ADD/ADHD

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OK I am confused.. I am 26 and was just diagnosed with ADD afew months ago. From everything I have been reading they are unsure what causes it, but were leaning towards a hereditary braid defect.

If they are now saying that it is not a brain defect.. are they saying what it is?

Because ADD is real and is not just a childrens disease. Many adults have it as well.

 

Currently I am on Adderall (I refused to take Ritalin) and its helping quite abit. This whole conversation line has caught my curiousity, being as I am living with this... whatever it is

 

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Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter # 31

 

ADHD IS NOT A BRAIN DISORDER

 

DUTCH COMMISSION FINDS PSYCHIATRIC CLAIM IS FALSE

 

The Netherlands Advertisement Code Commission (Reclame Code Commissie) has

ruled that the country's Brain Foundation cannot claim that the

controversial psychiatric condition Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

(ADHD) is a neurobiological disease or brain dysfunction. The Commission

ordered the Foundation to cease such false claims in their advertising.

 

The Advertisement Code Commission was responding to a complaint brought by

the Dutch chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), an

international psychiatric watchdog organization.

 

In its decision handed down on August 6th, the Advertisement Code

Commission found that the Brain Foundation had falsely advertised and

solicited funding by publishing ads in newspapers, magazines, fliers and on

TV that stated ADHD is an "inherent brain dysfunction."

 

The Advertisement Code Commission decision stated, "The information that

the defendant presented gives no grounds for the definitive statement that

ADHD is an inherent brain dysfunction. Under the circumstances, the

defendant has not been careful enough and the advertisement is misleading."

 

The decision has prompted calls for similar orders to be made in the U.S.

in the wake of a 1,100% increase in ADHD being diagnosed in American

children between 1987 and 2001.

 

CCHR's international headquarters in Los Angeles says that similar false

claims have been made about ADHD in the U.S. despite a 1999 Surgeon General

report stating otherwise. The report on mental health, specifically stated

that, "No single gene has been found to be responsible for any specific

mental disorder." Also, the report states "There is no definite lesion,

laboratory test or abnormality in brain tissue that can identify the

[mental] illness."

 

Ms. Jan Eastgate, President of CCHR International, stated, "Fraudulent

claims that ADHD is neurobiological must stop. We have already filed a

similar complaint in the United States. Psychiatrists cannot be allowed to

mislead parents, and children need to be protected from false labels and

harmful psychiatric drugs. Child Psychiatrists are put on notice that we

will continue to file complaints and/or bring legal action as necessary

against false and misleading claims."

 

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International can be contacted at

(800) 869-2247. More information on the plight of millions of children

subjected to mind-altering psychiatric drugs can be found at CCHR’s website

http://www.fightforkids.com

 

Ian "Doc" Shillington N.D.

505-772-5889

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