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The Drugging Of Our Children Documentary

Leslee — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:37:46 GMT

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3609599239524875493&q=The+Drugging+Of+Our+Children&hl=en

http://www.ostrowandcompany.com/film_detail.php?film=The%20Drugging%20Of%20Our%20Children

The Drugging Of Our Children

OVERVIEW

Genre: Feature Documentary
Language: English
Country of Origin: USA
Running Time: 102 minutes

CAST & CREW

Director: Gary Null
Co-Directed by: Producer: Manette Loudon, David Chmura
Associate Producer & Legal Affairs: David Slater
Editor: David Chmura
Cinematographer: Derek Ramsey, David Chmura
Writer: Gary Null
Producer's Representative: Ostrow and Company

SYNOPSIS

How are large drug companies benefiting from the latest trend of selling powerful psychoactive drugs to America's children? Do these drugs really help our children cure symptoms of supposed mental illness, or do they tend to increase depression, violence, and suicide? Are we really treating the root causes of mental illness, or are we just eliminating annoying symptoms?

This feature-length documentary examines the alarming growth in the prescription of powerful psychotropic drugs for adolescents and children. Leading experts, as well as Neil Bush, Michael Moore and Gary Null, provide insightful commentary about the growing trend to pathologize the behavior of children, and then require them to take mind-altering pharmaceutical drugs as a "cure." The documentary recounts the national tragedy of Columbine and focuses on the largely unknown fact that teenage shooter Eric Harris was on the psychotropic drug Luvox at the time he and Dylan Klebold took the lives of 13 other students at their high school. Violence and aggression, precipitated by prescribed drug use, is also explored in an unprecedented discussion between Mark Taylor, the first shooting victim in the Columbine tragedy, and Cory Baadsgard, a teenager on Paxil and Effexor who, in another violent incident, took his teacher and 23 students hostage at gunpoint in his Washington high school. The film proceeds to show the dangerous links between psychotropic drugs like Paxil, Luvox, Effexor and Prozac – commonly prescribed to adolescents for anxiety, depression and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) - and the increased incidents of violence, suicide and psychotic behavior often observed in those children and adolescents who are taking the drugs. The film also provides compelling personal accounts, including a mother going to prison and losing her son to government authorities because she refused to give her son psychiatric drugs. Leading medical authorities and mental health professionals speak the unvarnished truth about current increased diagnoses of recently devised mental illnesses and the unprecedented prescription of a host of very powerful psychoactive drugs to "treat" them. Finally, this documentary explores safer, alternative methods for treating childhood mental illness.

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Film Event in NYC- for folks with queer parents

mere — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:03:56 GMT

Join COLAGE and Center Kids for a special screening of:

In My Shoes: Stories of Youth with LGBT Parents
a new youth-produced, documentary film

In a time when LGBT families are debated and attacked in the media, courts and Congress, from school houses to state houses across the country, five young people give you a chance to walk in their shoes – to hear their own views on marriage, making change, and what it means to be a family. www.colage.org/inmyshoes

We invite you to the New York premiere of this award-winning film, and then to engage in discussion with other children, youth and adults with LGBT parents, LGBT parents, our family and friends. Additionally, Meredith Fenton, the Program Director of COLAGE will be on hand to discuss the film project and how you can use the movie to make change in your schools and communities.

Founded in 1990, COLAGE engages, connects and empowers people to make the world a better place for children of lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender parents and families. COLAGE is a national organization which represents and advocates on behalf of the millions of children, youth and adults who have LGBT parents. For more information: www.colage.org.

Monday, October 24th
6- 7:30 PM
at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Center
208 West 13th Street, just West of 7th Avenue
Manhattan

Sliding scale donations of $5-$ 15 are warmly accepted. Childcare will be offered for youth under the age of 7. (Please RSVP to Center Kids for child care) This film is appropriate for youth 7 and up and parents of all ages!

For more information contact COLAGE at 415-861-5437 or Center Kids at 212-620-7310
For directions, visit the website at http://www.gaycenter.org/about/location

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note from tribe.net: please assign a moderator

touguy — Wed, 25 May 2005 06:49:57 GMT

Hey there, "Kids of Gay Parents" members--

This Tribe doesn't have a moderator, but as a matter of policy, Tribe.net likes all groups to have a leader.
Could you collectively choose someone to moderate your Tribe?

When you've reached consensus, have the new moderator send a note to help@tribe.net - from the e-mail they use to log into their tribe acct. - with the words "Moderator Change - Kids of Gay Parents" in the subject header, letting us know that you've selected a new leader.

Thanks--

-- TOU (Terms of Use) Guy

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introductions

Sat, 10 Jan 2004 20:25:59 GMT

Hey guys!
Identify yourselves and tell us why you're here. It's like AA but happier. I'll go first.

I'm Meredith, 22 years old and from Michigan. I have a gay dad and I live with him and his partner Milt (and will until I'm out of grad school, most likely). They're awesome and I wouldn't trade them for straight parents any day. I hear this is rare, but I've never experienced anyone discriminating against me personally because of my dad's sexual orientation. I have a good story about how I found out he was gay, but we can make that a separate discussion. Proceed!

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