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This is about 1 1/2 hr long documentary by Chris Bell who also had another important documentary on Steroids abused. This documentary delivered an important subject straight on like any other good films about something that need public awareness like Concussions, Spotlight, Truth etc.
Its really touches the heart because it is whats happening with the Director/Writer (CB). His brother Mike Bell who was a wrestler died because of it. We all know that the WWE wrestling are all staged for fun. The fights are choreographed and not real. And what you dont know is that there are wrestlers who are in it to loose and they are called "Jobber". Mike Bell was in the ring 250 times and lost 250 times ! And that is commitment ! Then he died due to addiction to prescription drugs. "Legal" drugs he took to ease his pain due to his job.
There are many high points in this documentary. Its a serious one and its an important one. How in corporate America the Big Pharma get away with it just like the Tobacco industry, Oil Industry and many others. One reason to blame was when Pres Clinton allowed pharmacy advertisement in the medias. Thats where the spike of misused rosed. Thank god this country has not resorted to there yet. But who knows it will eventually.
But the message is this - if we are kept on being influenced by them and we support them thats how they keep on growing and growing. An addiction is when you cannot control what you take or do but they do it to you instead. We like to blame everyone but when we are the one who let them flourish and prosper thats where the blame should go to, to us.
There's one part that says that when we start to depend on 1 drug it will caused us to need another drug. And getting that 2nd drug will cause us to crave for the 3rd drug. So on and so forth. In this documentary it also relate that cases of Bi Polar escalated when we start to treat depression. And one child psychologist explained that sadness is one essential emotion that we should have. If we try to avoid that artificially then thats where the problems start. She said that even from childhood kids are taught to be "happy" and being sad is bad which attitude is the culprit of all other things.
As the film says, not all are bad about the pharmaceutical companies as they discovered cures and prevention for many diseases that killed humans. Its when we depend on them for all answers the trouble began.
As I said very important piece of work. Archive it and see it again and again to remind that we can live drug free.
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