Prescription Thugs

[Caroliina]

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share that there is a new documentary on Netflix about pill addiction called "Prescription Thugs". It's about an hour and a half, but I found the documentary to be very helpful in understanding myself. I wish everyone a successful day

 

[MrRoot]

I watched that too and although I thought at first that it's theme was to take responsibility out from user and blame pill mill doctors but instead it was pretty much introspective journey to addict's mind.

 

[Caroliina]

I think it looked at every angle; the user, the doctors, the pill makers, etc. I had a suspicion that the man making the documentary wasn't clean during the video. I don't know why, but something was telling me that he was still using. I was surprised to see I was right.

 

[Captain.Heroin]

Could you post a summarization?

 

[MrRoot]

It is a post mortem review of how Mike "Mad Dog" Bell's addiction started and how it lead into his death. At the same time documentarists shares discounts of other wrestlers, former NFL player and such on topic of legal drugs and how they are used in the scene.

Also the documentary reviews how easy it is to get legal high and targets aspects such as prescribing pills and how pharma companies operate with these legal drugs although at the same time there is a war on drugs which are similar than these legal options.

At the same time the documentary shows a big picture of this "legal high" issue and also goes in-depth of single persons and their habits and views of the issue. Something is done right if during an interview you get a pro wrestler in tears...