Such a frustrating disappointment

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

I liked most of the documentary. It was poorly edited though. Also, this "documentary" doesn't even try to hide the fact that its shilling for that Optimind crap. And thise dudes were totally on Rx Stimulants.

A very good idea on a subject that was time to do focus on, but the documentary (except the title) is poor and without a goal. Opinions and personal experiences are abstractly thrown here and there without a central spine of a story-line. At the end I didn't have a clear idea of what it was trying to say. It did not try to find the roots of the problem. It just wanted to mention the problem in a lazy way, like a puzzle that is not even solved yet. But that is not the only thing that did not work. While you watch it you start to realize how soft and politically correct it is. Not a single mention of any company, on profits, on the huge advertising industry from every aspect of the system (movies, video-clips, doctors, teachers, TV). Just stories without a political idea behind it. Without a cause. It had the smell of unfinished.

This isn't a documentary in the sense that filmmakers tried to (as unbiasedly as possible) investigate Adderal use in modern day America. It's a shock-piece that focuses on the abuse of Adderal by college students, Wall Street overachievers, etc.-a serious problem worthy of investigation but not at all grounds to condemn Adderall completely. Any substance that activates the pleasure centers of the brain has the potential for being abused. Look at painkillers! What a blessing that people recovering from major surgeries can have their suffering lessened greatly-but yeah some people abuse them. As someone who's been taking Adderal for 3 years now, I can say the amounts of Adderal some of these people were taking were huge. I'm a 265 lb, 45 year old male with an ADHD diagnosis and I take one 20 mg extended release a day. The skinny Wall Street trader said he sometimes took 120 mg of Adderal over the course of a day. The college student artist-kid was put on 50 mg--when he was only 3 years old! The film has a lot of voiceovers describing taking Adderal as this incredible, hypersonic, mindblowing rush-well, yeah if you take a s***load of it, that's exactly how it'll be. If you take a prescribed amount you'll feel more focused and productive until it wears off.This film also ignores the fact that ADHD doesn't occur in a vacuum. The feelings of not being able to focus and the resulting negative feelings associated with feeling different or stupider than your peers often leads to depression, anxiety, low self esteem, etc. And it leads to the creation of inadequate coping mechanisms like overeating, drug and alcohol abuse, risky sexual behavior etc.

I was little confused, should we take these pills or shouldn't we take these pills? Message was definitely delivered, however, i am afraid after watching this documentary, more people would find ways to take these pills rather than not. Documentary has reverse effect.