THE DRUG IN OUR POCKET examines how smartphones, designed to connect us, have radically reshaped childhood, adolescence and mental health. Through intimate conversations with young people, parents, and leading experts, the film reveals a generation that is thoughtful, articulate, and increasingly aware of how digital environments shape their attention, emotions, and sense of self.

The film traces how attention has been intentionally fragmented by tech, emotional development altered, and agency gradually outsourced to devices carried everywhere. Grounded in neuroscience, psychology, and lived experience, THE DRUG IN OUR POCKET closely examines the phone as an active force shaping behavior, development and identity, and frames a growing cultural reckoning with digital tech. The film closes with a clear provocation: what would it take to reclaim attention as a form of agency and build culture that supports young people in thinking, relating, and choosing for themselves?