Dicono che non ci si possa sottrarre all’amore di una madre, ma per Chloe questa non è una rassicurazione: è una minaccia. C’è qualcosa di innaturale, quasi sinistro nella relazione tra Chloe e sua madre Diane. Diane ha cresciuto sua figlia nel totale isolamento, controllandone ogni movimento sin dalla nascita, dietro segreti che Chloe sta solo iniziando ad intuire. Un horror psicologico che mostra come, quando l’amore di una madre diventa troppo stretto, devi scappare.
Proprio quando suo marito, dopo quattro anni di pena per insider trading, viene scarcerato, la giovane Emily cade nuovamente preda di una brutta depressione. Dopo un maldestro tentativo di suicidio, finisce in cura da uno psichiatra, che per aiutarla le prescrive dei farmaci. Gli effetti collaterali, però, si fan sentire forti, ed Emily finirà per l'accoltellare il marito durante uno stato di sonnambulismo. Il suo medico si darà da fare per non farla condannare per omicidio, ma anche ottenuta l'infermità mentale le cose si andranno complicando sempre di più.
For years, Ollie has illicitly helped the struggling residents of her North Dakota oil boomtown access Canadian health care and medication. When the authorities catch on, she plans to abandon her crusade, only to be dragged in even deeper after a desperate plea for help from her sister.
The dark secrets of Holly's seemingly perfect life are exposed when an unwanted intruder spins her life out of control forever.
Una cura per alcuni e una maledizione per altri, farmaci anti-ansia ampiamente prescritti vengono esaminati da pazienti ed esperti in questo documentario rivelatore.
In this edition of Moulton's narrative series, the artist's character Cynthia suffers from Restless Leg Syndrome, and seeks relief in pharmaceutical ads on TV and in health magazines. In a domestic world enlivened with animated dance and mystic poetry (written and read by poet John Coletti), Cynthia finds relief in the healing mineral AION A, discovered by Swiss artist Emma Kunz.
By following the lives of five Japanese individuals this documentary explores the problem of depression in Japan and how the marketing of anti-depressant drugs has changed the way the Japanese view depression. Marketing of anti-depressants did not begin in Japan until the late 1990s and prior to this, depression was not widely recognized as a problem by the Japanese public. Since then, use of anti-depressants has sky-rocketed and use of the Japanese word "utsu" to describe depression has become commonplace, having previously been used only by psychiatric professionals.
A boy travels with his sick dog Sniffy to his medicine cabinet, where pills and other medicines sing the dangers of taking medicines without adult supervision.
When a new prescription drug permits a greater lucidity of one’s dreams, a woman resists her jealous husband’s demands that she induce a nightmare in order to scrub her subconscious of infidelity.
Anna Richardson investigates the latest generation of weight-loss drugs that have been all over the media and social media. Anna talks to doctors and actual users of the "skinny jab," explains what makes these drugs work, and investigates the most common adverse effects.