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Friday, April 1, 2011

"The Marketing of Madness--Are We All Insane?" is an award-winning documentary that explores the conflict, particularly as it relates to the apparent influence of Big Pharma over the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Indeed, at least 18 DSM committee members who decide on the manual's content have fully documented financial ties to pharmaceutical companies.

The proposed disorders in DSM-V have already raised eyebrows. Says psychiatrist and author Niall McLauren, "The entire DSM project is an exercise in the politics of committees funded by the drug industry... Without an understanding of the underlying physical, scientific causes of disease, the rest is just shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic."

Medical doctors are the lifelines upon which many patients rely. For this reason, you should watch Chapter 7, "Marketing to MDs--The easy sell," which reveals how doctors are misled by the psychiatric-pharmaceutical alliance, whose biased information serves little more than their own vested interests.

Contact Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) or go to cchr.org for more copies of the DVD. For more information, you can also visit their social media website at cchrint.org

Also, available to you, free of charge, is the "The Marketing of Madness--Are We All Insane? Education Package." This educational tool introduces students to the resources contained in the documentary. The package includes an educator's guide with suggested seminar plans, interactive questions to spark debate, a comprehensive glossary of terms relating to psychotropic drugs, a series of recommended actions students may take for practical application, and the Psychotropic Drug Booklet Series--six booklets, each covering a specific class of psychotropic drug. You rpackage contains 24 booklet sets--144 booklets in all.

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