Medicating Normal

1h 16m

9.5

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.

Cast

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

Self - Psychiatrist

Peter Gøtzsche

Self - Professor, Univ of Copenhagen

Self - Professor of Social Welfare, UCLA

Kristian Rasmussen

Self - Attorney

Crew