Generation Rx

Stories have circulated for decades about the dangers of psychiatric medication: famous cases of teenagers who became gun-toting maniacs after popping pills to combat mild depression; or the healthy girl, prescribed antidepressants for exam stress, who was found hanging from a rope in her bedroom not long afterwards. At the 1991 Prozac trials, scores of impassioned victims affirmed that the drug pushed them to the brink of despair: But Giants like Lilly, Pfizer and Glaxo SmithKline have worked hard to silence these angry voices and reduce the available information to a mere whisper. In Generation RX, experts and victims band together to expose the corruption in the pharmaceutical industry, and liberate our mental health from its dictatorial sway. Assembling a plethora of leaked memos, flawed studies and previously-unseen conference footage, they uncover a pattern of collusion between drug manufacturers and their regulatory watchdogs at the FDA. At the core of the affair is the drug