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Generation RX

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The drugging of children for profit is one of the most despicable crimes that is occurring in our society at this time. This movie educates and raises awareness of what is occurring right now.

Generation RX is an extremely well-done documentary that documents the facts of how we are being used for financial gain. There are innocent victims that are being exploited - children. This was once an untapped market that the Pharmaceutical industry mines using the best talent from Madison Avenue and then spreading the wealth to others that are in a position to forward their goals (JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, doctors, ...).

You'll learn how we got where we are today. The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) lists disorders, including the behavioral disorders such as ADHD, bi-polar, and so on, that enables doctors to prescribe a drug even though there is no medical test to support it. One thing I learned is that the committee / authors of the DSM have financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry. In some areas 100% of the panel members have financial ties. The corruptness of the FDA is also made clear and how we need a firewall between the regulators and those that profit from what is being regulated. Right now we have a "fox watching the hen house" scenario.

How these drugs got approved when there was clear evidence of the harm they cause is brought out. The data of prozac was available 20+ years ago, yet these drugs were approved.

Many have stated that ADHD is a made-up disease to collect patients that manifest the stated symptoms of ADHD. Yet when such a panel of "experts" met and a question was raised to describe the symptoms, the so-called expert could not answer the question. He yammers on for minutes making an utter fool of himself but clearing showing that ADHD is merely a four letter acronym to somehow make it seem like a disease that allows drugs to be prescribed and profits to be made while children's lives are ruined or even ended by suicide.

Generation RX gets the point across without undue emotion. It clearly presents with facts and personal stories what the current scene is today and what occurred to get us there. We know the players that created this system. We also are challenged to do something about it. It is an ethical point and all of us need to do something to change it, even if it is writing a letter to our elected representatives.

The movie is sobering but you have to see it. Our futures depend on our children and our children depend on us.

The producer and writer obviously have a passion for the kids in America. I don't have kids yet, heck, I don't even have a girl friend. BUT I do know that when I was in school, I was lucky to have teachers who choose the challenge of stimulating my imagination and burn off my energy in productive ways - NOT drug my imagination until it dies.

If you think I'm exagerating, I work in Hollywood. I'd say 100% of the creatives I meet have done Cocaine. When I asked them when they started, they say, "Jr High. My counselor gave me ADHD drugs. Same thing." - @journik on twitter

Five stars for lifting the lid off a difficult topic to discuss without it coming ot blows. This film moves at a good pace, presents informative and at time disturbing realities about what we are doing to entire generations of children. Please watch, rate and get the word out. Peopel sometimes just don't know they have choices and they GET to know this.

Thank you Kevin Miller and all that worked on this film. Truly an important piece of work. I hope to see more documentaries by this group.
-Suzanne Tucker

HAVING OBSERVED THE SIDE EFFECTS OF DRUG USE IN FRIENDS AND INMATES AT A PRISON WHERE I WORKED FOR A YEAR(SPEED AND COCAINE) I ALWAYS THOUGHT THE IDEA OF GIVING CHILDREN RITALIN WAS ABSURD...ABSOLUTELY CRIMINAL. IT'S NOTHING BUT A LOGICAL DEDUCTION, COMMON SENSE! THIS IS A MUST SEE DOCUMENTARY. SHOULD BE MANDATORY VIEWING FOR ALL PEDIATRICIANS AND TEACHERS AND ANY PARENT THINKING ABOUT MEDICATING THEIR CHILDREN/TEENS DUE TO BEHAVIOR OR POOR GRADES.

This film, based in part upon serious and sound scholarship, that draws poignant links among the pharmaceutical companies, the Federal and Drug Administration (FDA), and mental health professionals is a must see for anyone who wants to improve upon our health care system, so that it is truly in accordance with fundamental ethical principles in order to improve upon the quality of life for all. Some of its facts that the German equivalent of the FDA did not approve Prozac because of its links to suicidal ideation and gestures; that in one year alone 2,000 children had attempted suicide who were on psychotropics; that close to one third of children in Atlanta are on psychotropics; the hypocrisy to have Drug Free Zones around school districts with so many children on drugs in side the schools; 90% of the drug ritalin, banned for decades and now where the USA consumes 90% of its global sales; and the conflicts of interest of those who authored the DSM-IV are definitely not in the mainstream media and need to be better known. Certainly, not all health professionals are "in collusion," so to speak and the film has a plethora of experts who acknowledge the failure of these drugs that have destroyed lives of children. It might have been enhanced by noting international human rights law by referring to such documents as the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness, which clearly asserts that drugs should not be administered for the convenience of others, but only to enhance the well being of patients, something our health system has failed to do.

The over-medicating of our children is a problem I see every day in my practice as a pharmacy technician. It is a problem that is only getting worse. The only thing that will change it is parents becoming educated about the truth regarding these drugs and the forces driving the diagnosis and prescribing of them. This is a video that every parent and teenager should see.

I have done much research on the dangers of psychtropic drugs and I have had a hard time trying to convey it to family and friends but this film does it better than anything I've come across (in film). This film is a must-see for all. Please get it and get informed about the drugging of America's children and everyone else. Well done documentary, very, very informative. Highly recommend.

The review by MSUKate, who is evidently part of the psychiatric establishment, clearly highlights why GENERATION RX is such an important film. `Kate' is a denialist, and she notes that "so many people in this film are so quick to blame the drugs that they have become blinded." I would submit to you that it is Kate and her cohorts who are blinded -- and they are subjecting their air-filled science upon millions of children for professional and financial gain.

How else can one explain her villifying Pultizer Prize nominated science journalist Robert Whitaker's take on the use of psychiatric meds among children and teens? In the film, Whitaker clearly expresses that he was a strong believer in the merits of these drugs -- until he actually conducted the research and examined the scientific studies that any responsible journalist must. When he learned that the science was NOT able to support the claims of the psychiatric and pharmaceutical communities, Whitaker showed great integrity by speaking out against what he called the "fraud perpetrated on the American public."

`MSUKate' also claims that "psychoactive drugs are not prescribed without cause," which is complete and utter nonsense, unless one considers a child squirming in his chair to be just cause for drugging him/her with Speed/Ritalin. Finally, Kate opines, "I found this so-called documentary very one-sided and highly biased."

The reality is that GENERATION RX tells "the rest of the story," the one that the drug reps and purveyors of shoddy science don't want you to hear. God forbid that you would be made aware of possible dangers of these drugs before you actually put your child on them!

What are these people afraid of? It appears that Kate -- and indeed the entire psychiatric community -- are simply afraid of the truth.

I work in Hollywood. Just about everyone in the business does cocaine. And of them, just about everyone was introduced to drugs not just AT school but BY THEIR SCHOOL.

Generation RX is right on. I want every parent who has a child full of life and energy, otherwise called "restless" to watch Generation RX... I'm glad I did and have it to pass onto my friends.

This was an excellent documentary and very eye-opening. It is also not as hard to watch as I thought it would be. But tells it like it is. I highly recommend this DVD to anyone - so that you can be informed and protect both yourself and others from the deadly affects of modern "legal" prescription drugs.

Even the psychiatrists and pharmacists who have been involved in creating these concoctions have admitted time and again that they don't work, that they are harmful, that they are based on no testing, that their full effects are unknown, and that their success is purely a marketing success and not a success in science or workability.