Generation RX Movie Review

Jorge Turcios

Professor Williams

Sociology 360

11 March 2011

Generation RX Movie Review

 1. What is the main thesis of this film?

Generation RX is a documentary that focused on pharmaceutical industry, doctors, and teens. It focused primarily in the relationship between those institutions and the negative effects that are causing to teenagers by prescribing medication and ignoring the side effects that those are causing to kids and their families.

2. What were the main arguments in support of the thesis?

The main points are: 1. The relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and the group of people that in charge of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM). 2. Parents in their testimonies addressing the negative effects that some medications have had in their children’ Medications such as Zoloft, Prozac, Paxil, and many more drugs that are being prescribed by professionals. 3. How the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has covered up many of the labels addressing the negatives effects on these medication; for the profit that they can make out the sells of these products. 

3. How does the thesis of this film relate to the course?

The influences that social institutions have over society, and how they manipulated individuals with the use of the media to creates problems and provided solutions just to make money.

4. Which arguments/points did you find the most convincing?

They’re groups of people being diagnosed with some kind of mental or physical disease to support the pharmaceutical institutions.

Teenagers are the ones who are being target.

The government needs more enforcement and regulation on pharmaceutical institutions.

5. Which arguments/points did you find the least convincing?

That there are many children that need to be treated, and not be ignored that they suffer from some kind of mental disability, but that medication are not always the most efficient methods. Some children only need more attention and dedication to avoid intake prescriptions drugs.

6. Choose one argument, point or question that most stands out for you. How would you study this point? Briefly design a research study around that point.

The U.S. government has the power to investigate closely pharmaceutical industries, so my research will be to delegate of group of people that control the quality of this industries something like that FDA, however this group will be undercover to guarantee transparency to the consumers.