Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids

Storyline

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.

• Released

  2010

• Runtime

  59min

• Director

  Danny Horan

Genre

DocumentaryTV Movie

• Status

  Released

• Language

  English

• Production

  BBC