Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids
59 min
2010
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Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids
Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids
59 min
2010
6.9
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.
depression
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd)
obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd)
asperger's syndrome
mental disorders
