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Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids

Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 18, 2010

Runtime

0h 59m

Genres

Documentary, TV Movie

User Score

69%

Original Title

Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids

Production Companies

BBC

Director

Danny Horan

Description

Faced with the challenging behaviour of their kids, more and more parents in America are turning to psychoactive medication to help them cope, even though the drugs, and sometimes the diagnoses, remain controversial. Louis travels to one of America's leading children's psychiatric treatment centres, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to get to know the diagnosed children and hoping to understand what drives parents to put their kids on drugs.