I’ve been lucky to have never used painkillers whether as a result of high pain tolerance or simply not having experienced enough to deem it necessary. I know people who have, though, and it is a godsend at times whether opium-based or not. So I couldn’t blindly say Oxycontin and Dilaudid should be outlawed. Morphine has always seemed so commonplace that any prescription drug compared to it has brought along a stigma of “good” rather than “bad” for me despite heroin also being a close sibling. It therefore took be by surprise when the whole opioid scare began to cultivate insane fears on behalf of patient and doctor alike. Can you truly call an effective drug dangerous just because a few bad apples abuse it?
This is the question that Eve Marson‘s documentary Dr. Feelgood: Dealer or Healer? asks by focusing on one man who almost...
This is the question that Eve Marson‘s documentary Dr. Feelgood: Dealer or Healer? asks by focusing on one man who almost...
- 12/29/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Remember Dr. Max Jacobson, who prescribed powerful amphetamines to such celebrity clients as President John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe and Truman Capote, among many others, before having his license revoked in 1975? He was nicknamed “Dr. Feelgood,” a term that has become such a part of our lexicon that Eve Marson’s documentary Dr. Feelgood: Dealer or Healer? isn’t about Jacobson at all. It’s about the more recent case of Dr. William Hurwitz, a Virginia physician who served nearly five years in prison for drug trafficking after prescribing countless thousands of powerful opiate painkillers to his devoted patients. Unlike the courts,...
- 12/28/2016
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: In a deal that is closing right before the conclusion of the Sundance Film Festival, Radius-twc is acquiring worldwide distribution rights to Fed Up, the Katie Couric-narrated documentary about the alarming and rising rate of obese children in America. Several distributors chased the film, because of its hot button topic that is similar to the embraceable issue examined in Bully. I’ve heard the deal was near $2 million. Fed Up was directed by Stephanie Soechtig, and produced by Sarah Olson and Eve Marson. Along with narrating, Couric is exec producer with Laurie David, Regina Scully, Heather Reisman, and Atlas Films’ Michael Walrath and Michelle Walrath. Deal was negotiated by Cinetic Media on behalf of the filmmakers. Beyond chronicling the futile efforts of several young people to shed weight, including a 250-pound 15-year old boy and a 212-pound 12-year old girl, the film reveals a 30-year campaign by the food industry,...
- 1/26/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
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