Drugging of Our Children, The

By Lita Lee, Ph.D.

Healthy Ways Newsletter

This article excludes all psychiatrists who do not routinely use drugs to control the behavior and the emotions of their patients. I have a great respect for these doctors.



This article is dedicated to the thousands of children worldwide who died after being given drugs to control their behavior. Causes of death include suicide, murder/suicide, drug side effects, drug withdrawal effects and being forcibly restrained until death occurs. Now, behavior and emotional problems are routinely being treated with drugs. Talk therapy is out. Drugs are in.



Children used to be called rambunctious. Now they are given Ritalin or its later drugs, to control their behavior. Since when did we classify emotional problems such as acting out, hyperactivity, ups and downs (now called bipolar disorder), Depression etc., as mental illnesses? Life on earth is not exactly free of stress, pain, anxiety or anything else. Perhaps it is easier to drug a child into becoming a compliant zombie than it is to accept or challenge his/her behavior. I don’t know. But I am very disturbed by the increasing deaths, suicides and murder/suicides that are a direct outcome of the increasing use of these drugs to children. I am also concerned about state laws that force parents to drug their children. Children do not have a choice. They must comply with whomever is in charge.



Unless otherwise noted, the information below comes from the Citizens Commission of Human Rights International.



“Over six million American children have been placed on addictive, mind-altering psychiatric drugs.”





ADD or ADHA (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)



“The diagnosis of ADD is entirely subjective. There is no test. It is just down to interpretation. Maybe a child blurts out in class or doesn’t sit still. The lines between an ADD sufferer and a healthy exuberant kid can be very blurred. Parents are frightened of losing their children if they do not comply with the order to prescribe Ritalin or similar drugs to their children.”



Case history: “At seven, Matthew Smith was diagnosed as having ADHD. Matthew’s parents were told that non-compliance could bring CRIMINAL charges for neglecting their son’s educational and emotional needs. After being told that there was nothing wrong with the medication, that it could only help, Matthew’s parents acceded to the pressure. On March 21, 2000, while skateboarding, Matthew died from a heart attack. The coroner determined that Matthew’s heart showed clear signs of damage caused by stimulant drugs such as amphetamines and concluded that he had died from the long-term use of the prescribed stimulant, Ritalin.”

Diagnosis by Design



Dr. Tomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York Health Science Center and the author of more than 25 books has been internationally acclaimed as “one of the most important writers in present-day psychiatry”. He writes: “There is no blood or other biological test to ascertain the presence or absence of a mental illness. If such a test were developed, then the condition would cease to be a mental illness and would be classified, instead, as a symptom of a bodily disease.” (Thomas Szasz, M.D. Professor Psychiatry Emeritus, 2002)

Brain Scans Exposing the Fraud



“In fact, brain scans do not firmly establish that biochemical imbalances cause Depression and that drugs can correct this.”

Schizophrenia, Harming the Vulnerable



“Diagnosing someone as schizophrenic may appear scientific on the surface, especially when biopsychiatry keeps claiming that a genetic brain disease is involved. When you observe from a distance what these researchers are really doing, you wonder how they can justify their work.” (Ty C. Colbert, Ph.D., Blaming Our Genes, 2001)

Heart of Life, the Dr. Giorgio Antonucci Story



“Against tremendous opposition from his peers and without the use of drugs or coercion, Dr. Antonocci salvaged the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients deemed incurable and institutional cases. Today, many of his patients continue to live and work in the community. He is an inspiration to medicine.”

Drug Induced Violence and Other Side Effects



• In Australia, a 74-year old with no prior history of violence, killed his wife while

on an antidepressant.



• Kip Kinkel, 14, killed his classmates and his parents and injured 22 at his

Springfield, Oregon high school in 1998. He was taking psychiatric drugs.



• In 2001, Andrea Yates filled the bathtub with water and drowned her five

children, ages 6 months to 7 years. Medical experts argue that the murderous

rage was induced by excessive dosages of psychiatric drugs.



• In 2001, Mamoru Takuma, 37, stabbed to death 8 schoolchildren and injured 15

others in a frenzied knife attack while under the influence of psychiatric drugs.



• Jeremy Strohmeyer, 18, raped and murdered a 7-year-old girl in a Las Vegas

Casino bathroom after being prescribed psychotropic drugs.





Re-defining Life’s Every Problem As a Mental Disorder



“Have you ever heard of the following mental disorders: reading disorder, disruptive behavior disorder, disorder of written expression, mathematics disorder, caffeine intoxication, nicotine withdrawal disorder, noncompliance with treatment disorder, physical abuse of a child, sexua| abuse of a child, or partner relational problem? These are a few of the 374 mental disorders that psychiatrists list in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV or DSM-IV. Today, the DSM and the World



Health Organization’s similar International Classification of Diseases (ICD) are used not only for individual treatment but also child custody battles, other court testimony, education, and more. In fact, wherever a psychiatric opinion is sought, the DSM or the ICD are presented and increasingly accepted as the final word on sanity, insanity and so-called mental illness.” Professors Herb Kutchins and Stuart A. Kirk, authors of Making Us Crazy, warn: “The public may gain false comfort from a psychiatric manual that encourages belief in the illusion that the harshness, brutality, and pain in their lives and in their communities can be explained by a psychiatric label and eradicated by a pill. …. Far too often, the psychiatric bible has been making us crazy ---when we are just human.”



“Often tagged ‘junk science’, the DSM was voted one of the ten worst psychiatric papers of the millennium. No wonder. Psychiatric diagnoses, such as ADHD, have been voted into existence by nothing more scientific that a show of hands of American Psychiatric Association (APA) committee members.”



Does this sound right to you - that psychiatrists literally VOTE on what constitutes a “mental illness”?





Is there an alternative?



Yes! There is an enzyme and hormonal connection to all behavior, emotional and mental problems. More on this in my next newsletter but for now, please read my article on “Mental Problems” from www.litalee.com (notice that I didn’t say “illness”).





References:



CCHR (Citizens Commission on Human Rights International), 6616 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028, 800-869-2247, email: humanrights@cchr.org, websites: www.psychcrime.org, www.psychassault.org, www.cchr.org, www.fightforkids.org,

others: www.breggin.com/



This article was first published in To Your Health newsletter, by Lita Lee, Ph.D. www.litalee.com. Reproduced with permission from the author.



Drugging of Our Children



Copyright © 2007, 2005, Bruce Fife. All rights reserved.

Feel free to share this newsletter.



To subscribe to Healthy Ways Newsletter, click here