Take Your Pills is an hour-long American documentary from 2018, directed by Alison Klayman and produced by Motto Pictures and Netflix Studios.
Those interviewed include former player for the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars Eben Britton, and neuroscientist Anjan Chatterjee.
The film interviews people from different backgrounds and phases in life, from college students and children to former NFL players to psychologists.
He admits that he didn't believe he had ADHD; it was just an easy way to have open access to the drugs in order to enhance his performance and deal with the pain from his injuries.
Wendy Brown is a political theorist from University of California, Berkeley, who discusses reasons college students and adults may resort to stimulants.
She states that the world is a hypercompetitive environment, from students trying to get into the best schools to workers being pushed to work many hours, where many don't know how to cope or how to stay on top with using medication to enhance their performance.
David Ehrlich reviewed the documentary for IndieWire, writing that the film "never finds its focus", describing the director as approaching the topic with the "reactionary zeal of a local TV news segment" in a comprehensive but "myopic" look at the use of prescription amphetamines.
[2] Ehrlich says Klayman uses "scare-mongering tactics", and he criticizes the filming technique as a "tired attempt to conflate ADHD with a video game aesthetic and a pixelated cartoon of a skeleton drowning in little blue pills".
[2] Devon Frye writes in ADDitude magazine that the documentary is a "heavy-handed" and "biased portrait of stimulant use in America", in which Klayman demonstrates "little interest in showing both sides of the story" while focusing on medication users who "openly admit to taking the drugs to get ahead in a culture that constantly demands more".
[4] Gleiberman writes that the connections made by the movie's thesis "may strike some as too speculative for comfort", but they can "fire up your perceptions enough to burn through the cumulative effects of advertising".