Horizon · SEASON 47
Pill Poppers
Episode 9 · 2010-01-20
- Documentary
Episode overview
Over a person's lifetime they are likely to be prescribed more than 14,000 pills. Antibiotics, cholesterol lowering tablets, anti-depressants, painkillers, even tablets to extend youth and improve performance in bed. These drugs perform minor miracles day after day, but how much is really known about them? Drug discovery often owes as much to serendipity as to science, and that means much is learnt about how medicines work, or even what they do, when they're taken. By investigating some of the most popular pills people pop, Horizon asks, how much can they be trusted to do what they are supposed to?
60 minutes
Season 47 episodes
1. Do I Drink Too Much?2009-10-13
2. The Secret You2009-10-20
3. Fix Me2009-10-27
4. Who's Afraid of a Big Black Hole?2009-11-03
5. Why Do We Talk?2009-11-10
6. How Long is a Piece of String?2009-11-17
7. The Secret Life of the Dog2010-01-06
8. Why Do Viruses Kill?2010-01-13
9. Pill Poppers2010-01-20
10. Don't Grow Old2010-02-03
11. To Infinity and Beyond2010-02-10
12. What Makes a Genius?2010-02-17
13. Did Cooking Make Us Human?2010-03-02
14. Is Everything We Know About the Universe Wrong?2010-03-09
