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Anti-Prescription Drug LA Billboard Campaign Funded By Prominent Scientologist Nancy Cartwright
BuzzFeed News: An Anti-Prescription Drug Campaign Took Over LA's Billboards. It's Funded By A Prominent Scientologist
An Anti-Prescription Drug Campaign Took Over LA's Billboards. It's Funded By A Prominent Scientologist.
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An Anti-Prescription Drug Campaign Took Over LA's Billboards. It's Funded By A Prominent Scientologist
Nancy Cartwright, best known as the voice of Bart Simpson, has previously been involved in the Church of Scientology's anti-psychiatry advocacy.
Claudia Koerner
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Reporting From
Posted on September 25, 2019, at 7:01 p.m. ET
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Know More About Drugs, the group behind the billboards and a slick social media campaign, bills itself as an “alliance of doctors, parents & child advocates who believe parents have the right to be given factual info about prescribed psychotropic drug risks.” But while the ads take a public service tone, and the group’s website links to the Food and Drug Administration's database on medication side effects, BuzzFeed News has learned the campaign is fully funded by a celebrity Scientologist, and many of the people involved have connections to the church’s infamous advocacy against psychiatry.
Scientology takes a position that mental illness diagnoses are a hoax and treatment with medication is abusive. Nancy Cartwright, the actor best known as the voice of Bart Simpson and a Scientologist who’s been involved in the church’s anti-psychiatry advocacy, told BuzzFeed News she founded the Know More About Drugs campaign because she’s passionate about issues around prescription drugs.
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BuzzFeed News: An Anti-Prescription Drug Campaign Took Over LA's Billboards. It's Funded By A Prominent Scientologist
An Anti-Prescription Drug Campaign Took Over LA's Billboards. It's Funded By A Prominent Scientologist.
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An Anti-Prescription Drug Campaign Took Over LA's Billboards. It's Funded By A Prominent Scientologist
Nancy Cartwright, best known as the voice of Bart Simpson, has previously been involved in the Church of Scientology's anti-psychiatry advocacy.
Claudia Koerner
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Reporting From
Posted on September 25, 2019, at 7:01 p.m. ET
[SNIP]
Know More About Drugs, the group behind the billboards and a slick social media campaign, bills itself as an “alliance of doctors, parents & child advocates who believe parents have the right to be given factual info about prescribed psychotropic drug risks.” But while the ads take a public service tone, and the group’s website links to the Food and Drug Administration's database on medication side effects, BuzzFeed News has learned the campaign is fully funded by a celebrity Scientologist, and many of the people involved have connections to the church’s infamous advocacy against psychiatry.
Scientology takes a position that mental illness diagnoses are a hoax and treatment with medication is abusive. Nancy Cartwright, the actor best known as the voice of Bart Simpson and a Scientologist who’s been involved in the church’s anti-psychiatry advocacy, told BuzzFeed News she founded the Know More About Drugs campaign because she’s passionate about issues around prescription drugs.
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