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Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging

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  • 2008
  • 1h 35m
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Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging (2008)
This documentary is designed to inform the general public about the dangers of psychotropic drugging that is happening throughout our society.  Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical industry along with psychiatry is getting rich while people are dying.
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    • Toby Burwell
    • Randall Stith
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    • Mike Adams
    • Walter Afield
    • Frank Bailey
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      • Frank Bailey
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    Mike Adams
    • Self - Consumer Health Advocate
    Walter Afield
    • Self - Psychiatrist
    • (as Dr. Walter Afield)
    Frank Bailey
    • Self - Attorney
    Mary Ann Block
    • Self - Physician
    • (as Dr. Mary Ann Block)
    John Bosley
    • Self - Fmr. Research Psychologist Natl. Inst of Mental Health John Sommers-Flanagan
    Derek Braslow
    • Self - Trial Attorney Pogust Braslow, LLC
    Howard Brody
    • Self - Bioethicist, Univ. of Texas
    • (as Dr. Howard Brody)
    Dan Burton
    Dan Burton
    • Self - U.S. Congressman
    • (as Rep. Dan Burton)
    Kay Carlson
    • Self - Fmr. Drug Sales Rep
    James Chappell
    • Self - Clinician
    • (as Dr. James Chappell)
    Beth Clay
    • Self - Government Consultant
    Anne Coxon
    • Self - Neurologist
    • (as Dr. Anne Coxon)
    Lauren DeWitt
    • Self - Registered Pharmacist
    • (as Lauren DeWitt R.Ph)
    Kurt Donsbach
    • Self - Clinic Founder & Director
    • (as Dr. Kurt Donsbach)
    Thomas Dorman
    • Self - Physician
    • (as Dr. Thomas Dorman)
    Lance Durrett
    • Self - Clinic Founder
    • (as Dr. Lance Durrett)
    Linda Eldridge
    • Self - Health Care Consultant
    Shane Ellison
    • Self - Fmr. Drug Research Chemist, Eli Lilly
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      • Randall Stith
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    10inzaghi-2

    Excellent Documentary On The Facts And Truth Of The Cults of Psychiatry And Psychology.

    This documentary is one of the most important documentaries to protect yourself, your family, and others about the extreme dangers of the pseudoscience fraud of psychiatry and psychology. If you want to learn about psychiatry and psychology and its extreme dangers, this documentary is extremely important and will give you all the facts you need. We live in a world today of psychiatrists having power to drug and abuse every person on the planet and make them a patient for life for profit. This documentary will tell you the facts and truths about psychiatry and psychology and how to avoid this dangerous pseudoscience fraud so you can protect yourself and your family and never become a victim of this dangerous cult. I applaud CCHR and Scientology for making this documentary and teaching the world about the truths and facts of the great fraud of psychiatry and psychology. This documentary along with "Psychiatry An Industry Of Death" saved my life from taking dangerous, toxic, mind altering drugs that are not cures. I am now off these toxic poisons after 18 years of use and feel much better. I never knew it was the psychiatric drugs causing all of my physical and psychological problems and illnesses. I was brainwashed and tricked by psychiatrists and the system that the sickly feelings i had was from my so called "underlying" so called "mental illness". Now that i'm off the drugs and thanks to this documentary i feel better and have distanced myself from psychiatrists and psychologists forever. I thank CCHR and Scientology for telling me the truth and facts about the great scam of psychiatry and psychology and they saved my life. Don't fall for what psychiatrists and psychologists tell you. All their diseases are invented and made up!.

    (Highly Recommended Documentary!) Thanks CCHR!!
    1perrywynkles

    gwen olsen

    Didn't care until one of her relations dies. Before that she was selling what she now complains about says too shoert have to repeat .Didn't care until one of her relations dies. Before that she was selling what she now complains about.
    1mellerk

    Facts on DSM

    I stopped watching this right at the criticism of DSM. To be diagnosed by DSM for depression : You have had an episode of depression lasting at least two weeks with at least five of the following symptoms: (1) You are depressed, sad, blue, tearful. (2) You have lost interest or pleasure in things you previously liked to do. (3) Your appetite is much less or much greater than usual and you have lost or gained weight. (4) You have a lot of trouble sleeping or sleep too much. (5) You are so agitated, restless, or slowed down that others have begun to notice. (6) You are tired and have no energy. (7) You feel worthless or excessively guilty about things you have done or not done. (8) You have trouble concentrating, thinking clearly, or making decisions. (9) You feel you would be better off dead or have thoughts about killing yourself. AND These symptoms are severe enough to upset your daily routine, or to seriously impair your work, or to interfere with your relationships. AND The depression does not have a specific cause like alcohol, drugs, medication side effect, or physical illness. AND Your depression is not just a normal reaction to the death of a loved one.

    The documentary was saying everyone fits into these categories. Sorry but thats a lie. People should use their digression - If you fit this i would suggest first seeing a psychologist or talking to a friend to get some clarity on the reason why you may be feeling this way, however if you feel in desperate need for an escape go to the psychiatrist who will give you some drugs that will hopefully only be needed for a short period of time until your body naturally can cope on its own.

    Psychiatrists are trained in medicine first so thats what they know - they will try and fix problems using medicine which isn't always the best way however sometimes is appropriate. The reason they prescribe so much is because thats what their job is - if you want someone to talk about your problems with go to a friend or family member however if it something out of their hands and you don't know how to handle it try a psychologist.

    DSM is very good - if someone is prescribing you medication and not using DSM I would think critically about their motives and look into side effects and misuse of the drug.

    This documentary is just so 1 sided its ridiculous - its actually an incredibly unscientific way of looking at what we know.
    7fleaflo

    divided opinion

    I'm really at odds with myself about this documentary. On the one hand it really points out how irresponsible the pharma lobbies uses it's power to exploit the people. On the other hand does it downplay the actual mental problems people have (e.g. there is no such thing as a bipolar disorder and depression- everyone has it sometimes...). Most disappointing is the sensational style of the documentation. You wouldn't have needed all these visual and audible effects to reach the audience. In the end I'm none the wiser. That's very unfortunate because this topic really needs to be illuminated so that treatments focus on nutrition, therapy (e.g. psycho- therapy) and systemic approaches (e.g. analyzing social patterns)
    10bgiffin-00461

    Scientology or not, this issue is vitally important - See Mad In America website

    OK. So it is the Scientologists again bringing to light social issues. - And that is why they get clobbered all the time. They don't shut up!

    But..., the Scientologists have this video right. Over-drugging of psychiatric "medicine" is an epidemic catapulted into America and the world an aggressive pharmaceutical drug cartel. Marketing is key, science takes a back seat. (One positive point about this group is that at least it seems they are internationally coordinated and aren't siding with one country or the other.)

    Ron Hubbard said in his description of Scientology that he merely pulled all the material for the religion from many other religious and philosophical sources. ... Well, now the Scientologists did it again with the making of their "Making A Killing" documentary of psychiatric drug abuse. - Please go to MadInAmerica.com for insight on how actual psychiatrists with a conscious are combating this deadly scourge of psychiatric medication overdose in their own industry. The Mad In America website is NOT the Scientologists, so you can feel better about that if that was keeping you from paying attention to this monumental issue.

    Dr. Peter Breggin who is a regular on the nightly international Coast to Coast AM program with George Noory (great show) has a blog up there now on the Mad In America site titled "Psychiatry: The Brain is a Malignant Tumor!" There is another interesting blog currently found on this website that I liked too "How Psychiatry Evolved Into A Religion". Check it out!

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