Medicating Normal

MovieDocumentary

Medicating Normal (2020)

Good for profits. Bad for patients.

9.5(2) Sep 15, 2020 1h 16m

Directed by Lynn Cunningham, Wendy Ractliffe

Overview

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.

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Self - Dave's Wife

Shalamar Fairweather

Self - Rebecka's Mom

Self - Rebecka's Dad

Self - Pharmacist, Ivan Pharmacy

Mary Neal Vieten

Self - Psychologist; Commander, US Navy (RC)

Allen J. Frances

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

Self - Psychiatrist; Professor, Stanford Univ Med School

Robert Whitaker

Self - Journalist & Author

Kelly Brogan

Self - Psychiatrist

Peter Gøtzsche

Self - Professor, Univ of Copenhagen

Self - Professor of Social Welfare, UCLA

Kristian Rasmussen

Self - Attorney

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