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Escrocs de l'Ordonnance

Original title: Prescription Thugs
  • 2015
  • PG-13
  • 1h 26m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
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Escrocs de l'Ordonnance (2015)
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In this follow-up to his film BIGGER FASTER STRONGER, director Chris Bell turns his camera on the abuse of prescription drugs and, ultimately, himself. As Bell learns more about Big Pharma, ... Read allIn this follow-up to his film BIGGER FASTER STRONGER, director Chris Bell turns his camera on the abuse of prescription drugs and, ultimately, himself. As Bell learns more about Big Pharma, an industry he had been brought up to trust, he falls down his own hole of addiction.In this follow-up to his film BIGGER FASTER STRONGER, director Chris Bell turns his camera on the abuse of prescription drugs and, ultimately, himself. As Bell learns more about Big Pharma, an industry he had been brought up to trust, he falls down his own hole of addiction.

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    • Chris Bell
    • Josh Alexander
    • G.B. Young
  • Writer
    • Josh Alexander
  • Stars
    • Mark Bell
    • Mike Bell
    • Rosemary Bell
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  • IMDb RATING
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    • Directors
      • Chris Bell
      • Josh Alexander
      • G.B. Young
    • Writer
      • Josh Alexander
    • Stars
      • Mark Bell
      • Mike Bell
      • Rosemary Bell
    • 9User reviews
    • 15Critic reviews
    • 45Metascore
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      • Josh Alexander
      • G.B. Young
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    7rukstar69

    Prescription drugs are being given out like candy in this country and for what?

    This look into legal drugs (Prescription drugs) by film maker Chris Bell shows how money driven this country is. I am a proud American and I'll be the first to say how corrupt we are. Prescription drugs are being given out like candy in this country and for what? Yup, you guessed it....MONEY! These drugs are destroying people but money is all that matters. Chris will tell you his dirty little secret about his life during this film. I enjoyed it a lot.
    1ErReads

    Terrible documentary

    This is really just the filmmaker exploring his familial issues involving drug addiction - and trying to blame it all on the pharmaceutical industry. His go-to source for the "medical" voice on the issue is........ a homeopathic doctor. Seriously. Cause sure, homeopathic doctors don't try to sell people on ingesting pill after pill of questionable, non-FDA approved or monitored substances. SMH. Clearly, this filmmaker has some personal issues and I feel it would have been a good idea for someone to stop him from making this. Of course, the pharamceutical industry is not blameless in opioid addiction, but there is a lot more to the story than that and you don't get any of that - or anything actually backed up with data/science/studies in this film.
    juliadixonx

    All in the Family

    Seems like the mother set her sons up for addiction with rampant overeating, in the process demonstrating that one solves pain by consuming substances. Food can be a drug; its overconsumption is often a compulsive behavior.
    random-70778

    Full of falsehoods

    The very first thing we learn from this film is "Americans consume 75% of the world's prescription drugs."

    This claim has been debunked over and over. For example Canadians. French, Germans and Brits consume the same drugs at the same per capita rates. In fact maybe even more so given that many drugs in the US that require a prescription do not require one in many other places and therefore are not "prescription drugs." In Denmark for example you can walk into a pharmacy and with a "consultation' with the pharmacist get antibiotics -- and it doesn't count a s "prescription" using the metric the "75%" claim uses

    and what is with the interview with the "homeopathic'" doctor"? LOL
    1jonnysolem

    Nice try, bad outcome

    What do we have here? We have Chris, who have made this film. Chris is one of three brothers. These brothers are heavy users of anabolic steroids. Which, by the way, strangely enough is not a topic in this movie, although my 13-year old daughter saw that right away. Chris's oldest brother have been in wrestling and wants to be a famous superstar, and he is addicted to painkillers. Painkillers are the topic in this film.

    In the film Chris is going after the painkiller industry, the pharmaceutical industry.

    In his tour around for showing us how this dirty business really works, he interviews a lot of guys. The guys are medical junkies, no doubt, all on heavy doses of anabolic steroids, like Chris himself, big strong guys who cries sometimes in front of the camera, really crying tears, obviously in mental disorder. And he interview a homeopathic doctor who tell us all the bad things the pharmaceutical industry does. A homeopathic doctor! Why does he interview a homeopathic doctor? Well, because homeopathy is quackery, and the whole movie is in some way quackery.

    I feel sorry for these guys. I really do. And for Chris, the little guy who wants to be big as his bigger brothers. They obviously need help, all of them. But when they combine all this drugs that they do combine, and blame it on painkillers, that really is just too stupid.

    Someone should have told Chris, because he is not in a condition to see for himself, as we will find out in the movie. But someone should have told him: "Don't make this movie, you are out of balance and don't see clear, Chris".

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      • January 22, 2016 (United States)
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