UCLA - David Geffen School of Medicine - "Medicating Normal" Post-Screening Panel Discussion/Q&A

On October 26, 2023, a hybrid film screening of the documentary "Medicating Normal" was presented at the UCLA Iris Cantor Auditorium. This is a recording of the post-screening expert panel discussion and audience Q&A. The panel includes David Cohen, PhD; Lynn Cunningham; and Peter Eliasberg; and was moderated by Helena Hansen, MD, PhD.

Film synopsis: As seen on PBS, Medicating Normal, an award-winning documentary, tells the untold story of the long-term consequences of taking prescribed psychiatric medications (anti-anxiety meds, sleeping pills, antidepressants, ADHD meds, etc). The film relays the experiences of a newly-married couple, a female combat veteran, a waitress and a teenager made worse by the very medications they believed would help. The film’s subjects struggle with serious physical and mental side effects, including neurological damage, while taking the medications and also from attempting to withdraw. One-in-five Americans take these commonly-prescribed medications daily, and often for a lifetime. The claims extolling their benefits are often the only ones presented in mainstream media. The other side of the story is rarely reported, and it is a story of harm done.

Co-sponsored by the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine Research Theme in Health Equity & Translational Social Science (HETSS), Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center, UCLA Psychiatry Department, Center for Social Medicine and Humanities, and the Rangell Social Medicine Grand Rounds Series


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