In a contentious Feb. 26 deposition between Dr. Biederman and lawyers for the states, he was asked what rank he held at Harvard. “Full professor,” he answered.

“What’s after that?” asked a lawyer, Fletch Trammell.

“God,” Dr. Biederman responded.

“Did you say God?” Mr. Trammell asked.

“Yeah,” Dr. Biederman said.

Would I trust the drug cartels ever again? Hell no, and I don't understand those that do either.

November 19, 2003

My son had been medication free until 5 weeks ago. He was experiencing
problems related to autism and puberty. He is now on 1 mg of Risperdal a
day. So far so good. He is happier and the aggression, which had never
been a problem, is basically under control. There has been no weight gain.
I have heard anecdotal evidence that can be a problem. Our son just turned
13 and is 5'6", 130 lbs. He is not a small child so I was concerned about
weight gain. The medication is available in a sublingual form so that is
good if your son has trouble swallowing pills. Some other things to
consider. It is very, very expensive. I hope you have good insurance.
Also, our family doctor has agreed to manage the medication, but wants a
visit every month. He also wants our son to see the child psychiatrist at
least 3 or 4 times a year. Feel free to contact me off list if you want
more information.

Before 1940 or 1950, schizophrenia wasn't particularly clinically associated with violence. People with schizophrenia were statistically no more prone to violence than the general population. These days, the stereotype of the violent schizophrenic is pretty universal. Some psychiatric historians noted that the shift in "criteria" for the disorder happened precisely at the time when major sedatives and then neuroleptics went into wide use in institutions and outpatient treatment. Schizophrenics on the drugs would display increasingly bizarre behavior and poorer outcomes which are now also attributed to the "disease".

I think the same thing is going to happen with autism if we don't stay on top of it. Traits brought about by the "standard treatment" for autism will then be "absorbed" into the diagnostic criteria for the disorder and will enter popular understanding of the disease.

This won't just be for individuals chronically exposed to the drugs, either. It can happen from one-time exposure, which makes the behavior even more difficult to trace to cause. There was a particular Eli Lilly drug study in the late 90's in which a fourteen year old girl with mild symptoms of OCD (which was diagnosed because she was anxious about homework) was in a group being given Prozac. Within two weeks on a low dose, the girl became irreversibly, violently and suicidally psychotic and she's apparently still institutionalized. This is not an isolated incident, just one that got "leaked" out of Lilly's "inconvenient study outcomes" vaults because a plaintiff expert witness got their hands on the company data.

I read that (this must only apply outside the biomed realm) close to 100% of children with autism are put on one or multiple psych drugs. I suspect that this is one reason we're going to hear of more cases of autistic children committing violent acts as they come of age. In some cases, they'll say, well, the individual wasn't ON drugs at the time they committed violence, leaving out the fact that the individual may HAVE been at one time. There's also some clinical reasons to believe that children with autism may be more susceptible to drug side effects than NT kids, who already have a high rate of drug-induced mania and psychosis (7- 10%).

Of course mainstream scientific revisionists are going to tell us that homicidal violence is part and parcel with autism, just like they did for schizophrenia. What I think is sort of interesting is how they're then going to keep arguing that these "traits" are genetic. It's one thing to define autism parents, grandparents and forebears as "nerdy" or "quirky"-- they don't need proof. But violent crime in family history is at least somewhat quantifiable through parental police records, etc. As it will turn out, the evidence won't exist that autism families had more violent histories than the general population.

Medication Madness (2008)
A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Drugs
by Peter Breggin, M.D.
St. Martin's Press 2008

Medication Madness reads like a medical thriller, true crime story, and courtroom drama; but it is firmly based in the latest scientific research and dozens of case studies. The lives of the children and adults in these stories, as well as the lives of their families and their victims, were thrown into turmoil and sometimes destroyed by the unanticipated effects of psychiatric drugs. In some cases our entire society was transformed by the tragic outcomes.

Many categories of psychiatric drugs can cause potentially horrendous reactions.
Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Adderall, Ritalin, Concerta, Xanax, lithium, Zyprexa and other psychiatric medications may spellbind patients into believing they are improved when too often they are becoming worse. Psychiatric drugs drive some people into psychosis, mania, depression, suicide, agitation, compulsive violence and loss of self-control without the individuals realizing that their medications have deformed their way of thinking and feeling.

http://www.breggin.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=55&Itemid=42