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Medicating Normal [Plays May 15-23 as part of the MSPIFF39 Redefined: A Virtual Film Festival. Live Q&A with the filmmaker on May 21 at 7:00 p.m.; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org/festivals/mspiff.] Lynn Cunningham and Wendy Ractliffe's eye-opening, educational, highly disturbing, shocking, 75-minute, 2019 documentary that includes testimonials from many people, including a retired naval officer and his wife, a former NYC waitress, an army Sergeant, and a teenage student, who all suffered long-term harm after taking and withdrawing from prescription medications for various psychological reasons, such as depression, insomnia, anxiety, and ADHD, due to misinformed or unethical medical professionals and zealous pharmaceutical companies pushing their products in order to make millions and consists of interview snippets with psychiatrists (such as Allen Frances, Anna Lembke, and Kelly Brogan), UCLA social welfare professor David Cohen, military clinical psychologist Mary Neal Vieten, pharmacist Ivan Jourdain, University of Copenhagen professor Peter Gøtzsche, journalist and author Robert Whitaker, and attorney Kristian Rasmussen.   Redhead: Year: 2020 Rating:  NR View Medicating Normal on the Internet Movie Database