Commonly prescribed psychiatric medications can provide short-term relief, but pharmaceutical companies often hide their long-term harms and dangers from both doctors and patients. The film Medicating Normal follows five high-functioning individuals who took these medications for issues like stress, mild depression, and sleeplessness, and struggled with serious side effects, including physical and mental harm, and lasting neurological damage.
Medicating Normal (2020)
The documentary Medicating Normal explores the lives of five individuals who suffered severe adverse effects from prescribed medications intended to alleviate their pain, exposing the dark side of a healthcare system driven by profit rather than patient care.
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