A Prescription for Success, Watch The Trailer For “Take Your Pills”

“What would you take to be the best?” Reads the tagline on the poster of Netflix‘s latest documentary feature “Take Your Pills.”

Alison Klayman directs her latest project following “11/8/16,” with “Take Your Pills,” and we just got our first trailer for the doc. The film is set to premiere on March 9 at the SXSW Film Festival. Klayman is no stranger to the festival, having received the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance for her 2012 debut, “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry.”

Producers on the film include Christopher Clements, Julie Goldman, Carolyn Hepburn, and Kate Osborn with Executive Producers Maria Shriver and Christina Schwarzenegger. “Take Your Pills” will examine the do-more-better-faster mentality of todays society, examining the history of stimulants such as Adderall. It’s an exploration of college campuses, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street; the various fast paced environments where doing better, faster is the name of the game.

Here’s the full synopsis provided by Netflix: 

The pressure to achieve more, do more, and be more is part of being human –  and in the age of Adderall and Ritalin, achieving that can be as close as the local pharmacy. No longer just “a cure for excitable kids,” prescription stimulants are in college classrooms, on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley…any place “the need to succeed” slams into “not enough hours in the day.” But there are costs. In the insightful Netflix documentary TAKE YOUR PILLS, award-winning documentarian Alison Klayman (Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry) focuses on the history, the facts, and the pervasiveness of cognitive-enhancement drugs in our amped-up era of late-stage-capitalism. Executive produced by Maria Shriver and Christina Schwarzenegger, TAKE YOUR PILLS examines what some view as a brave new world of limitless possibilities, and others see as a sped-up ride down a synaptic slippery slope, as these pills have become the defining drug of a generation.