Точно е лековите не се даваат без причина, се даваат за да се зголеми профитот за големите фармацевски концерни.Него остај тоа дали го прочита тоа што го напишав за хероинот и ЛСД?Психијатрите го создадоа хероинот како замена или лек за зависниците од опиум.Сега еден век подоцна имаме нов лек или замена за хероинот кој што се вика метадон.Не дај боже еден век после нас ќе имаме нова дрога замена за метедонот.Ако тоа стварно ни се случи оваа цивилизација не ја заслужува оваа планета која што е од Бога дадена.
Childhood "Psychiatric" Disorders—Good Business, Bad Medicine
LOS ANGELES — Increasing concern amongst primary care physicians about the millions of children prescribed addictive, speed-like stimulants for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), prompted a new publication,
Psychiatry: Harming In the Name of Healthcare. Published by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR), a leading international mental health watchdog, the booklet spotlights the enormous pressure on general practitioners, pediatricians and others, to unquestionably accept psychiatric diagnoses and prescribe mind-altering drugs.
Professor William Carey, pediatrician at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, says, "The current ADHD formulation, which makes the diagnosis when a certain number of troublesome behaviors are present and other criteria met, overlooks the fact that these behaviors are probably usually normal."
Since 1995, the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board has warned governments to exercise "utmost vigilance" in order to prevent the "over-diagnosing" of attention deficit disorders and the "medically unjustified treatment" of them. The number of children diagnosed with ADHD has skyrocketed since the 1990s. So have the sales of stimulants prescribed for it, yielding $1 billion a year. The booklet discusses how the practice of prescribing cocaine-like drugs to children is very far removed from conclusive science, despite saturation advertising to the contrary.
Dr. Fred Baughman, Jr., a pediatric neurologist, says, "With no physical abnormality in the 'ADHD child,' the pseudo-medical label is nothing but stigmatizing, and the unwarranted drug treatment that invariably follows, a physical assault. The 'medication' typically prescribed for ADHD and 'learning disorders' is a hazardous and addictive amphetamine-like drug."
Today, the mental health treatment of our young can be a life or death gamble and, given the growing number of fatalities, a roll of the dice not to be taken lightly. In the last two years, at least four children have died from cardiac problems caused by psychotropic drugs or from the toxic reactions from their over-prescription. The youngest was aged seven.
Reports of school personnel threatening parents with charges of medical neglect or child expulsion if they refuse to drug their child, has also led to six states—Connecticut, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon and Virginia—enacting laws prohibiting this abuse. Another 13 states have introduced similar laws, and in May, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Child Medication Safety Act of 2003 by a vote of 425 to one that bans schools from forcing parents to drug their children as a requisite for educational services.
General physicians have been unwittingly caught up in what many call, "the ADHD gravy train." In 1998, a concerted effort was made by psychiatrists to garner support from physicians. Influenced by the World Psychiatric Association and the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH), the World Health Organization produced a "Mental Disorders in Primary Care" kit to make it easier for primary care physicians to diagnose mental illness, using checklists of symptoms. Today, general practitioners prescribe more than 70 percent of some psychotropic drugs.
The problem is not limited to the United States. On July 3, 2003,
The Holland General Daily reported that new guidelines will prohibit general and family practitioners from prescribing Ritalin to children, as it is estimated that three quarters of children have been wrongly diagnosed with ADHD.
Harming in the Name of Healthcare provides examples of misdiagnosis, such as a young Florida boy diagnosed with ADHD who was kept on a stimulant and other psychiatric drugs for several years. Through proper medical examination, it was eventually found that he suffered from a colon blockage. Once properly diagnosed and treated, the boy's behavioral problems disappeared.
Ms. Jan Eastgate, International President of CCHR, says, "Psychiatry is a system that treats symptoms only, and neglects and even invalidates the very foundation of medicine itself, namely full and searching physical examinations for underlying physical illnesses. The booklet was written for doctors who question the merits of such a system, who would like to better understand how this situation came to be, and who want to not only explore the alternatives, but put real physical medicine back in the driver's seat."
The publication specifically identifies psychiatry's billing bible,
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (
DSM) for the pervasiveness of mental health thinking in primary care medicine today. In their 1997 book
Making Us Crazy, Professors Herb Kutchins and Stuart A. Kirk say that the transformation of psychiatry's diagnostic manual is a "story of the struggles of the American Psychiatric Association to gain respectability within medicine and maintain dominance among the many mental health professionals."
However, Dr. Baughman warns physicians against relying upon the
DSM: "In calling ADHD an abnormality/disease, without scientific facts, the psychiatrist knowingly lies, and violates the informed consent right of both patient and parents. This is de facto medical malpractice. I urge all physicians to remember, 'No demonstrable physical or chemical abnormality, no disease!'"
извор Граѓанска комисија за човекови права (американска НВО).
