ADHD front group terminiates coordinator for disclosing nutrition can help calm hyperactivity

Children and Adults with ADD or "ChADD" is a front group for the pharmaceutical industry to help ensure drugs are pushed as the only "scientific" treatment for overactive children.

Steve Plog was a chapter coordinator for ChADD in Las Vegas, NV. He was fired by ChADD for disclosing that real physical deficiencies could account for behaviors labeled as ADHD.

Click on the link above to read how he found that 20 years of ADHD drugs did not cure him.

Steve claims it was only when he was seen by a competent physician who completed a searching physical exam that he was given a course of treatment that resolved his complaints.

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Dr. Karl Hoffower is now on Myspace

Study proves food dyes and preservatives cause Hyperactivity

This month a study was published in the respected medical journal, The Lancet.

The study was commissioned by British Food Standards Agency after several other studies showed that food colorings and other additives caused children to exhibit hyperactive behavior.

Tests on more than 300 children showed significant changes in their behavior after they drank fruit drinks tainted with a mixture of food colorings and preservatives.

Researchers said. "These findings show that adverse effects are not just seen in children with extreme hyperactivity.

The link and brief text are below. You have to have a subscription to read the whole study. But the news was heard around the world.

However, did we really need another study to confirm what parents and other care givers already know?

The question now is: How do we help the millions of children falsely labeled with ADHD who have been taking mind-altering drugs?

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Food additives linked to increased hyperactivity in children
Artificial food colour and additives commonly found in children's food exacerbate hyperactive behaviours in children, at least up to middle childhood, according to a research article. Importantly, these adverse effects are reported in children in the general population and across a wide range of severities of hyperactivity, and not just in those with extreme hyperactivity as established in previous studies.

Stop "The Mother's Act" (H.R. 20) pregnant women & new mothers to be screened for mental disorders & "postpartum depression"

A bill is quickly moving through Congress called "The Mother's Act" (H.R. 20) that calls for pregnant women to be screened for mental disorders and new mothers to be screened for "postpartum depression," resulting in their being prescribed dangerous antidepressants or other psychiatric drugs.

A Senate Bill and a House Bill were introduced this year. The House Bill is right now in the Energy and Commerce Committee and a vote is expected within days, whereupon it will go to the House floor next week. The bill provides more appropriations for NIH to conduct research into "postpartum depression" and biological treatments (drugs).

Psychiatry is attempting to steal a real medical situation and turn it into a mental disorder. The effects of the massive changes in female hormones after the birth of a child are well documented. Estrogen, Progesterone and Testosterone change wildly at the start of, during and after a child is born.

Problems with these hormones can cause women to manifest a whole host of reactions. Add on top of that "sleep deprivation" and you can get quite a problem for the new mother.

BUT THAT IS NOT A MENTAL DISORDER.

Any symptoms that come about from the birth of a child and lack of sleep are from hormonal imbalances or fatigue. Those problems are not in the filed of psychiatry. They are treated by real doctors like obstetricians and endocrinologists.

Psychiatry is just looking for a new crop of patients to sell more drugs to.

Take a look at MedEdPPD. They are pushing support for of HR 20. Yet the website is paid for by the National Institute of Mental Health. The very institute that will benefit form the implementation of this bill.

Here's the real laugh. The company that manages the website is called, "MedSpin".

Classic!

I am glad these guys are at least truthful they are spin doctors in the effort to sell more drugs and create more patients out of normal women.

You can easily send a letter to Congress to speak out on how bad this bill is. Click here to go to CCHR's action website where you do something about this.

Thanks for your help.

Dr. Karl

CAN YOU SAY? "Farewell to Chemical Imbalance"

Farewell to Chemical Imbalance (Jan/Feb 2007)

Openmind January/February 2007

Farewell to Chemical Imbalance

How often have you heard that a chemical imbalance is the cause of depression? A hundred times? If you’re as old as me you’ve heard it a thousand times, and said by psychiatrists in tones of absolute certainty. It’s why the SSRI drugs were made specifically to put serotonin in the brain and thus right the imbalance.

However, without telling the rest of us, psychiatrists have changed their minds. A few weeks ago I was browsing the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ website. The pamphlet on bipolar disorder had been removed and I wanted to see if a new one was in place. It was, and some curious changes had been made. I then looked at their pamphlet on depression. It’s a very long pamphlet, written in a chatty way. Under the heading, ‘Why does it [depression] happen?’ is a statement which says that sometimes there’s an obvious reason for becoming depressed and sometimes there isn’t. It’s different for different people. Then there’s a list of the things that can lead you to be depressed. These are: things that happen in our lives; circumstances; physical illness; personality (‘This may be because of our genes, because of experiences in our early life, or both.’); alcohol; gender (‘Women seem to get depressed more than men do. It may be that men are less likely to admit their feelings and bottle them up, or express them in aggression or through drinking heavily. Women are likely to have the double stress of having to work and look after children.’); and genes (depression can run in families). And that’s it. No chemical imbalance.

There’s never been any evidence for a chemical imbalance in the brain when a person is depressed. That idea was abandoned by scientists thirty years ago. However, a lack of scientific evidence has never stopped some psychiatrists from claiming black was white. It took the Royal College many years to accept that the minor tranquillisers are addictive; that the monoamine oxidise inhibitors are addictive; and, more recently, that the SSRI drugs can provoke suicidal and hostile thoughts. But it does seem, at last, that the Royal College has accepted that depression has far more to do with how we see ourselves and how we deal with our lives than it does with the physical make-up of our bodies.

Even the Institute of Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital has moved in that direction. They’re holding a conference in April 2007 called, ‘Depression: Brain Causes – Body Consequences’. On their website the preamble about the conference states,

Depression cannot be described any longer as a simple disorder of the brain, but rather as a series of behavioural and biological changes that span mind, brain, genes, body – and indeed affects both psychological and physical health. . . The experts will present neurobiological, psychological, genetic and evolutionary models, with particular emphasis on the mechanisms linking the brain to the endocrine and the immune systems, and therefore linking depression to physical health.

So everything about us is involved in getting depressed. Not a simple explanation in sight.

What about manic depression, or, as we have to call it now, bipolar disorder? What’s happened to the gene that’s supposed to cause this? The Royal College’s new pamphlet on this disorder says:

We don't have a complete answer to this, but:

• research suggests that it runs in families - it seems to have more to do with genes than with upbringing. there seems to be a physical problem with the brain systems which control our moods - this is why the symptoms of bipolar disorder can often be controlled with medication
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• episodes of illness can sometimes be brought on by stressful experiences or physical illness.

What do they mean by ‘brain systems’? No neuroscientist talks about brain systems. Do you ever get the feeling that some psychiatrists think that the public is so stupid they can be fobbed off with any nonsense?

Ever since the late nineteenth century when the German psychiatrist Kraepelin described depression as a mental illness psychiatrists have been trying to find a physical cause for this illness. Vast amounts of time and money have been spent on this fruitless enterprise. If only Kraepelin and his colleagues had seen their patients, not as specimens to be studied, but as fellow human beings who could describe and discuss what was happening to them. If this had happened we would have come to understand a great deal more about being depressed than we do today. In those intervening years we might have seen how it is our ideas that create pain, suffering, conflicts, poverty, cruelty, intolerance, selfishness, hatred, envy and stupidity, and that these ideas damage us. But they are just ideas, and we are free to change them. If only Kraepelin and his colleagues had understood that.

http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/ http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/apps/depression/introduction.aspx

Psychiatry exposed

PSYCHIATRY HAS BEEN LYING.

STEVEN SHARFSTIEN, PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION (APA) ADMITTED

"WE DO NOT HAVE A CLEAN-CUT LAB TEST" FOR A CHEMICAL IMBALANCE.

-PEOPLE MAGAZINE, JULY 2005

APA CHAIR, COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS MARK GRAFF SAID,

"I AGREE. THERE AREN'T ANY TESTS." "CHEMICAL IMBALANCE...IT'S A SHORTHAND TERM REALLY. IT'S PROBABLY DRUG COMPANY DERIVED." "WE DON'T HAVE TESTS BECAUSE YOU'D PROBABLY HAVE TO TAKE A CHUNK OF BRAIN OUT OF SOMEONE...NOT A GOOD IDEA." BUT "I AGREE. THERE AREN'T ANY BLOOD TESTS" [TO DETERMINED ANY MENTAL DISORDER.] -CBS STUDIO 2 LOS ANGELES, JULY 10, 2005

Go see the new CCHR museum, "Psychiatry an industry of death"

Psychiatric drugs kill child - Psychiatrist goes on paid leave while parents are jailed

Here is another tragic example of a psychiatrist prescribing drugs that kill a child.

What makes this more terrible is that the parents have been charged for their daughter's death. Child Protective Services has stepped in to charge the parents with murder.

For being an accomplice to this little girl's death, the psychiatrist is on PAID LEAVE. All while the parents had to suffer in jail.

Jailing the parents but not the psychiatrist shows how they are above the law in this country. If you or I were to cause a murder we would be arrested.

The psychiatrist calls lethal drugging a "medication regimen" and she gets to go on paid leave.

Psychiatrists are not above the law. They should be subject to the same consequences for their actions as any regular citizen is.

Until this becomes a fact, more children will continue to be killed under the guise of help by psychiatry.

Dr. Karl

Psychiatrist Won't Practice Medicine After Girl's Death

4-Year-Old Died Of Drug Overdose, Officials Said

POSTED: 3:02 pm EST February 7, 2007

UPDATED: 6:07 pm EST February 7, 2007

BOSTON -- The psychiatrist who prescribed medications for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder to a 2-year-old who later died of an overdose has agreed not to practice medicine, according to the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine.Rebecca Riley, 4, was found dead in her home on Dec. 13, 2006. Her death was ruled a homicide after an autopsy determined that she died of a lethal combination of several prescription drugs, including clonidine, a drug prescribed for ADHD.Valproic acid, also known as Depakote; Dextromethorphan, a cough suppressant; and Chlorpheniramine, an antihistamine, were also found in the girl's system, the coroner said.

Riley's psychiatrist, Dr. Kayoko Kifuji of Tufts-New England Medical Center, diagnosed her with ADHD and bipolar disorder when she was 2 ½ and prescribed several medications for treatment, including clonidine for ADHD and Depakote and Seroquel to treat bipolar disorder.Kifuji reached an agreement with the board to voluntarily halt her medical practice while the investigation into Riley's death is pending. All four members of the seven-member board who were present voted to accept the agreement."It requires and immediate cessation of practice. That absence for medical practice will stay in effect until such time as a final board action is taken," said Nancy Achin Audesse, a member of the Board of Registration.

"Dr. Kifuji is on paid leave from the hospital and has voluntarily agreed not to practice medicine during this time. Rebecca Riley's death is a terrible tragedy. We are bound by medical confidentiality and thus we can not expand further at this time," Tufts-New England Medical Center spokeswoman Brooke Tyson Hynes said in a statement.

Kifuji's attorney, J.W. Carney, quickly noted that the agreement is not an admission of wrongdoing."She absolutely did not over-prescribe, and her medical records will back that up 100 percent," he said.Carney was asked if Kifiji advised Riley's parents that increasing the dosage of clonidine could be fatal."I am not going to go into any conversation that my client had with the defendant, but she has reported those conversations to the state police," Carney said.

The Board of Pharmacy has not opened an investigation."There is no basis at this time. It is a criminal matter," said Donna Rheume of the Department of Public Health."The dosage was appropriate, the drug was appropriate and the monitoring was appropriate," Carney said.Riley's parents, Caroline Riley, 32, and Michael Riley, 34, pleaded not guilty to her murder on Tuesday and were ordered held without bail.

Previous Stories:

• February 7, 2007: 911 Tapes Released In Death Of Girl, 4
• February 6, 2007: Parents Charged In Death Of Daughter, 4
• February 6, 2007: Parents Charged In Daughter's Overdose Death
• February 5, 2007: Couple Charged In Daughter's Death

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