Award-Winning Documentary ‘Medicating Normal’ Film Screening & Panel Discussion

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• Tuesday, Mar 14, 2023  7pm - 9pm

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Join Hill Center for a film screening and panel discussion about this award-winning documentary.

Millions of people worldwide take prescribed psychiatric meds daily. Medicating Normal follows five people whose doctors prescribed pills to help with common problems such as stress, insomnia, anxiety & grief. The arguments extolling the benefits of the drugs are often the only ones presented in the media. Medicating Normal tells another story, one rarely reported. It is a story of harm done.

Combining cinema verité and investigative journalism, Medicating Normal follows the journeys of a newly married couple, a female combat veteran, a waitress and a teenager. Our subjects struggle with serious physical and mental side effects as well as neurological damage which resulted from taking the drugs as prescribed and also from attempting to withdraw. Says one psychiatrist, “There’s not a chemical on the planet, to my knowledge, that can require years to taper – not Oxycontin, not crack cocaine, not heroin, and not alcohol. But psychiatric medications, any tapered patient will tell you, can take sometimes years if possible, at all.”