"Drug experimentation" refers to trying or testing different drugs to see their effects, often without medical supervision or approval. It can involve both legal drugs like alcohol and prescription medication, as well as illegal substances such as marijuana or other recreational drugs.
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But the film also smartly avoids being a We Need to Talk About Mental Illness Film, only fetching the key moments that affected Wilson's mental health when necessary — like when he starts to hear sounds and voices following
recreational drug experimentation.
An approach that may
include drug experimentation, hideous surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing....
pastmorm - Yeah, let's not talk about the fraud of repressed memories that destroyed families, and
the drug experimentation that still goes on that psychologist drug addicts are pushing and calling it research, or the excuses that psychologists give all kinds of sick and evil people so they don't have to feel bad for the kinds of things they do.
Gray also explains his quest for a perfect moment, as any effects of
his drug experimentation were negated by the tight grip of anxiety.
The film cuts between the younger days, with Brian first falling victim to his mental troubles,
drug experimentation and pressures from within the band, and older days — the early 1990s, when Brian (played charmingly by an engaged John Cusack, the best he's been in a while), under the thrall of the frighteningly controlling Dr. Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti), meets Cadillac saleswoman Melinda Ledbetter (Elizabeth Banks) and begins a tentative romance amidst his overmedication.