In 2009, the scientific father of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Leon Eisenberg, gave his last interview at the age of 87, saying ADHD is an excellent example of a fictitious disease.
Many considered this statement as “exaggerated”, but a great number of doctors are coming to the belated realization that there’s an over-diagnosis of the disease by the use of unclear diagnostic practices. One of the leading experts in child development, the Harvard psychologist Jerome Kagan, compares the perception of this condition now, and 50 years ago.
Back then, a bored 7-year-old child who disrupts classes was called lazy. Now, he is diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and given Ritalin. The real problem is not abnormal dopamine metabolism in 90% of these 5.4 million children, but available drugs for which the doctors make the corresponding diagnosis.
Thanks to his fictitious disease, and pharmaceutical sales, Eisenberg led a luxurious life. What’s more, he won the “Ruane Prize” for incredible achievement in child and adolescent psychiatry research. As Psychiatric News reports, he was a child psychiatry leader for a long time (around 4 decades), through his research, pharmacological trials, social policy, teaching, and his theories of social medicine and autism, for over 40 years.
The medical industry depersonalizes and disconnects today’s children from a normal, healthy upbringing, by pretending to help them. Parents give their children what the world has to offer, which is drugs, as opposed to accepting them as God has intended them to be.
Nowadays, one out of ten boys in the U.S. at the age of 10, take ADHD drugs every day. Unfortunately, this number is increasing.
Lisa Cosgrove, an American psychologist, and her colleagues conducted the study called “Financial Ties between DSM-IV Panel Members and the Pharmaceutical Industry.” The study revealed that 56 % of the 170 DSM panel members had at least one financial association with pharmaceutical companies. When it comes to the members of the panels on ‘Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders’ and ‘Mood Disorders’, it was discovered that all of them had financial associations with drug companies.
Their benefit from this imaginary disease is huge. One example is the associate professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital assistant director. Between 2000 and 2007, he earned $1 million from pharmaceutical companies.
The study conducted by the researchers of pharmaceutical promotion Joel Lexchin, and Marc-André Gagnon, showed that in 2014, the pharmaceutical industry in America spent 24.4% of the sales dollar on promotion, and only 13.4% on research and development. In other words, they invest more in promotion, than in safety tests. So, this leads to the question of their safety.
Check out the black-box warning on antidepressants which lists the possible side-effects.
- Depersonalization;
- Confusion;
- Hostility;
- Manic reactions;
- Hallucinations;
- Suicidal ideation;
- Delusions;
- Loss of consciousness;
- Feeling drunk;
- Homicidal ideation;
- Alcohol abuse.
So, why do parents give their children a drug with such horrible side effects?
In 1998, one of the Royal College of General Practitioners’ founding members, Dr. Edward C. Hamlyn, stated that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is deceit intended to justify making children drug addicts.