County labelled 'kiddie coke capital' (From This is Hampshire)

County labelled 'kiddie coke capital'

4:58pm Monday 15th October 2007

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NHS figures have revealed Hampshire as the kiddie coke capital' after dishing out the highest number of psychiatric drugs to children in England labelled with so-called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder'(ADHD).

Hampshire Primary Care Trust dished out 19,270 packets of ADHD drugs to children last year.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), an international psychiatric watchdog, obtained the figures under the Freedom of Information Act from the NHS Business Services Authority.

The commission says they highlight how more and more children are being labelled with the Emperor's new suit', ADHD,' rather than finding out what is really wrong with the child.

A study from the University of Southampton, recently published in the Lancet, revealed a link between additives in food and poor childhood behaviour, strengthening the call to stop the psychiatric drugging of children and to start providing a more nutritious diet.

The commissioin says many of the ADHD' drugs are commonly known as kiddie coke' due to similarities with illicit amphetamine drugs. Warnings from drug regulatory agencies in the UK and around the world have heightened concerns about the use of psychiatric ADHD' drugs, detailing the serious side effects, where some of the drugs can cause visual hallucinations, suicidal thoughts, psychotic behaviour, violence and aggression.

Brian Daniels, spokesperson for CCHR in the UK, said that while the symptoms of so-called ADHD' are listed in psychiatric textbooks, a major failing is a complete lack of scientific evidence to show the cause of boisterous, argumentative or disruptive behaviour.

He said: "ADHD is like the Emperor's new suit: a profit-driven designer label worn by the boisterous, argumentative or disruptive child. But like the Emperor's suit, there's no evidence to show that the label called ADHD' exists. The psychiatric propaganda on the subject of children and education has thoroughly duped well-meaning parents, teachers and politicians alike.

"Children do experience problems and upsets in life that may result in mental troubles. But to represent that these troubles are caused by chemical imbalances' or neurobiological disorders' that can only be alleviated with dangerous drugs is dishonest, harmful and often deadly.

"This stigmatising charade called ADHD' has to stop."

CCHR is an international psychiatric watchdog that was co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Dr Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights.

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