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Medicating Normal poster

Medicating Normal

Good for profits. Bad for patients.

2020 1h 16m 9.5Movie

Documentary

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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Lynn Cunningham

Director

Wendy Ractliffe

Director

Top Cast

Dave Cope

Self

Brianna Cope

Self - Dave's Wife

Shalamar Fairweather

Self

Angie Peacock

Self

Rebecka Green

Self

Tabita Green

Self - Rebecka's Mom

Todd Green

Self - Rebecka's Dad

Ivan Jourdain

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

Anna Lembke

Self - Psychiatrist; Professor, Stanford Univ Med School

Robert Whitaker

Self - Journalist & Author

Kelly Brogan

Kelly Brogan

Self - Psychiatrist

Peter Gøtzsche

Self - Professor, Univ of Copenhagen

David Cohen

Self - Professor of Social Welfare, UCLA

Kristian Rasmussen

Self - Attorney