Medicating Normal

Medicating Normal

76 mins | Documentary | Sept. 15, 2020

One in five Americans is taking a psychiatric drug, including millions of children. Pharmaceutical companies have over-hyped the benefits of these drugs, while hiding the risks and severe side effects including physiological dependence. "Medicating Normal" explores what happens when for- profit medicine intersects with human beings in distress.

Medicating Normal

76 mins | Documentary | Sept. 15, 2020

Medicating Normal
One in five Americans is taking a psychiatric drug, including millions of children. Pharmaceutical companies have over-hyped the benefits of these drugs, while hiding the risks and severe side effects including physiological dependence. "Medicating Normal" explores what happens when for- profit medicine intersects with human beings in distress.
IMDb rating 8.3
Producers
Original title Medicating Normal
Directors Wendy Ractliffe, Lynn Cunningham
Writers

Cast

Ivan Jourdain, BS, Rph

as Self - Pharmacist, Ivan Pharmacy

Mary Neal Vieten, Ph.D, ABPP, Psychologist

as Self - Commander, US Navy (RC)

Allen Frances, M.D.

as Self - Chair, Dept. of Psychiatry, Duke Univ Med School