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  Review by Dave Taylor ★★★ 1

  This is the most unprofessional documentary I have ever seen.

  I literally feel like I could have made this if I wanted to document my fucked-up friends experience trying magic mushrooms to combat depression and Iboga to beat heroin addiction.

  But honestly, this singular experience with a few ‘experts’ chiming in to give a bit of background on the use of these drugs from a medicinal perspective, was the best way to go for this subject matter.

  Depression and drug addiction are personal. I don’t need to be convinced of a global ‘truth’ regarding these treatment options. This showed me a real account of someone using alternative medicine to deal with their vices and I found it eye-opening and fascinating.

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  Review by Katrina Penning ★★★★

  An insightful doco into the therapeutic properties of psychedelics in recovering from addiction and trauma. Adrianne spent 20 years of her life as an opioid addict, then spent roughly a year cycling through psilocybin and ibogaine. Eventually finding treatment in these controversial substances, where the pharmaceutical and health industry had previously failed her. 

  There needs to be more advocation for these substances to be clinically available — Dosed gives you the reasons why.

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  Review by Anonymous Monster ★★★½

  ~ Big pharma is not our friend! 
                             In nature we trust 🍄🍃

  The message is clear: The plants can cure. 
  Few will understand what’s going on here.
  The “science” behind the spiritual world is also not easy to explain..

  Tyler’s film is another attempt to show the world the benefits of nature against the evil solutions from the big pharma corporations.

  It may add little if you’re already familiar with the psychedelic medicine assets but just by seeing Adrienne‘s courage during the process is worth the watch!

  Gabor Maté shows up briefly and every time you see this guy, anywhere, anytime, just listen and learn…

  Added to the list:
  — Shamanism | The Shaman 

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  Review by Devin Holloway ★★★★

  Wow. I can’t believe I didn’t know about iboga before watching this. It’s crazy that tripping on iboga once or twice removes all withdrawals. I also didn’t know that method one was so harmful. I figured methodone clinics just helped addicts get off of whatever drug they’re addicted to, but then they become addicted to the methadone and have to ween off of that. I learned so much. Just watch, within the next 5 years psychedelic medicine for addiction will be come the new norm. It was super interesting following an actual heroin addict through this journey. Super inspiring and hopeful. 

  Shroom up. Don’t shoot up.

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  Review by Adam Fardella ★★★★

  A dramatic, powerful piece about one Canadian woman's path out of addiction. After 20 years of painful cocaine, heroin, morphine, and methadone addiction to name a few, she attempts an alternative and taboo route to getting clean. Experimenting with underground psychedelic treatment she finds success and self-love. An important and groundbreaking film that needs more attention. Please watch!

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  Review by bugg ★★★★

  While we have been conditioned into all documentaries being tied up into neat bows by drawing them out into a multi-docuseries on netflix, this really just scratches the surface of the opioid crisis and the pharmaceutical industry that woefully fails these people.

  It truly is an anecdotal tale of a Candian woman's struggles with heroin and getting sober after many years. This starts with the question we all have, "I heard that...." and really goes from there. It follows along as it bobs and weaves and ends up settling into a solution that is both satisfying and frustrating.

  It satisfies because it does show promise in the field of psychedelics becoming a more legitimized modality for medical treatment.

  It's frustrating…

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  Review by Jesse_C ★★★½

  Works less as an informational documentary about the treatment of addiction and mental illness with psilocybin mushrooms, as it clearly intends, and more so as an emotionally raw portrait of a recovering drug addict. I also realise that is an extremely small indie, however, it often looked too amateurish, which at times contributed to that raw feeling, when focused on the lady and her story, while at other times contributed to a sense of superficiality that exuded from the filmmakers.

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  Review by The Cult of Griffith ★★★★

  75 / 100

  A reminder that you can always write your own ending.

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  Review by bbysinema ★★

  Oof, not it. I personally believe content about addiction should only be made by people who have experienced addiction or have been involved in the real work of helping people with addiction. I honestly don’t care if your friend or your family member went through it, that doesn’t make you understand everything that’s happening to the person experiencing it, just how it impacts you. Don’t turn people struggling with addiction in your life into science experiments for your bad doc.

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  Review by Alexander Wimbush ★

  ok, i don't want ANYBODY to take opiates, ever, for any reason, BUT: they worked SO HARD to promote the narrative that all addicts must be that way due to having been raped as children, then didn't provide anything to support that, and COMPLETELY gloss over the (verifiable, established) FACT that it feels LITERALLY INCREDIBLE to take heroin

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  Review by madelinemonaco ★★

  she barfed up soooo many pills what the heck

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  Review by rosieiris ★★★★

  A sobering look into the world of addiction, pain, and the search to end suffering. This compassionate perspective of the protagonist, a long term substance users, opens the viewer’s heart and ask the question, how does addictive behavior influence my life and why is that? Though debilitated by one plant, psychotropic plants provide a gateway for change. Bring tissues to this must watch film.