Generation Rx. Resisting the Culture of Overmedication
Description
At the 1991 FDA Prozac hearings, scores of impassioned victims described how the drug pushed them to the brink of suicide. But the pharmaceutical industry succeeded in getting its own message out, ushering its products into the mainstream while voices on the opposite side of the debate have largely faded. This film reawakens many of the arguments made against the culture of psychotropic prescription. Assembling a plethora of leaked memos, flawed studies, and previously unseen conference footage, the documentary points to a pattern of collusion between drug manufacturers and the regulatory watchdogs at the FDA. Meanwhile, many experts believe that our society is in the grip of an epidemic of doping and drugging. Has an era of mercenary medication dawned, in which we'll forget what it is to be human? Are we panic-prescribing against phantom defects, trying to make human beings into happiness machines?
Runtime
80 min
Subjects
- Affective disorders (67)
- Mental health (216)
- Public health (338)
- Business ethics (382)
- Self-care, Health (487)
- Mood Disorders (14)
- Health (2879)
- Medical ethics (151)
- Pharmacology (63)
- Medication abuse (20)
- Suicide (147)
- Psychology, Pathological (155)
- Medicine (401)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c2008
Database
Films on Demand
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