As explained by Dr. Fred Baughman in his revealing and insightful book The ADHD Fraud, many psychotropic drugs have not been tested and approved for use in children and when used in adults have caused ever-increasing adverse effects and even death. These drugs are often prescribed "off-label" as treatment for ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), which means that despite not being tested or approved, child psychiatrists have granted themselves the right to prescribe them.
- Baughman highlighted how most psychiatric drugs cause adverse reactions, including nausea and vomiting, cardiac problems and even death. A child therefore spends his day trying to manage and cope with withdrawal symptoms and medication side effects. Most adults find the psychiatric medication side effects distressing; one can only imagine how traumatic drug-induced illness must be for a child who has no hope of understanding what is happening to him/her. (Baughman, F, 2005/06 Interview with Mike Adams, Truth Publishing)
- According to Baughman, a pediatric neurologist, many psychiatric medications for ADHD and other childhood issues interfere with proper brain development, which has a long-term impact on the child's life and wellness. While parents and caregivers are expected to advocate for the child, in fact, because the conventional medical system tends towards disempowerment of the parent in such decisions, many parents, including those who do not wish to use drugs on their children are overwhelmed by the influence of the school and the "authority" figures advocating the use of drugs "first" on their children. The result is that a child has no effective advocate and addictive and damaging drugs are forced on him without his consent despite there being many potential stressors such as parental neglect, poor nutrition, toxic junk food and bullying which have not first been eliminated (Baughman, Dr. F. 2005/06)
- Being in a drug-induced stupor prevents the child from experiencing the normal range of feelings that allows him to adapt to and understand his world...and to learn how to navigate society (Gislason, Dr. S. June 2005). Many drugs have illegal counterparts. It is unreasonable to expect a child who has been conditioned to deal with life by using drugs to suddenly be equipped to deal with stressors without them...thus a child may naturally gravitate to illegal drugs or to increased use of prescribed drugs as something "good for him." Once a child learns that the answer to life's pressures is found in the form of a drug, it is not hard to imagine how the adult child becomes trapped in a lifetime of both prescribed and illegal drug use.
- Research is now showing that the vigilance of the medical community is inadequate in preventing the malicious use of drugs on children. Analyzed information from the US National Poison Centre Data System shows the steady increase in children of median age two years exposed to sedating agents, street drugs, anti-psychotics, cough medicines and ethanol. With a zero tolerance for any drugs in children, these cases could all be treated as potential child abuse, helping to reduce the incidence of the malicious use of drugs to cover up abuse and neglect.
- The prescription of psychotropic drugs as a panacea for everything makes it difficult, if not impossible, to recognize and prevent further victimization. As pediatricians are learning and as Dr. Gideon Koren, a Toronto pediatrician explains to reporter Laura Stone of the Epoch Times (Aug 2010), "'...parents deliberately drug their kids to serve other forms of abuse, such as sexual abuse... . Clearly the vigilance of the medical profession to (recognize) abuse through medications should be higher."
- The abuse and neglect of children by parents and caregivers is facilitated by the easy access to prescribed psychotropic drugs (Baughman, Dr. F. The ADHD Fraud). Abuse by authority figures, bullying by school children and teachers can be entirely overlooked and underreported when the victim is drugged to quell the acting out behaviors and other signs and symptoms of such stressors. On the say-so of a parent or a teacher, acting out can be deemed a problem and the child immediately subjected to drug-therapy, without the necessary exhaustive search for the root of the child's reaction (Gislason, Dr. S, 2005, Baughman, Dr. F, The ADHD Fraud).
Psychotropic Treatment of Children Can Easily Mask Neglect, Parental Indifference and Abuse
Prescribed psychotropic medications come without a mandated, legislated and reliable procedure to first rule out environmental stressors, including abusive and neglectful parents, abusive babysitters and teachers, bullying, sexual molestation, physical abuse, allergies to food additives, poor nutrition, and other factors. This re-victimizes an already powerless child and makes him/her easy target for further victimization. (Yin, Dr. Shan, 2010 and Gislason, Dr. S. 2005)
Sources:
Baughman, Dr.Fred, Interview with Mike Adams 2005, "ADHD Fraud and the Chemical Holocaust Against a Generation of Children"
Baughman, Dr.Fred, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes Patients of Normal ChildrenGislason, Dr. Stephen, June 2010, Drugging Children
Stone, Laura, Aug 2010 The Epoch Times, Malicious use of drugs on children a form of abuse: study.
Yin, Shan Dr., Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Study published in Journal of Pediatrics
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