Death From Ritalin - The Truth
Behind ADHD
This is an educational resource for parents whose children have been
diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and are
being pressured into drugging their child by a school Psychologist,
social worker, teacher, or principle. This site expose the health
risks, dangers, and deaths that are a direct result of administering
psycho-tropic drugs to children. These psycho-tropic drugs given to
children labeled with ADHD include Ritalin, Methylphenidate, Concerta,
Dexedrine, Dextrostat, and Metadate, just to name a few. It is time
for parents to come together and fight this horrific war against the
drugging of our children, America's future. This
site is full of resourced and information -
a must visit!
"To my knowledge there
are but 8 states that have passed legislation banning the practice of
a school forcing parents to drug their children. This is possible in
42 states. On a national level, The Child Medication and Safety Act
has passed the House by a near unanimous vote. This legislation would
let parents refuse to drug their children in every state.Our website--
www.fightforkids.org -- has
a legislative grid where you can
find the states who have passed laws and other states that have passed
resolutions, and still other
states with legislation, studies, and resolutions pending."
Joe Bleich
100 GUINEA-PIG KIDS - SHOCKING NEW NUMBER IN HIV TESTS
By Douglas Montero
February 29, 2004 --
The state Health Department has launched a probe into potentially
dangerous drug research conducted on HIV-infected infants and children
at a Manhattan foster-care agency, The Post has
learned. Some 50 foster kids were used as "guinea pigs" in 13
experiments with high doses of AIDS medications at Manhattan's
Incarnation Children's Center, sources said.
Most of the ICC
experiments were funded by federal grants and in some cases,
pharmaceutical companies. They used city foster children, who were
sent to the Catholic Archdiocese-run facility by the Administration
for Children's Services. ICC was involved in 36 different experiments,
according to the National Institutes of Health Web site. One study
researched "HIV Wasting Syndrome," which studied how a child's body
changes when his medication is altered. A handful of the experiments
involved combining up to six AIDS drugs - so-called "cocktails" - in
children as young as 3 months, and another explores the reaction of
not one, but two doses of the measles vaccine in kids ages 6 to 7
months.
Other studies tested
the "safety," "tolerance" and "toxicity" of AIDS drugs. "They are
torturing these kids, and it is nothing short of murder," said Michael
Ellner, a minister and president of Health Education AIDS Liaison, an
advocacy group for HIV parents. Biochemist Dr. David Rasnick, a
visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and an
expert in AIDS medication, was outraged because the drugs, alone or
combined, have "acute toxicity which could be fatal." He said the
drugs' side effects include severe liver damage, cancerous tumors,
severe anemia, muscle wasting, severe and life-threatening rashes and
"buffalo hump," where fatty tissues accumulate behind the neck.
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Cancer and Children
In
memory of our son, Alexander Horwin
On August 10, 1998 at
age two, our son Alexander Horwin was diagnosed with the most common
pediatric brain tumor, medulloblastoma. After Alexander endured two
brain surgeries my husband and I located the best non-toxic therapy
that had proven successful in treating brain cancer. However, on
September 21, 1998, the FDA denied Alexander access to this
potentially life-saving treatment. The oncologists told us that
without their "state-of-the-art" chemotherapy, the cancer would soon
return. We knew nothing of the history, efficacy and actual danger of
chemotherapy but instinctively knew it was a poor choice for therapy.
Alexander completed his third month of chemotherapy in December 1998
and died on January 31, 1999. He was just two and a half years old.
The "state-of-the-art"
chemo protocol that the oncologists had administered to our son had
proven its ineffectiveness in pediatric brain tumors many years
before. In fact, in 1994, the exact same chemo drugs Alexander
received in 1998 had been administered to children the same age with
the same brain tumor (medulloblastoma) as Alexander. This experiment
proved so unsuccessful that tumors spread within five months and the
oncologists terminated the protocol. It was incredible to us to
discover that chemotherapy that had already proven so ineffective that
it required termination was being presented to parents as "state of
the art" years later.
We were never
informed about the failure of this therapy.
We also discovered that we weren't the only parents being purposefully
misinformed. Today, parents are still being misled and children with
brain cancer are still getting these same toxic drugs that have proven
their ineffectiveness in the past. But even if you are informed that
orthodox therapy does not work you still may not have a choice. When
we hesitated to bring Alexander in for chemo the oncologists were
already gearing up to take him from us by court order. Learn more:
read about the
Horwin's story and their journey into research.
Questioning
Chemotherapy : A Critique of the Use of Toxic Drugs in the Treatment
of Cancer by
Ralph W. Moss
"I started as
a believer in chemotherapy. As a science writer at Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, I wrote articles praising
the latest advances in chemotherapy. Because chemotherapy drugs were
general cellular poisons, they could be terribly toxic. They were also
very expensive for patients and for society as a whole. When I learned
about the links between the pharmaceutical industry and the cancer
establishment (later detailed in my book, The Cance r Industry) I
understood the commercial reason that such an inadequate modality was
so heavily promoted."
Ralph W. Moss
Safe and effective alternative cancer therapies
Law Firm
now focuses on protecting the rights of children
who have been injured or killed by toxic and ineffective cancer
treatments administered by oncologists.
Dr Daniel H Duffy Sr - Pharmaceutical Terrorism & Mandatory
Vaccination - The very first words of the Nuremberg Principles issued
following the Second World War and designed to outlaw Nazi medical
experiments for all time were: “The voluntary consent of the human
subject is absolutely essential." Failure to stem the present tide of
invasive compulsory medical procedures result in terrible consequences
downstream as these forces grow more powerful and more oppressive. We
will eventually experience total loss of our freedom to determine ours
and our family’s own destiny, not only in health matters but in all
forms of living. Political power breeds more power – the system is out
of control and must be brought back under control. Controversial
mandatory medicine, especially mandatory vaccines must be stopped.
This socially malignant situation is under the control of the
educated, ruling classes, particularly that part of the scientific
community (NIH, CDC, FDA, AMA etc.) exerting influence on government
policy. Mandatory vaccination is the most repugnant idea ever put
forth by organized medicine. It gives the government power to invade
our most private space, our bodies. This is the most private domain of
the citizen, their own body! Mandatory vaccination puts one in mind
of the eugenics of Nazi Germany. The demand to yield to MANDATORY
injection of a foreign substance into a human body under circumstances
that highly intelligent specialists in all fields of scientific
endeavor consider to be, at the very minimum, highly controversial,
cannot AND WILL NOT be tolerated.
"Child Medication Safety Act of 2003" - H.R.
1170
Contact your Congressman/Congresswoman Today In a society that
parades billboards professing "Say No To Drugs" we as parents are
being forced to subject our children to psychotropic drugs or lose
custody of them just because someone outside the family has more
jurisdiction over our children than we the parents...don't let your
child become a statistic in the long list of those that have DIED or
Attempted Suicide due to the adverce effects of Forced Drugging. There
is a bill before congress that can stop outside intervention and the
forced drugging of our children by school systems or social service
employees that are not trained in the medical profession, that bill is
called:
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Courts Order Kid
To Do Chemo
(August 29) - A
12-year-old boy remains in hiding with his mother while authorities in
Utah battle to have him returned to undergo court-ordered chemotherapy
to treat what they say is deadly bone cancer. Daren and Barbara Jensen
fled Utah with their son, Parker, on Aug. 8, after the state ordered
that the cancer-stricken boy be placed in state custody so that he can
receive chemotherapy. The story began three months ago, when Parker
was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, a deadly form of bone cancer.
Doctors at Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City said
Parker needs chemotherapy, and that he has only a 5 percent chance of
survival without it. A Salt Lake City court agreed, and ordered the
parents to have the boy undergo the treatment. But the boy's family
disagreed. They question the accuracy of the test that led to his
cancer diagnosis, said Parker's uncle, Tracy Jensen.
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"Considering the
many side effects of the AIDS drug AZT, the question of giving it to
pregnant women should be weighed carefully instead of being blindly
accepted."
Nicholas Regush ABCNEWS.com
The life of a 4-year
old child, who had tested positive for HIV and had faced the prospect
of enforced treatments, was spared by a Maine judge in a decision
which, among other things, underscored the fact that AIDS therapies
are tantamount to poisoning by prescription.
Some public schools are
accusing parents of child abuse when they balk at giving their kids
drugs such as Ritalin, (or AZT) and as judges begin to agree, some
parents are medicating their children for fear of having them hauled
away.
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"There is a war raging
over the control of our children. The cry of outrage is spreading
across this nation, as increasing numbers of children are wrongfully
ripped from their loving parent's arms and secreted away by the
unscrupulous agents of the State".
AMERICAN FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER
From: Alive Magazine:
Canadian Journal of Health and Nutrition - Issue #215 September 2000
FDA Issues Public Health Advisory on Cautions for Use
of Antidepressants in Adults and Children
The Food and Drug Administration today issued a Public Health Advisory
that provides further cautions to physicians, their patients, and
families and caregivers of patients about the need to closely monitor
both adults and children with depression. The drugs under review
include bupropion, citalopram, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, mirtazapine,
nefazodone, paroxetine, sertraline, escitalopram and venlafaxine. It
should be noted that the only drug that has received approval for use
in children with major depressive disorder is fluoxetine (Prozac).
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Discovery of
How Anti-Depressants Cause Psychotic Breaks
Anti-depressants given to children can be tied directly to their
sudden outbursts of psychotic reactions as evidenced in the numerous
school shootings and other dramas that have occured. This effect can
be measured directly at a sleep center and will stand up to any
scientific criticism.
"Take the Pills,
or We'll Take Your Kids!"
by David Crowe
Jane Doe in Montreal
refuses to give toxic, lifelong medication to her two healthy sons,
and loses custody of them. Another woman in Montreal hears this and
decides to have an abortion.
A woman in Maine has a
daughter die on this medication, and finds that the debilitating
symptoms she and her son were also experiencing rapidly disappear
after stopping. The State takes her to court, but she wins her case.
A couple in Oregon are
less fortunate. They are "legally" forced to medicate their infant and
the mother forbidden to nurse him! A woman in British Columbia is
harassed by social workers who threaten to force her to medicate her
two children, and then hastily leaves the province.
A couple in London
refuse to test their baby and flee from England after losing their
case, fearing that forced medication will follow forced testing.
All these people have
one thing in common--both they and their children are HIV-positive.
They all reject the need for medication for their condition, and for
their HIV-positive children. In fact, they question whether the HIV
test indicates an illness at all.
The AIDS
Epidemic
To most Canadians, AIDS
is something that happens to other people, largely gay men and drug
addicts. They have no reason to doubt that HIV is the cause of AIDS,
that new drugs are miraculous advances or that the tests for HIV are
accurate--unless they test positive, of course.
Just like a diagnosis
of terminal cancer, most people are completely unprepared for this
shattering moment, and rely on their doctors for advice, which is
almost always to get on AIDS drugs immediately to try to stop the
virus from its deadly advance. They usually do not question that they
will die a painful and early death, but hope that the drugs can buy
time.
Canada's top AIDS
scientist, Dr. Mark Wainberg believes that HIV always leads to AIDS.
In his opinion, those people who question the accuracy of the HIV
tests, or question whether immunosuppressive drugs are wise for a
disease characterized by immunsuppression are considered a threat to
public health and should be thrown in jail! (1)
Many people would
consider a parent refusing AIDS medication to be irresponsible but,
considering the fatal nature of the diagnosis, perhaps within their
rights to let their child die a natural death, versus gaining a
longer, but lower quality life with medication. Few people would
consider that Jane Doe is actually behaving more sanely than the
doctors. Yet, her do-nothing approach to HIV has worked. 14 years
after being found HIV-positive she is still extremely healthy, and has
never taken medication.
AIDS and AZT
The oldest, and still
most widely prescribed AIDS medications are nucleoside analogs. If DNA
is likened to a chain of beads, a nucleoside analog is a broken bead
that can attach at one end, but not the other. Nucleoside analogs are
supposed to stop retroviruses from being incorporated into DNA, but
the inevitable incorporation of a molecule directly into a growing
chain of DNA will cause replication of DNA to halt.
One of these nucleoside
analogs, AZT, is prescribed to pregnant women to prevent transmission
of HIV to their rapidly growing fetuses. It is also prescribed to
HIV-positive children. Side effects of nucleoside analogs are similar
to chemotherapy--anemia so serious that transfusions are required,
bone marrow destruction, peripheral nerve damage, failure of the
pancreas, and many others. (2) It is also known that nucleoside
analogs can cross the placenta and likely cause cancer, birth defects
and mutations. (3)
The Price Of
Health
There are several
reasons why AIDS doctors and researchers may be so adamant that not
taking anti-HIV drugs is irresponsible: money, money and money. Dr.
Mark Wainberg, for example, has acknowledged being a shareholder in
the Montreal company Biochem Pharma that manufacturers 3TC, one of the
drugs that Jane Doe's children are believed to be taking. While the
income from one patient is probably not significant to him, the
impression that every rational person supports taking them is worth
millions. HIV/AIDS is worth billions of dollars to doctors,
researchers, hospitals and manufacturers--far out of proportion to the
number of people affected in Canada (1,751 at the peak in 1993,
declining to 279 in 1998. (4)
If it becomes
legitimate to question whether HIV tests are accurate, whether HIV
always leads to AIDS, whether AIDS is always fatal without medication
and whether anti-HIV drugs are useful, the entire infrastructure will
collapse. While that would be the end of the career of men like Dr.
Mark Wainberg, for Jane Doe this would be the end of her nightmare.
Sidebar: One
Woman's True Story
Jane Doe has been
through hell ever since she had her first child about 8 years ago.
When one son came down with a chest infection (variously diagnosed as
bronchitis or mild pneumonia) in 1999, the entire weight of the
medical, social service and legal establishment was thrown on her. It
was only through the major financial support of the US-based
International Coalition for Medical Justice (www.icmj.org) that she
was able to fight back. Even so, after the involvement of several
lawyers and tens of thousands of dollars, Jane Doe lost custody of her
two sons. Her parents were placed in the horrible position of
providing the three-drug AIDS cocktail to them several times a day. If
the children vomit after taking the drugs (a common reaction), they
must be given again. If the children refuse to take the drugs, they
must be forced. If the children have diarrhea, that is just the price
they have to pay. Nobody knows how long the children can live while
taking these drugs, which have acknowledged fatal side effects, but
that does not stop doctors from almost universally and absolutely
recommending them.
Sidebar: No
Report Card
The Canadian Government
doesn't have statistics on how many Canadians are taking HIV
medications, let alone how many adverse reactions there are.
Every page of one
Health Canada report of adverse reactions notes "Only a small
proportion of suspected adverse reactions are reported to the
program". Other estimates suggest that one to 10 per cent of adverse
reactions are reported.
In HIV/AIDS, where the
drugs can destroy the bone marrow, and therefore the immune system, it
is very difficult to distinguish the disease from the side effects of
the therapy.
Glaxo Wellcome, the
largest manufacturer of AIDS drugs claims that a list of adverse
reactions to their AIDS drugs in Canada is 'proprietary to the
company'.
Alive magazine is
distributed free at most whole-food stores and alternative health
practictioners in Canada and has an estimated circulation of 270,000
References
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1. Picard A. HIV deniers should be jailed: researcher. Globe & Mail.
2000 May 1; A3.
2. A file of referenced
quotations on the side effects and ineffectiveness of AZT is available
here: http://aras.ab.ca/azt.html
3. Olivero OA et al.
AZT is a Genotoxic Transplacental Carcinogen in Animal Models. J
Acquir Immun Defic Syndr Hum Retro. 1997 Apr 1; 14(4): A29.,Olivero OA
et al. Incorporation of zidovudine into leukocyte DNA from
HIV-1-positive adults and pregnant women, and cord blood from infants
exposed in utero. AIDS. 1999 May 28; 13: 919-25,Olivero OA et al.
Transplacental effects of 3'-azido-2',3'-dideoxythymidine (AZT):
tumorigenicity in mice and genotoxicity in mice and monkeys. J Natl
Cancer Inst. 1997 Nov 5; 89(21): 1602-8.,Olivero OA et al. Vaginal
epithelial DNA damage and expression of preneoplastic markers in mice
during chronic dosing with tumorigenic levels of
3'-azido-2',3'-dideoxythymidine (AZT). Cancer Res. 1994; 54: 6235-42.,
Olivero OA et al. 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT) transplacental
perfusion kinetics and DNA incorporation in normal human placentas
perfused with AZT. Mutat Res Fundam Mol Mech Mutagen. 1999 Jul 16;
428(1-2): 41-7 .
4. Laboratory Centre
for Disease Control (Health Canada). HIV and AIDS in Canada:
Surveillance Report to December 31, 1998. Health Canada.
1999.Available at
www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpb/lcdc/publicat.html
The House That
AIDS Built
Liam Scheff
This article deals with
pharmaceutical abuse in a children’s home in NYC. This is a most
controversial story – however, it’s entirely based in fact and good
reporting. I hope you’ll find it as compelling and shocking as I did
investigating it.
In New York’s
Washington Heights is a 4-story brick building called Incarnation
Children’s Center (ICC). This former convent houses a revolving stable
of children who’ve been removed from their own homes by the Agency for
Child Services. These children are black, Hispanic and poor. Many of
their mothers had a history of drug abuse and have died. Once taken
into ICC, the children become subjects of drug trials sponsored by
NIAID (National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease, a
division of the NIH), NICHD (the National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development) in conjunction with some of the world’s largest
pharmaceutical companies – GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Genentech,
Chiron/Biocine and others.
"Doctors Are The Third
Leading Cause of Death in the US Causing 250,000 Deaths Every Year"Journal
of the American Medical Association
Guylaine Lanctot, M.D
- "The medical establishment works closely with the drug
multinationals whose main objective is profits, and whose worst
nightmare would be an epidemic of good health. Lots of drugs MUST be
sold. In order to achieve this, anything goes: lies, fraud, and
kickbacks. Doctors are the principal salespeople of the drug
companies. They are rewarded with research grants, gifts, and lavish
perks. The principal buyers are the public - from infants to the
elderly - who MUST be thoroughly medicated and vaccinated...at any
cost! Why do the authorities forbid alternative medicine? Because they
are serving the industry, and the industry cannot make money with
herbs, vitamins, and homeopathy. They cannot patent natural remedies.
That is why they push synthetics. They control medicine, and that is
why they are able to tell medical schools what they can and cannot
teach."
Guylaine Lanctot, M.Dis
the author of
The Medical Mafia: How To Get Out of It Alive and Take Back Our Health
and Wealth.
July 2003 -
Pharmaceutical corporations accused of Genocide before ICC in The
Hague Pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer, Merck,
GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Amgen and Astra Zeneca are accused of
deliberately preventing life-saving natural alternatives to drug based
treatments from being applied in prevention and cure. A worldwide
disinformation campaign undertaken by these companies is said to have
caused the death of millions of people.
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Dangers
of Modern Medicine: Iatrogenic Diseases "The
Journal of the American Medical Association recently reported that as
many as 106,000 deaths occur annually in US hospitals due to adverse
reactions to prescription drugs that are properly prescribed by
physicians that use them as directed by the drug companies. Even
worse, the National Council for Patient Information and Education
reported that an additional 125,000 deaths occur annually due to
adverse reactions to drugs that the physician never should have
prescribed. The annual death toll from synthetic prescription drugs,
both from the correctly prescribed and the incorrectly prescribed,
amounts to about 231,000 deaths every year. To put this into
perspective, this is the equivalent of a world trade center disaster
every week for over a year and a half or the crash of two fully loaded
747 aircraft every day of the year." John Thomas
Politics
in Healing: The Suppression & Manipulation of American Medicine by
Daniel Haley
An ex-congressman from
N.Y., Haley has written an historical account of immense importance.
Here are detailed the true stories of ten physicians and their
non-toxic cancer and other medical cures that were smashed by a
pharmaceutical -AMA - federal machine which continues today. For
anyone interested in the truth behind who controls the FDA and other
federal agencies this is a must read. All health care professionals
need to have a look at the reality existing today in the manipulation
of the health care system as shown in these stories.
FDA Issues Public Health Advisory on Cautions for Use
of Antidepressants in Adults and Children
The Food and Drug Administration today issued a Public Health Advisory
that provides further cautions to physicians, their patients, and
families and caregivers of patients about the need to closely monitor
both adults and children with depression. The drugs under review
include bupropion, citalopram, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, mirtazapine,
nefazodone, paroxetine, sertraline, escitalopram and venlafaxine. It
should be noted that the only drug that has received approval for use
in children with major depressive disorder is fluoxetine (Prozac).
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According to the first
comprehensive scientific review to include all available studies,
including negative data that have long been withheld from public
scrutiny by the pharmaceutical industry, four popular antidepressants
being used to treat thousands of depressed American children are
unsafe, ineffective or both. Those antidepressants are: Paxil, Zoloft,
Effexor, Celexa. This is damning evidence of the drug companies'
patent disregard for the safety of humans and focus on profits.
GlaxoSmithKline was found to be concealing evidence that shows that
these drugs do not benefit children in any way and only increase their
risk of killing themselves. This was confirmed in an article in the
Canadian
Medical Journal. Drug companies do the research and learn that
the drugs don't work, yet are willing to sell and market them to
children even when it is clear that they are causing many
children to commit suicide.
Baby Garfield
Can you help us help the latest victim in the war on AIDS?
Caught in the
cross-fire of AIDS hysteria is an 18 month-old boy believed to have
tested HIV positive in mandatory newborn screening (in NY). Although
the boy's medical records do not show the results of this screening
test, and his most recent HIV test is Indeterminate, he was taken from
his home by seven police officers after his mother sought a second
opinion on AIDS drug treatments that were making her child ill.The
boy's older sister was also taken in the "AIDS raid" but was later
returned to her family when authorities noted her negative HIV status.
Our amazing and
generous attorney has offered to assist the family to prepare for a
custody hearing later this month. We also found an unprejudiced
pyschiatrist to provide an evaluation of the parents' mental
competency--they are accused of "being in denial" and are required to
submit to psychiatric evaluation.
Today, a psychoanalyst
offered to assess and provide testimony on the damage the child
suffers being separated from his family, and a well respected
pediatrician has agreed to take him as his patient and treat the boy
as an individual instead of an HIV positive diagnosis.
We are seeking
donations to help cover costs involved in preparing the family for
their custody hearing. The family needs $1,000 to pull together the
necessary legal documents and pay for doctor visits and lab work that
is not covered by their insurance. If you can pitch in any amount
toward this goal, please let us know as soon as possible.
If what you've read so
far has failed to inspire your concern and your generosity, please
consider the cruel and inept system that is keeping the parents and
child apart:
The child's first HIV
test result from his newborn screening is missing from his records
along with much other pertinent information
The child's first
"viral load" test was negative and this test is also missing from
the records, but is referred to in the records several times
The boy's most recent
viral load test was performed at two different labs and came back
with dramatically varying results
The result from his
most recent HIV Wesern Blot antibody test is Indeterminate- His
mother was told she had to take an HIV test in order to regain
custody, but she has not been given the results of the test although
the test was performed three weeks ago. At the time of her HIV
test, the test counselor assumed the mother was HIV positive, and
based on that assumption, told the mother to draw up her will and
figure out who will get custody of her two children when she dies-
The boy was healthy until he began recommended treatment with AIDS
drugs
The department of
social services accused the mother of negligence after the mother
had to reschedule an appointment for a second opinion. Although the
appointment was rescheduled by the hospital and not the mother, and
the mother was careful to notify DSS of the change in order to show
that she was not negligent with regard to the medical care of her
son, under orders from DSS, her children were removed from
their home by seven police officers at 10:30 PM on July 17.
The parents have been
allowed to see their son only one hour a week since he was taken in
July.
Christine Maggiore
Founder/Director, Alive & Well
AIDS Alternatives
christine@aliveandwell.org
Tel and Fax 818/780-7093
Subject:
Update on Baby Garfield
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000
From: Christine Maggiore <christine@aliveandwell.org> Organization:
Alive & Well
A few weeks ago we
alerted this list to the case of Baby Garfield, an 18 month old boy
from New York caught up in the system of mandatory newborn HIV
screening recently initiated in that state.
After allegedly testing
positive at birth (the actual test was missing from his medical
records) and following a series of inconsistent lab work and other
questionable tests and recommendations, his mother sought a second
opinion about the AIDS drug treatments prescribed for her healthy son.
A few days later, under
orders from the department of social services, Baby Garfield was taken
from his home by seven police officers. He was placed in foster care
and put on an aggressive regimen of mandatory medication. His parents
were allowed to see their child only one hour a week while awaiting a
hearing to establish long-term arrangements for his custody.
When the parents found
Alive & Well, Garfield had been in a foster home for more than a month
and the custody hearing was just a few weeks away.
In record time, helped
by your donations and good wishes, we pulled together a legal defense
team led by Alive & Well's pro bono attorney Denis Sheils of
Philadelphia, PA. Although Denis is one of the best and busiest
attorneys in the country, he gave his time--including weekends--to the
effort to return Baby Gafield to his parents. A coincidental interview
with a national news program brought me and my family to New York for
the custody hearing.
I am happy to report
that the day after the hearing, Garfield was back in his mother's
arms. The victory was resounding as the state has decided not to
appeal the judge's decision. Outside the courtroom, after a round of
hugs and tears of relief, I shared your e mail messages with the
family. It was a great honor to present them with all the good wishes
and promises of donations from across the the country and around the
world--help and concern came from as far away as Australia, Canada,
England, and Iceland.
In celebrating this
legal victory we give our heartfelt thanks to Dr. Rudolph Ballentine,
Dr. Ina Becker and Dr. Larry Palevsky who were essential components of
the legal victory; to Lynn Gannett who served as the family's personal
support group; to Denis Sheils for his incredible generosity and
skills; and to all of you who continue to make it possible for Alive &
Well to be here for those who need us most.
Thank you!
Christine Maggiore
The following
letter from Christine Maggiore’s book
‘What
if Everything You’d Been Told About AIDS was Wrong’ makes for
sobering reading.
"I was required by law
to take an HIV test in June 1995. The test is mandatory in Colorado
for pregnant women, and I was expecting my second child. I was shocked
when the result came back positive, because I’d been married and
monogamous for nine years. I started taking AZT in my fifth month.
After ten months on AZT, I was sick all the time. I had constant
diarrhoea, nausea, fever, night sweats and was totally exhausted. I
was crawling to the bathroom and vomiting for hours. My doctor told me
the HIV was making me ill, and that the virus had mutated into a form
that was resistant to AZT. Further drugs turned my skin yellow with
jaundice. Since it was clear that the drugs weren’t keeping me from
getting AIDS and were actually destroying my liver, I let my
prescription run out. I figured I’d rather die from AIDS than liver
failure.
Almost immediately
after I stopped taking my medicines, within a matter of days I started
to feel much better…. My daughter is considered a success by medical
standards because she tests negative, but I don’t care about HIV
anymore. I am concerned about the effects of the AZT she was poisoned
with while I was pregnant. Rachel has an enlarged cranium, seizures
and a strange deformity near the base of her spine. At age three she
still does not speak. I went to this conference on HIV and pregnancy
at The Children’s Hospital here in Denver. A lot of mothers there had
taken AZT during pregnancy and had their kids with them. Every single
one of those kids had enlarged craniums. Their heads looked exactly
like Rachel’s. They’re all AZT babies. I’m working now to
repealColorado’s mandatory [HIV] testing law."
AIDS/HIV/AZT
Controversy A growing number of scientists world-wide have
publicly denounced the total failure of the HIV/AIDS hypothesis,
questioned the meaning of the "AIDS test", and criticized the use of
AZT which has been proven to be a toxic poison that makes the patient
sicker and is actually the cause of AIDS deaths.
AIDS in Africa: lies and deceptions AIDS in Africa: lies and
deceptions - The "AIDS test" is scientifically invalid - President
Mbeki's Letter to World Leaders
Toxic
Effects of AZT on Pregnant Women and Babies: Considering the many
side effects of the AIDS drug AZT, the question of giving it to
pregnant women should be weighed carefully instead of being blindly
accepted. Nicholas Regush ABCNEWS.com.
The
Origin of AIDS: Man-Made Holocaust? A WHO official admitted, "Now
I believe the smallpox vaccine theory is the explanation for the
explosion of African AIDS." Robert Gallo added, "The link between the
WHO program and the epidemic is an interesting and important
hypothesis.
Healing AIDS Naturally (drug-free approach)
.
Read about the Christine
Family held hostage by Corrupt County!
One anonymous tip from a caller and that was the end of the Christine
Family! One afternoon as Brian completed some work on the library
computer, two officers of the law (followed by his distraut wife and
children) approached him about one of his children. It was then said
that an anonymous caller had reported that one of their children was
dehydrated. The authorities did not ask if any of the children were
recovering from a brief illness, which was the case. Brian and Ruth
Christine were then taken back to their RV and their civil and
parental rights were horribly violated.
WHERE PARENTS TURN FOR HELP TO PROTECT THEIR CHILDREN
PARENTS AND
GRANDPARENTS ABUSE CASE FORM Has your child (or someone else’s
child that you know) been targeted for psychiatric or psychological
treatment, harmed by psychiatric drugs or forced onto these despite
your objection? Has someone tried to convince you that your child has
a “learning disorder,” or is “hyperactive?” Are you aware of your
child being subjected to psychological programs, tests or treatments
in school? If you have experienced this yourself, or know of someone
else who has, please take the time to fill out the following
questionnaire
CPS Watch (Child Protective
Services Watch) - Currently, CPS Watch has thousands of members in all
50 states and Canada. Members of CPS Watch come from very diverse
backgrounds; parents, step parents, foster caregivers, social workers,
attorneys and even judges make up the membership of CPS Watch. All
are concerned about the manner in which CPS agencies are treating
families.
AMERICAN FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER There is a war raging over the
control of our children. The cry of outrage is spreading across this
nation, as increasing numbers of children are wrongfully ripped from
their loving parent's arms and secreted away by the unscrupulous
agents of the State.
The Citizens Commission on
Human Rights If your rights or the rights of someone you know
have been violated by psychiatry, immediate action must be taken. The
Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) stands ready to assist you.
They do not give medical or legal advice but they can help you in how
and where to file a complaint against psychiatric abuse. The Citizens
Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a non-profit, public benefit
organization dedicated to exposing and eradicating criminal acts and
human rights abuses by psychiatry.
A Voice for Children
helps parents who are FALSELY ACCUSED of child abuse, lobbies for
Civil Rights, and the ELIMINATION of corrupt officials, judges,
bureaucrats. Pamela and Will Gaston are highly involved in "Rattling
the Gates of Hell" of the bureaucratic and judicial corruption in the
state of Oregon. We support Measure 1 to overturn Oregon Constitution
Article VII (amended) and restoring the original.
American Family
Rights Association is the national association of children's,
mothers, fathers, parents, family, justice, freedom advocates. -
American Family Rights Association OPPOSES the insertion of the
coercive power of government into the FAMILY. We oppose false
allegations, malicious prosecution, anonymous reporters, and the
denial of Civil Rights and Miranda Rights to the accused. We oppose
the denial of Civil Rights to children, and government presumption
that they know what is "In the best interest of the child", and
anything government does to children is unquestionable. We oppose
immunity and impunity of CPS Social Workers, law enforcement officers,
and judges from being held accountable for deliberate wrong-doing and
corruption. As parents- We have the right, guaranteed by law and the
Constitution to make our own choices in our relationships and
marriages; birthing and raising our children; instilling our own
values into our children; controlling our children's education,
health, and discipline; controlling what social values we chose to
accept, or not, for ourselves and our children, without coercive
governmental intervention and control.
A
Parent's Choice Crusading for the rights of parents to choose" -
School systems now feel they have the right to decide wether or not
our children are mentally healthy, and use Child Protective Services
authorities with no background or knowledge of our families to push
their views into our homes. Child Protective Services authorities have
taken on the role of Big Brother, yanking children from decent, safe
homes at the whim of workers who are paid to disrupt families. Too
many families across the United States are torn apart simply because a
parent has been intimidated by a school system put in place to EDUCATE
our children, not become medical specialists, and bully parents into
accepting mental labels for children only to profit from more federal
money. MONEY is the bottom line in their game, and they use Child
Protective Services and the courts to enforce their "rights"
Without your voice, there is no
choice! Citizens For Health is a free, grassroots, consumer
advocacy group that champions public policies empowering individuals
to make informed health choices. Let your voice be heard!
MOMM provides information
and peer support to current and expectant mothers with concerns about
HIV testing and pharmaceutical AIDS treatments, and offers facts on
healthy childbirth, breastfeeding, and non-toxic immune therapy with
the goal of enabling mothers to make truly informed choices about
these important issues. HIV testing for expectant mothers is now
mandatory in two states and has become a routine part of prenatal
diagnostics. In every state in America, an expectant mother's consent
is no longer required for HIV screening. Other than convicted
criminals, expectant and current mothers and children are the only
persons in this country subject to involuntary HIV testing and
mandatory AIDS medication at the behest of public health and child
welfare agencies.
Fight For Kids - The purpose
of this website is to educate parents worldwide on the facts about
today's widespread practice of labeling children mentally ill and
drugging them with heavy, mind-altering, psychiatric drugs. Armed in
this way, loving parents will be able to prevail in the face of the
enormous "drug children now" pressures so entrenched in society
today. Protected in this way, our children will be spared the totally
unnecessary misery of a drug-hazed youth, succeeded by the risk of a
drug-consumed adulthood.
"The
drugging of children has gotten so out of hand that America is
waking up to this. This is a national catastrophe. I'm seeing
children who are normal who are on five psychiatric drugs."Peter
R. Breggin, M.D. Director, International Center for the Study of
Psychiatry and Psychology
Parents
are medicating their children with toxic drugs for fear of having
them hauled away by Child Protective Services
YOUR
HEALTH FREEDOM IS IN JEOPARDY
James DeMeo, Ph.D. - "In recent years, there has been an upsurge of
police activities in the USA, the nature of which most Americans would
more readily associate with repressive dictatorships. We Americans
have been educated to believe that democracy, due process, assumed
innocence-until-proven-guilt, and Constitutional protections against
illegal search and seizure are the laws of the land. On paper, these
protections are there; but in reality, these basic Constitutional
rights and freedoms have been gradually and steadily eroded away by
new laws, judicial rulings, and bureaucratic decrees. One of the
lesser-known but more significant leaders of this assault on American
freedom has been the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)."more
Mandatory Toxic Drugs for Babies and Children
Medical Fascism in
the USA - Courts Order Kids To Take Toxic Drugs
Parents pressured to
put kids on AZT, Ritalin, and other dangerous toxic drugs Can a judge
constitutionally order a controversial drug to be given to a child
over the opposition of his parents? Parents are medicating their
children for fear of having them hauled away by Child Protective
Services.
The FDA goes
after pet store owners too!
1990 El Cajon,
California: The FDA attempts to railroad Sissy Harrington-McGill,
57-year old owner of a pet food store, for violation of a proposed
"Health Claims Law" because her literature stated vitamins would help
keep pets healthy. Her store was raided and ransacked without a search
warrant. . Lawsuits against the FDA have been filed.
The FDA - Who Do They Really Protect?
Health Freedom is
Under Attack. Worldwide pharmaceutical interests have launched a
secretive global attack to limit access to information on health
choices & restrict the right to obtain dietary supplements.
Anti-Constitutional Activities and Abuse of Police Powerby the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration and other Federal
Physicians Right
to Practice Alternative Medicine
Alternative Medicine Bill
Bills that enable physicians to provide alternative treatments are
called Medical Freedom Bills. New York, Alaska, and Texas in addition
to other states have passed such bills. For more information on the
states that have passed medical freedom bills or have pending bills.
Sign the petition
"All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it
is violently" opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."
Schoepenhouer
"Progress in medical
science is, as a rule, achieved only after overcoming the
manifestations of a fixed mental status, ranging all the way from
violent and vitriolic opposition down to apathy and deadly intertia."
Dr. Edwin F. Bowers
The FDA - Who Do They
Really Protect? by James DeMeo, Ph.D.
Anti-Constitutional Activities and Abuse of Police Power by the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration and other Federal Agencies
KIDS: HIV, AIDS & AZT
"Considering the many side effects of the AIDS drug AZT, the question
of giving it to pregnant women should be weighed carefully instead of
being blindly accepted." Nicholas Regush
ABCNEWS.com
Forced Treatment Of Kids
Why Parents With HIV Don’t Treat Their Kids
NEWBORNS AND AIDS: To Test, Or Not to Test
Doctors say quick screening now used is too
often wrong, may do more harm than good
Natural
Health for Children
Articles:
safe & effective alternatives for ADD and ADHD
What
Every Parent Should Know BEFORE Their Childen Are Vaccinated! Why
are a growing number of parents and health care professionals around
the world questioning vaccination? The controversy stems from the
thousands of deaths and permanent disabilities attributed to
vaccination annually, as well as the many published medical studies,
government statistics, congressional testimonies, and other credible
sources that directly contradict commonly held assumptions about
vaccine safety and effectiveness.
More pictures of vaccine damage
available to view at the
CDC website
"Bart Classen, a Maryland physician, published data showing that
diabetes rates rose significantly in New Zealand following a massive
hepatitis B vaccine campaign in young children, and that diabetes
rates also went up sharply in Finland after three new childhood
vaccines were introduced."
Nicholas Regush ABCNEWS.com
In fall 1997, two influential professional magazines featured articles
asking the question: Has the decrease of infectious diseases in
childhood through the mass use of vaccines been replaced with an
increase in chronic diseases such as diabetes and asthma? The
Economist, a prestigious international magazine read by world leaders
in government, business and public policy, and Science News, a
magazine read by both health care professionals and the general
public, explored the reported links between vaccines and chronic
diseases in their November 22, 1997 issues.
Learn
more about vaccine & diabetes connection --- asthma & vaccine
connection --- SIDS & autism and vaccine connection --- "Shaken Baby
Syndrome": the vaccination link
Congressman is
calling for criminal penalties for any government agency that knew
about the dangers of thimerosal in vaccines and did nothing to protect
American children. Congressman Dan Burton
(R-Indiana) during Congressional Hearing: "You mean to tell me that
since 1929, we've been using Thimerosal, and the only test that you
know of is from 1929, and every one of those people had mennigitis,
and they all died?" For nearly an hour, Burton repeatedly asked FDA
and CDC officials what they knew and when they knew it. (Thimerosal
contains a related mercury compound called ethyl mercury. Mercury is a
toxic metal that can cause immune, sensory, neurological, motor, and
behavioral dysfunctions.)
Please get
informed!Enter
the vaccine information site
Homeopathy can be used successfully to prevent and treat smallpox,
measles, whooping cough, chickenpox, and other ailments.
Would you allow big
brother to enforce vaccinations on your kids?
Government
Enforced Vaccinations Vaccination Tracking Registry - Government
programs that limit your choices -and your rights- in health care when
it comes to mandatory vaccination. These mandates last for 40
or so years and they're impossible to repeal. Also, learn about Legal
Requirements and Exemptions
Are Vaccines
Damaging Our Pets?
Routine
Vaccination: Is it really safe and effective?
Most recently, an article appeared in the Journal of
the American Veterinary Medical Association entitled "Are We
Vaccinating Too Much?"
AIDS part 1:
What if everything you thought you knew about
AIDS was wrong? - The True Origins of AIDS & Ebola - AIDS; The Failure
of Contemporary Science - AIDS: DEATH BY PRESCRIPTION - Poison by
Prescription; The AZT story - 'The AIDS War; Propaganda, profiteering
and genocide from the medical-industrial complex' and much more!
Healing AIDS Naturally (drug-free approach)
AIDS in Africa: lies and deceptions
Print
the information --- Pass the word around
The information about AIDS/HIV/AZT from this website is available in a
2 page condensed format for an easy 1 page (front/back) printing
Note
from Shirley: Often, when there are controversial
subjects, wherein so called experts disagree, I will give information
about and links to opposing points of view. In this way I feel that
you can then make your own decision and choices. A problem with the
mainstream media is that they present one point of view which becomes
propaganda. They seem to be afraid of allowing the public equal access
to other points of view. I have no fear of this because I believe that
the truth will win out.
Transfer Factor
in Pediatrics
David Markowitz,
M.D. - a general pediatrician for more than 20 years. and a
pediatrician in Kennebunk, Maine with a patient base of 4,500
children, is conducting an ongoing retrospective study of patients who
are consuming Transfer Factor™."I have now completed a
retrospective study comparing children in our practice who did not use
Transfer Factor™ during the same period. 87 children, age 8 months
through 9 years, used Transfer Factor™. We found 74% less reported
illness and 84% less reported use of antibiotics. " Thousands of
testimonies reinforce these results! Transfer Factor™ enhances the
immune system. The immune system is the key.
"A
17-month-old toddler come to the pediatric office with a complaint of
three days of fever, poor sleeping and poor feeding, associated with a
week's congestion and cough. He is diagnosed as having his fifth ear
infection in 5 months and is sent home on this fifth 5-10 day course
of antibiotics and anti-cough and cold medication. This time, he
doesn't tolerate his meds well, with multiple diarrhea stools, a yeast
dermatitis, and a hive-like rash, necessitating a change in
antibiotics, bowel rest, and an antihistamine for his hives. Three
days later, and five days out of Daycare, with parents missing four
days of work, our little patient is finally better. Consumption of
transfer factors is started by his parents (out of pure frustration
and worry) at low daily dosing (1 cap/day). Two weeks later, he
arrives at our office with a cold, but nothing more. Three months
later, we see him for a well child visit, with amazed and delighted
parents. A year later, another well child visit and no reported
illnesses. This is an everyday occurrence in our Pediatric office…
This is the real power of the immune boosting with transfer factors,
and we have now seen this for two full consecutive "sick seasons" in
this General Pediatric office."
"A newborn
with a serious cold took 4Life™ Transfer Factor™ through pumped breast
milk and recovered in 3 days."
''As a
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practice and look forward to drastic decreases in the number of colds
and their complications and middle ear infections that are so common.
Of the approximately 70 kids under my care and taking 4Life™ Transfer
Factor™, only one has been back that required antibiotics."
"...I find that
children in my care are thriving with 4Life™ Transfer Factor™. I have
seen success with middle ear infections, upper respiratory infections
and several other repeated infections."
David Markowitz,
MD - Dr. Markowitz is a
pediatrician in Kennebunk, ME with a patient base of 4,500 children
and has served as the Senior Pediatrician in a Private Pediatric
Practice for 19 years. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from
the University of Rochester in New York. He received his medical
degree, general Pediatric training, and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Fellowship from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in
Farmington, Connecticut.
"I recommended
4Life Transfer Factor™ to the mother of an autistic 5-year-old. She
says there is a 300% improvement over the last 2.5 months."
"A child in my
care with a type of muscular dystrophy had a serious bout with
Bronchitis, 72 hours on Transfer Factor™ cleared her breathing pathway
completely."
Transfer Factor™ clinical studies by pediatrician David
Markowitz, M.D. shows 84% reduction of
antibiotics in control group of children using Transfer Factor
More about
Transfer Factor: - Q&A about Transfer Factor - Education and
Instinct - An Explanation of T-Factors Plus By William J. Hennen,
Ph.D.
PLEASE STOP DRUGGING MY
CHILD
My name is Anna . I
live in Rutland, Vermont The following is true and accurate to the
best of my knowledge.
I have two children, a
fourteen-year-old and an eleven-year-old. My eleven-year-old son,
Jacob , was born June 23, 1992 and recently just turned eleven years
of age. As a youngster he attended public schools in Rutland,
Vermont. He seemed to do well at the first school he attended, the
Rutland Intermediate School. He was a smart child and an avid reader,
even when in first grade. In the summer of 2000, when he was 7 years
old, the Educational Coordinators of the Intermediate School and the
Success School in Rutland both told me I should take my son to see a
psychiatrist named Dr. Marjorie Carsen.
Both had been
pressuring me to get my son drugged with Ritalin. So, I took my son
Jacob to see Dr. Carsen at Rutland Mental Health. She saw him for
about 15 minutes, diagnosed him as having Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and prescribed Ritalin for him. In
arriving at her diagnosis there were no medical tests performed of any
kind, such as blood testing, brain scans, etc.
As an observation, I
have since encountered many parents whose children have been drugged
by Dr. Marjorie Carsen and I believe she is responsible for the vast
majority of the psychiatric drugging of the children in the Rutland
schools. I recently called Rutland Mental Health and they said she is
the only one in the area that prescribes psychiatric medications for
young children.
After our first visit
with Dr. Carsen, my son Jacob was on Ritalin for about the next 8
months. He had very bad effects from taking this drug and it caused
him to act unlike his natural self. At times he would be violent on
the drug and he even started gouging holes in the walls of his room.
There were other times when he would sit in a chair for literally
hours, sometimes 3-4 hours, and do nothing except stare and drool. He
also lost his appetite and stopped eating or drinking as much as he
used to. I was very worried about how little he would drink. He began
to lose weight.
Ritalin also produces
frequent withdrawals, about every four hours, and the drug has to be
given several times a day to take the child off the withdrawals.
During the week my son would be drugged with Ritalin by me in the
morning and then the school would give him a second dose around
lunchtime. These were the only two doses prescribed each day.
Sometimes, by the end of the afternoon, he would be acting kind of
crazy and out of character, as he would be going through withdrawals
late in the day. This made both our lives difficult on a daily basis.
(By this statement I am not recommending drugging children one or two
more times per day. On the contrary, I feel they should not be given
such drugs at all.) Another effect of Ritalin is to cause insomnia.
(Weight loss, loss of appetite, insomnia, stunted body growth, stomach
pains, headaches and nervousness are all common effects of this drug.)
Jacob also had a lot of trouble sleeping while on
Ritalin.
In all the times I have
spoken with Dr. Marjorie Carsen and with all the drugs she has put my
son Jacob on, she has never once told me of any of the many, nasty
effects of the drugs. The same Educational Coordinators told me I had
to enter my son into a psychiatric hospital called the Brattleboro
Retreat. They told me that if I didn't do it they would force the
action on me. When he was still 7 years old, in the summer of 2000, he
went to this "hospital." There, they labeled my son not only with
ADHD, but also Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD) and as being
borderline Bipolar.
This surprised me as he
was then on Ritalin and acting out of character and having numerous
effects from the drug, such as nervousness at times and just sitting
and drooling at other times, as well as loss of appetite for food and
liquids, and insomnia. Many parents know that a child can be cranky
and difficult when they are short on food and sleep and the Ritalin
was causing my son to have these very characteristics day after day.
In the fall of the year 2000 Jacob began attending a school known as
the Success School in Rutland. People at the school felt that Jacob
was still not paying enough attention or following the requests of his
teacher adequately.
Dr. Carsen decided to
try out different drugs on Jacob. After he was on the Ritalin for
about 8 months she stopped that and tried other psychiatric drugs on
him, such as Klonopin and Zyprexa. These did not suit him well
either. When he was about eight and a half years old, Dr. Carsen put
him on a mixture of Concerta (which consists of the same chemical as
Ritalin, but is longer lasting). She also put him on an antipsychotic
medication called Risperdal which was supposedly to keep him calm in
the morning and to help him sleep at night, as he was having trouble
sleeping from the first drug. Risperdal has its own numerous effects
on a person. For example, it can make them feel very tired, and it is
even advised that one wear protective clothing and sun screen with
this medication as it makes one's skin overly sensitive to sunlight.
Carsen prescribed the Risperdal for my son to be taken morning, noon
and night with a double dosage to be
taken at night, all in addition to the Concerta he was being given.
In recent months, when
my son Jacob was ten years old, Dr. Carsen decided to add a third drug
to the mix, a new drug for ADHD called Strattera. I would say that
this drug drove him somewhat psychotic, at least in the chemical
cocktail she had devised for him. He was on this combination of three
drugs for about three months. I saw my son go really crazy on this
drug mix. One time he started throwing chairs about. He was acting out
more in school and at home during this period.
After many reports to
Dr. Carsen from me about the toxic reactions my son was having to her
new drug concoction, she switched my son over to Trileptal, 300 mg. a
day, in addition to the Concerta and Risperdal. The Success School is
considered a behavior treatment place. It has about 35 children
enrolled in it and I believe that every one of them is being drugged
similarly to my son. Despite the name of the school, it apparently
seldom produces a successful outcome. It is said about the school that
once kids are sent there they are destined to spend their lives in a
mental institution. I suspect that many of the kids there display
numerous negative effects of the drugs they are given and that these
are looked upon as symptoms of more mental disorders. As there is no
medical or scientific bases for psychiatric "mental disorders," they
can be assigned to children very arbitrarily, leading to further
drugging.
As the drugs can cause
permanent brain, nerve and glandular damage, very great harm can be
done to them with such treatment. Personnel at Success School told me
to go to the Social Rehabilitation Services for assistance because my
son was leaving the school a lot during school hours. I contacted the
Social Rehabilitation Services about 2 months ago to get their help
and because the personnel at the school threatened me with having my
child taken away if I didn't contact them myself. When I went to see
them I gave them custody of my son with the understanding that he
would be allowed to live with me and that I would eventually get full
custody returned to me. I was soon betrayed.
About 2 weeks days ago,
an 18-year-old kid from a group home called Spectrum, around the
corner from our house, run by Social Rehabilitation Services, gave my
10-year-old son a 40-ounce bottle of malt liquor. (The drinking age in
Vermont is 21.) My son drank it. Apparently, the older boy thought my
son was funny and pushed him to drink a second one as, I understand,
my son was reluctant. Jacob became very sick from the alcohol, as he
was only 10 years old and only weighed about 68 lbs. Additionally, he
was already taking 3 strong psychiatric drugs. He threw up and passed
out on the ground. I was told about the incident and immediately
brought him home.
Soon after that a
police officer came to the house and took Jacob on behalf of the
Social Rehabilitation Services. Jacob was taken to a juvenile
correction facility called Woodside where he was put in with a group
of 17- year-olds. About 10 days ago, about 3 days after he was seized,
he was brought into court for a hearing. This little fellow (he was
kind of small to begin with and I believe his last 3 years on Ritalin
and Concerta have stunted his growth even more) was brought into the
courtroom in handcuffs and with shackles on his ankles. When I first
saw my boy I wanted to hug him, but was forbidden. The hearing was
brief. The judge seemed to have zero interest in my point of view or
Jacob's; he seemed predisposed to listen to the lawyer for the Social
Rehabilitation Services and in a foregone conclusion ruled to keep my
son at Woodside. At the end of the hearing I went up to Jacob without
permission and a female guard let me hug my shackled and handcuffed
son while 2 older people lifted him under his arms and held him near
me. He was crying.
I give the Citizens
Commission on Human Rights authority to do as they wish with this
affidavit, including, but not limited to, bringing it to the attention
of the media, legislators and government officials.
COMMENTS:
ahardi8@aol.com
Phone: 802 773-1674
Anna Hardina
p.o.Box 6352
Rutand V.T. 05702
