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Medicating Normal (2020)
Directed by Lynn Cunningham, Wendy Ractliffe
“Good for profits. Bad for patients.”
Documentary · 1h 16m
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
D
Dave Cope
Self
B
Brianna Cope
Self - Dave's Wife
S
Shalamar Fairweather
Self
A
Angie Peacock
Self
R
Rebecka Green
Self
T
Tabita Green
Self - Rebecka's Mom
T
Todd Green
Self - Rebecka's Dad
I
Ivan Jourdain
Self - Pharmacist, Ivan Pharmacy
M
Mary Neal Vieten
Self - Psychologist; Commander, US Navy (RC)
A
Allen J. Frances
Self - Chair, Dept. of Psychiatry, Duke Univ Med School
A
Anna Lembke
Self - Psychiatrist; Professor, Stanford Univ Med School
R
Robert Whitaker
Self - Journalist & Author
Crew
- Director
- Lynn Cunningham, Wendy Ractliffe
- Director of Photography
- Joan Churchill
- Editor
- David Dawkins
- Producer
- Muffie Meyer, Wendy Ractliffe, Lynn Cunningham
Details
- Release date
- 2020-09-15
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America