I Need It to Study

Take Your Pill, is a Netflix documentary that focuses on Adderall on college campuses. It starts off with actual college students giving their take on Adderall and their experiences with it. None of the students say whether they believe it is a good or bad thing but they talk about what they have seen in their time at college. One student recalls her parents telling her that she needed to get a lock box for her pills before going to college and she did not understand why. Another student says that he has seen people openly selling Adderall on public platforms and says, "I almost forget that it is illegal." It then has students who talk about why they do it and to give their explanation of how it makes them feel. They all express that it is helpful to them, whether it is for school work or for playing video games. All that you hear at the beginning of this film is positive. The film then switches to interviewing professors and how they see Adderall. One professor jokes that when he went to college students did drugs to check out, this generation does drugs to check in. This film is great because it starts off with real people just talking about their experiences, which kind of hooks you. In between portions of the interviews, they put in little facts to start to build a case on Adderall. The film also gives the backstory as to how amphetamine was created. We then get a walk through of history to see where different portions of history amphetamines has had an affect on. We see that amphetamine has had affects on jazz, colleges, military, and many other cultural influences. The documentary uses a bunch of different visuals to keep your attention and make it more interesting. They also do not just focus on people from one college, they interview professors, doctors, students, and athletes from all different schools. Some of the interviews were formal and others were very casual. There were two types of people interviewed, who take Adderall, those who had a prescription and those who did not. This gives a look into why everyone wants to do or thing that they need to do it. The documentary then starts to turn towards the negative effects of the drug, they show its relation to methamphetamine. What is great about this documentary is it does not just start off by talking about the negatives of Adderall because it might keep people from watching it through. It draws you in from the beginning, and keeps you focused until the end in order to show people the dangers of this drug.   As the documentary progresses, the people being interviewed then start to reveal the negative consequences of the drug. Parents are then interviewed about them putting their kids on prescription pills. The two different parents interviewed express that they have no regrets of putting their children on it, because their children needed it. Their children both grew up and have became successful and they believe that the medication is partially responsible for it. This documentary seems to have a pretty unbiased view, it leaves it up to the viewed to build their own opinion.