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America's Medicated Kids (2010)

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Original title
Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids
Directed by
Danny Horan
Genre
documentary film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
58 min
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 42 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Louis Theroux visits a children's psychiatric center in Pennsylvania. He talks to families about children who take medication for mental health conditions and how that affects their home life.

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What happens

America's Medicated Kids is a British documentary that was televised on 18 April 2010. The Louis Theroux documentary ran for 59 minutes. The documentary follows Theroux as he travels to one of America's leading children's psychiatric treatment centres, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and investigates the effects of putting children diagnosed with mental health disorders on prescription medication and the impact that medicating the child has on the family group. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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