Medicating Normal

Good for profits. Bad for patients.

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.

Documentary

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

(Self - Psychiatrist)

Peter Gøtzsche

(Self - Professor, Univ of Copenhagen)

David Cohen

(Self - Professor of Social Welfare, UCLA)

Kristian Rasmussen

(Self - Attorney)