Parents Beware: Dangerous Drugs!

Please note that the following quote is taken from a parent whose child was literally killed by Ritalin. Lest you think this is some harmless drug because it is prescribed so freely to children, read his words, visit his site, and think twice before "medicating" your child.

“Matthew took 10mg of Ritalin three times a day; he was taken away from us for one week for testing by the court. They said they would be doing organic testing. We found out this was never done. When he got home we were court ordered to give him 20mg three times a day.

For the last year of his life he was taking 20mg of Ritalin three times a day.

The Certificate of Death under due to, (or because of) reads, Death caused from Long Term Use of Methylphenidate, (Ritalin). According to Dr. Ljuba Dragovic, The chief pathologist in Oakland County Michigan, upon autopsy, Matthew's heart showed clear signs of small vessel damage, the type caused by stimulant drugs like amphetamines.”

—Death From Ritalin, The Truth Behind ADHD, by Lawrence T. Smith, RitalinDeath.com

“Children in America are victims of fraud and death. Millions of them are diagnosed with alleged mental disorders because they are easily distracted, or they talk out of turn in class, or because they don't follow directions. Because they have discipline problems, they are subsequently drugged on substances equal to heroin and cocaine.”

—Sen. Nancy Schaefer, “Medicating Our Kids to Death,” from her newsletter, To The Point, July 30, 2005

“Parents are not told that Ritalin, as a stimulant, can cause the very things it is supposed to cure—inattention, hyperactivity and aggression. When this happens, the child is likely to be given higher doses of the drug, or an even stronger agent, such as the neuroleptics* Mellaril or Haldol, resulting in a vicious circle of increasing drug toxicity.”

—Peter R. Breggin, M.D and Ginger Ross Breggin, The War Against Children of Color (1998, Common Courage Press) p. 78

*drugs tending to reduce nervous tension by depressing nerve functions

Psychs on Psychs

“Suicide, stress, divorce—psychologists and other mental health professionals may actually be more screwed up than the rest of us. The occurrence of suicides by psychiatrists is quite constant year to year, indicating a relatively stable oversupply of depressed psychiatrists.”

—Robert Epstein, Ph.D., “Why Shrinks Have So Many Problems,” Psychology Today, July/August 1997

“From talk-shows to courtroom commentaries to news bites, psychologists inundate the public with their messages such that the cumulative effect has been to change peoples’ beliefs about their own competency and the way they look at life. Intruding not only into the bedrooms of the nation…but into the schools, workplaces, and the courts of the nation, psychologists have embarked upon activities of self-promotion, both to expand the demand for their services and to set themselves apart as superior.”

—Dr. Tana Dineen, Manufacturing Victims (1996, Robert Davies Publishing)

“These ‘therapies’ have nothing in common with real therapies in medicine except the label. To categorize insight into one’s unconscious with penicillin, renal dialysis, and an appendectomy is to approach asininity. You can stamp a caduceus onto Santa Claus’s forehead, too, but that will not make him a doctor.”

—Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, The Death of Psychiatry, (1974, Chilton Book Company) p. 54

Everybody’s Crazy

“The numbers related to the above-mentioned diseases, syndromes and disorders apply mainly to adults. So if you believe the statistics, 77% of America’s adult population is a mess. And we haven’t even thrown in alien adbuctees, road ragers or Internet addicts.

But give the experts a little time. With another new quantifiable disorder or two, everybody in the country will be officially nuts.”

—Jim Windolf, Exec. Ed. of the New York Observer, “A Nation of Nuts” (reprinted in the Wall Street Journal, Oct. 22, 1997)

“In fact, if we were to follow logically, the medical approach, almost everybody would be mentally ‘ill.’ The present official classification of psychiatric ‘diseases’ is already so broad that there is a real question whether anybody can claim to not fit into the category. To do so, one would have to be free of everything from anxiety…to acute alcohol intoxication. In short, all you have to do to qualify as ‘normal’…is to be a bowl of jello.”

—Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, The Death of Psychiatry (1974, Chilton Book Company) p. 54

Not Responsible

“For instance, a dentist who pleaded guilty to having fondled between one hundred and two hundred young girls and women patients…has now sued his insurance company, claiming that his ‘sexual disorder’ makes it impossible for him to work as a dentist, so the insurers should give him $5,000 a month in disability payments. Harold Lief, professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, supported this claim, telling the court that the dentist suffered from ‘frotteurism,’ a compulsion to touch women’s genitals.”

—Paula J. Caplan, Ph.D., They Say You’re Crazy—How the World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal (1995, Addison-Wesley), p. 276

“Charles J. Sykes, author of A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character takes note of a man who, having embezzled money and lost it in Atlantic City casinos, sued to win back his job because he was a victim of ‘compulsive gambling syndrome,’ and of a school administrator, fired for constantly missing classes, who calls himself a victim of ‘compulsive lateness syndrome.’”

—Joe Sharkey, Bedlam: Greed, Profiteering, and Fraud in a Mental Health System Gone Crazy, (1994, St. Martin’s Press) p. 146

“A typical case is that of the employee fired from a radio station in Washington state for offensive on-the-job behavior who recently was awarded $900,000 by a jury for a discriminatory firing and for the psychic injury done to her by the discrimination. Her poor job performance, according to professional opinion, was produced by a mental disability and therefore occurred entirely outside the realm of personal responsibility.”

—Margaret A. Hagen, Ph.D., Whores of the Court—The Fraud of Psychiatric Testimony and the Rape of American Justice (1997, Regan Books) p. 9