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The Real Biederman Scandal
FYI
After posting AHRP Infomail about the ever so gentle rebuke that Drs. Joseph Biederman, Thomas Spencer and Timothy Wilens received from Harvard University-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital, we received an essay from Jacob Azerrad, PhD., a clinical psychologist.
Dr. Azerrad notes--and we wholeheartedly agree:
"The real scandal perpetrated by Biederman has nothing to do with his consulting fee shenanigans and everything to do with the real life (and death) consequences of the methods now used by modern pediatric psychiatry to tag normal childhood behaviors with diagnoses - like "childhood bipolar" -- and the pediatric medical profession's complicit acquiescence to such malarkey. It has been nothing short an epic assault on our children by those who prescribe antipsychotic medications as an antidote to normal childhood behavior."
"One million children have been diagnosed with this new and controversial diagnosis - "childhood bipolar." And one million children are being treated for "childhood bipolar" disorder and more and more at younger and younger ages."
Read more... http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/829/9/
Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav
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