
Take Your Pills(2018)
What would you take to be the best?
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?

Movie: Take Your Pills
Top 10 Billed Cast
Self - Former NFL Player (as Eben)
Self - Political Theorist, UC Berkeley
Self - College Sophomore
Self - College Junior
Self - College Senior (as Jasper)
Self - College Senior
Self - Chair of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
Self - Journalist, Author - ADHD Nation
Self - Author, On Speed
Self - Software Engineer
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