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October 2009 
Generation Rx
Posted on Aug 7th, 2009
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J~E~S~S
J~E~S~S
Tonight I saw Generation Rx, produced by Kevin Miller, hosted by my chiropractor in a graciously-lent auditorium at the local community college. Over twenty people signed up at his office to promise to come to the movie night. That's why he sought out a larger room to show it in than his office can provide.
I was ten minutes late and I was the first to show up. After another ten minutes, another of his patients arrived. He decided to show the movie anyway.
I've got some background knowledge about the subject matter of the movie. I wrote Sad for No Reason and put in a special section on why folks shouldn't depend on SSRIs to manage depression, and especially why children and teens shouldn't use this class of drugs.
This movie made all the research I'd done in the past year come alive. As a good documentary should, it enraged me, it saddened me, and I fought the tears of anger and grief.
Some notes:
Medicating children for profit is contrary to the Hippocratic oath.
How ironic that we make a false claim about biochemical imbalances and then the drugs we use to treat it actually give patients biochemical imbalances.
You won't be able to believe the fraud perpetrated on the American public if you're already a science believer.
Pharmaceutical companies saw children as an untapped market. They were simply a commercial enterprise.
8 of 13 of school shooters were taking psychiatric prescriptions.
In this society, mentoring takes a back seat to medicine.
ADD was coined in 1970. Having this new diagnosis allowed drugmakers to experience a rise in sales of Ritalin, which has been around since the '50s.
There was a 6-fold increase in the prescription of Ritalin between 1990 and 1994.
The profession keeps changing the diagnosis of ADHD. Doctors can't even accurately describe the symptomology of ADHD because medical boards keep changing it.
Psycho-stimulants (like Ritalin) cause brain atrophy. That's where your brain shrinks and acts like it's dieing.
There is no proof that Ritalin improves lives of children.
My favorite phrase from the narrator: "the shifting sands of adulterated science"
1 in 19 American children are on Ritalin. It's as potent as cocaine, and as addictive.
There was a second section on Prozac, fluoxitine. This is the part that really got me mad! Sometimes I wonder why drugmakers like Eli Lilly even make a trial before FDA approval of a drug. The results of the trial were so bad, they were swept under the rug and ignored and the drug was passed anyway. There were thousands of suicides during this trial of Prozac, and double that number of serious negative side effects.
The corruption was pinpointed to a regulatory group called DSM. Of the 170 DSM panel members, 56% have at least one financial tie to the pharmaceutical industry. This was uncovered in a book called "Science in the Private Interest."
It should be well known that the people who evaluate the safety of our drugs should be completely separate from those who manufacture it. But this is not the case. There is an abused loophole that allows parties with a vested interest a spot on the regulatory committies.
"They're robbing children of their souls!"
I was ten minutes late and I was the first to show up. After another ten minutes, another of his patients arrived. He decided to show the movie anyway.
I've got some background knowledge about the subject matter of the movie. I wrote Sad for No Reason and put in a special section on why folks shouldn't depend on SSRIs to manage depression, and especially why children and teens shouldn't use this class of drugs.
This movie made all the research I'd done in the past year come alive. As a good documentary should, it enraged me, it saddened me, and I fought the tears of anger and grief.
Some notes:
Medicating children for profit is contrary to the Hippocratic oath.
How ironic that we make a false claim about biochemical imbalances and then the drugs we use to treat it actually give patients biochemical imbalances.
You won't be able to believe the fraud perpetrated on the American public if you're already a science believer.
Pharmaceutical companies saw children as an untapped market. They were simply a commercial enterprise.
8 of 13 of school shooters were taking psychiatric prescriptions.
In this society, mentoring takes a back seat to medicine.
ADD was coined in 1970. Having this new diagnosis allowed drugmakers to experience a rise in sales of Ritalin, which has been around since the '50s.
There was a 6-fold increase in the prescription of Ritalin between 1990 and 1994.
The profession keeps changing the diagnosis of ADHD. Doctors can't even accurately describe the symptomology of ADHD because medical boards keep changing it.
Psycho-stimulants (like Ritalin) cause brain atrophy. That's where your brain shrinks and acts like it's dieing.
There is no proof that Ritalin improves lives of children.
My favorite phrase from the narrator: "the shifting sands of adulterated science"
1 in 19 American children are on Ritalin. It's as potent as cocaine, and as addictive.
There was a second section on Prozac, fluoxitine. This is the part that really got me mad! Sometimes I wonder why drugmakers like Eli Lilly even make a trial before FDA approval of a drug. The results of the trial were so bad, they were swept under the rug and ignored and the drug was passed anyway. There were thousands of suicides during this trial of Prozac, and double that number of serious negative side effects.
The corruption was pinpointed to a regulatory group called DSM. Of the 170 DSM panel members, 56% have at least one financial tie to the pharmaceutical industry. This was uncovered in a book called "Science in the Private Interest."
It should be well known that the people who evaluate the safety of our drugs should be completely separate from those who manufacture it. But this is not the case. There is an abused loophole that allows parties with a vested interest a spot on the regulatory committies.
"They're robbing children of their souls!"
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I have a definition for ADHD- “what grown ups call children who cannot fit into the straitjacket that's been stitched for them”
And for Ritalin: “what schools need to help teachers who are over-regulated and have to teach to the curriculum as there are no resources to teach to the child.”
And how very sad it seems, that we don't even realize how we hammer at kids all for “their own sake”, their “future” and try to teach things like obedience to unnatural mores of society. And a mother isn't allowed by the circumstances of family and society to mother her child—she sends them to school when they're ill or tired or cranky or have a tummy ache or a cold or even a cough, because who'd look after them when they're home…
And I'm just getting started. …but will get off the soapbox. I lose friends because they refuse to see how they are the ones who can keep “social ills” away and not be the conduit for them.
There's an even more insidious drug going around against children from time immemorial. It is the idea that kids need to be trained from the moment they're born…
Great article J~E~S~S!!! - and great comment Meenakshi!!!
I have seen a video of a speech given by a Psychologist at a large meeting of his peers, where they admitted (and even joked about) the fact that THEY created ADD and ADHD (along with a host of other disease diagnoses) because they didn't have a “name” of a disease to pin on the activity that seemed to be so disruptive to the (mainly) teachers who couldn't control the children in their care - and they needed a name in order to prescribe a drug, the main one being Ritalin, of course. Drug companies send out free samples to these people to push their poison, and offer incentives for them to act as their mules.
The idea that problems created by society can be cured with a pill (and the fact that so many supposedly “intelligent” people have bought into that idea) really shows just how UN-conscious we are as a species, even while thousands (maybe millions) are riding the band-wagon of “enlightenment and ascension”, looking to be “saved” by some passing UFO's or alignment of planets and stars. ;-) When did “sanity” actually decide to go on permanent vacation? (That's a topic for a blog I should write sometime).
I am going to link to the trailer in another huge group I belong to, where I'm sure it will receive many other links and probably lots of DVD sales as well. As a Hypnotist, I see the carnage of what the psychologists and drug companies have created on an almost daily basis.
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Thank you my two wise friends Meenakshi & Gemstar.
M: that point about teachers needing their children on Ritalin to control them was covered in the documentary. If one dr. won't prescribe what the teacher and parents want, there are plenty of others who will. Since when have teachers been diagnosing ADD? But they refer students to doctors often.
Gemstar: That is a good topic for a future post: When did sanity go on a permanent vacation?
I didn't realize that in your profession you uncover problems created by psychologists…do you mean that they are the ones prescribing the mind-altering drugs?
Hi Jess,
Eve though we have no children, I see it a lot with my friends and family. From my perspective, getting the parents to be aware of behavior of their children is the main goal here.
If the pattern isn't even recognized by the parents, these children have nowhere to go but society's wisdom, including the drugs. We are however a part of society, be it the minority. In our every day contact with those parents, we can do nothing more than reach out to every opportunity that arises to let them “get it” and do something about it.
Until then, we can only confront ourselves with the frustrating emotions like you Jess, when you watched the movie. Feeling the grief and anger is also part of the change. The movie can be a corridor to speed up awareness. We will try within our family cricle to show this movie, if available.
Thanks and bless aal of you,
Nino.
Jess asked “I didn't realize that in your profession you uncover problems created by psychologists…do you mean that they are the ones prescribing the mind-altering drugs?”
Don't quite know how it works in the States, but in Canada some psychologists who have University degrees as doctors can do so - or the ones who cannot prescribe suggest to the referring doctors that this is what is needed. It seems to be a first, rather than last, course with many doctors.
When I was having some emotional problems several years ago, my doctor, who also happened to have psychology papers, immediately wanted to put me on Prosac. I probably wouldn't be here now had I acquiesced, because at the time I was suicidal, and from what I understand about Prosac, it tends to push you in that direction anyways, especially if you're already bent in that direction. I actually tried St. John's Wort, which is supposedly a natural form of SSRI - it screwed up my psychic abilities very quickly, within a couple of days, and I REALLY become depressed, so I stopped taking them immediately.
I was one of those kids who ended up on Valium (highly addictive) at age 13, mostly because of the academic pressures I was under, having been promoted thru two grades in one year, and practicing piano at least 2 hours daily for almost weekly concert-dates, and all the attention that life thrusts you into. I finally didn't get off of it until I was 22 (although I was careful to cut back as much as possible while pregnant for my kids), and tried to end my life by taking a full-bottle of them a couple of times, before I finally decided that I really did want to live (long story), and somehow managed to survive the withdrawal pretty much on my own.
As far as the people I see for Hypnosis, many of them come after they've exhausted hope of being “normal” with the help of a psychologist or psychiatrist (who are THE experts at pushing drugs), usually when the psychologist has farmed them over to a “self-help” group because they have no answers as to how to get these people free from the dependency of the drugs once they've been hooked on them, even when the drugs are no longer working.
Hypnosis, properly done, can usually help a person in six to ten sessions, generally less, whereas psychology, if talk-therapy is going to work at all, usually takes a minimum of six to ten months to get to the same place. As far as helping children, because most of them are in a natural hypnotic trance more than out of it until around 9 years of age, getting to the core issue is usually pretty quick. It will generally revolve around things you and Meenakshi have addressed in your writings above - lack or parental attention and direction, feeling pushed and shoved away, no clear boundaries being set so they are pushing them to find out just where they really are, and the tremendous pressure that is being put on them from diapers onwards to learn, learn, learn - but not to have common sense - it's just mechanical memory stuff.
So this manifests as hair pulling, cutting oneself, bullemia and/or anorexia in teens (because they have no “real life” role-models), bed-wetting when no medical condition for it can be found, temper tantrums at inappropriate ages (it's actually good for up to about three year-olds to have TT's, because it's part of learning how to express themselves), childhood asthma (from feeling suffocated), boredom from lack of true mental stimulation, which manifests as addictive game-playing, and the list goes on. The rise in child-hood cancers and other diseases that used to be only found in older adults is also a clear indication that the organism is suffering in so much futility that it's self-destructing.
But the biggest SIN on all of this is that, as you've well pointed out, the medical and pharma-mafia's have saw “misbehaving” kids as the goose that laid the golden egg. I think the more the younger generation are exposed to current medical practices, the more likely they are to be corralled into the traps of all of the above, and probably won't see their grandchildren grow up, if they are physically capable of having their own kids after all the damage these drugs do to DNA. (Now, I haven't seen anything more than two of the DVD trailers, but I'm betting I've covered a fair amount of ground in the movie in these last couple of paragraphs. Or added some additional fuel to the fire, if it's not there.)
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As a parent this just shows me how important it is to be vigilant. As you pointed out, Gem; we've to not fall prey to the pill-will-solve all mentality. In our family, we don't even take homeopathic medicines unless really necessary. Luckily, our homeopath feels the same way.
Doctors seem to be so scared of inflicting pain that they prescribe heavy narcotics after surgery and I found that if I don't take medicine time-wise but wait for the pain to hit—it doesn't, or at least isn't unbearable. Somehow, I don't even blame businesses for going about their work –I feel each of us has to be more responsible. Not treat docs as gods and pain as an enemy.
I just stuck up the U-Tube video to the longer trailer (3:30min), a copy of the SYNPOSIS, a link to the web-site and my own blog comments, geared toward the Hypnosis/NLP profession, on a Hypnosis group site that hosts close to 4,500 Hypnotists and NLP'ers - HypnoThoughts.com . That should give it a bit of publicity, I'd think! (I closed it to comments, though, as I just don't have time to respond). I have a couple of other forums in mind where I will post similar links, as well.
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Gemstar: “The goose that laid the golden egg” is right on the mark. In the documentary they called children the “untapped market” and a “commercial enterprise” to the pharmaceutical industry.
I did hear from the producer of Generation Rx this weekend through Twitter and he saw this blog post because I had passed the link to him.
kevinpmillerJessica: Thanks for your very kind and voluminous words about my film. It doesn't sound like your chiro promoted it very well, though!! Thx!
My chiropractor printed flyers all around the office advertising this movie night about a month before the event. He made a blog post telling people about it. He passed around a sign-up sheet and personally asked his clients to come to movie night. About 28 people signed up. He printed take-home flyers with a map of where he was hosting the screening and gave them to people who signed up. Unfortunately, only two of us did follow through on our promises.
Nion: I notice that parents and others get very defensive about their choice to medicate. That's fine with me, they have a right to use medicine that is prescribed them. It would be great, however, if more people would research the clinical trial results of the drugs they're taking or search out documentaries like Generation Rx before making the decision. It would be a bold step of you to get the movie just to show to family and friends.
M & Gem: This movie GenRx didn't do any fingerpointing at parents for our lack of time and attention given our children or for searching out pharmaceutical options when other options like hypnosis could do the job just as well and even more thoroughly. Anyway, what parent would want to pay to see a documentary that insinuates that we are inept as parents? Filmmakers certainly don't want to underestimate the intelligence of their potential viewers. So, the fingerpointing turned to a specific board member who knowingly signed papers to push Prozac to market even though the clinical trial results were a disaster. It almost seemed like he was being labeled a scapegoat. There are certainly more than one guilty party in the frenzy to get a drug to market.