Medicating Normal

Medicating Normal

Actors:  Dave Cope, Brianna Cope, Shalamar Fairweather, Angie Peacock, Rebecka Green, Tabita Green Directors:  Lynn Cunningham, Wendy Ractliffe

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.