America's Medicated Kids (2010)

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

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)

Trailer

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