Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Medicating Normal follows the stories of five subjects harmed by prescribed medications they believed would help them. It is the untold story of what happens when profit-driven medicine intersects with human beings in distress.
Watch a panel discussion on the film featuring:
Lynn Cunningham, Film Co-Director/Producer
Brooke Siem, chef and author who has written about her experience using antidepressants
Dr. Jim Wright, clinical pharmacologist and an expert on the dangers of psychiatric medication, University of British Columbia
Moderator: Dr. Eddy Lang, Emergency Medicine Physician, University of Calgary
This event was presented by the O’Brien Institute and the Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference on June 10, 2022.
Medicating Normal follows the stories of five subjects harmed by prescribed medications they believed would help them. It is the untold story of what happens when profit-driven medicine intersects with human beings in distress.
Watch a panel discussion on the film featuring:
Lynn Cunningham, Film Co-Director/Producer
Brooke Siem, chef and author who has written about her experience using antidepressants
Dr. Jim Wright, clinical pharmacologist and an expert on the dangers of psychiatric medication, University of British Columbia
Moderator: Dr. Eddy Lang, Emergency Medicine Physician, University of Calgary
This event was presented by the O’Brien Institute and the Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference on June 10, 2022.
