How Prescription Pain Meds Can Destroy Lives – SLLiP Film

By Lisa Frederiksen |

Wow… after watching the trailer (below) for SLLiP (Pills spelled backwards), I immediately wanted to watch the full 25-minute film. And I was not disappointed.

It’s powerful, accurate, thought-provoking and enlightening. It’s outstanding because it captures addiction for what it is – a developmental, chronic, often relapsing brain disease; it captures what can happen when prescription pain meds are misused.

Written by its lead actor, Ricky Russert (who plays Tommy Littlestone on Cinemax’s Banshee), it depicts how prescription pain meds can destroy lives – not only the life of the person who develops an addiction to the meds, but the lives of his family members, as well.

Final SLLiP poster [HighRes]When a Doctor Doesn’t Monitor Use and Listen to Their Patient – How Prescription Pain Meds Can Destroy Lives

SLLiP opens with Cam, a hard-working, blue collar, family man, being injured on the job for which he is prescripted pain medications. What should have been benign treatment turns into an addiction – thanks in large part to Cam’s doctor who continues to prescribe more and different kinds of pain meds as the answer, in spite of Cam’s concerns about how the meds were making him feel and wanting help to get off them. We watch Cam’s life and the lives of his beloved wife and daughter unravel as his addiction takes hold. Russert explains, “I wrote SLLiP originally based off true events with my family that expanded into many others’ lives as the story developed and I learned that so many people are affected by an addiction to pain meds.”

SLLiP was recently selected to be a part of the REEL Recovery Film Festival in Los Angeles and was highly received at a full house viewing in NYC amongst filmmakers – and more importantly, amongst recovery addicts who’ve lived simlar stories themselves.

SLLiP is now available for purchase and you can order your copy here. You can reach Ricky Russert via email at triplerentertainment@gmail.com or follow him on Facebook.

 

 

 

Lisa Frederiksen

Lisa Frederiksen

Author | Speaker | Consultant | Founder at BreakingTheCycles.com
Lisa Frederiksen is the author of hundreds of articles and 12 books, including her latest, "10th Anniversary Edition If You Loved Me, You'd Stop! What you really need to know when your loved one drinks too much,” and "Loved One In Treatment? Now What!” She is a national keynote speaker with over 30 years speaking experience, consultant and founder of BreakingTheCycles.com. Lisa has spent the last 19+ years studying and simplifying breakthrough research on the brain, substance use and other mental health disorders, secondhand drinking, toxic stress, trauma/ACEs and related topics.
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4 Comments

  1. Barbara Cofer Stoefen on November 8, 2015 at 9:35 am

    I loved SLLiP too, Lisa. Great eye opener about how a doctor’s prescribing practices can be so detrimental. Ricky Russert is also a very talented actor and writer!

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  2. Cathy Taughinbaugh on November 8, 2015 at 10:22 pm

    I enjoyed SLLiP as well, Lisa! So great to have more exposure regarding prescription drug abuse.

    Thanks for sharing the film!

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  3. Ricky Russert on November 9, 2015 at 5:13 am

    Thank you, so much for watching the film and the kind words! We hope that we can get this film into Sundance this January to get it in front of a larger audience. Sundance is in Utah which has an enormous amount of prescription drug issues as so many other states in our country and around the world. Your continued support is greatly appreciated!

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    • Lisa Frederiksen on November 9, 2015 at 7:31 am

      That would be fantastic and such an important success, Ricky. Wishing you all the best with that!

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