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Making A Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging.
Circa 2008, RT 94:42.
Psychotropic drugs. It’s the story of big money-drugs that fuel a $330 billion psychiatric industry, without a single cure.
The cost in human terms is even greater-these drugs now kill an estimated 42,000 people every year.
And the death count keeps rising. Containing more than 175 interviews with lawyers, mental health experts, the families of victims and the survivors themselves, this riveting documentary rips the mask off psychotropic drugging and exposes a brutal but well-entrenched money-making machine.
Before these drugs were introduced in the market, people who had these conditions would not have been given any drugs at all.
So it is the branding of a disease and it is the branding of a drug for a treatment of a disease that did not exist before the industry made the disease.
Circa 2008, RT 94:42.
Psychotropic drugs. It’s the story of big money-drugs that fuel a $330 billion psychiatric industry, without a single cure.
The cost in human terms is even greater-these drugs now kill an estimated 42,000 people every year.
And the death count keeps rising. Containing more than 175 interviews with lawyers, mental health experts, the families of victims and the survivors themselves, this riveting documentary rips the mask off psychotropic drugging and exposes a brutal but well-entrenched money-making machine.
Before these drugs were introduced in the market, people who had these conditions would not have been given any drugs at all.
So it is the branding of a disease and it is the branding of a drug for a treatment of a disease that did not exist before the industry made the disease.
Aug 15, 2009 3:08 AM
Re: Making A Killing: Psychotropic Drugging
Of course, when someone like, say, a theoretical President (who was a former alcoholic and drug abuser, now a "born-again evangelical" without the life skills to manage his addictions) turns to psychotropics while he's running a nation, it makes you wonder what kind of energy magic that puts out there for other people to follow suit.
Good thing that theoretical kind of President would be married to corporate America's own religious belief that they can cure society of anything if we pay 'em enough. They're an angry god who will have no others before them. "Take our legal drugs above all others..."
Which then makes this video seem sort of like a schizophrenic bookend to the current M&C Headline, "Homeopathy & Nutritionists vs Real Science."
http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/172961/detail/
So, uh...healthy eating and positive mental skills are a sham? Or is big pharma is a scam?
Then either everyone is a f*ckin' charlatan, or perhaps there are merits to all forms of treatment - be they homeopathy, nutrition, naturapathic medicine, pharmaceuticals, etc.
It all probably comes down to each individual weighing all the factors and making their decision at the lowest possible level.
Of course, I'm sure the hemp activists would say if we just legalize pot we'll take care of *everything.*
And heck, they might just be right.
Hail Ely Lily.
Good thing that theoretical kind of President would be married to corporate America's own religious belief that they can cure society of anything if we pay 'em enough. They're an angry god who will have no others before them. "Take our legal drugs above all others..."
Which then makes this video seem sort of like a schizophrenic bookend to the current M&C Headline, "Homeopathy & Nutritionists vs Real Science."
http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/172961/detail/
So, uh...healthy eating and positive mental skills are a sham? Or is big pharma is a scam?
Then either everyone is a f*ckin' charlatan, or perhaps there are merits to all forms of treatment - be they homeopathy, nutrition, naturapathic medicine, pharmaceuticals, etc.
It all probably comes down to each individual weighing all the factors and making their decision at the lowest possible level.
Of course, I'm sure the hemp activists would say if we just legalize pot we'll take care of *everything.*
And heck, they might just be right.
Hail Ely Lily.
Re: Making A Killing: Psychotropic Drugging
I'm thinking that this clip is an extreme but good watch. Like anything else in life, you try to make educated decisions and medications ought to be no different. I can tell you of a friend who didn't take his physician's advice and instead of going for the Rx went on a regimen of red yeast. The cholesterol went down to reasonable levels as much as had he funded Merck, Pfizer or J&J.
Thanks for the reference to my other clip, BTW. I found it LOL funny but also the content was clearly to my liking.
As for Bush 43, if his finding religion got him off the sauce and lead to his financial success, all the power to him. I'm sorry that he borrowed so much from me to get there in the process. I'm also thinking the IOU that I got in return isn't going to be repaid any time soon.
Thanks for the reference to my other clip, BTW. I found it LOL funny but also the content was clearly to my liking.
As for Bush 43, if his finding religion got him off the sauce and lead to his financial success, all the power to him. I'm sorry that he borrowed so much from me to get there in the process. I'm also thinking the IOU that I got in return isn't going to be repaid any time soon.
By: spam_vigilante
Re: Making A Killing: Psychotropic Drugging
Oh, I'm right there with ya on healing yourself through food, exercise, and mental health versus pharmaceuticals. Which isn't to say that sometimes modern medicine isn't exactly what we need. It's just we look at all options and begin healing at the lowest possible level.
But I disagree that religion got any President off the sauce. Ironically in light of this video, I think it was exactly psychotropics that did it for him. He just traded one legal drug for another.
But I disagree that religion got any President off the sauce. Ironically in light of this video, I think it was exactly psychotropics that did it for him. He just traded one legal drug for another.
Re: Making A Killing: Psychotropic Drugging
There is no benefit to homeopathy and the like because they're just placebos.
They don't do anything.
At least the real drugs actually have an effect.
They don't do anything.
At least the real drugs actually have an effect.
By: DaveoftheRave
Re: Making A Killing: Psychotropic Drugging
Scientology funded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_and_psychiatry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_and_psychiatry
By: BattleShip_Ron
Re: Making A Killing: Psychotropic Drugging
I'm not entirely certain what you're referring to Ron. In the Wiki article I didn't find any reference to this film.
Still, I find it pretty amazing that I agree with anything that a Scientologist would.
That said, I have been fortunate enough to not need prescription medications for several decades. And I am also quite wary of them. The side effects, if so dangerous, make the drug a risk... even with direct medical supervision.
Still, I find it pretty amazing that I agree with anything that a Scientologist would.
That said, I have been fortunate enough to not need prescription medications for several decades. And I am also quite wary of them. The side effects, if so dangerous, make the drug a risk... even with direct medical supervision.
By: spam_vigilante
Re: Making A Killing: Psychotropic Drugging
Yeah, BattleShip_Ron is right, this is Scientologist propaganda.
Scientologists don't agree with taking any medication for mental illness. Instead, you need to pay them money to free yourself of your thetans. Fuck you, cultists: my diagnosis has nothing to do with my fucking spiritual condition, you cunty, dickish people. Why don't you all go play hide and go fuck yourselves? Fucking cults.
Oh, here's the proof that they're Scientologists.
From their FAQ (CCHR is the dummy group they created to make this video and investigate the "crimes" of "psychs"):
http://www.cchr.org/#/faq/faq-is-cchr-cos
Is CCHR part of the Church of Scientology?
[...]We are proud to have been founded by the Church of Scientology, which has a long and impressive history of human rights achievements. CCHR members work closely with Church members on social reform issues and consult with the Church's social reform or human rights departments.
http://www.cchr.org/#/faq/faq-why-scn-opposed
Why is the Church of Scientology opposed to psychiatry?
When the Church of Scientology established CCHR in 1969, victims of psychiatry had no rights and needed a voice. Treatment was brutal, its only purpose to create compliant patients. Patients were subjected to punitive electroshock without anesthetic as punishment for bad behavior. Using lobotomies and other psychosurgical procedures, psychiatrists destroyed patients brains with callous disregard. Those under psychiatric care were mercilessly experimented upon with therapeutically unproven mind-altering drugs.
The founder of Scientology, Mr. L. Ron Hubbard, was the first to confront these desperate acts by psychiatrists. From the late 1940s, Mr. Hubbard saw psychiatry's reckless abuse of the individual and its incompetence. Later, he wrote: The Church of Scientology will not recommend or condone political mental treatment such as electric shocks and condemns utterly the fascist approach to mental health by extermination of the insane.
CCHR was formed to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights and to clean up the field of mental healing.
Scientologists don't agree with taking any medication for mental illness. Instead, you need to pay them money to free yourself of your thetans. Fuck you, cultists: my diagnosis has nothing to do with my fucking spiritual condition, you cunty, dickish people. Why don't you all go play hide and go fuck yourselves? Fucking cults.
Oh, here's the proof that they're Scientologists.
From their FAQ (CCHR is the dummy group they created to make this video and investigate the "crimes" of "psychs"):
http://www.cchr.org/#/faq/faq-is-cchr-cos
Is CCHR part of the Church of Scientology?
[...]We are proud to have been founded by the Church of Scientology, which has a long and impressive history of human rights achievements. CCHR members work closely with Church members on social reform issues and consult with the Church's social reform or human rights departments.
http://www.cchr.org/#/faq/faq-why-scn-opposed
Why is the Church of Scientology opposed to psychiatry?
When the Church of Scientology established CCHR in 1969, victims of psychiatry had no rights and needed a voice. Treatment was brutal, its only purpose to create compliant patients. Patients were subjected to punitive electroshock without anesthetic as punishment for bad behavior. Using lobotomies and other psychosurgical procedures, psychiatrists destroyed patients brains with callous disregard. Those under psychiatric care were mercilessly experimented upon with therapeutically unproven mind-altering drugs.
The founder of Scientology, Mr. L. Ron Hubbard, was the first to confront these desperate acts by psychiatrists. From the late 1940s, Mr. Hubbard saw psychiatry's reckless abuse of the individual and its incompetence. Later, he wrote: The Church of Scientology will not recommend or condone political mental treatment such as electric shocks and condemns utterly the fascist approach to mental health by extermination of the insane.
CCHR was formed to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights and to clean up the field of mental healing.
Re: Making A Killing: Psychotropic Drugging
I could tell this was made to appeal to emotion and ignorance by the way the ominous voice hammered home the talking points complete with big numbers.
Sci-fail.
I agree that psychiatry and pharma are in bed together, but how about something NOT funded by loonies?
Sci-fail.
I agree that psychiatry and pharma are in bed together, but how about something NOT funded by loonies?
By: luclonde
Re: Making A Killing: Psychotropic Drugging
Yes, please.
Everyone has a motive, but I really don't want religion in my medicine. The amount of capitalism in medicine is killing people, though.
Everyone has a motive, but I really don't want religion in my medicine. The amount of capitalism in medicine is killing people, though.
Re: Making A Killing: Psychotropic Drugging
Why is this bad? I want to get prescribed with all of them so I can regulate my own mental state. We do it already with caffeine and nicotine. It just requires a higher IQ to manipulate your mind on a more specific level.
By: quaidbrown
