Take Your Pills

Mar 9, 2018

1h 27m

★ 6.5

What would you take to be the best?

Overview

In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way to do more -- faster and better. But at what cost?

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Motto Pictures

Take Your Pills Trailers

Cast

Self - Former NFL Player (as Eben)

Eben Britton

Self - Political Theorist, UC Berkeley

Dr. Wendy Brown

Self - College Sophomore

Ariana

Self - College Junior

Delaney

Self - College Senior (as Jasper)

Jasper Holt-Teza

Self - College Senior

Leigh

Self - Chair of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania

Anjan Chatterjee

Self - Journalist, Author - ADHD Nation

Alan Schwarz

Self - Author, On Speed

Nicholas Rasmussen

Self - Software Engineer

Nathanael

Self - Eben's Wife (as Brit)

Sheila Britt

Self - Cognitive Neuroscientist, University of Pennsylvania

Martha Farah

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