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Degrandpre [14], commenting on the Report of the Conference Panel,
observed:

". it appears that you define disease as a mal-adaptive cluster of
characteristics. In the history of science and medicine, this would not
be a valid definition of disease."

Failing to prove that ADHD is a disease, they--psychiatry seek to
re-define the word 'disease'.

I [15] testified, without rebuttal

"Without an iota of proof . the NIMH proclaims the . children
"brain-diseased," "abnormal." CHADD, funded by Ciba-Geigy, . has spread
the "neuro-biological" lie. The US Department of Education, absolving
itself of controlling the children and rendering them literate, coerces
the labeling and drugging.ADHD is a total, 100% fraud."

The final statement of Panel [16], November 18, 1998, read:

" ...we do not have an independent, valid test for ADHD, and there are
no data to indicate that ADHD is due to a brain malfunction."

In 1998, the Council on Scientific Affairs of American Medical
Association, [17] concluded:

".there is little evidence of widespread overdiagnosis or misdiagnosis
of ADHD or of widespread over-prescription of methylphenidate
(Ritalin)."

In April, 1999, I [18] rebutted, writing:

"Once children are labeled with ADHD, they are no longer treated as
normal. Once Ritalin or any psychotropic drug courses through their
brain and body, they are, for the first time, physically, neurologically
and biologically, abnormal."

[figure: ADHD = no abnormality = normal vs. ADHD + one drug, + 2 drugs,
+ 3 drugs]

In November, 1999, I [19] wrote to Matthew D. Cohen, President of
CHADD, as follows:

"You state ADHD is a severe neurobiological condition.' .How does CHADD
justify calling so many normal children diseased, abnormal.for purposes
of justifying prescriptions for them, of addictive, controlled, Schedule
II, psychostimulant medications?"

In December,1999, Surgeon General, David Satcher [20] announced:

"Mental illness is no different than diabetes, asthma or other physical
ailments.Mental illnesses are physical illnesses.We know the chemical
disorders we are treating."

I [21] responded:

".all physicians, know that the presence of any bona fide disease. is
confirmed by an objective finding--a physical or chemical abnormality.
You.know. there is no . abnormality in life, or at autopsy, in
"depression, bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses." .Your role in
this deception is clear.you should resign."

In the January, 2000, Reader's Digest--twenty years after the start of
the ADD/ADHD epidemic, Castellanos [22], of the NIMH, observed:

"Incontrovertible evidence is still lacking. I'm confident we'll confirm
the case for organic causes."