AMERICAN ANXIETY: INSIDE AMERICA'S HIDDEN EPIDEMICE OF ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION
Through interviews with leading researchers, experts, psychiatrists and patients, filmmaker Mark W. Curran uncovers the disturbing truth about America's growing mental health crisis... and what is being done to fight it.
AS PRESCRIBED
As Prescribed' is a heart-wrenching gut-punch, lifting the veil of the hidden benzodiazepine epidemic - benzodiazepines like Ativan, Klonopin, Xanax, and Valium. The film follows the inspiring story of Boston-based survivor Geraldine Burns as she leads a David vs. Goliath effort for patients' rights. Powerful and nuanced, the film reveals the mind-numbing injustice that thwarts hoped-for change, as well as the stirring collective will of the pharmaceutically harmed, demanding to be heard.
THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY PART 1
In the first part, a look at how Purdue Pharma worked with the FDA to get OxyContin approved for wider use, promoting the highly profitable pain medication's safety without sufficient evidence, and creating a campaign to redefine pain and how it's treated.
THE HAPPY PILL
Silje Marie Strandberg was seriously ill. She heard voices, hallucinated, cut herself, had an eating disorder and repeatedly tried to kill herself. She was so sick that no one thought she could ever recover. But after 10 years in mental wards, 10 years of compulsion, isolation, electrolysis and heavy medication, she finally recovered and is now completely healthy. The difference was her psychiatric nurse, Lone.
LETTERS FROM GENERATION RX
Letters from Generation Rx reflects the stories of thousands of people who wrote to Director Kevin P. Miller to share their experiences on psychiatric drugs. This powerful film explores the science behind antidepressants, their effects on the brain and the horrific experiences endured by patients and their loved ones.
OVERPILL
Has the medical industry been lured and duped into over-prescribing their patient population? Overpill examines this pressing concern that affects the lives of millions. The film introduces us to several ordinary people who are struggling with issues related to mental health, addiction and grave uncertainties for their future.
CAUSE OF DEATH UNKNOWN
After her sister died suddenly and unexpectedly while being treated with prescription antipsychotics, director Anniken Hoel begins a global investigation into the pharmaceutical industry, the unheralded growth of psychiatric diagnoses and medication, and the corruption of the government regulatory agencies (FDA and EMA) that are supposed to protect us citizens.
PRESCRIPTION THUGS
After witnessing friends and relatives face tragedy as they become addicted to prescription drugs, Director Chris Bell sets out to explore the goals of pharmaceutical companies and doctors in this ever-growing market, and asks how they are any different from back-alley drug-pushers.
THE VIRTUES OF NON COMPLIANCE
The current-day mental health system has been shaped around the idea that people who have been given psychiatric labels suffer in a way over which they have no control and that often results in an inability to care for one's self. It is an approach that encourages the idea that professionals need to step in to be the experts and determine someone's human potential. The Virtues of Non-Compliance talks back to all those ideas in the voice of people who have been there, who have been told they can't, and who have gone on to live their lives on their own terms.
BEYOND THE MEDICAL MODEL
Beyond the Medical Model examines the impact of a one-model system that has been written so inextricably into our law and language that it has become difficult for many to even hear the evidence supporting a much broader take on what we so often label ‘mental illness.’ Through the expertise of people sharing a range of worldviews and parts of their own stories, information is offered on how we have sometimes harmed ourselves and our communities through our own rigidity. The film encourages us to explore how we might begin to understand our experiences through a variety of lenses and without limiting ourselves to any one box or framework.
WHO CARES IN SWEDEN? (TRAILER)
Documentary trilogy about what happens when media let the pharmaceutical industry and the actions they take threaten society and how doctors are being manipulated. Medicines are the single most damaging cause on humans and are in need of government regulations and international cooperation. But there is also a special need for journalists who "investigate" instead of permitting themselves to be bought by PR firms that make commercials into information and news.
WHO CARES IN SWEDEN? FILM 1. THE CONSCIENCE
Millions of Swedes are suffering because of the effects from antidepressants, the SSRIs. The whole of society is affected by the antidepressant whose main effect is that you "care" less. No one speaks today of the effect which is in fact a reduction in conscience and empathy.
WHO CARES IN SWEDEN? FILM 3. THE LIE
The authorities and the media do not scrutinize the scientists who advocate increasing this medication for the Swedish population. The corruption is so sophisticated that Public Service television and radio, against formal rules, permit the proliferation of the pharmaceutical advertising campaigns.
CHANGING OUR MINDS: CLEAR THOUGHTS ON DEPRESSION, DRUGS AND ALTERNATIVE PATHS TO A HEALTHY MIND
Documentary film containing cutting edge information concerning depression & dysthymia. Interviews with leading spiritual, medical, and mental health professionals; tempered with personal stories of struggle.
SELLING SICKNESS
Examines the pharmaceutical industry's marketing of antidepressants with particular emphasis on the firm GlaxoSmithKline. It explores the unhealthy relationships between society, medical science and the pharmaceutical industry as they promote miracle cures - selling not just drugs but also the latest diseases that go with them.