Film Review: Generation Rx

Generation Rx

This is a documentary film that focuses on the society and how pharisaical companies are controlling the medical field. We are medicating our health active children because it is the prefect babysitter. The pharmaceutical companies are profiting billions of dollars each year by brainwashing the public. These companies advertise on billboards, TV’s, magazines and anywhere else they can put an ad. These companies also invest money into school’s and help further the education of the next generations MD’s. Many MD’s are being given commissions if they prescribe certain drugs. Most of these big pharmaceutical companies have been covering up and botching studies. This in turn allows them to clam the drugs are safe but in reality they’re not.

Generation Rx argues that the FDA is not acting against these drug companies because the members on the board have too many ties with the pharmaceutical companies. The film focused on a drug call Prozac. This drug has more negatives than positives, mainly having psychological and physical side effects. The FDA had a conference about Prozac and the board members where shown the testimony of hundreds of people that were personally affected by Prozac or they shared the tragic stories of their loved ones. After hearing hundreds of negative results the FDA said that there was no factual conclusion that shows Prozac is an unsafe drug. The film also focused on Ritalin. With the increase of diagnosis of ADHD in the 80s and 90s our nation consumed more than 400% of Ritalin compared to all the other nations combined.  The fraud and deception that had been unrecognized by the public for so long can be shown from many of the startling statistics that Generation Rx provides. This documentary wasn’t an opinion, it was a fact.   

Generation Rx relates to our course work in many ways. The construction of deviance is societies way to have the “others” box. These pharmaceutical companies are taking advantage of these boxes and making a profit. Our medical field is being controlled by the nations pharmaceutical companies and this is demonstrated by the fact that we go to the doctors because they have “what is best for our health” in mind. They will give us a prescription and advice to calm us in the worst circumstances.  But how can these doctors be trusted if they are being given financial incentivizes to prescribe these drugs. Do our doctors really prescribe what is best for us or is it what is best for them? The pharmaceutical companies have now found a new label and target consumer. They now take these drugs and have them prescribe to our children. Children are now expected to behave like mature adults. It is no longer acceptable to be a kid anymore. The quicker a child matures the more successful they shall be. These new drugs that are being poured into children’s systems are causing a chemical imbalance in their brain. This is because the drugs are 5-HT antagonist (aka: blocker of Serotonin in the brain).

The scary fact is that about 56% of the MD’s on the FDA board are in financial ties with these pharmaceutical companies. This is a huge conflict of interest and it is effecting our nations youth. These minors are being fed doses of these clinically unsafe drugs. Where is the FDA to protect them?  Should these minors be punished for having the psychological side effects? Out of the 13 school shootings researchers have found that 8 of the children were on anti-depressants like Prozac. The stories are always the same but there is no change to our nations system.

The film also showed a conference on ADHD. A question that was asked to a doctor was, “What symptoms does a child with ADHD typically exhibit?” This doctor has diagnosis hundreds of children with ADHD and he simply could not explain what ADHA symptoms are. This was very upsetting because it shows how flawed the medical system is and how this doctors financial ties with these companies is so strong. It is the prefect example of how children in today’s society are being given ill-informed diagnosis.  

I would like to hear more about how these companies produce these drugs.  I’m really interested in how the United States allows these companies to advertise so much when other countries do not. I would like to see the comparison that other countries have with financial ties with these drug companies. Also hearing a little more information on the top schools that our doctors can go to for there education and find out how many of them are financed through these big drug companies.