Selling Sickness explores the unhealthy relationships between society, medical science and the pharmaceutical industry as they promote their new miracle cures - selling not just drugs but also the latest diseases that go with them. It looks at the growing global controversy around SSRI antidepressants and follows British Psychiatrist, Dr David Healy, patients and their families as they rock the scientific establishment with accusations that aggressive drug marketing is blurring the boundaries between medical conditions and ordinary life with potentially deadly consequences.

Selling Sickness is written by Ray Moynihan and Catherine Scott, who is also the director. It is produced by Pat Fiske. Executive producer for Hilton-Cordell Productions is Chris Hilton. It is a production of Hilton-Cordell Productions and produced in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Executive producer for THE NATURE OF THINGS is Michael Allder.