90004_6157_11
1976
Very seventies looking narrator explains that the physician's goal is to prescribe the minimum amount required of a drug to relieve a problem. Camera pans over blue surface with a number of drugs of different kinds on it: pills like Dexamyl, valium, a syringe, shot glass, wine stem, and more. Psychoactive drugs affect the central nervous system, altering consciousness in a seemingly pleasurable way, the narrator tells us. Wide shot at some sort of outdoor festival, where a number of people sit in the grass and drink. Psychoactive drugs are used to feel good, the narrator tells us, and so people often go on what he calls a "self-medication trip."