questioning whether this so-called chronic developmental
disorder is really a disorder at all. Dr Fred Baughman, a child
neurologist on the other side of the Atlantic, has spent his
professional life examining hundreds of children supposedly suffering
from ADHD â€" and has found nothing abnormal or diseased about
them. Nor has he found any hard evidence to suggest ADHD is actually a
disease, or that it needs any treatment other than willpower, love and
support. As he puts it, “it is the biggest health care fraud in
history.”

An expert opines

Speaking to MSN UK News, Dr Baughman said: “I have discovered and
described real diseases and, having examined hundreds said to have this
‘disorder’ or ‘disease’, I have found
nothing wrong, abnormal or diseased about them. I have also found no
proof in the medical scientific literature of the world that ADHD is an
objective, demonstrable abnormality, disease or disorder. It is the
biggest health care fraud in history.

“The bigger-than-ADHD picture is that they â€" psychiatry in
collusion with Big Pharma â€" have pledged to call all emotional
and behavioural, psychological or mental symptoms
‘diseases’ due to chemical imbalances of the brain,
needing not willpower, not love, support or adaptability, but
‘chemical balancers’ â€" in other words,
pills.”

Cash cow

A conspiracy theory? Perhaps. But when drug-making leviathans in the US
(the pursuit-of-superficial-perfection capital of the world) have
dedicated ADHD sales forces, you can’t help but wonder
who’s really creating the demand. One thing is beyond question:
there is an awful lot of money to be made selling drugs â€" and not
just the illegal ones. In the current climate of
offspring-as-accessories, any quick-fix for children perceived as less
than perfect is unlikely to gather any dust on the shelves.

There are, of course, some children who genuinely need pharmaceutical
intervention. However, more often than not, this so-called disorder is
really the result of combining excessively spirited children with
criminally sub-standard parenting skills â€" quite the Molotov
cocktail. In cases where a child becomes disruptive due to lack of
parental care, affection or stimulation, the impairment belongs not to
the child, but to the surrounding adults.

Simply semantics

Let’s take another look at those symptoms listed earlier:
inattentiveness, restlessness, forgetfulness and hyperactivity. In
non-medical speak: fidgeting, forgetting things, talking excessively,
running around a lot and being easily distracted. What child
isn’t? The problem here is one of perspective. I was thrilled to
be alive and found my teachers’ monotonous tones, disinterest in
their subject and failure to challenge me a total turn-off. They, in
turn, found me disruptive (which I was: it helped relieve the
brain-putrefying boredom).

But the real concern isn’t the noisy kids vaulting over furniture
and terrorising their teachers (within reason), it’s the quiet
children who are completely incapable of engaging with the people around
them: the silent insular ones, who go unnoticed by society until they
massacre their school mates.

If I ever have children (which I won’t), and they turn out to be
unusually spirited (which they would), I like to think I’d turn
not to pharmaceutical drug barons, but to Hippocrates, who described
people exhibiting ADHD-type behaviour as “restless souls”
with a simple “overbalance of fire over water.” The
physician-scientist’s remedy for this overbalance? “Barley
rather than wheat bread, fish rather than meat, water drinks, and many
natural and diverse physical activities." Beats being doped up to the
eyeballs any day.

An opinion piece by Laura J Snook, MSN UK News Editor
November 13, 2007

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