Curing the Tiny Terrors

Dr Patrick Cosgrove is no ordinary psychiatrist.

He flouts government guidelines, but is unrepentant. He defies manufacturers' recommendations, but doesn't care.

And Dr Cosgrove's controversial - but entirely legal - services are in huge demand.

This week's Five Live Report focuses on the private psychiatrist who has treated over 1500 children, some as young as two, with powerful anti-psychotic medication not licensed for use on children.

Dr Cosgrove claims "bad genes" cause the behaviour of toddlers to spiral out of control and has diagnosed all the children as suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

With at least 73,000 children in the UK being diagnosed with ADHD, Five Live reporter Esther Armah finds that Dr Cosgrove's legal but unorthodox services are proving very popular.

Join her as she finds out more about his pioneering use of new drugs on ADHD children which were developed to treat schizophrenia and which have been linked to serious heart conditions.
BBC RADIO FIVE LIVE

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: Patrick Cosgrove is the drug companies' ideal psychiatrist. If you are six years of age and can fog a mirror, there's a psychiatric condition for you and a corresponding drug with your name on it. Remember, this same 'professional', who has access to your kids, is the one who uttered in the same Five Live interview:

"Oh, I do think there ought to be some other body [other than the GMC] that looks at complaints of psychiatric practice. The current bodies are only really interested in deaths - particularly under surgery - and most of the consultants that are reported to these various bodies happen to be surgeons, simply because they're in a much more risky position. I guess physicians would come next, but psychiatrists will always get away with it, because no one can ever prove that what they did or what they didn't do was responsible for the patient killing themselves."

For a full exposé of the abuses of psychiatry, and the real information on so-called 'mental illnesses', please obtain a copy of my latest release, The Mind Game. Available through www.credence.org.

PSYCHIATRISTS: DON'T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT.