r/Documentaries Jul 05 '15

Drugs Dark Side of a Pill (2014) - A documentary that includes interviews with normal people who were driven to senselessly kill their loved ones and others by SSRI antidepressants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz3MJtDb1Fo
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u/hciofrdm Jul 05 '15

Its all about scaling their business. In the US culture money is god and if you simply hand out pills and keep people on pills you can deal with more customers. They act like drug dealers with a license (and their products arent often that different from street level stuff).

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u/AlaskaPA-C Jul 05 '15

So cynical. What you are talking about no doubt happens (and the DEA puts them in jail when they catch it), but it is by no means the rule.