title: The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children
author: Fred A. Baughman Jr. MD
description: Fred A. Baughman, Jr. M.D., is an adult and child neurologist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology. He has discovered and described real diseases. He has testified before Congress, the European Union, and the Parliament of Western Australia that ADHD and all claims that psychiatric diagnoses are diseases, are fraudulent. He has testified in legal cases regarding psychiatry's false claims of "chemical imbalances" and "diseases." He has appeared on national radio and television shows, and has authored over a hundred articles in medical journals and the lay press. He resides in San Diego, California with Annette, his wife of 45 years. He is the author/producer of the video <i>ADHD--Total, 100% Fraud</i> (1998), and is featured in <i>The Drugging of our Children</i> (a Gary Null Production, 2005--a dvd).
zlib_text: By Michael LaForgia
   
   
   
  Posted Jun 19, 2011 at 12:01 AM
  Updated Jun 19, 2011 at 6:05 PM
  By the time Florida started paying Dr. Gold Smith Dorval to counsel and medicate jailed children,
  the Pembroke Pines psychiatrist already had experience with kids in state custody.
  He had used them, authorities said, to bilk the government out of money for the poor.
  When Dorval pleaded no contest to a felony grand theft charge, it should have barred him, by law,
  from working for Florida’s Department of Juvenile Justice.
  It didn’t.
  And, like Dorval, other doctors have emerged from past troubles and gotten jobs at DJJ - with authority to prescribe drugs to kids in state jails, a
  Palm Beach Post investigation has found.
  Some psychiatrists took DJJ jobs after they were cited for breaking the law, making grave medical missteps or violating state rules. Others were
  hired after they were accused of overmedicating patients, sometimes fatally.
  All were empowered to prescribe drugs to jailed kids as powerfu