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Take Your Pills: Xanax

Ever since 1997, when the FDA decided that drug companies could advertisedirectly to...

Ever since 1997, when the FDA decided that drug companies could advertise
directly to people

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Ever since 1997, when the FDA decided
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that drug companies could advertise directly to people.
Duration
10 seconds
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31
Timestamp in Movie
00:49:43
Uploaded
Apr 25, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Shriver Media,Motto Pictures

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A cure for some and a curse for others, widely prescribed anti-anxiety medication is examined by patients and experts in this revealing documentary.
You can't just snap out of clinical depression. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:37
You can't just snap out of clinical depression.
"How are you feeling?" - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:09
"How are you feeling?"
Medicine has become industrialized to the point - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:10
Medicine has become industrialized to the point
And after him, all of my psychiatrists, I guess, were very transactional. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:07
And after him, all of my psychiatrists, I guess, were very t...
And I found people who were transactional, because I was like, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:17
And I found people who were transactional, because I was lik...
One doctor was like, "Could you tell me about your childhood in Texas?" - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:12
One doctor was like, "Could you tell me about your chil...
Doctors very eager to be rated highly - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:09
Doctors very eager to be rated highly
So, naturally, with all of those kinds of invisible incentives, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:09
So, naturally, with all of those kinds of invisible incentiv...
The other issue is that in the short term, these agents really work. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:05
The other issue is that in the short term, these agents real...
I went to a therapist when I was thirteen in New Hampshire. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:07
I went to a therapist when I was thirteen in New Hampshire.
First day, I went there, he said... And this is in '84 or something, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:14
First day, I went there, he said... And this is in '84 ...
I do want to be careful. I don't wanna demonize all benzodiazepines, all drugs. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:06
I do want to be careful. I don't wanna demonize all ben...
What I do know is that they're overprescribed, like opioids. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:05
What I do know is that they're overprescribed, like opi...
There's this huge Xanax crisis in so many communities. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:06
There's this huge Xanax crisis in so many communities.
So a lot of times people think that was just about opioids, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:06
So a lot of times people think that was just about opioids,
Rapper Lil Xan, that's short for Xanax, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:12
Rapper Lil Xan, that's short for Xanax,
...12 two milligrams to 14 two milligrams a day. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:05
...12 two milligrams to 14 two milligrams a day.
Of acknowledging pain, or anxiety, - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:08
Of acknowledging pain, or anxiety,
It's a very sharp double-edged sword. It's just so easy to... - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:06
It's a very sharp double-edged sword. It's just so...
And we don't give young people many tools for doing that. - Take Your Pills: Xanax 00:05
And we don't give young people many tools for doing tha...