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Sainsbury Issues Alert and Warning Against Ritalin to UK Parents and backs Tom Cruise; Following Tom Cruise’s campaign over the past two weeks, Sebastian Sainsbury of the prestigious Sainsbury family issues a strong warning warning in Britain and an alert to all UK parents.
(PRWEB) July 20, 2005 -- Following Tom Cruise’s campaign over the past two
weeks, Sebastian Sainsbury of the prestigious Sainsbury family issues a strong
warning warning in Britain and an alert to all UK parents.
Speaking to
United National Newspapers today, Sebastian Sainsbury stated the following this
morning.
“As a parent of two young children, I hold an inherently
responsible position for the welfare of my children. Following some of the
recent media and speaking with other parents, I feel the need to extend that
responsibility to encompass a wider sphere by informing parents of a situation
that could potentially affect all children.”
“I’ve come across recent FDA
warnings that I have found quite chilling. Ritalin, an amphetamine classified in
the same category as cocaine, has been used for over four decades by
psychiatrists and doctors, over much controversy and now the FDA comes up with
black-box labels warning parents of side effects that include suicidal
tendencies, hallucinations, aggression, violent actions, heart failure. The FDA
has also recently issued black-box warnings on all anti-depressants both for
children as well as adults.”
“We have all
witnessed children being somewhat argumentative, perhaps a little boisterous and
even disruptive at times. This would be described as poor behaviour, just as it
has been described for centuries. However, these behavioural characteristics
have been redefined by today’s psychiatrist as a mental disorder called
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD.”
“ADHD was literally
voted into existence eighteen years ago when the American Psychiatric
Association (APA) by a show of hands. A show of hands was enough to see ADHD
enshrined in the psychiatric textbook, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders (DSM). They also created ‘Reading
Disorder’, Oppositional Defiance Disorder’, ‘Expressive Language Disorder’,
‘Mathematics Disorder’ and a litany of similarly ridiculous disorders by the
same show of hands. The treatment for these disorders are drugs.”
“Psychiatrists are telling parents, whose children may be displaying
poor behaviour, that their child has so-called ADHD due to a “chemical
imbalance” in the brain. A parent would be prudent to ask the psychiatrist for
evidence to support the claim of a “chemical imbalance”. If they did ask
however, they’d find that the evidence would not be forthcoming – as it doesn’t
exist.”
Psychiatrist David Kaiser said, “Patients [have been diagnosed
with ‘chemical imbalances’ despite the fact that no test exists to support such
a claim, and…there is no real conception of what a correct chemical balance
would look like.” The words of the President of the APA should also be noted. Mr
Steven Sharfstein said, “We do not have a clean-cut lab test [to detect chemical
imbalances in the brain.” How then would the psychiatrist know when the child
has recovered?”
“Poor behaviour is empirical, but the purported cause
for such behaviour is usurping the inherent rights of both the child and the
parent. Environmental factors of the child need to be addressed rather than
prescribing powerful psychiatric drugs on the basis of a subjective decision
that is entirely unsubstantiated. Current figures from the Prescription Pricing
Authority for England and Wales reveal that in 1991, the number of prescription
items for psychiatric drugs commonly prescribed for children labelled with ADHD
were 2000. In 2004, that figure had risen astronomically to 359,100. Remember,
this is for a so-called “disorder” that has never been scientifically
validated.”
“As with all problems in life, we pursue the avenues of
knowledge open to us to find the solution. As far as poor childhood behaviour
goes, parents want only the best for their child, a corollary of being a
responsible parent, and will look high and low for those solutions. Consider
this: a study carried out last year by Professor John Warner, Professor of Child
Health at the University of Southampton, revealed the adverse reactions that
food additives were having on behaviour. The incredibly talented Jamie Oliver
has demonstrated through his series Jamie’s School Dinners that changing a
child’s diet can bring about a desired change in behaviour. And educational
psychologist Dr Madeleine Portwood has demonstrated that essential fatty acids,
a natural organic product, produced improvements not only in childhood behaviour
but in academic performance as well.”
“We are in the 21st Century, full
of technological advancements that defy science. If however we consider the
psychiatrist to be the custodian of poor behaviour, we are bowing to a
profession that masquerades as technically advanced, but which in reality could
be called nothing more than a pseudoscience at the behest of the pharmaceutical
industry.”
“The ramifications of being a poorly behaved child in this
contemporary society are too gruesome to comprehend.”
That Sainsbury
family of which Sebastian Sainsbury is a member is one of Britain’s wealthiest
and most respected families known for it patronage of the arts, and its
commercial and political influence.
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