Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids

Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids

2010 · 59 min · ★ 6.9 · Documentary, TV Movie

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.

Directed by Danny Horan · Written by Louis Theroux

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